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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).

Few fun facts about seeds = placement: 580 times the final place matched the seed The most in a single weight class is 5, which has happened 9x (2017 - 197 is the most recent) 4 = 31x 3 = 94x 2 = 189x 1 = 257x Back when there were only 4 seeds the placements were exact in 1942 @ 155 & 1959 @ 130. It has never happened with more than 4 seeds. The weight with the most seed=places is 177, which has happened 67x. The most times in a year it has happened is 2006 with 25. The least amount of times in a year (with at least 8 seeds) is 2007 with only 9x. Per seed - the number of times it has happened: 401 (1st) 232 (2nd) 137 (3rd) 110 (4th) 68 (5th) 60 (6th) 44 (7th) 34 (8th)

I don't understand on positions like that where a step-out occurs that the clock doesn't get changed to when that action occurred.

He isn't one that has competed at NCAAs, although he should've and was more than capable of winning matches. I'll narrow it down quite a bit more for you. His school was an original member of the EIWA.

Clue - He won his matches the same year his Ivy league school got their first AA. Fun fact - His HS also has had a 2nd NQ.

He has scored 21, 22, & 24 points at each tournament he has entered. How does a bad knee affect that? Or if he can't go, who takes his place and how many points can they score? Either way, it doesn't look like it matters much.

All 3 girls got it done and qualified!

I know of 3 blind and one partially (~30%).

Multiple blind wrestlers have competed at the NCAA tournament. Who is the only one to win at least 1 match?

Miracle with a pin over CUB and has VEN to qualify. Elor with a win over CUB and has BRA to qualify.

Dom won and has to beat CUB for qualification. CUB finished 5th last week including a lost to Katie Gomez in the Bronze match.

Schultz with a win!! 130 is qualified.