IOWA CITY Iowa -- The road to the Olympics is rarely easy, but it usually doesn't include pulling off that road and sleeping in the front seat of a worn-out old truck night after night.

Daniel Dennis earned All-America honors wrestling at the University of Iowa from 2006-10, but decided to step away from the sport as a competitive wrestler in 2013 due to a number of painful injuries. He drove west where he rock-climbed and sometimes coached while living for five months in a $500 used truck that was in such bad shape, he refers to it as a "old hunk of ...