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Last month Minnesota native Chas Betts claimed a title at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Greco-Roman at 84 kilos to earn a spot on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team.

InterMat recently caught up with the 26-year-old Betts.

How long did it take to sink in that you are an Olympian?

Betts: I can't even say still that it has. But definitely not for a few days. Just visiting with my parents, I finally got to sit down at their house and just relax for a minute and take it in. That's probably the first time.

At the U.S. Olympic Team Trials the top four seeds at 84 kilos in Greco-Roman were Minnesota natives and wrestlers you have trained with. How challenging was that mentally?

Betts: It was challenging, but I think at the same it was good to know that because of Minnesota's tradition of having a guy on the Olympic Team every year (since 1968). It's comforting to know that four or five of the top guys in the weight class were from Minnesota. Of course I wanted to be the winner, but it was nice to know that the chances were pretty good that we were going to have a guy on the Olympic Team at our weight class.

Betts: Yeah, I kind of figured that he would beat Peter Hicks. I thought the Clark-Hicks match was going to end up going three periods and it was going to be determined by the ball grab. I figured Clark was going to find a way to win because he has pretty good tactics in that sense, so I figured I would have him in the semis. I think I was pretty well prepared for it. I had myself convinced that I was not going to allow myself to lose to him. It's not a slight against him, but I feel like I train harder than he does. I feel like just that fact made me want it more.

In the finals you defeated Jordan Holm. He took one period from you in two matches, otherwise you shut him down. What was the key to defeating Holm?

Betts: I switched my tactics up a little bit from how I would normally wrestle. I know that Jordan is pretty aggressive on his feet, as am I. But when you get two guys who have a similar style like that they kind of end up trumping each other and it just leads to nothing. So I switched my style up and just relaxed more on the feet in those two matches than I normally would. I think maybe that surprised him a little. He kept his same style, attacking really hard. My idea was just to weather it, and then expose him in par terre. I think switching my tactics up is what paid off.

Dan Chandler was in the opposite corner of you in the finals coaching Holm. Was that strange for you?

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