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I must be in the absolute minority because I hated the arena. The sight lines were horrible. Any time someone leaned slightly forward or was taller it blocked the view of mats. I've not had that issue with the other arenas. Everything else was great though.

Just realized I never answered this one. Arthur Holding of Iowa State won at 135 despite originally entering at 125.

You'd have to put some qualifiers on that. How many guys? Lots of teams have lost all their final matches if the sample size is small enough.

You can! https://wrestling.guru/college-men/ncaa-d1/ncaa-d1-database/

Does any one know what happened to Brya as Cornella's replacement? Did he miss weight or not even go?

You'd be correct. Still 11 states that haven't had one. Only GA's 2nd finalist after Charlie Heard for UTC back in 1983. He is their 23rd AA overall. Virginia Tech has been home to 5 of those.

It more than doubles when you add in the D2/3, NAIA, NJCAA. Probably triples overall once you figure the women. when I saw that .guru was a domain, I knew that was the one. Ha

There are still a few guys from the 2017/2018 classes hanging around. I’d imagine they are all born in the 1990s. Guys like Mekhi Lewis and Feldkamp. Just look at those old recruiting rankings and you’ll get a good idea.

I know he defaulted. Their website says he was injured. So I can't confirm that one.

Yep. I don't know when exactly they stopped allowing wrestlers to bump up. I'd think it was around the time you had to start qualifying for the tournament and wasn't just open to anyone.

Hey everyone, I've finally gotten around to putting my D1 database on a website. It's by far the most comprehensive database you are going to find. I'm working on getting some others up. Over the next few months I hope to get my D2, D3, NAIA, NJCAA up and running too. You can now mess around with where I get all my info from. I have also put up the WCWA, International Worlds, Pan-ams, and a few states too. Wrestling.Guru Notice the domain is not a .com but a .guru

Trivia question based off the missed weight thread. Name the wrestler who was a National Champ the SAME year he missed weight at a lower weight and had to bump up a weight at the national tournament. This would be like Spencer Lee missing weight at 125, bumping up to 133 and winning it.

That was way more likely to happen in the earlier years of the tournament. It definitely happened a few times. Some guys that I have tracked but not all inclusive: 1969 - John Imrie (Missed at 191 and bumped to UNL) 1976 - Shaw Garel 1981 - Steve Rosenstein 1981 - Thomas Landrum 1981 - Dave Allen 1981 - Joe Atiyeh 1981 - Johnnie Selmon 1982 - Craig Noble 1984 - Melvin Douglas 1989 - Stacy Richmond 1994 - Eric Ivins 1995 - Alfonso Crus 1996 - Dustin Young 2007 - Daryl Cocozzo 2011 - Joe LeBlanc 1981 is the craziest year for missed weight. Selmon misses 2nd day and gives Clar Anderson a FFT to the semis. Rosenstein lost to Anderson in the first round Landrum lost to Anderson in the 2nd round Because those 2 missed on day 2, there is no wrestle-back for his part of the bracket (only those who lost to the semifinalists wrestled-back) Baza gets a FFT to the 5/6 match No 8th placer I left out one that I'll actually do a trivia question about this very topic in a few.

I wasn't sure when NDSU made the switch. One of these days I'll get around to documenting what years programs were what division. Thanks!

Old eligibility rules. He attended East Stroudsburg during a summer term before Clarion so he lost a year of eligibility. The funny thing is that he was able to wrestle his sr. year all through the conference tournament and then couldn't wrestle NCAAs.

Since the NCAA ended D2/D3/NAIA wrestlers from competing in the D1 tournament in the early 90s, here are the guys that I am tracking who have AA'd after transferring from a non-D1 & non-JUCO institution. Christian Lance - Ft. Hays Steve Fittery - Shippensburg Bill Stouffer - Grand Valley State Mo Lawal - Central Oklahoma Jody Stritmatter - Johnstown Tim Morrissey - Western Colorado Donnell Rawls - Winston-Salem

Do you have a full schedule of events?

Our answer this time was Gavin Kane of North Carolina in 2019

Some notes on your notes - Alabama has had 3 qualifiers before in 1955, 1976, 1978, 1979. But after Alabama and Auburn shut down their program the state suffered too. Long Island had a qualifier way back in 1970 in John Direnzo. But they were DII at the time. Army has never had more than 1 freshman ever. They've had 13 since 1980 Wisconsin has never had the top 2 seeds at a weight until this year. Top-2 seeds at the same weight as freshman has only happened 2x. Idaho has only had 3 #1 seeds. The other is Kirk Smith. Escobedo is the only Indiana native to have the #1 seed 2x. The only Purdue wrestler to have 3 top 4 seeds is Bob Marshall from 1960-1962

Been out of town and working on a website so I haven't been as active. But here is quick, easier one. We all know that Wyatt Sheets was an AA from the 33rd seed. What wrestler finished in the blood round from that seed and came so close to beating Sheets for the distinction?

It looks like they can only meet if they make the Semis or Blood Round/Place. So probably not happening.

I don't know of it happening at D1 nationals, but I would have to dig a little to find out. I can come back this week with an answer for sure. However, the Lackman brothers wrestled for a national title in D3 last year. That was the first time any had met in a final. The NAIA has had their fair share of instances because they allow 2 entries at a weight.

The only change I wouldn't mind seeing is the Sr. Nats champ being able to challenge for the spot. There is a lot of time between qualifying for the last world tournament and now.

Nope. Got in via 2 others getting kicked out for drug offenses. But he did finish 3rd to put him in line when they did.

If you've been better against opposing teams then you should go. Wrestle offs are only useful at the beginning of the season.