yep Turley made noise in 2021 with that 8th place finish from a 26 seed, as did fellow Virginian KIllian Cardinale with a 7th place finish that same year off a 17 seed (ok less noise) and an 8th place finish last year from a 28 seed.
Rooting for Turley as well and another 174 who I think could sneak in there is Justin McCoy from UVA. Also hoping DJ McGee from GMU can make some noise.
now these guys all gotta qualify first....
Staylor was awesome. I'm class of '86, my school was AA then, 6A now. My time in HS I'd say the best guys were both from class of '85, Steve Martin Kempsville and John Epperly from Robinson.
anyone know the biggest margin of victory in NCAA tournament, pre tech-fall days? Pretty sure I saw a 32-0 win for one of the Gibbons brothers one year. Figure that's hard to beat.
Gene rolled some guys too, for sure. Think he had a 28-4 win his senior year at NCAAs, his only non pin win that year.
2019 Hodge race was looking like co-winners heading into NCAA tournament: Nolf and Nickal. Nolf's razor thin win in semi over older Hidlay seemed to cost him.
Metzger was a 4 time AA. and another to add to the list based on international success is Kevin Jackson - Olympic gold, I think 2 world golds as well. college not too bad either (4x AA?) but never a champ.
Article mentions Oregon and Washington having programs in the past, but not UCLA. Think UCLA dropped around same time Washington did, shortly after having a national champ, heavyweight Fred Bohna.
To answer the question, I doubt we see any of the 4 add/bring back wrestling. I hope I am wrong.
trying to think of some other dominant teams that might have had all 10 highly seeded at NCAAs. Looked at the '86 Iowa team that scored over 150 with 5 champs. unfortunately for sake of this discussion they don't meet the criteria as they didn't even have qualifiers at 118 and Hvy. but 126 through 190 were seeded 3,2,1,2,3,1,3,1. that's just sick.
KOT needs to get his 3rd first and CStar his 4th. If that happens and they come back for a 5th tournament next year, I really hope they avoid each other in regular season. Goes against everything I usually want to see, best vs best as often as possible, but for a guy going for 5th title vs guy going for 4th I want them both undefeated and the lead up to that final to be insane.