In hindsight, what NCAA bracket was the best ever?

[jross]

1980 177lbs

World (note: World or Olympic, excluding World Cup)

• 2 Senior World Team Members
  • Ed Banach
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  • Steve Fraser
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Notes

• Steve Fraser
  • Fraser's Olympic gold medal was the first ever in Greco-Roman wrestling for the United States.   
    • The 2000 Russian-Bear-Hunting Rulon Gardner credited Fraser with much of his success.
  • NCAA - blocked by Olympian Mark Johnson in 1977.  AA in 78, DNP in 79, AA in 80.
• Ed Banach
  • He was so quick, strong, and tough they called him "The Horse."  Retired due to health issues from concussions.

NCAA

• 1 National Champion
  • Ed Banach  (1st in 1980, 1981, and 1983.  2nd to Mark Schultz in 1982)
• Another 5 with a best finish of 2nd or 3rd (one loss)
  • Tony Mantella
    Dave Allen
    Charlie Heller
    Colin Kilrain
    Eli Blazeff
• 14 All-Americans with 26 total AA achievements at the NCAAs.  The AAs not listed previously are
  • Steve Fraser
    Dave Severn
    Ben Hill
    Don Brown
    Jim Hall
    Brian Parlet
    Gary Germundson
    Scott Mansur

[Warm Up Champ]

5 hours ago, jross said:

 

Adding a few notes

• 3 World Team Members
  • Daniel was a 6x FS Senior team member, winning bronze in 2007.  He won a bronze in GR Cadets in 1995.
  • Andy was a 2x FS Senior team member
  • Cael was a 4x FS Senior team member, winning gold and silver.  He won a bronze in FS Cadets in 1994.
• 3 National Champs + 4 others with 2/3rd place finishes (one-loss)
• 28 All-America achievements across 13 wrestlers.  AA's not listed before are
  • Kyle Hansen (2x), Doug Lee, Tom Tanis, Shawn Scannell

Nice!  I just skimmed the surface, you dug deep.  Not the toughest ever, but a fun collection of studs.