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Didn’t Eiter coach McHenry in HS?

Only one bronze in that era

Chertow also placed 6th. That year he lost in OT to Cuvo in semis and did the slide. Cuvo won his 2nd title that year. Same tournament, Saunders lost on criteria in finals to Santoro who won his 2nd title that year.

reading back through this thread and connecting the dots - kind of wild that Lindland and Rulon Gardner were on same Nebraska team. Greco studs

from 1 seed one year iirc

random trivia about some of the older guys on this list that I don't think have been mentioned yet. Dwight Hinson beat 3 timer Eric Guerrero 3 straight years in Big 8 finals and had a pretty dominant overall record vs EG. Mike DeAnna's two finals losses were to 3 timers Mark Schultz and Mark Churella. He'd beaten Churella in Big Ten finals that same season. Roger Frizzel never made a final. Nate Carr and Kenny Monday era. 3rd 3 times and a 4th place finish. John Fischer like Frizzel never made a final. 20+ NCAA tourney wins. Joe McFarland's two finals losses were to Barry Davis who was winning his 3rd title and to Kevin Darkus. JM, BD, and KD all won world silver medals in freestyle. Mike Mann was a two time runner-up. The 2nd one was to 3 timer Ed Banach who was winning his 3rd title. The score was 4-3. Mann beat Banach 3 times that same season. Kevin Jackson with the most eventual world level success of the guys on this list. Olympic Gold and two World Golds. NCAA wise was 2,3,3,7. 2nd place finish was to Royce Alger of Iowa who would end up with 2 titles plus a World silver.

for a single season I absolutely agree, he was probably going to win the Hodge that year before the other Moore (Cliff/Iowa) beat him in NCAA semis.

yes he won it in 2001

with transfers being so common now, have to be quite a few potential matches between former 'mates. For example, 2nd rd at 125 could have Ventresca VT v Flynn Minnesota.

Iowa 1978 did it as well (wrestlingstats.com)

forgot about that one, you are correct

yep Davies lost to future UFC/Pride legend Mark 'the Hammer' Coleman in the finals. Minn had 10 AAs they year they did it. ASU had 7.

Yep Minnesota in 2001. Before that think last one was Arizona St in 1988.

I hope you're right and this is better than your hot take that he would make Big Ten finals. Let's go Turley