it happens almost every year. in additon to those noted in original post, and I hate to say it cause I am rotting for Nino B, I think it could happen at 197 with Dean or Sloan.
Killian Cardinale. Was ranked top 10 I believe before forfeiting out of Big 12 tournament. Plus he's from Virginia, and we need as many Va HS products in the tournament as possible.
Stieber going from 65-5 to 119-3 might be one of the most impressive streaks mentioned yet. 54 wins and negative 2 losses, who else had a run like that?
on paper that Iowa team was not supposed to score near as many points as they did, so you never know. I don't think PSU does it, frankly I don't think they come that close, but they do have the horses to make a run.
Iowa that year:
Whitmer 6 seed/champ; Mena 4 seed/2nd; Ironside 1st seed/champ; Gillis unseeded/6th; Mac 1st seed/champ; Williams 1st seed/champ; Uker 5th seed; 5th; Ersland unseeded/rd of 12; Fullhart 5th seed/champ; Hand unseeded/rd of 12.
So Iowa placed higher than seed in many weights and didn't falter anywhere really. Can PSU do close to that even?
can't open wrestlingstats right now for some reason but the bracket when Mark Branch won 167 his freshman year was a busted pretty good. I think he and other finalist were both unseeded (only seeded to 12 then?) and pretty sure either the 1 or 2 seed DNP.
Little trivia - Larry Owings only loss that year was to Grant and to your pout I think Owings wrestled anywhere from 150-167 during reg season and then dropped to 142 to go after Gable.
local selfishness says JMU, ODU, William & Mary, Virginia State and the various other programs that have been cut in Virginia. It has been very nice to see tremendous growth in Virginia at the D3 level though.
how many schools total have wrestling in Indiana? I love the 1 division for individual champions, or at least less than the 6 (plus private schools with their own) we have here in Virginia.
133 = 126 which was 2nd lowest weight most recently 1998. For fun I’d like the PSU only 126/133 Time Machine round robin between RBY, Sanshiro Abe, and Jim Martin. Non PSU how about RBY, Guerrero, Terry Brands, Barry Davis, and Dan Cuestas.