Kolat vs Bassett

[OH-IO]

since alot of attention is being generated about BB, just thought i would add a fun topic to ponder!

Many of us consider to this day Cary Kolat to be the best HS (and top 20 college) wrestler of all time, I too agree with Cary being the top dog ever in HS it was just amazing to see him in HS (although I would say Chris Phillips was a close 2nd, only HS loss was 3-2 his freshman year to Senior Ed Ruth, Chris actually controlled the match completely,  Chris was unchallenged, 175-1,  BTW~does anyone know whatever happened to him) in your opioin has anyone surpassed Kolat as the greastes HS wrestler of all time? Of course I start this topic for good conversations and potential visits back to memory lane! 

 

thoughts of a matchup in their HS days has me curious......... Kolat vs Bassett 

 

My take is Kolat is still the best HS wrestler ever.... Cary was than and still is now a different type, an absolute beast among beast!!

 

Thoughts from some old school wrasslers!

 

[pokemonster]

I still remember when Chris Phillips beat Brian Roddy, who was a phenom in his own right, as a freshman. Mind you, Roddy was benching 315lbs the summer heading into freshman year during football workouts. Absolute monster. 

Can't comment on Kolat as I was focused on Ohio wrestling back then.

[Truzzcat]

Kolat was well before my time Chance was the closest thing to him for me hearing about him winning matches at college opens when he was in 7th grade was absolutely insane. Chance did not wrestle the circuit the other two did however and by comparison Kolat I don't think was active as Bo. Ive never heard of Kolat taking losses period in high school though. That is probably partially because of the events these kids go to now cadets,juniors,elite 8,super 32,fargo. It seemed like kolat had that aura of being completely untouchable that I'm not sure Bo quite has simply because we have seen him take losses to his peers, but I think that's a product of the national depth we now have and kids having the ability to wrestle so many different places. As far as in season goes Bo is currently 111-0 with 107 wins by bonus so 96.3%. Kolat was 137-0 for his career can't find bonus results. Thats a lot to say I think it's a matter of perspective Kolat may have had a bit more sense of invincibility though.

[OH-IO]

"Truzzcat" ~ good point sounds like you know your stuff, I remember Kolat wrestled a 4x MD state champion and tech'd him, I believe Kolat held his own in Midlands while in HS, I wish I knew the exacts for some reason I wanna say he wrestled Chertow while Kolat was still in HS @ Midlands and went toe to toe with him....anywho they all could kick my butt, quite easily too I might add.....

 

"pokemonster" ~ I remember the Roddy match very well finals @ Ironman 2007 (171lbs), Roddy number #1 or #2 in the country, chris also beat the # 3 kid in the country @ Ironman to get to Roddy, actually destroyed him, than destroyed Roddy in 2007 did not even give up a take down to either, crazy talent as a freshmen

 

[MPhillips]

As a freshman @ Ironman, Phillips wrestled Corey Peltier Blair Academy(ranked nationally), Zac Thomusseit (#1 ranked in OH DII), then (#1 nationally ranked) Brian Roddy from STED. 

Apologies not sticking to the Kolat/Bassett portion of the thread. I hope we get 4-5 college years of Bassett that we didn't get from Phillips. 

Al Fried is always in the top for me...