In November 1999, when he was 13, Wynn fell 14 feet (4 m) from a deer hunting stand in a tree near his family home in Fleming, Ohio.
He would later state that his determination to use weight lifting as physical therapy enabled him to leave his hospital three weeks ahead of schedule.
"[3] Within three years of his accident, Wynn competed in his first bodybuilding championship, the 2002 NPC Wheelchair Nationals, where he won first place in the middleweight division.
His good friend, Dr. Bill Bauer (whom he met in the hospital while recovering from his injury, got him started in competitive swimming and worked with him in the Weight room at the local YMCA in Marietta, Ohio.
[5] As Wynn told an interviewer: “When I was younger, it was a dream of mine to travel the United States and the world, to see different places and new things.