The United States Olympic team trials for the sport of wrestling are contested quadrennially to determine the country's representative at the Summer Olympic Games on each style (men's and women's freestyle and Greco-Roman) and weight class.
[1] The event is conducted by the national governing body of the sport, currently USA Wrestling.
[5] The first edition of the US Olympic team trials for wrestling took place from June 16 to 23 of 1984, when USA Wrestling dictated they would no longer select the wrestlers they sent to the Summer Olympic Games or the World Championships, as they would now hold an event where qualifying would now be on the hands of the athletes.
[6] Bob Dellinger, tournament operations director for the organization, expressed: "We have brought these ladder challenges the actual final trials for the Olympic team out of a training camp situation and have placed them before the public.
Many times in the past, the qualifying tournaments were sold to the public as "final trials,' when in reality the team was selected in the seclusion of a training camp.