Good luck to Brad in the finals against Aaron Sieracki.

Here is his Greco bracket... the link is a little long

http://www.twnode4.com/opentournaments/Bracket.jsp?TIM=...ePages=1&templateId=

Vering wins the first match 2 periods to 0. 1-1, 4-0.

I think if he wins the next one, he is going to Beijing.

Looks like Nebraska is going to have another Olympian! According to themat.com, Vering won the championship.....

Just read the story on the Weird-Harold website...CONGRATS AGAIN BRAD!!!!

Published Sunday June 15, 2008
U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials: Ex-Husker bound for Beijing
BY JAY WEINER
SPECIAL TO THE WORLD-HERALD



LAS VEGAS - Brad Vering strutted. He jogged. He casually flexed his right bicep. He was in charge of the situation.

So much in charge that when ex-Olympic heavyweight champ Rulon Gardner approached him for a TV interview, Vering lifted Gardner, who weighs about as much as a Volkswagen.

It wasn't difficult to decipher: Vering is on his way to his second Olympics.

"I've never been stronger," he said after winning the 185-pound Greco-Roman finals at the U.S. Olympic Trials.

The bearded former Nebraska national champ and pride of Howells, Neb., manhandled Aaron Sieracki, a recent nemesis, to easily win the decisive matches.

In the best two-of-three series, Vering won 1-1, 7-0 and 5-0, 3-0. But the numbers don't matter. It was no contest.

For example, at the end of the first match, Vering tossed Sieracki on his head. In the second match, he turned Sieracki into a rag doll.

It was sweet and sweaty redemption for Vering at Thomas & Mack Center. His career had taken a painful dip in 2006. Then at the Trials for the U.S. World Championship team, Vering lost to Sieracki.

Vering said Saturday night, that defeat wasn't on his mind.

"Nah, if I dwelled on every defeat in my career - I'm no Cael Sanderson - I'd be thinking a long time," he said of the rarely defeated Iowa State champ.

That defeat to Sieracki, however, had come after Vering had been on a world championship or Olympic team from 2002 to 2005. He was king of his weight class. That is until Sieracki, of Richland Center, Wis., came along.

After he lost to Sieracki in 2006, Vering met with coaches and decided to make changes.

He spent time away from the Olympic Training Center, where he'd been for years, and trained with coach Mark Cody in Washington, D.C., at American University. That gave his career a boost.

Vering, who now is in residence at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., rebounded and won a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships. That helped the U.S. win its first team Greco world title.

Now, Vering's got about two months to ready himself for the Beijing Olympics. He wants to do better than in Athens, where he did not place.

And he's hoping - not certain - but hoping to get to Howells before he lifts off for the Olympics.

"I hope to get back one weekend and just fish with my parents and hang out with people there," he said. "A bunch of people came out (to Las Vegas). It's not such a good time to get away, for farmers, and for the economy. They're such an inspiration. It's not planned, but I think I'll do it."