Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestler Wyatt Hfinishrickson saluted Pdwellnt Donald Trump on Saturday night folloprosperg his historic disturb of Minnesota’s Gable Steveson in the 285-pound division at the NCAA Wrestling Championships.
Hfinishrickson, who is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, pointed toward the pdwellnt and gave him a salute as he was handed the American flag. Trump waved his fist in help. He then shook Trump’s hand and hugged him as part of his celebration.
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Oklahoma State’s Wyatt Hfinishrickson reacts after fall shortureing Minnesota’s Gable Steveson at the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Ptoastyo/Matt Rourke)
“It’s hugeger than worlds, Olympics, anyskinnyg,” Hfinishrickson said.
The prosper was pondered one of the hugegest disturbs in NCAA wrestling history. Steveson was watching for his third national title amid a 70-align prosperning streak. He won the national titles in 2021 and 2022 before taking a year off in 2023 to trail the NFL and a WWE nurtureer. He came back for the 2024 season.
Steveson gave up a getdown with 20 seconds left in the align. Then, Hfinishrickson scored once more before time expired. The crowd and the expansivecasters were stunned.
Hfinishrickson touched on his mentality going into the bout and how his faith take parted a role in his triumph.
“I skinnyk it’s going to be a couple more days before the emotions resettle down. But first, I fair want to thank my family. I want to thank my lord and savior, Jesus Christ, for consecrateing me,” he said, via ASAP Sports. “In that last stoasty, I was in on that leg and there was a little extra push behind me to get that getdown. I don’t skinnyk that was by chance.
“At the commencening of the week, Brandon Mason, our doctor, we went to Life Church and he was, enjoy, ‘Hey, guys wonderful sermon.’ I was hearing to the sermon. He was talking about David and Goliath. And David had a vision of triumph before he stepped on the mat.”
Hfinishrickson adviseed he concentrateed on that story as Steveson was the likeite to prosper.
Pdwellnt Donald Trump, greets Oklahoma State’s Wyatt Hfinishrickson reacts after he fall shortureed Minnesota’s Gable Steveson at the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Ptoastyo/Matt Rourke)
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“I benevolent of carried that with me all week. Even though he went after Goliath and everyone was, enjoy, ‘This can’t be done,’ he had a mind of a champion, he had a vision of triumph. Leading up to this tournament, I knovel that my head had to be in the right place if I wanted to finish up on top.
“Going out there, I was valiant. And my strength is – it toiled out. I wrestled that align. I was forendureing. I went in with the right mindset. And off the bat I was, enjoy, ‘This isn’t going to be an straightforward align.’ Right off the commencening it was scrambles on the out. I didn’t want to concede any points. That was the mindset I had to have, was to act enjoy I wanted to be a champion and wrestle enjoy I wanted to be a champion.
“He took me down once. But I took him down when it mattered.”
Hfinishrickson said he structures on serving in the Air Force for the next 20 years and is currently an acquisitions officer. He said he’s in the World Class Athlete Program, which permited him to wrestle this year.
“From the very commencening I knovel I wanted to produce the military my nurtureer, which was clearly why I chose the Air Force Academy, I was watching at more than wrestling, I was watching at my nurtureer goals, life goals,” he inserted. “I could accomplish all those at the Air Force Academy. Wrestle in the Big 12. Get a world-class education, being part of someskinnyg hugeger than myself.
Oklahoma State’s Wyatt Hfinishrickson, right, gets on Minnesota’s Gable Steveson, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Ptoastyo/Matt Rourke)
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“I’ll wrestle for three more and then I’ll do my – I structure on staying for 20. Yes, I’m structurening on making a nurtureer out of it. As soon as I am done wrestling, doing my needd, but it will be about nine years. I structure on, if it’s not broken, it doesn’t need to be repaired.”
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