(Taken from Taylor Miller's story at USAWrestling.org; original story is linked at bottom of page from the "Read More" icon)

Georgan

Speiller, a former NCWA champion at Central Florida and now wrestling with the

Florida Jets Wrestling Club, qualified for the 2018 U.S. Greco-Roman World Team over the weekend by winning the 82 kg weight class at the World Team Trials in Tulsa, Okla.

Speiller defeated

two-time World Team member Cheney Haight in consecutive matches in the

best-of-three finals format, 7-2 in the first match, then with an 8-0 tech in

the second match. Speiller will wrestle with the U.S. team in October at the

World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. It is Speiller’s first World

Championships at the Senior level after representing the U.S. at two Junior

World Championships in 2012 and 2013.

Speiller

dedicated his championship performance to his late father in an interview for

USA Wrestling.

“My

dad was diagnosed with cancer and passed away last year,” Speiller said. “I had

to take some time off to spend as much time with him as possible. So family

first. Dad, I love you. Rest in peace. This one’s for you, I’m going to the

World Championships. I love you.”

Speiller won the

NCWA Championship at 174 pounds wrestling for UCF in 2016 before focusing on his

Greco-Roman career. Speiller swept five matches at nationals to win the title

with three pins, including a first-period pin in the final for the title that

helped push UCF to win the NCWA team title.

Eleazar Deluca,

also of the Florida Jets, took fourth at the World Team Trials in the 72 kg

class.

Here are the

complete results from the U.S. Trials:

2018 SENIOR GRECO WORLD TEAM TRIALS
at

Cox Business Center in Tulsa, Okla. June 21-22

Final results


55

kg


1st: Sam Hazewinkel (Sunkist Kids) def. Max Nowry (Army WCAP), two

matches to none




Bout one – Hazewinkel dec. Nowry, 4-4


Bout two – Hazewinkel TF Nowry, 11-0

3rd:

Dalton Duffield (NMU-OTS) TF Brittan Longmire (Team Nevada), 8-0

60 kg


1st: Dalton Roberts (NYAC) def. Ildar Hafizov (Army WCAP), two

matches to one


Bout one – Hafizov dec. Roberts, 4-2


Bout two – Roberts TF Hafizov, 10-2


Bout three – Roberts dec. Hafizov, 4-3

3rd:

Randon Miranda (NYAC) TF Mike Fuenffinger (Army WCAP), 10-1

63 kg


1st: Jesse Thielke (NYAC/LOG) def. Ryan Mango (Army WCAP), two

matches to none


Bout one – Thielke dec. Mango, 12-6


Bout two – Thielke dec. Mango, 6-4

3rd:

Xavier Johnson (Marines) dec. Travis Rice (NMU-OTS), 1-1

67 kg


1st: Ellis Coleman (Army WCAP) def. Alejandro Sancho (NYAC), two matches to one


Bout one – Sancho dec. Coleman, 6-3


Bout two – Coleman TF Sancho, 9-0


Bout three – Coleman TF Sancho, 8-0

3rd:

Hayden Tuma (Army (WCAP)) dec. Jamel Johnson (Marines), 6-2

72 kg


1st: Jon Jay Chavez (Finger Lakes WC) def. RaVaughn Perkins

(NYAC), two matches to none


Bout one – Perkins TF Chavez, 8-0


Bout two – Chavez dec. Perkins, 5-4


Bout three – Chavez dec. Perkins, 7-5

3rd:

Patrick Smith (Minnesota Storm) dec. Eleazar Deluca (Florida Jets), 7-1

77 kg


1st: Kamal Bey (Sunkist Kids) def. Mason Manville (Army WCAP),

two matches to none


Bout one – Bey dec. Manville, 5-3


Bout two – Bey TF Manville, 10-0

3rd:

Peyton Walsh (Marines)

82 kg


1st: Geordan Speiller (Florida Jets) def. Cheney Haight (NYAC),

two matches to none


Bout one – Speiller dec. Haight, 7-2


Bout two – Speiller TF Haight, 8-0

3rd: John

Stefanowicz (Marines) dec. Jacob Fisher (Curby-3-Style), 7-0

87 kg


1st: Patrick Martinez (NYAC) def. Ben Provisor (NYAC/Nittany

Lion WC), two matches to one


Bout one – Martinez dec. Provisor, 6-0


Bout two – Provisor dec. Martinez, 1-1


Bout three – Martinez dec. Provisor, 1-1

3rd:

Kevin Radford (Sunkist Kids) TF Richard Carlson (Minnesota Storm), 8-0

97 kg


1st: G’Angelo Hancock (Sunkist Kids) def. Daniel Miller

(Marines), two matches to none


Bout one – Hancock dec. Miller, 11-8


Bout two – Hancock dec. Miller, 6-3

3rd:

Lucas Sheridan (Army (WCAP)) dec. Kevin Beazley (NYAC/MWC), 9-4

130 kg


1st: Adam Coon (NYAC) def. Robby Smith (NYAC), two matches to

none


Bout one – Coon dec. Smith, 3-1


Bout two – Coon fall Smith, 5:55

3rd:

David Tate Orndorff (Utah Valley RTC) dec. Dom Bradley (Sunkist Kids WC), 6-5