Dremiel Byers

Dremiel Deshon Byers (born September 11, 1974) is an American former Greco-Roman wrestler.

[1] Byers was raised by a single mother in Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

He attended Kings Mountain High School, where as a wrestler, he won a North Carolina state championship as a heavyweight in 1993.

After joining the US Army, when asked if anyone in his group wrestled before, Byers mentioned how he had been a North Carolina state champion.

Byers would earn a gold medal in Greco-Roman at the 2002 World Wrestling Championships.

Dremiel Byers (top) lifts an opponent at the 2008 Summer Olympics .