Arlington High School graduate Tervel Dlagnev was one match away from a medal, but it just wasn't his day Saturday.
Doing battle in the men's 120kg freestyle wrestling, Dlagnev drew a bye in the first round, then opened the Olympics with a victory over Egypt's Eldesoky Shaban in the round of 16.
Dlagnev went on to beat Belarus' Aleksei Shemarov in the quarterfinals.
Dlagnev ran into trouble against two-time Olympic champion Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan in the semifinals.
The loss left him in a battle for the bronze with Iranian Komeil Ghasemi, unfortunately it just wasn't Dlagnev's day. Ghasemi took the bronze.
Dlagnev is a graduate of Arlington High School and his mother calls Benbrook home. His family moved to North Texas from Bulgaria when he was 4-years-old.
Dlagnev didn't start wrestling until his sophomore year. But by the time he graduated, he was one of the top wrestlers in Texas.
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"From where he's come from to where he's at, he's done well, I mean he's done well this whole year, we're very proud of him," said Dlagnev's high school coach Henry Harmoney.
Now he can call himself an Olympian.
