Background
Blickensderfer was born in Mount Zion, Illinois, the son of a high school basketball coach. He was wrestler in high school and attended the University of Indiana on a college scholarship. He had two surgeries during his first year of college and decided to change to Division III college Millikin University, where he became a highly ranked wrestler in the lowest division of college sports.
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