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  1. 11986
    I hope you're right and this is better than your hot take that he would make Big Ten finals. Let's go Turley
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    and the Cal St Bakersfield guys too, right? Gonzalez, Azevedo, Cuestas bros, Reyes. Re the NY part, guessing all these guys were from California, I know Gonzalez was at least.
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    The 3 guys Mark Schultz beat for his championships were all 4x AAs, with a total of 4 NCAA titles and 10 finals appearances between them. All from Iowa DeAnna, Banach, Goldman. Mark also had a real tough time with a guy he never faced in an NCAA final, Hummel from Iowa State.
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    Gonzo also lost a classic final vs Gene Mills in '79, and Azevedo made at least one other final, losing to Randy Lewis I think one year. Crazy light weight talent they were cranking out.
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    Iowa - in order of most likely to make a final: Caliendo, Ayala, Buchanan In order of most likely to win: Ayala, Buchanan, Caliendo
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    Dave Schultz in '84 had to beat another world champ to win his gold; not sure how many other weights at the LA Games had multiple world champs. I'm not diminishing the fact that it would have been a whole lot tougher to win with USSR etc. in the field, but he had also won his world title in the year before, in Russia, beating a Russian in the finals.
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    wiki says 'He was also an alternate for the U.S. freestyle wrestling team at the 1948 Olympic Games, after losing a closely contested wrestle-off match to the eventual gold medalist Henry Wittenberg. He earned the starting spot for the U.S. Greco-Roman wrestling team for the 1948 Olympics by finishing second in the U.S. freestyle wrestle-offs, but upon arriving to London, the U.S. coaches decided that the Greco-Roman team would not be competing.'
  8. 11986
    I think they meant 1st 4 timer at heavyweight.
  9. 11986
    I thought it was really cool the year Penn State and Cornell went 1-2; not Iowa, Oklahoma St, Minnesota, etc. Given Penn State has won so many more, wish Cornell had won it that year. But overall Virginia Tech
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    when I finally gave up and started shaving my head, I joked that I was applying for a coaching job at Penn St.
  11. 11986
    I resemble this remark.
  12. 11986
    not sure how old Byrd is, but he does not wrestle 125.
  13. 11986
    Jackson Turley became an All-American a few years back after getting an at-large bid and here he is again.
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    Old school Italian team, 1981 190 weight class: 1st, Tom Martucci, 2nd Tony Mantella, 3rd Geno Savegnago
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    runner-up at national tournament iirc
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    No fair Penn State has two guys at 174 174 lbs. 1) Levi Haines (PSU) Carson Kharcla (OSU) Lenny Pinto (PSU) more seriously, a Turley / Pinto quarterfinal could be fun.
  17. 11986
    SoCon still stands alone, MAC and EWL merged a few years back.
  18. 11986
    the untimely passing of Saitiev made me think of Brandon Slay, who deserves mention for the all Jesus team.
  19. 11986
    TJ wrestled freshman year at a juco, then 3 for Iowa. Yes, his only loss as a Hawkeye was his junior year.
  20. 11986
    funny I was thinking of him as well, even though he didn't wrestle in the 3 years only era. The late Larry Quisel denied TJ that 3 year soph - senior unbeaten run.
  21. 11986
    I had a similar match in HS. Unfortunately, I played the role of Frank the Tank and not Kid Dynamite
  22. 11986
    few older ones that come to mind - Mitch Clark, Mike Sheets, Tim Krieger
  23. 11986
    yep '81 EIWA finals.
  24. 11986
    found it, Dan Gable was pinned in competition, '68 trials- You learn not to get greedy - Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com 'He still had to beat Huff. Though both defeated NCAA champion Dan Gable in their first round-robin matches, Douglas had only decisioned Gable 11-1, whereas Huff had pinned him in 1:10.'
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    Dan Gable was pinned at Olympic or world team trials one year. think it was '68 Olympic trials but not positive.
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