60th Midlands Tournament

[feet2back]

Good list of teams ...Who shows up?

Men's Division:

• Air Force Academy
• Arizona State
• Bloomsburg
• Bucknell
• Buffalo
• California Baptist
• Cal Poly  
• Central Michigan
• Cleveland State
• Columbia
• Cornell
• Edinboro
• Franklin & Marshall
• George Mason
• Harvard
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Lehigh
• Michigan
• Michigan State
• Missouri
• Northern Illinois
• Northwestern
• Ohio 
• Ohio State
• Oregon State
• Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh
• Princeton
• Purdue
• Rider
• Rutgers
• SIUE
• Stanford
• Virginia Tech
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin

[BigRedFan]

How many of those teams, other than Cornell, have zero wrestlers registered?

[lu_alum]

35 minutes ago, BigRedFan said:

How many of those teams, other than Cornell, have zero wrestlers registered?

In addition to Cornell, there are 18 teams (not counting Unattached from the state of Indiana) with zero wrestlers registered.  The host school is among those with no registrations.

	Team	Abbr	Count
1	Air Force, CO	AFA	0
2	Arizona State, AZ	ASU	0
3	Bloomsburg, PA	BMG	0
4	Bucknell, PA	BUCK	11
5	Buffalo, NY	BUFF	0
6	Cal Poly, CA	CP	12
7	California Baptist, CA	CBU	10
8	Campbell, NC	CAMP	0
9	Central Michigan, MI	CMU	18
10	Cleveland State, OH	CSU	0
11	Columbia, NY	COL	0
12	Cornell, NY	CORN	0
13	Edinboro, PA	EDIN	6
14	Franklin & Marshall, PA	F&M	0
15	George Mason, VA	GMU	13
16	Harvard, MA	HARV	16
17	Illinois, IL	ILL	13
18	Indiana, IN	IN	0
19	Lehigh, PA	LEH	6
20	Michigan State, MI	MSU	18
21	Michigan, MI	MICH	10
22	Missouri, MO	MIZZ	2
23	Northern Illinois, IL	NIU	20
24	Northwestern, IL	NU	0
25	Ohio State, OH	OHST	6
26	Ohio University, OH	OHU	0
27	Oregon State, OR	ORST	0
28	Penn, PA	PENN	0
29	Pittsburg, PA	PITT	0
30	Princeton, NJ	PRIN	15
31	Purdue, IN	PUR	10
32	Rider, NJ	RID	0
33	Rutgers, NJ	RUT	20
34	SIU Edwardsville, IL	SIUE	0
35	Stanford, CA	STAN	16
36	Unattached , IN	UN	0
37	Virginia Tech, VA	VT	0
38	Virginia, VA	VA	0
39	West Virginia, WV	WVU	8
40	Wisconsin, WI	WISC	27

Edited 19 hours ago by lu_alum

[flyingcement]

I was hoping we could see Crookham vs Byrd, but neither are registered for their respective team

[flyingcement]

Few guys that are registered but have not wrestled this year:

Braxton Amos

Marc Anthony McGowan

 

Ohio State has a selection of backups/redshirts:  Davino, Kilkeary, Birden, Cannon, Bell, Gonzales

Edited 19 hours ago by flyingcement

[RandolphTJones]

1 hour ago, flyingcement said:

Few guys that are registered but have not wrestled this year:

Braxton Amos

Marc Anthony McGowan

 

Ohio State has a selection of backups/redshirts:  Davino, Kilkeary, Birden, Cannon, Bell, Gonzales

We really gonna have a M.A.M. sighting?!?!?!?!

[lu_alum]

1 hour ago, flyingcement said:

I was hoping we could see Crookham vs Byrd, but neither are registered for their respective team

Lehigh typically send a contingent of six (or less) to Midlands, preventing the event from counting as a official date for the team.  Pretty rare for Lehigh to send a starter, unless they need bouts.  Beard was an exception last year.  Hines makes sense with his recent move up to 149.

[MPhillips]

4 hours ago, flyingcement said:

Ohio State has a selection of backups/redshirts:  Davino, Kilkeary, Birden, Cannon, Bell, Gonzales

Not a bad selection of backups/redshirts...

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

It's my understanding that ILLINOIS is not sending their starters except for Caelan Riley. The Northwestern site lists 37 teams attending, and the list in the original post has 37 teams named. Wrestlestat.com has 20 teams scheduled for the Midlands, but that's because they only put them on the schedule if they are on the team's official schedule. 

I expect that like the ILLINI, Michigan, Ohio State, Missouri, Lehigh and a few others are sending partial squads. 

With 13 Orange and Blue wrestlers attending, that means a fun-filled Sunday and Monday for me! Get to see the young guns! The tournament doesn't have the star power at the top, but most of the weights have 10+ guys ranked in the top fifty-ish at Wrestlestat.com. We went last year and were a corporate sponsor, but it wasn't on the school's schedule this season, so we passed. Maybe we'll be back next year. 

[Caveira]

Damn.  How watered down has midlands become?   Used to be the toughest Xmas tourney in the land. 

[ionel]

Midlands has never provided accurate information.  Its part of their charm.  

[ionel]

2 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Damn.  How watered down has midlands become?   Used to be the toughest Xmas tourney in the land. 

It used to be the second toughest tournament of the year, not just Xmas, and some weight classes you could make an argument were tougher than NCAA.  

[BruceyB]

32 minutes ago, Caveira said:

Damn.  How watered down has midlands become?   Used to be the toughest Xmas tourney in the land. 

Midlands and Scuffle used to be the best weekend of regular season NCAA wrestling. I miss the good ol' days.

[Caveira]

33 minutes ago, BruceyB said:

Midlands and Scuffle used to be the best weekend of regular season NCAA wrestling. I miss the good ol' days.

I know.  When we talk about ducking.  Or not calling stalling.  Or make a takedown worth 284847 points.   Or if you only make one back point swipe worth a million points….. And how to fix the sport.  The sport was fixed.   The sport was great.   (It is still great ish).  We are breaking it  

[Southend]

I saw David Taylor in North Carolina at tje Scuffle. Tsirtsis at Midlands as a redshirt freshman. Live . Those were the days. I can go on. But besides the Big tournament. They were always in he best places to be every year. If you could make it. 

[MPhillips]

 

From WIN Magazine

Year by Year at the Midlands
The following is a chronological look at the 49 past Midlands tournaments which have been hosted by Northwestern University.

Year Team Champ / Runner-up Notes

1963 Michigan / Southern Illinois Wolverine Mike Palmisano (115) earned an overtime pin as first Midlands champ; both Michigan and SIU featured three champs each in LaGrange, Ill.

1964 Michigan / Michigan State Former Oklahoma State champ Masaaki Hatta defeated eventual Michigan State AA Don Behm, 8-5, for 130-pound title

1965 Iowa State / Michigan State Former NCAA champ Larry Kristoff claimed third title; Team champ Cyclones featured three champs, including Buzzard brothers Bob (152) and Don (191)

1966 Michigan State / Mayor Daley WC Iowa State freshman, not yet NCAA eligible, Dan Gable (130) defeated Masaaki Hatta for first of six Midlands championships

1967 Iowa State / Michigan State In a battle of eventual NCAA champs Gable needed OT to beat Michigan State’s Dale Anderson at 137; Behm beat Hatta, 8-3, to avenge 1964 Midlands

1968 Michigan State / Iowa State Chuck Jean beat his Iowa State teammate Jason Smith for 177-pound title; Toledo’s 115-pound Dave Keller won second title in three years

1969 Michigan State / Michigan Six Spartans met in three finals; Mike Ellis over Tom Milkovich (134), Lane Headrick beating Ron Ovellet (150) and Pat Karslake over Gerald Malecek (167)

1970 Iowa State / Michigan State OSU brothers Dewayne and Darrell Keller each won at 126 and 134; ISU’s giant HWT Chris Taylor needed OT to beat Toledo’s Greg Wojciechowski

1971 Iowa State / Michigan State The Peterson brothers — Stout’s John (177) and Iowa State’s Ben (190) — each won; Gable’s last (31st) Midlands win over Clyde Smith for sixth title

1972 Iowa State / Oklahoma State Clarion’s Wade Schalles earned 158-pound title and O.W. honors with four pins; Michigan’s Jim Brown beat Midlands champ Dan Sherman (118) of Iowa

1973 Oklahoma State / Michigan Olympian Jimmy Carr (126) was named OW with title; Michigan’s Jerry Hubbard needed OT to beat Wisconsin’s Rich Lawinger at 150

1974 Iowa / Iowa State Former Wolverine Don Behm beat Kentucky’s Jimmy Carr on referee’s decision to claim 134-pound title and OW honors

1975 Iowa / Iowa State Minnesota’s Larry Zilverberg beat Olympian Stan Dziedzic in 167 final for OW honors; Wisconsin’s Lee Kemp (158) claims first Midlands championship

1976 Iowa / Oklahoma State OW Harold Smith of Kentucky beat OSU’s Jimmy Jackson at HWT; 126-pound Jay Swanson (South Dakota State) earned Midlands’ record fall in 0:12

1977 Iowa / Hawkeye WC Two unattached wrestlers won titles: Mike McArthur (OW) at 118 and Willie Gadson, who won in overtime bout in 190 final

1978 Iowa / Hawkeye WC Schalles recorded four falls to earn OW award and 167-pound championship; former Hawkeyes Chuck Yagla and Chris Campbell won for Club

1979 Iowa / Hawkeye WC Ben Peterson (190) tied Gable’s record of six titles; Schalles beat Dave Schultz in 158-pound final; Iowa’s Randy Lewis named OW after beating Cysewski

1980 Iowa / Wisconsin WC Iowa’s Lennie Zalesky (142) was named first Champion of Champions; Indiana State’s Bruce Baumgartner pinned Iowa’s Lou Banach in 1:59 at HWT

1981 Iowa State / Hawkeye WC Iowa State’s Joe Gibbons beat Iowa’s Mark Trizzino on ref’s decision at 126; ISU’s Nate Carr (177) and Mike Mann (190) also won to break Iowa streak

1982 Iowa / Oklahoma State Nebraska’s OW Al Freeman upset Randy Lewis and Lehigh’s Darryl Burley at 142; future Michigan coach Joe McFarland beat Gene Mills, 7-6, at 126

1983 Iowa / Hawkeye WC First time four brothers placed at Midlands: Jackson, Harlan, Lindsey and Marty Kistler; Scott Trizzino (167) first to place at four different weights

1984 Sunkist WC / Iowa Bill Scherr (190) named Champ of Champs to claim four titles for Sunkist; joining brother Jim (177) as well as Charlie Heard (126) & Gary Bohay (134)

1985 Iowa / Sunkist Kids WC 142-pound Gene Mills (NYAC) named OW; Michigan frosh Brandon O’Donahue had five pins , including tourney fastest in 31 seconds

1986 North Carolina / Sunkist Kids WC Baumgartner broke Midlands record with seventh championship and 35 straight wins; Current Cornell coach Rob Koll won 158-pound title for Tar Heels

1987 Sunkist Kids WC / Wisconsin Champ of Champs Mike Sheets (177) led Sunkist to title; Ed Giese of the Gopher WC named OW with 118-pound title; Wisconsin led by Jeff Jordan (150)

1988 Sunkist Kids WC / Iowa Lock Haven’s Mike Lingenfelter (134) captured OW and Gorrarian awards, pinning five foes in 8:13, including one in 19 seconds

1989 Arizona State / Sunkist Kids WC Zeke Jones (118), OW Andy McNaughton (134), Thom Ortiz (142), Ray Miller (158) and Dan St. John (167) won titles for Sun Devils

1990 Iowa / Sunkist Kids WC For the first time since first tournament there were 10 first-time champs, including Iowa’s Tom Brands (134) and Tom Ryan (158)

1991 No Team Scores Oklahoma State’s Alan Fried beat Tom Brands to earn OW and Champ of Champs honors; HWT Tom Erikson broke his own record with fall in 0:08

1992 Iowa / Sunkist Kids WC Mike Schmidlin (150) did not place but tied Midlands record with 51st career match and set weight record with 32 wins

1993 No Team Scores Penn State’s Cary Kolat avenged ‘93 NCAA final loss to North Carolina’s T.J. Jaworsky with 134-pound title and OW honors

1994 No Team Scores Iowa frosh Joe Williams (158) won first of 10 titles; current Maryland coach Kerry McCoy (Penn State) beat future Olympic champ Rulon Gardner at HWT

1995 No Team Scores Iowa’s Jeff McGinness pinned four of five foes to earn 126-pound title as well as OW, Champ of Champs and Gorrarian Awards

1996 Iowa / Edinboro Iowa had three champs (Mark Ironside, Lincoln McIlravy and Williams); just one more than Bakersfield’s Cody Wright (126) and HWT Stephen Neal

1997 Iowa / Illinois Edinboro’s Jason Robison (190) beat Iowa’s Lee Fullhart to claim Champ of Champ honors; Joe Williams beat Brandon Slay in preview of NCAA final

1998 Iowa / Iowa State Central Michigan’s two-time titlist Casey Cunningham (157) named Champ of Champ; three-time champ Stephen Neal also had most pins in least time

1999 Iowa / Illinois Iowa State’s Cael Sanderson (184) beat Illinois’ Nate Patrick for first Midlands title; six weights won by non-collegiate club wrestlers

2000 Minnesota / Iowa State Team champ Gophers featured just one champ: Jared Lawrence, who won 149-pound title as a No. 4 seed

2001 Iowa / Iowa State Cael Sanderson joined Gable as only four-time Midlands champ without a loss; current Clarion coach Troy Letters became 7,500th Midlands entry

2002 Iowa / Ohio State Joe Williams (174) breaks Baumgartner’s record with ninth championship; Cornell’s Travis Lee (125) was named Champ of Champs

2003 Illinois / Iowa State In addition to 10th Midlands title, Williams set records for most (55) and consecutive victories (51); Tommy Rowlands (Hwt) joins “20 wins in 4 year” club

2004 Illinois / Iowa Stanford’s Matt Gentry (157) became just the 7th wrestler to win OW and Champ of Champ honors; Jake Herbert claims first Northwestern title in 30 years

2005 Illinois / Central Michigan Herbert beat Iowa’s Mark Perry, 5-4, in 174-pound final; Bakersfield’s unseeded Tommy Vargas upset the No. 1 seed and claims 133-pound title

2006 Iowa State / Iowa ISU mentor Cael Sanderson joined Dan Gable as only men to win Midlands titles as wrestlers and coach; MSU’s Nick Simmons joined “20 in 4” club

2007 Iowa / Iowa State While Mark Perry captured Champ of Champs and Gorrarian awards, Iowa State’s Jake Varner upset Jake Herbert in overtime of 174-pound title bout

2008 Iowa / Iowa State Wisconsin’s Zach Tanelli upset Harvard’s No. 1-seed Corey Jantzen and eventually won title at 141; Maryland’s Hudson Taylor recorded five falls at 197

2009 Iowa / Iowa State In a preview of 125 NCAA final, Iowa’s Matt McDonough beat Iowa State’s Andrew Long; Maryland’s Alex Krom beat #1 Jimmy Kennedy (Illinois) at 141

2010 Missouri / Wisconsin Without an individual title, Tigers win first Midlands team title; No. 8 seed Chase Nelson (Oklahoma) upset No. 1 seed and wins title at 157

2011 Iowa / Northwestern Oklahoma’s Kendric Maple (141) named Champ of Champs after beating Iowa’s Montell Marion; Former Boilermaker Jake Patacsil claims title at 149

[Silver]

About as bad as Soldier salute

[ionel]

8 hours ago, MPhillips said:

 

From WIN Magazine

Year by Year at the Midlands
The following is a chronological look at the 49 past Midlands tournaments which have been hosted by Northwestern University.

Year Team Champ / Runner-up Notes

1963 Michigan / Southern Illinois Wolverine Mike Palmisano (115) earned an overtime pin as first Midlands champ; both Michigan and SIU featured three champs each in LaGrange, Ill.

1964 Michigan / Michigan State Former Oklahoma State champ Masaaki Hatta defeated eventual Michigan State AA Don Behm, 8-5, for 130-pound title

1965 Iowa State / Michigan State Former NCAA champ Larry Kristoff claimed third title; Team champ Cyclones featured three champs, including Buzzard brothers Bob (152) and Don (191)

1966 Michigan State / Mayor Daley WC Iowa State freshman, not yet NCAA eligible, Dan Gable (130) defeated Masaaki Hatta for first of six Midlands championships

1967 Iowa State / Michigan State In a battle of eventual NCAA champs Gable needed OT to beat Michigan State’s Dale Anderson at 137; Behm beat Hatta, 8-3, to avenge 1964 Midlands

1968 Michigan State / Iowa State Chuck Jean beat his Iowa State teammate Jason Smith for 177-pound title; Toledo’s 115-pound Dave Keller won second title in three years

1969 Michigan State / Michigan Six Spartans met in three finals; Mike Ellis over Tom Milkovich (134), Lane Headrick beating Ron Ovellet (150) and Pat Karslake over Gerald Malecek (167)

1970 Iowa State / Michigan State OSU brothers Dewayne and Darrell Keller each won at 126 and 134; ISU’s giant HWT Chris Taylor needed OT to beat Toledo’s Greg Wojciechowski

1971 Iowa State / Michigan State The Peterson brothers — Stout’s John (177) and Iowa State’s Ben (190) — each won; Gable’s last (31st) Midlands win over Clyde Smith for sixth title

1972 Iowa State / Oklahoma State Clarion’s Wade Schalles earned 158-pound title and O.W. honors with four pins; Michigan’s Jim Brown beat Midlands champ Dan Sherman (118) of Iowa

1973 Oklahoma State / Michigan Olympian Jimmy Carr (126) was named OW with title; Michigan’s Jerry Hubbard needed OT to beat Wisconsin’s Rich Lawinger at 150

1974 Iowa / Iowa State Former Wolverine Don Behm beat Kentucky’s Jimmy Carr on referee’s decision to claim 134-pound title and OW honors

1975 Iowa / Iowa State Minnesota’s Larry Zilverberg beat Olympian Stan Dziedzic in 167 final for OW honors; Wisconsin’s Lee Kemp (158) claims first Midlands championship

1976 Iowa / Oklahoma State OW Harold Smith of Kentucky beat OSU’s Jimmy Jackson at HWT; 126-pound Jay Swanson (South Dakota State) earned Midlands’ record fall in 0:12

1977 Iowa / Hawkeye WC Two unattached wrestlers won titles: Mike McArthur (OW) at 118 and Willie Gadson, who won in overtime bout in 190 final

1978 Iowa / Hawkeye WC Schalles recorded four falls to earn OW award and 167-pound championship; former Hawkeyes Chuck Yagla and Chris Campbell won for Club

1979 Iowa / Hawkeye WC Ben Peterson (190) tied Gable’s record of six titles; Schalles beat Dave Schultz in 158-pound final; Iowa’s Randy Lewis named OW after beating Cysewski

1980 Iowa / Wisconsin WC Iowa’s Lennie Zalesky (142) was named first Champion of Champions; Indiana State’s Bruce Baumgartner pinned Iowa’s Lou Banach in 1:59 at HWT

1981 Iowa State / Hawkeye WC Iowa State’s Joe Gibbons beat Iowa’s Mark Trizzino on ref’s decision at 126; ISU’s Nate Carr (177) and Mike Mann (190) also won to break Iowa streak

1982 Iowa / Oklahoma State Nebraska’s OW Al Freeman upset Randy Lewis and Lehigh’s Darryl Burley at 142; future Michigan coach Joe McFarland beat Gene Mills, 7-6, at 126

1983 Iowa / Hawkeye WC First time four brothers placed at Midlands: Jackson, Harlan, Lindsey and Marty Kistler; Scott Trizzino (167) first to place at four different weights

1984 Sunkist WC / Iowa Bill Scherr (190) named Champ of Champs to claim four titles for Sunkist; joining brother Jim (177) as well as Charlie Heard (126) & Gary Bohay (134)

1985 Iowa / Sunkist Kids WC 142-pound Gene Mills (NYAC) named OW; Michigan frosh Brandon O’Donahue had five pins , including tourney fastest in 31 seconds

1986 North Carolina / Sunkist Kids WC Baumgartner broke Midlands record with seventh championship and 35 straight wins; Current Cornell coach Rob Koll won 158-pound title for Tar Heels

1987 Sunkist Kids WC / Wisconsin Champ of Champs Mike Sheets (177) led Sunkist to title; Ed Giese of the Gopher WC named OW with 118-pound title; Wisconsin led by Jeff Jordan (150)

1988 Sunkist Kids WC / Iowa Lock Haven’s Mike Lingenfelter (134) captured OW and Gorrarian awards, pinning five foes in 8:13, including one in 19 seconds

1989 Arizona State / Sunkist Kids WC Zeke Jones (118), OW Andy McNaughton (134), Thom Ortiz (142), Ray Miller (158) and Dan St. John (167) won titles for Sun Devils

1990 Iowa / Sunkist Kids WC For the first time since first tournament there were 10 first-time champs, including Iowa’s Tom Brands (134) and Tom Ryan (158)

1991 No Team Scores Oklahoma State’s Alan Fried beat Tom Brands to earn OW and Champ of Champs honors; HWT Tom Erikson broke his own record with fall in 0:08

1992 Iowa / Sunkist Kids WC Mike Schmidlin (150) did not place but tied Midlands record with 51st career match and set weight record with 32 wins

1993 No Team Scores Penn State’s Cary Kolat avenged ‘93 NCAA final loss to North Carolina’s T.J. Jaworsky with 134-pound title and OW honors

1994 No Team Scores Iowa frosh Joe Williams (158) won first of 10 titles; current Maryland coach Kerry McCoy (Penn State) beat future Olympic champ Rulon Gardner at HWT

1995 No Team Scores Iowa’s Jeff McGinness pinned four of five foes to earn 126-pound title as well as OW, Champ of Champs and Gorrarian Awards

1996 Iowa / Edinboro Iowa had three champs (Mark Ironside, Lincoln McIlravy and Williams); just one more than Bakersfield’s Cody Wright (126) and HWT Stephen Neal

1997 Iowa / Illinois Edinboro’s Jason Robison (190) beat Iowa’s Lee Fullhart to claim Champ of Champ honors; Joe Williams beat Brandon Slay in preview of NCAA final

1998 Iowa / Iowa State Central Michigan’s two-time titlist Casey Cunningham (157) named Champ of Champ; three-time champ Stephen Neal also had most pins in least time

1999 Iowa / Illinois Iowa State’s Cael Sanderson (184) beat Illinois’ Nate Patrick for first Midlands title; six weights won by non-collegiate club wrestlers

2000 Minnesota / Iowa State Team champ Gophers featured just one champ: Jared Lawrence, who won 149-pound title as a No. 4 seed

2001 Iowa / Iowa State Cael Sanderson joined Gable as only four-time Midlands champ without a loss; current Clarion coach Troy Letters became 7,500th Midlands entry

2002 Iowa / Ohio State Joe Williams (174) breaks Baumgartner’s record with ninth championship; Cornell’s Travis Lee (125) was named Champ of Champs

2003 Illinois / Iowa State In addition to 10th Midlands title, Williams set records for most (55) and consecutive victories (51); Tommy Rowlands (Hwt) joins “20 wins in 4 year” club

2004 Illinois / Iowa Stanford’s Matt Gentry (157) became just the 7th wrestler to win OW and Champ of Champ honors; Jake Herbert claims first Northwestern title in 30 years

2005 Illinois / Central Michigan Herbert beat Iowa’s Mark Perry, 5-4, in 174-pound final; Bakersfield’s unseeded Tommy Vargas upset the No. 1 seed and claims 133-pound title

2006 Iowa State / Iowa ISU mentor Cael Sanderson joined Dan Gable as only men to win Midlands titles as wrestlers and coach; MSU’s Nick Simmons joined “20 in 4” club

2007 Iowa / Iowa State While Mark Perry captured Champ of Champs and Gorrarian awards, Iowa State’s Jake Varner upset Jake Herbert in overtime of 174-pound title bout

2008 Iowa / Iowa State Wisconsin’s Zach Tanelli upset Harvard’s No. 1-seed Corey Jantzen and eventually won title at 141; Maryland’s Hudson Taylor recorded five falls at 197

2009 Iowa / Iowa State In a preview of 125 NCAA final, Iowa’s Matt McDonough beat Iowa State’s Andrew Long; Maryland’s Alex Krom beat #1 Jimmy Kennedy (Illinois) at 141

2010 Missouri / Wisconsin Without an individual title, Tigers win first Midlands team title; No. 8 seed Chase Nelson (Oklahoma) upset No. 1 seed and wins title at 157

2011 Iowa / Northwestern Oklahoma’s Kendric Maple (141) named Champ of Champs after beating Iowa’s Montell Marion; Former Boilermaker Jake Patacsil claims title at 149

... them was the good ole days ...

[Fadzaev2]

I few of my best memories of Midlands include....Owings getting beat by Clyde Smith to eliminate the rematch of Owings vs. Gable in 1970, Jimmy Carr vs. Don Behm in the finals...Behm RD. , watching Cary Kolat take 3rd as a high school junior if I'm not mistaken, watching, Ben and John Peterson, Gable, Hellickson, Schalles, Chris Taylor, how about the Gibbons vs. Lewis match which was a prelude to the rematch where Randy got hurt so bad, a young John Fisher tech falling Olympic Silver medalist Barry Davis in an early round.  I just looked at some older brackets, and many weights had 3-4 eventual NCAA Champions in it.  Those were some special years at the Midlands.   Here is a link to past brackets for your viewing enjoyment.....you'll probably have to zoom in on each bracket and the weights are out of order in all of them.   https://nusports.com/sports/2015/6/26/MIDLANDS_0626155320

 

 

Edited 34 minutes ago by Fadzaev2