The 1993 Intermat Form Hodge Trophy Goes To....

[Wrestleknownothing]

I had this grand plan to fill in all the blanks for the Hodge Trophy from 1928 to 1994. I kinda dropped the ball after 1994, but thanks to a timely reminder from @11986 and @NotThatDave we are back with year two in the series. 

To review, 1994 saw Pat Smith run away with the Intermat Hodge Trophy. He collected a 53.57% of the votes. Runner-up, Lincoln McIlravy, has a third as many.

As with 1994, I will list the ten (or in earlier years, more or less) individual weight champions as our finalists. Vote early, don't vote often, and let your keyboard be heard.

[jchapman]

Rex Holman went undefeated and beat two future NCAA Champs and a future Hodge winner at NCAAs.

[Gene Mills Fan]

Undeated wrestlers:

Henson 34-0

Miller 29-0

Holman 29-0

Terkay 41-0

 

I'm going with the HWT with a fall in the finals and Oostendorp and Rulan Gardner in the bracket

Edited April 16 by Gene Mills Fan

[Idaho]

Terkay - 41-0 - 2 pins - 2 majors in the NCAA championships 

Randleman 24-1 - that was his second NCAA title

Ray Miller 29-0 - had a fall and major at the NCAA

Rex Holman 29-0  2 majors the NCAA

Henson also undefeated at 34-0

Dominance would have to go to Terkay overall - He had a lot of pins in his career but I am not sure how many in that season. 

EDIT: Terkay 122 career wins and 64 pins... 52% career pin rate. 

Here are the brackets:

https://www.wrestlingstats.com/ncaa/pdf/brackets/NCAA 1993.pdf

Edited April 16 by Idaho

[jchapman]

3 minutes ago, Gene Mills Fan said:

Undeated wrestlers:

Henson 34-0

Miller 29-0

Holman 29-0

Terkay 41-0

 

I'm going with the HWT with a fall in the finals and Oostendorp and Rulan Gardner in the bracket

I thought about this too, but Terkay didn't wrestle them in the tournament.  The fall in the finals is impressive.

[Idaho]

13 minutes ago, jchapman said:

Rex Holman went undefeated and beat two future NCAA Champs and a future Hodge winner at NCAAs.

Great season for Holman...at the time nobody would have known those were future NCAA champs or that there would even be a Hodge winner... Lost Season 5 episode 8. 

[Wrestleknownothing]

24 minutes ago, Idaho said:

Terkay - 41-0 - 2 pins - 2 majors in the NCAA championships 

Randleman 24-1 - that was his second NCAA title

Ray Miller 29-0 - had a fall and major at the NCAA

Rex Holman 29-0  2 majors the NCAA

Henson also undefeated at 34-0

Dominance would have to go to Terkay overall - He had a lot of pins in his career but I am not sure how many in that season. 

EDIT: Terkay 122 career wins and 64 pins... 52% career pin rate. 

Here are the brackets:

https://www.wrestlingstats.com/ncaa/pdf/brackets/NCAA 1993.pdf

Henson also had 11 pinfalls that season.

[fishbane]

34 minutes ago, Idaho said:

 

EDIT: Terkay 122 career wins and 64 pins... 52% career pin rate. 

Here are the brackets:

https://www.wrestlingstats.com/ncaa/pdf/brackets/NCAA 1993.pdf

I found his career record as 122-14.  This would make his pin rate 47.1%.  Of greater relevance to this question is that he had 25 pins his senior year.  That would make his pin rate 61% in the 1992-93 season.

[fishbane]

57 minutes ago, jchapman said:

Rex Holman went undefeated and beat two future NCAA Champs and a future Hodge winner at NCAAs.

I could not find how many falls Holman had in 1993, but he was not in the top 15 in single season falls in the Ohio State record book.  This would put an upper limit on his falls as 11.  Holman had 11 or fewer falls this season.

[fishbane]

I couldn't find a season fall total for Ray Miller either.  The ASU record book has him with 24 career falls.  He is not in the top 20 for single season falls which puts an upper limit on any season as 11.

Undefeated wrestlers:

Henson 34-0, 11 falls

Miller 29-0, <=11 falls 

Holman 29-0 <=11 falls

Terkay 41-0 25 falls.

Edited April 16 by fishbane

[Wrestleknownothing]

4 minutes ago, fishbane said:

I couldn't find a season fall total for Ray Miller either.  The ASU record book has him with 24 career falls.  He is not in the top 20 for single season falls which puts an upper limit on any season as 11.

Undefeated wrestlers:

Henson 34-0, 11 falls

Miller 29-0, <=11 falls 

Holman 29-0 <=11 falls

Terkay 41-0 25 falls.

That there is some good sleuthing

 

[Gantry]

Great thread and enjoyable read, that is all...

[jross]

How good were Purler and Henson?  They run a lot of camps…

[jchapman]

7 minutes ago, jross said:

How good were Purler and Henson?  They run a lot of camps…

Obviously not as good as Chertow

[Danny Deck]

Ray Miller is from Oklahoma, so I'm voting for him. 

[MPhillips]

7 minutes ago, jchapman said:

Obviously not as good as Chertow

*Slow Clap*

[scourge165]

2 hours ago, jchapman said:

I thought about this too, but Terkay didn't wrestle them in the tournament.  The fall in the finals is impressive.

And the future Hodge...

I voted for him, but I realized...the board cares not for future accomplishments! 

I've been told it's immaterial if Ferrari and McEnelly go on to win 7 titles between them, it does nothing to add to how impressive Starocci was this year...

In all honesty, I almost gave it to Mcllravy as he seems underrated to me. Maybe that's because he doesn't seem like he's mentioned among the greats often enough...but you persuaded me. 

 

The same people who'll talk about Pins will talk about how HWTs just "fall over onto their back." Ergo, HWT isn't as impressive. 

Also, putting Greco accomplishments in there may skew it for me a bit, but not a ton. 

[Gantry]

So Henson was 30-0 or so going into NCAAs and was only the 3 seed?  Who was ahead of him?

[Wrestleknownothing]

3 minutes ago, Gantry said:

So Henson was 30-0 or so going into NCAAs and was only the 3 seed?  Who was ahead of him?

Chad Zaputil (Iowa) was the #1 seed. He lost in the final to Henson. That was his third straight finals lose, once as the #3, once as the #2, once as the #1.

Lou Rosselli (Edinboro) was the #2 seed. He lost in the semis to Henson.

[Gantry]

Man, pretty stacked bracket!

[11986]

Interesting Hodge year and overall. This was the year Oklahoma St was on probation. You wrestle against the guys who are put in front of you in the post season but if the Cowboys are there some of this changes. 

[jross]

3 hours ago, jross said:

How good were Purler and Henson?  They run a lot of camps…

Have Purler and Henson wrestled each other formally?  I see they were both national champs, both on senior world teams, and Henson had the better international career.  What interesting stories are there on those two?  Throw Eric Akin in the mix... I'd imagine these three had some battles.  

[jchapman]

12 hours ago, jross said:

Have Purler and Henson wrestled each other formally?  I see they were both national champs, both on senior world teams, and Henson had the better international career.  What interesting stories are there on those two?  Throw Eric Akin in the mix... I'd imagine these three had some battles.  

I saw Henson beat Akin in the US National finals in 2000.  Then I saw Akin throw his 2nd place plaque in the garbage can as he left.

[Wrestleknownothing]

692 views and only 36 votes. Call me confused.

[Gantry]

I'm more confused how Randleman has 17% of the votes, he had a loss and all regular decisions at NCAAs.  There's 4 undefeated guys this year.