Brad Rheingans

Brad Rheingans (born 1953) is an American former Greco-Roman wrestler and professional wrestler from Appleton, Minnesota. He was an NCAA Division II champion for North Dakota State University in 1975, placed fourth in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and won gold medals at the 1975 and 1979 Pan American Games and a bronze medal at the 1979 World Wrestling Championships. He qualified for the 1980 Olympic team but did not compete because of the United States boycott. He coached at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Wrestling Club, where he trained Jeff Blatnick. Rheingans turned professional in 1980 under Verne Gagne and Billy Robinson in the American Wrestling Association, and with Ken Patera as The Olympians he won the AWA World Tag Team Championship. He also worked for the WWF, WCW and, from 1989, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he helped train young wrestlers at the dojo.