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Kilkeary at 125 and Birden at 165 are decent backups as well who can do well in opens / step in as needed in duals whether someone is banged up or just managing match count.

some other Buckeyes besides Bouzakis could do well in opens or will likely see time in duals this year. Good depth at a number of weights.

@fishbane wasn't there a Canadian wrestler who beat Fadzaev once or twice? World Cup maybe?

Brock Mauller is another good wrestling name

yes he does

he was a state champ, at least according to this bio from Cornell Prior to Cornell • Dean was a two-time state finalist at Lowell HS, winning a state title as a junior and placing as the runner-up as a senior. Gabe Dean - 2016-17 - Wrestling - Cornell University Athletics

sometimes simple works, Matt King (Edinboro '99-'04)

regarding Beloglazov and Fadzaev, I think they would have been favored for additional Golds at the '84 games but of course the USSR boycotted. Fadzaev also went up a weight one year and lost in world finals to Kenny Monday, dropped back down and won worlds two more times and another Olympics. here's Beloglazov rag dolling Barry Davis in the world finals one year.

excellent point. I know Davis wrestled in the Dapper Dan classic, so I assumed he was highly ranked nationally. Took a quick look on the Iowa Wrestling HOF site: Barry: 3 X champ, 102-6-1. Jim Z: 2 x champ, 99-12. Lenny Z: 1 x champ, 74-4 so....very solid and it was a different era when 4 timers were much less common and so on, but these 3 as a group were probably not being hailed as the greatest recruiting class ever or anything. crazy to think that Jim won 2 state titles and then 3 NCAAs and his college record was 131-7 as opposed 99-12 in HS.

so many greats/personal favorites of mine already mentioned, I'll add a couple more than I'm not sure I have seen yet: Jim Martin/PSU Scott Moore/PSU and UVA

old school - Barry Davis, Jim Zalesky, and Lenny Zalesky all attended the same HS in Iowa, Cedar Rapids Prairie. And then the University of Iowa together. 6 NCAA titles, 2 other finals, and I think 11 total AA finishes. Think Barry and Jim were same class, Lenny 2 years older. Their best combined year at Iowa was 1982. Barry and Jim were champs and Lenny was 2nd.

quick comparison of these numbers and the team scores for those years....Cal-St Bakersfield would have been top 10 lots of those years but surprisingly (to me at least) best would have been 5th in '81. Then again this was the 'big 4' era and not too many teams crashed that party.

no Cal-St Bakersfield?

Ha but let me say it this way - SIU Carbondale actually had zero D1 champs that year

Well SIU Carbondale didn’t have 3 D1 champs…