Best to ever beat you (more post-NCAA banter)

[wrestle87]

Jared Platt rag-dolled me in a freestyle spring tournament in high school.  He put on a power half that I legitimately felt for 6 months after the fact. 

[ionel]

3 hours ago, KCMO2 said:

Kicked the sh!t out of me.

Was sure @PortaJohn would be expounding as to how everyone kicked the crap out of him and then he got this great idea 

and now we know the rest of the story.

[Wrasslin]

Personally, I'd rather hear about the best we've ever beat. Losing sucks. . . I tried it once. 

[treep2000]

Mid 90’s.  Ohio.  Freestyle tournament.

Joe Heskett, who we should all know, whipped me pretty good.

 

[Gus]

In youth wrestling the best (future career wise) to beat me was Robert Kokesh (3x SD state champ and 3x AA, 3-4-3 at NCAA's for Nebraska). The worst licking I ever took in youth wrestling was to Destin McCauley (ended up being a 6x state champ in Minnesota and a top HS recruit). The best wrestler that I faced in HS was Blake Stauffer (4th at NCAA's for ASU). I believe the score to our match was somewhere in the 10-3 range. I had a hard time getting away from him on bottom.

[Jim L]

Andy McNerny from Harvard. He had just come off a 4th place NCAA finish. I was a senior in HS and in my first senior tournament.

I had just wrestled a Syracuse starter and lost but a lgot a TD or maybe even two and was feeling pretty good until McNerny demonstrated next level wrestling. He was incredibly fast and slick. I remember as I was being taken down trying to figure out what he just did with his setups and misdirections

 

[Hillbilly Jim]

Jeff Prescott - 2x NCAA champ.  It was at a youth/JH tournament.  I remember being confident and looking at him thinking I would be the bigger, stronger guy.  The whistle blew and he was so fast I didn’t know what happened.  When it was over he wasn’t even breathing hard.  I am not even sure he had to make contact with me.   

[Tripnsweep]

I lost to Cheney Haight by tech fall once. Also once took a loss to Neal Rodak in 2003 or 2004, not a tech fall but fairly one sided. 

[jackwebster]

11 hours ago, Wrasslin said:

Personally, I'd rather hear about the best we've ever beat. Losing sucks. . . I tried it once. 

Ok, I'll play. 

edit: I changed my mind. 

Edited April 6 by jackwebster

[PortaJohn]

12 hours ago, ionel said:

Was sure @PortaJohn would be expounding as to how everyone kicked the crap out of him and then he got this great idea 

and now we know the rest of the story.

It was 1910, on our family's homestead, when my father suddenly died of a heart attack under the oak in our front yard.  The very next day a lightning bolt hit that same oak and spilt it in two.  I took the wood from that Oak and made myself a bat.  By the time I was 6 years old I could hit home runs off the High School pitchers in the area.

At 12 a scout came to my town and told me I was the best he had ever seen.  Packed my bags, boarded a train, and headed for NY to try out for the Yankees.  On my travels I met a widow who seemed quite fond of me.  Boy did I misread that.  She came in to my sleeper car and put a bullet in my torso.  Gasping for my last breath she revealed that she was a sorceress and would spare my life but only if I agreed to take the shape of a waste container and work the local carnivals in the midwest.  Being young and foolish I agreed.  Looking back I should've taken my chances with the netherworld.  So yes, you can say I not only lost but I lost bigly

Edited April 6 by PortaJohn

[nhs67]

John Smith

[1032004]

In terms of eventual NCAA accomplishments, probably Mike Grey.  In terms of who I thought was the best wrestler, probably either Dave Morgan (2x D3 champ) or Dave Tomasette (4x NQ for Hofstra)

[nhs67]

1 minute ago, 1032004 said:

In terms of eventual NCAA accomplishments, probably Mike Grey.  In terms of who I thought was the best wrestler, probably either Dave Morgan (2x D3 champ) or Dave Tomasette (4x NQ for Hofstra)

If we're talking toughest match, I am saying Terry Brands.

It was a fist fight every time.

[D3 for LU]

It was 2X AA (4th,2nd) Scott Puzia for College of New Jersey ( formerly Trenton State.)

It was right after my junior season @ Morristown, wrestling in an open tournament @ Union College.

Wrestled @ 118 and wound up wrestling the #1 seed... Scott Puzia. Scott was a product of Roxbury HS wrestling program (the HS where my nephew would eventually wrestled at in that distant future.)

He pinned me (I don't know if I eventually made it to the 2nd period... he just overwhelmed me.)

That tournament wasn't a double elimination... you had to make it to the semis for placement. It was One & Done for yours truly.

Fast forward to December 2014 and the Dover Christmas tournament... my nephew RJ, now wrestling @ Roxbury was the #1 seed at 145. I left my brother and sister-in-law in the bleachers while I stepped out into the hallway to look at the brackets on the wall.

As I was looking at RJ's bracket and seeing who he had next, someone next to me said something along the lines, you got a good one there, Dave. I turned to my left...

It was Scott Puzia himself. He was two classes ahead of me, but looked like he could go a few starts right now. I couldn't believe he remembered me after all these years!

We talked for approx. 10-15 mins. It was all good.

Small world, eh?

D3

[D3 for LU]

Side note... it wasn't an "official bout," but while I was at Blair Academy, Kelly Ward used to tackle me in the dorm hallway to wrestle me (like my big brother used to do at home.)

And all of you know... that Kelly was a NCAA champ for Iowa State (and then,  his future in the Secret Service to President Reagan later on... there was an article in Amateur Wrestling News about him.)

cheers!

D3
 

Edited April 6 by D3 for LU

[RandolphTJones]

College: too many to name. 
I’d probably say my first deer in the headlights moment where I was in awe of my opponent during the match was Mario Mason of Blair Academy. 

[BAC]

23 hours ago, Chas2105 said:

Cary Kolat 4 times. 2x in Jr. High a major and regular decision. 1x at a summer tournament in high school a decision. 1x in freestyle by tech fall. All losses of coarse. 

I'd have counted those regular decisions losses to Kolat as victories.

[Leg rider]

If we include in the practice room I will also say Kolat

[RandolphTJones]

17 hours ago, wrestle87 said:

Jared Platt rag-dolled me in a freestyle spring tournament in high school.  He put on a power half that I legitimately felt for 6 months after the fact. 

He was a beast. RIP

[Husker]

4 hours ago, D3 for LU said:

Side note... it wasn't an "official bout," but while I was at Blair Academy, Kelly Ward used to tackle me in the dorm hallway to wrestle me (like my big brother used to do at home.)

And all of you know... that Kelly was a NCAA champ for Iowa State (and then,  his future in the Secret Service to President Reagan later on... there was an article in Amateur Wrestling News about him.)

cheers!

D3
 

Kelly Ward bit a guy’s ear off while in a street fight. Hell of a wrestler. 

[Bulldog]

Terry Brands.

[cowcards]

Post-College - Kyle Ruschell (Wisconsin) beat me in my first ever FS match at Sunkist. I was helping coach our women's team that went and someone got sick, but they wouldn't refund the spot, so I used it. Never wrestled or trained FS before. My 2nd one I lost 1-0 to David Jauregui (WV) and called my FS career to a close. 

College - Terrance Almond - Dana (4x NAIA AA)

HS - Mark Moos at NHSCA Open

Best I ever beat would probably be Julian Gunnels of Briar Cliff (2x NAIA 3rd). Majored him in a dual. 

[scourge165]

11 hours ago, Gus said:

In youth wrestling the best (future career wise) to beat me was Robert Kokesh (3x SD state champ and 3x AA, 3-4-3 at NCAA's for Nebraska). The worst licking I ever took in youth wrestling was to Destin McCauley (ended up being a 6x state champ in Minnesota and a top HS recruit). The best wrestler that I faced in HS was Blake Stauffer (4th at NCAA's for ASU). I believe the score to our match was somewhere in the 10-3 range. I had a hard time getting away from him on bottom.

5X...upset as a Soph, but definitely a stud. 

[ionel]

7 hours ago, nhs67 said:

John Smith

How'd that go? 

[Idaho]

9 hours ago, Hillbilly Jim said:

Jeff Prescott - 2x NCAA champ.  It was at a youth/JH tournament.  I remember being confident and looking at him thinking I would be the bigger, stronger guy.  The whistle blew and he was so fast I didn’t know what happened.  When it was over he wasn’t even breathing hard.  I am not even sure he had to make contact with me.   

If you wrestled Prescott, then did you did you ever wrestled my buddy Bob Truby?