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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…

think mspart may have been referencing Saitiev vs USA matchups at world championships/Olympics only. here's a link to the Pat Smith match for those who haven't seen it.

Slay beat him in 2000

Gantry beat me to it

wrestlingstats or wrestlestat? I get the 404 when I try wrestlingstats.

184 Malachi DuVall, George Mason, wrestlestat ranking #22 157 DJ McGee, George Mason, wrestlestat ranking #15

sad that Gardner and his rival from Blair Jared Platt both passed away at such young ages.

Western Branch?

Yoshi Nakamura

David Kjelgaard

Micheal Martin Patrick Bond Daniel Frishkorn

not if he's smart

taking this in a different direction....2006 freshman champ Schlatter vs 2011 sophomore champ Dake. Who ya got? We all know how Dake fares in fantasy matches.... I'm mainly intrigued by their similarly stingy match results. Schlatter victories went 8-0, 14-1, 8-0, 5-1, 4-0. Dake's wins were 9-0, 8-0, 3-0, 4-0, 8-1.

Like many of the brackets we've been looking at, this one was top heavy with 1x champ 4x AA Lightner, 1 x champ 3 x AA Schwab, and 1x champ 4x AA Larkin as the top 3 that year. The other 5 guys combined for 10 AA honors, none higher than 4th place (Hoerr that year, Sessley in 2002).

Sorry I was not clearer. I listed AA finishes in order starting with senior year, then junior, etc.

I said in post senior year finish back from there

2001 is worth a look