My experience is with athletes in a recruitable sport (wrestling). The Greco Roman athletes who are World Team level aren’t necessarily at the D1 podium level (Freestyle wrestlers almost always are), but even so there is enough overlap in skillsets that they are still recruitable.
This isn’t exactly in answer to your question, because I don’t have good information. Just a bit of general advice on the situation. My son is in a situation where the Olympic Team is a stretch goal, but not a dumb one. He has debated what to do, because there is no money in his sport, and frankly he is sick of being a broke college student, and always a bit beat up from practice and competition. My advice to him has been that there are tens of thousands of kids in his sport that had that same dream he did since he was 5 years old. For most of them, it’s an impossible dream. He is in the fraction of a fraction of a percent where there is a realistic, although by no means certain, path to get there. Take your shot. You still have 40 years to be a working adult when you are done. But your window for this opportunity is vanishingly small. Prioritize doing what you can to take your shot. I don’t think many people would regret that.
Also makes for a pretty compelling essay imho. I know that the standard advice is to avoid athletic essays, but an essay about putting your life on hold to take a shot at your dream, even if it doesn’t ultimately work, is a lot different than the typical essay about the “big game.”