All Quarter-Century Bracket: 133

[BruceyB]

Same concept, 133 edition. Podiums listed below.

	2010	2017	2019	2023
1st	Jayson Ness	Cory Clark	Nick Suriano	Vito Arujau
2nd	Daniel Dennis	Seth Gross	Daton Fix	Roman Bravo-Young
3rd	Frank Gomez	Nathan Tomasello	Stevan Micic	Michael McGee
4th	Jordan Oliver	Stevan Micic	Luke Pletcher	Daton Fix
5th	Tyler Graff	Kaid Brock	Austin DeSanto	Aaron Nagao
6th	Dan Mitcheff	Eric Montoya	John Erneste	Jesse Mendez
7th	Boris Novachkov	Zane Richards	Ethan Lizak	Sam Latona
8th	Steve Bell	Scotty Parker	Roman Bravo-Young	Kai Orine

[flyingcement]

In terms of my personal favorites, there are more of them in 2019.  Overall though, I think these are four incredibly tough brackets without much gap between.

[Ragu]

Second time voting the most recent bracket but seriously, they keep getting better. 

[RawDog]

4 incredible brackets there

[CHROMEBIRD]

Kendric Maple and Mike Grey were also in the 2010 field but DNP. 

I'm thinking 2012 might be in the mix as well. 133 AAs that year were

• Logan Stieber
• Jordan Oliver
• Tony Ramos
• Chris Dardanes
• Devin Carter
• BJ Futrell
• Zach Stevens
• Steve Keith

DNPs were Joe Colon, Cody Brewer, AJ Schopp, Mason Beckman, Ca$he Quiroga, Nick Arujau. That's a pretty thicc bracket. 2022 was pretty good too.

[11986]

11 minutes ago, CHROMEBIRD said:

Kendric Maple and Mike Grey were also in the 2010 field but DNP. 

I'm thinking 2012 might be in the mix as well. 133 AAs that year were

• Logan Stieber
• Jordan Oliver
• Tony Ramos
• Chris Dardanes
• Devin Carter
• BJ Futrell
• Zach Stevens
• Steve Keith

DNPs were Joe Colon, Cody Brewer, AJ Schopp, Mason Beckman, Ca$he Quiroga, Nick Arujau. That's a pretty thicc bracket. 2022 was pretty good too.

agree 2012 was a noteworthy bracket. Cody Brewer wasn't in it though; he was a 4 x AA 2013-2016. 

[Lunaticfringe]

The top 5 were all a cut above the bottom 3 in all 3 brackets. Gomez was the returning champ. Ness was unbeaten and won the Hodge. I would take Ness as a Sr over all these guys.

[BruceyB]

1 hour ago, CHROMEBIRD said:

Kendric Maple and Mike Grey were also in the 2010 field but DNP. 

I'm thinking 2012 might be in the mix as well. 133 AAs that year were

• Logan Stieber
• Jordan Oliver
• Tony Ramos
• Chris Dardanes
• Devin Carter
• BJ Futrell
• Zach Stevens
• Steve Keith

DNPs were Joe Colon, Cody Brewer, AJ Schopp, Mason Beckman, Ca$he Quiroga, Nick Arujau. That's a pretty thicc bracket. 2022 was pretty good too.

I was torn between 2010 and 2012 as the entry from that pool of athletes. That field was loaded.

[Truzzcat]

I went with 2017. Jesse makes 2023 an enticing choice but that was not near peak of his powers Jesse. I feel the same way about JO in the 2010 bracket. 2017 I believe had the most future world team members as well with 4.

[11986]

I'm also a fan of the 2004 bracket:

1st Zack Roberson Iowa St

2nd Josh Moore Penn St

3rd Johnny Thompson Oklahoma State

4th Darrell Vasquez Cal Ploy - SLO

5th Travis Lee Cornell

6th Foley Dowd Michigan

7th Mark Jayne Illinois

8th Matt Sanchez Cal State Bakersfield

Thompson had won it the two years prior. Lee had won it at 125 the year before. Thompson pinned Roberson in the Big 12 conference finals.

Notable non placers were Derek Moore (won it at 141 three years later, lost here in blood round); David Hoffman lost in rd of 16, later was an AA under head coach Tom Brands at Va Tech; Scott Jorgenson who lost here in blood round to Thompson 3-2 never placed but worth mentioning that he fought for the WEC/UFC bantamweight title, losing by decision to Dominick Cruz.   

Overall honors for the top 8:

Roberson 3x AA (in order of senior finish back) 1,4,7

Moore 2x AA (2,3)

Thompson 4x AA (3,1,1,2)

Vasquez 2x AA (5,4)

Lee 4x AA (1,5,1,7)

Dowd 1x AA (6)

Jayne 2x AA (7,7)

Sanchez 2x AA (5,8)

 

 

 

[Gantry]

Mark Jayne was one tough customer, surprised he never placed higher than 7th

[ionel]

6 hours ago, 11986 said:

Thompson 4x AA (3,1,1,2)

Don't you have Thompson backward should be 2,1,1,3.  Pretty sure in finals Fr year against an Iowa guy at CHA the last year at a university arena.  Lost on bogus Iowa CHA stall call.  Had more weight issues Sr year lost on front side then snaked Jayne backside and game back for 3rd.

[11986]

52 minutes ago, ionel said:

Don't you have Thompson backward should be 2,1,1,3.  Pretty sure in finals Fr year against an Iowa guy at CHA the last year at a university arena.  Lost on bogus Iowa CHA stall call.  Had more weight issues Sr year lost on front side then snaked Jayne backside and game back for 3rd.

I said in post senior year finish back from there

[ionel]

15 minutes ago, 11986 said:

I said in post senior year finish back from there

Don't know what that means.  

[11986]

13 hours ago, ionel said:

Don't know what that means.  

Sorry I was not clearer. I listed AA finishes in order starting with senior year, then junior, etc. 

[Wrestleknownothing]

The 2019 133 bracket is the highest scoring of the quarter century at 604 total career NCAA points. 

While Fix took five tournaments to amass his leading total of 90, even if you only took his first four tournaments, the gap to second place (2012 - 550 points) is too large for it to matter.

On the flip side, Pletcher was robbed of a tournament where he was likely to score 15 - 25 points.

[Mr. PeanutButter]

Too bad micic, fix, and Vito were never in a bracket together. That would have made 2 world champs and a world silver all in one NCAA bracket 

[bnwtwg]

On 8/10/2025 at 12:21 PM, 11986 said:

3rd Johnny Thompson Oklahoma State

Thompson had won it the two years prior

JohnnyThompsonNum3 just like it should be #slowpokes