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Posted
40 minutes ago, gimpeltf said:

The best part of them wrestling for Nazareth (because I got to kid Mike about this) was that before he moved there he searched out where there would be a Frack family with kids that wrestled about the same age as his. 

I remember this as well! Two Fricks and one Frack 🤣

Posted
1 hour ago, flyingcement said:

I remember this as well! Two Fricks and one Frack 🤣

More of both total- not sure how many in any one line up. There were 4 Fricks- Travis, Eric, Thad and Colin. Not sure how many Fracks.

Posted
14 hours ago, juniorvarsity said:

It is Snyder 2016. End of story. He beat Sadulaev for Olympic Gold

This is either incorrect or a joke so heavily meta that I lost my way after the first few phase changes. 

Posted (edited)

Gotta go with Smith's calendar year + 1 month from July 86's Goodwill Games to 87 Worlds. Starts with a win over Isaev, torches Sanchez with a chest wrap in the NCAA final,  throws Alexeev on his head with a Metzger* in a dual, and ends with another win over Isaev.

 

*when John Smith is so much better than you that he goes upper body, you're in some serious trouble.

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Posted
4 hours ago, jackwebster said:

Gotta go with Smith's calendar year + 1 month from July 86's Goodwill Games to 87 Worlds. Starts with a win over Isaev, torches Sanchez with a chest wrap in the NCAA final,  throws Alexeev on his head with a Metzger* in a dual, and ends with another win over Isaev.

 

*when John Smith is so much better than you that he goes upper body, you're in some serious trouble.

From his how high can you go series? 

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2BPE 11/17/24 SMC

Posted
19 hours ago, jdalu75 said:

Mike Frick in 1976.  Defending NCAA champ at 134, missed the fall semester due to academics.  Weighing 144, beat Mark Churella at 150 at Midlands, lost by a point to Pete Galea in the finals.  At 142 drew with Brad Smith in the Iowa dual, then beat Smith in the All-Star meet.  At 150, beat 1975 NCAA 142-lb champ Jim Bennett in the Yale dual.  In the NCAA finals at 134 he fell behind 2x champion Pat Milkovich 3-0, then won 7-4.  Brad Smith was the 142-pound champion.  The top 4 at 150 were Chuck Yagla, Galea, Churella, and Bennett.  Finished the season with a 19-0-2 record.

I may be just a little bit biased.

 

Really good, but not even close to these top guys.

Posted
17 hours ago, flyingcement said:

I remember this as well! Two Fricks and one Frack 🤣

 

16 hours ago, gimpeltf said:

More of both total- not sure how many in any one line up. There were 4 Fricks- Travis, Eric, Thad and Colin. Not sure how many Fracks.

During that time period Penn State had Fritz to add to potential confusion NCAA Champion 1975 (great match vs. Milkovich)

Posted
5 hours ago, jackwebster said:

This is either incorrect or a joke so heavily meta that I lost my way after the first few phase changes. 

Shoot! I am an idiot. Shame me

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Posted
48 minutes ago, Fadzaev2 said:

During that time period Penn State had Fritz to add to potential confusion NCAA Champion 1975 (great match vs. Milkovich)

Different generation. The Frick/Frack was 2000s (maybe even late 90s)

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Posted
19 hours ago, juniorvarsity said:

It is Snyder 2016. End of story. He beat Sadulaev for Olympic Gold

This is incorrect. I am a dummy. I will think longer and harder before posting again

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Posted
11 minutes ago, juniorvarsity said:

This is incorrect. I am a dummy. I will think longer and harder before posting again

Never. Honest mistakes are the life blood of fora.

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Posted
8 hours ago, juniorvarsity said:

This is incorrect. I am a dummy. I will think longer and harder before posting again

We are all dummies who make mistakes. Don't let it stop ypu from posting.

Drowning in data, but thirsting for knowledge

Posted
12 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

We are all dummies who make mistakes. Don't let it stop ypu from posting.

pinfall pinfall pinfall

2BPE 11/17/24 SMC

Posted
8 hours ago, jross said:

^^^ Welcome 3 year letterman to the board.  

https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman

 

Three Year Letterman

@3YearLetterman

Feb 15, 2022

I’m going to recommend you drop the sarcasm right now. I’m a youth football coaching legend, and I literally couldn’t turn a door handle this morning because I have so many championship rings. I’m guessing you turn door handles with ease.

 

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Posted (edited)

Just to summarize, it seems like the candidates for best individual college + senior-level years are as follows:

  1. 2023 Arujau
  2. 2021 Steveson
  3. 2016 Snyder
  4. 2011 Burroughs
  5. 1999 Neal
  6. 1988 Smith
  7. 1987 Smith
  8. 1978 Kemp
  9. 1964 Uetake
  10. 1948 Glen Brand (NCAA champ + Olympic champ)
  11. 1924 Robin Reed (pre-NCAA AAU champ + Olympic champ)
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Posted
On 1/13/2024 at 4:43 PM, jchapman said:

Hard to pick any one of these four wrestlers over another.  

That's the best take of the post.

So many greats here. So many insanely great wrestling years.

Why try to reduce it to a simpleton "Batman vs Superman" type argument? That's just dumb.

ALL of these guys are incredibly impressive. The best part is reading through the list of the greats. 

 

 

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