Michael Farina
Michael Farina is an American wrestler. He competed in the Wrestling at the [1976 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg|men's Greco-Roman 48 kg] at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Farina made the USA Greco-Roman wrestling Olympic team as a high school senior, being one of only three wrestlers in American history to come straight from high school and earn a spot on an Olympic team. He is also the youngest American in history to become an Olympian in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Farina wrestled for York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois, where he placed third in the state as a junior and won an Illinois State Championship as a senior. Prior to graduating high school, he won the National Junior Freestyle Championship in 1974, and the National Junior Greco-Roman Championship in 1974 and 1975.
He attended college and wrestled at Iowa State University, where he graduated in 1981. He also later earned a graduate degree from the University of Minnesota.