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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.

Cox, Thielke, Augello, and Maroulis all did back in 2016. No one did in 2021.

Luffman got hurt for the year. Webster was redshirted. Not sure about Roberts.

Name the wrestler who qualified for the NCAAs despite having his leg amputated below the leg and had a fingerless hand. Hint - It's not Robles...

Byrd got injured and can have up to 2 years left.

Doug Bingham while wrestling for Utah in 1961. Robert Murray wrestling for Cornell (IA) died while on a way to a meet in MN.

This is double one (and sad). What 2x NQ actually died during a match? What national runner-up was killed in a car accident on the way to a competition.

Here's one a lot of people don't know: Shelton Benjamin who went 5 & 3 at MN (and WWE fame) originally went to NC State for football. Other AAs who started playing football and transferred to wrestle: - Adam Chalfant - Indiana - Jimmy Lawson - Penn State - Airron Richardson - Michigan - John Wise - Illinois Unfortunately, I don't have all that together yet to be able to give some good insights right now. I'm working on the state tournament placers though.

As a follow-up to this. In 2006 Dave Herman went 2-2 for Indiana. What's significant is that he only wrestled for a month during his sophomore year in HS before being expelled from school. They next time he did was at Indiana as a walk-on. 3 years later he is winning matches at NCAAs. As close as you can get to "never" really.

Oh for sure. I get why they do it that way. I'd bet a lot of the federations only pay a portion of the expenses to start with. It's a dumb requirement to have to go to the championships in order to go to the OG. That's a whole different decision though. I don't think that is really the obstacle though as the Pan-Am Championships in 2023 were way better attended than either the championships this year or the OG. That's despite also having the Pan-Am games later in the year. Now, the championships were a qualifier for the games, but it shows they could do it if they wanted to.

Kind of hard to say they didn't have an opportunity to do it when Cohlton Schultz is doing it and Snyder has done it. They also both had the ability to take an Olympic redshirt but chose not to. Though chose to make the college season their focus, and that is fine, but they had all the opportunity they needed.

The problem isn't anything other than the guys that went didn't get the job done. It's that simple. They were both favored to win and had beaten their opponent previously. If other people wanted to try and qualify the spot they should've qualified to even wrestle in the tournament. They should've beat Zane or Nick then they should've qualified for the World Championships last year. Or challenged and beat them and taken their spots. They didn't and that's on them. If you don't want your fate in someone else's hands then make sure it's in yours.

March 2024 22-24 African & Oceania OG Qualifier April 2024 05-07 European OG Qualifier 19-21 Asian OG Qualifier

Pan-Ams is the weird federation. The rest do theirs in April except Africa/Oceania end of March. Pan-Am OG should be moved to fit the calendar better like the rest of the world.

Our answer is Gene Manfrini wrestling for Columbia in 1951. He wrestled in HS for NY institute for the Blind. Lost first round to national champ Keith Young and came back with 2 wins in consis before bowing out to 3rd place finsher Byron Todd of Okie State in the blood round (4 places).