interesting tweet

[Scouts Honor]

love to see if there is something like this from other states more recently....

 

 

[PortaJohn]

@Husker_Du or @Jason Bryant are the best two to answer this.  I remember PIAA had 6 finalist in 2018 & 7 finalist in 2021 but they never went (1) or (2) the same year at the state tournament 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2023 by PortaJohn

[ionel]

https://nwhof.org/news/tulsa-central-has-long-list-of-ncaa-glory

http://www.wrestlingstats.com/ncaa/view_high_schools60-.php

[PencilNeck]

I'm far, far from a historian, but check out '91-'92 AA (1992 tournament, big schools) for Illinois. In particular, 140 had two future NCAA champions (though different years) squaring off in the final https://ihsa.org/data/wr/records/ybyyr5.htm

140 pounds

Place	Name	School
1	Ernest Benion	Romeoville (H.S.)
2	Eric Siebert	LaSalle (L.-Peru)
3	Scott Benson	Naperville (Central)
4	Jayson Querciagrossa	Peoria (Woodruff)
5	Steve Gerstung	Arlington Heights (Hersey)
6	Steve Bakey	Barrington

 

In addition, a future NCAA finalist was champ at 103, and a Joe Williams won 152.

 

'93 also featured 3 future NCAA Champs (TJ Williams in addition to Siebert and Joe Williams from the prior year)

 

Another random thought - If you won an IHSA title in the AA class at 145 pounds in the '90s, you had an excellent chance of winning an NCAA title later on! https://ihsa.org/data/wr/records/ybych1.htm

[Jason Bryant]

This is one of those things where you have to have an idea of a group of wrestlers first rather than data just showing you something. I can pull up the hometowns of every single placewinner in college wrestling (save the NCWA) history, so that can probably get closer. I don't (yet) have a database of state champions and placers to cross reference. 

 

[bnwtwg]

3 hours ago, PencilNeck said:

Another random thought - If you won an IHSA title in the AA class at 145 pounds in the '90s, you had an excellent chance of winning an NCAA title later on! https://ihsa.org/data/wr/records/ybych1.htm

Or shot by your teammate...

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Vincent Turk

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