Hit The Ground Running

[Wrestleknownothing]

Who says freshman need time to acclimate to college? Try telling that to the crop that landed in 2015.

 

Homework Assignment
The title of the table might not be strictly true. I came up with this list from the list of the top 230 scoring wrestlers. So all the ones and twos are missing from my totals. I doubt that has any impact on 2015's status as the year of the freshman, but it certainly could impact the order of every year after that given how tightly bunched they all become. Sooooo, if there is anyone out there who wants to complete the calcs, here is your chance.

[Wrestleknownothing]

Another way to think about freshman dominance is to focus on the entire career and then work backwards. You can argue that the top year for freshman is actually the year when the most career top scorers began. There were four years that contributed 6 wrestlers to the eventual top 230.

[Wrestleknownothing]

And for the completests in the crowd, the years 1970, 1988, 1997, and 2008 were the only freshman-eligible years that did not contribute any wrestlers to the top 230 career scorers at the NCAA tournament.

[Idaho]

Some talented freshman coming up.

[Wrestleknownothing]

Freshman AAs in 2023:

Eddie Ventresca 7th @ 125
Aaron Nagao 5th @ 133
Lachlan McNeil 4th @ 141
Brock Hardy 6th @ 141
Shayne Van Ness 3rd @ 149
Caleb Henson 5th @ 149
Levi Haines 2nd @ 157
Michael Caliendo 7th @ 165

Who breaks into the top 230 all-time scorers?
 

[ionel]

Well sure but how many of those were really freshman?  If talking "hit the ground running" I'd expect it to be year one.