GOATs who were pinned in college

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1 hour ago, Cornell Kevin said:

Yianni D was never pinned correct. 

He was 115-2.  Only 2 losses..

True freshman year was up 4-1 on Jayden Eierman. with riding time locked in with 30 sec to go.  Very questionable reversal call for Eierman which they reviewed.  Eierman then cut him making it 5-3 Yianni (6-3 with riding time).  Yianni had no stall warnings and instead of just avoiding him the last 15 seconds, Yianni took a very ill advised shot, got cradled and lost 9-6.  Yianni would defeat Eierman the next 3x they wrestled. 
 

Other loss I was unfortunate to be at vs Austin Gomez. This came 9 months after Yianni had just majored him in Wisconsin.  Yianni’s 1st match of the year after just winning a world silver and a couple weeks prior to wrestling 65kg (143 lbs) at the world cup.  First period Yianni in deep on two singles (“watch his knee watch his knee” both stopped for potential dangerous).  It all came down to one seat belt position which Gomez is best at.  Final 9-5. That ended his 75 match win streak which left him two shy of Kyle Dake at 77. Had he been able to pull that match out (or not wrestled it at all as he was originally supposed to not wrestle till after the world cup cause he was keeping his weight down to 65kg) he would have had a steak of 95/96.  Woulda coulda shoulda right?

 

 

Yianni has not only not been bonused in HS or college, he also had never been pinned to tech falled ever in Freestyle which is quite amazing if you think about it having wrestled 80 senior level matches.  

FYi 

Yianni HS record was 243-3 with his only 3 losses coming as an under weighed 7th grader. From that point on (8th grade thru Junior year) He would then whip off a state record 221 straight wins and 4 state titles before missing his senior year to have surgeries on both elbows. Had he not he would have absolutely won a 5th state title and won another 40+ matches. 

High school record. 243-3                                        NCAA record.           115-2

Overall folk style  358-5

** He has no red shirt losses either as he had no official red shirt as Cornell being in IVY doesn’t allow it and he had no Folk matches in his two olympic shirt years*+

While I am on the Yianni topic I hear a lot of “well it took him 8 years to win those 4 titles.”  That’s bs 

He was at Cornell for 6 years and he won his first two titles as a true freshman and true sophomore.  That God he took an olympic shirt the next year because the ncaa canceled due to covid so he would have been SOL. Then thank God the olympics were postponed allowing him to take another olympic shirt cause the IVY league canceled their season and again he would have been SOL. He then came back to finish his junior and senior year. So he was in school only one year longer than the 4xers prior to him (besides Dake who did it in 4 years) and it wasn’t as if he had a choice.  

 

Ok sorry for running off on Yianni tangent on that one. 

 

 

 

Run on all you like. It is always great to hear about greatness.

[Hammerlock3]

1 hour ago, Cornell Kevin said:

Yianni D was never pinned correct. 

He was 115-2.  Only 2 losses..

True freshman year was up 4-1 on Jayden Eierman. with riding time locked in with 30 sec to go.  Very questionable reversal call for Eierman which they reviewed.  Eierman then cut him making it 5-3 Yianni (6-3 with riding time).  Yianni had no stall warnings and instead of just avoiding him the last 15 seconds, Yianni took a very ill advised shot, got cradled and lost 9-6.  Yianni would defeat Eierman the next 3x they wrestled. 
 

Other loss I was unfortunate to be at vs Austin Gomez. This came 9 months after Yianni had just majored him in Wisconsin.  Yianni’s 1st match of the year after just winning a world silver and a couple weeks prior to wrestling 65kg (143 lbs) at the world cup.  First period Yianni in deep on two singles (“watch his knee watch his knee” both stopped for potential dangerous).  It all came down to one seat belt position which Gomez is best at.  Final 9-5. That ended his 75 match win streak which left him two shy of Kyle Dake at 77. Had he been able to pull that match out (or not wrestled it at all as he was originally supposed to not wrestle till after the world cup cause he was keeping his weight down to 65kg) he would have had a steak of 95/96.  Woulda coulda shoulda right?

 

 

Yianni has not only not been bonused in HS or college, he also had never been pinned to tech falled ever in Freestyle which is quite amazing if you think about it having wrestled 80 senior level matches.  

FYi 

Yianni HS record was 243-3 with his only 3 losses coming as an under weighed 7th grader. From that point on (8th grade thru Junior year) He would then whip off a state record 221 straight wins and 4 state titles before missing his senior year to have surgeries on both elbows. Had he not he would have absolutely won a 5th state title and won another 40+ matches. 

High school record. 243-3                                        NCAA record.           115-2

Overall folk style  358-5

** He has no red shirt losses either as he had no official red shirt as Cornell being in IVY doesn’t allow it and he had no Folk matches in his two olympic shirt years*+

While I am on the Yianni topic I hear a lot of “well it took him 8 years to win those 4 titles.”  That’s bs 

He was at Cornell for 6 years and he won his first two titles as a true freshman and true sophomore.  That God he took an olympic shirt the next year because the ncaa canceled due to covid so he would have been SOL. Then thank God the olympics were postponed allowing him to take another olympic shirt cause the IVY league canceled their season and again he would have been SOL. He then came back to finish his junior and senior year. So he was in school only one year longer than the 4xers prior to him (besides Dake who did it in 4 years) and it wasn’t as if he had a choice.  

 

Ok sorry for running off on Yianni tangent on that one. 

 

 

 

I've never heard anyone try to undermine Yianni's 4 timer status. My only complaint on his behalf is that the crew who forgot Sebass beat Lee Twice also flooded the market as far as torn ACL references go and no one remembers that he won NCAAs as a true freshmen in a brutal bracket with a torn ACL....

Also Yianni is so unbelievably squirrely its hard to imagine him being pinned, its probably indicative of a problem in him wrestling but it seems like he could hit the eject button in almost any position.

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On 2/19/2025 at 11:57 AM, MPhillips said:

Or Metcalf or Imar...

Metcalf was a 4 time undefeated state champion and once labeled "King of Fargo", 3 time NCAA finalist/ 2 time champion....most of us wish we were that good.......   Michigan: Brent Metcalf — Michigan is home to several all-time tournament greats. Adam Coon (six titles), Andre Metzger (five), Taylor Massa (four), Sabrina Nauss (four) and a host of three-time champs are among Michigan’s greats, but Metcalf tops the list with seven titles.  

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22 minutes ago, Fadzaev2 said:

Metcalf was a 4 time undefeated state champion and once labeled "King of Fargo", 3 time NCAA finalist/ 2 time champion....most of us wish we were that good.......   Michigan: Brent Metcalf — Michigan is home to several all-time tournament greats. Adam Coon (six titles), Andre Metzger (five), Taylor Massa (four), Sabrina Nauss (four) and a host of three-time champs are among Michigan’s greats, but Metcalf tops the list with seven titles.  

Personally, I don't think Metcalf was pinned by Caldwell at St. Ed's......while in the spladle, his shoulder blades were totally up on Darrion's torso.  The only part of Brent on the mat was his butt and sacral area, and the shoulder blades don't go down that far.