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Glad you like it! Feel free to use any of the info or results if it’s helpful for your project. If you do, I’d just appreciate a link back.

I'm with you. That's why I made https://wrestlingrecords.com/. The lack of data in wrestling is pretty crazy. Followed you on Medium, you have some great stuff.

My bad, just saw this. I don't have any of the old brackets. I got a lot of those results from a guy who put them together, so he may have them.

Agreed. Jason Welch was great.

I disagree with every single point. Using Bo Nickal has invalidated your entire argument. Freestyle is the best. I've said my piece.

This entire conversation is dumb, because folkstyle will never change. If we switched to freestyle, our national team would be more competitive. I wish people cared about that. No, there's no conspiracy. The reason we do folkstyle is because it's tradition/an American thing. Which I said in that quote you highlighted. People do have a financial incentive to keep folkstyle. Granby school of wrestling and Ben Askren's top camps back in the day. That's probably super minor though. When I said football was 10x more dangerous, I was using hyperbole. Football is more dangerous. Plenty of statistics and studies to back this up. You say freestyle is more dangerous than folk. It very well might be. This isn't a fact. And you may be wrong. I haven't seen any statistics on this. Just because one dude can't defend a Fireman's doesn't make it more dangerous. I was just saying I don't see why the danger level would hold anyone back, when the most popular HS sport is way more dangerous.

I'm not sure freestyle wrestling is any more dangerous than folkstyle. Football is 10x more dangerous. Way more kids are playing football. Why would switching from folkstyle to freestyle mean less kids would go out for it? Outside of rare edge cases.

I just want us to have a better chance to succeed at the highest level of the sport. Which is the Olympics. I don't think folkstyle's popularity has anything to do with how fun it is. Folkstyle is tradition. Ono wants to get paid.

This thread is all hypotheticals anyway. But that's fair.

Pico beat a senior level world champ at 18. He also beat Frank Molinaro, Jayson Ness, Jordan Oliver, and Reece Humphrey after those guys had graduated. I'm sure he would've done fine in college.

Someone on Reddit told me he signed an NIL deal with Nike in HS, which is why he couldn't wrestle in college.

I think we do folkstyle because of tradition. I don't think it has anything to do with more wrestlers and fans preferring folkstyle. If college and high school wrestling magically became freestyle tomorrow, no one is going to quit wrestling. Or not sign up to wrestle. Folkstyle and freestyle are pretty similar.

Folkstyle is junk. It should have been killed long ago. If we only did freestyle, our national team would be more competitive. I'm tired of us losing to the Soviet countries. Now we can't even beat Japan. I don't think folkstyle will ever go away because it's an American thing, and too many coaches/camps have a financial incentive to keep top/bottom wrestling.

I could see this

Very cool

Real US Dollars

My top 3: Yianni Diakomihalis: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/yianni-diakomihalis/ Cael Sanderson: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/cael-sanderson/ Jordan Oliver: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/jordan-oliver/

I'm seeing some incredible spreadsheets in this thread. Why are these not online? Wrestling fans would love to see these.

I thought for sure there would have been another Cael AA I had missed.

When I was watching the NCAA's I saw Cael Happel All-American, and it made me think. How many Caels are out there wrestling? And is Cael Sanderson weirded out that so many people name their kids after him? These are the best Caels I could find: 1. Cael Sanderson The OG Cael. Olympic Champ. World Silver. 4x NCAA Champ, 159-0 in college. Cael Sanderson's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/cael-sanderson/ 2. Cael Nasdeo Currently wrestles at PSU. PA State Champ. Multiple time PIAA place winner. Cael Nasdeo's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/cael-nasdeo/ 3. Cael Happel 3x NCAA Qualifier. NCAA All-American - 5th. 4. Cael Valencia Currently wrestles at ASU. 2x NCAA Qualifier. 5. Cael Hughes Currently wrestles at OSU. 4x OK State Champ. Fargo Champ. Walsh Ironman Champ. Any other great wrestlers named Cael not on this list?

Very interesting. What site is this from?

Now that NCAAs are over, who are the best to never win a title? Some guys off the top of my head: 1. Daton Fix World Silver. Pan American Champ. US Open Champ. 4x NCAA Finalist. Daton Fix's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/daton-fix/ 2. Stevan Micic World Champ. World Bronze. Olympian. 3x NCAA All-American - 4th, 2nd, 3rd. Stevan Micic's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/stevan-micic/ 3. Thomas Gilman Olympic Bronze. World Champ. 2x World Silver. 3x NCAA All-American - 4th, 2nd, 3rd. Thomas Gilman's Record: https://wrestlingrecords.com/wrestler/thomas-gilman/ HMs: Tyler Caldwell, Montell Marion, Sebastian Rivera

Impressive. Just Googled him. Wasn't familiar with the Henry Wittenberg lore

That's absolutely insane. Didn't know anyone wrestled at a high level that started wrestling in college.