Milwaukee ? No doubt. No asterisk.

Relentlessly consistent, Paul Hamm won the U.S. Gymnastics Championship Sunday, hanging onto the lead he built over Jason Gatson and Blaine Wilson in preliminaries and putting to rest any doubts about who is really the country’s best male gymnast.

Hamm’s first championship last year was well-earned, although it came with Wilson nursing a shoulder injury that left him at less than 100 percent. This time, it was Hamm competing with a sore shoulder and Wilson at full health. Even with the injury, Hamm was better.

“I think this will make people realize it was no fluke,” Hamm said. “People will come around and realize I am the top gymnast in the country right now.”

He finished with 113.325 points, 1.2 more than Wilson, the five-time champion who finished third.

A full point behind Hamm, Gatson came in second, overcoming a pair of falls on the high bar that netted him a 7.85 on the first rotation. He and Hamm each earned automatic spots on the American world championship team.

Later Sunday, the men’s program committee chose five more gymnasts to compete for the last four spots on the team: Wilson, Hamm’s twin brother Morgan, Brett McClure, Raj Bhavsar and Alexander Artemev. Guard Young was designated the second alternate.

The worlds are Aug. 16-24 in Anaheim, Calif.

“I’d call Paul the man to beat out there,” said his coach, Stacy Maloney. “He’s one of the few guys out there with six solid events and not any weaknesses.”

Normally, Wilson would be on that short list. But not this week.

Essentially, he can blame this setback on his very first routine of the competition — Thursday night, when he fell off the pommel horse in the first five seconds and earned a 7.9. He actually outscored Hamm over the other 11 events, spanning the two days.

“It’s hard to come back from a deficit, and I got tired toward the end,” said Wilson, who tromped off the podium after the medals presentation and halfheartedly flipped his flowers into the crowd. “I will be making some changes in my training next year, and it will be a different story.”

Hamm, meanwhile, doesn’t have to change much. On a final day that he claimed was merely “mediocre — I did what I had to do to win” — he was excellent where his shoulder would let him be and efficient in places where he had to protect the injury.

On the pommel horse, where the shoulder wasn’t a factor, Hamm’s legs kicked higher than anyone else’s and his hands scooted over the entire horse fluidly. On the rings, an event he watered down in deference to the shoulder, he was smooth, not spectacular. His score of 8.9 wasn’t great, but it wasn’t a disaster, which was about all that would have derailed him on this day.

He finished on the high bar. Nursing a lead of 0.9 points, he went through a conservative routine — no fancy triple-release moves from Thursday.

“That was a split-second decision” to forgo the big trick, Hamm said. “I didn’t feel like things were going right.”

The routine was fine, though, and when he landed solidly, the hometown crowd cheered and Hamm raised his fist, a rare show of emotion for a guy who knew the championship was sewed up.