He was a conference runner-up as a sophomore. This year at the Class 3A state meet he finished fourth in the 160-pound division, just a year after finishing fourth in the 152-pound class. I don't know if I would be able to come out in high school if it weren't for the environment the coaches have built there. When he came out it surprised some people that this elite wrestler was gay. According to the Chicago Tribune, Geick has been “the face of the program” at his high school for the last two years. “It shocked a lot of people i think,” Geick said.Īs an athlete, Geick has been great in a sport that measures strength, toughness and agility as well as any other. By nightfall he had heard from other wrestlers at seven different high schools in the Chicago area asking the same thing or offering support. Just minutes after coming out to the students at his lunch table a year ago, his phone began to “blow up” from other students and teammates asking if the news was true. “Exploded” is, in this case, an understatement. “I really didn’t like having to sneak around,” Geick told Outsports, “so I came out to the kids at my lunch table one day after last season. It was only a couple weeks after starting to date his boyfriend that Stevenson High School’s gay star wrestler, Dylan Geick, decided the closet wasn’t for him.