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no love for Kerry McCoy? After a lackluster freshman year at 190, we went 131-1 at heavy, won 88 matches in a row, 1-3-1 at NCAAs, Hodge winner. Beat Neal in finals for his 2nd title (granted Neal was a soph). not sure he's top 5 just surprised I haven't seen his name other than on the Hodge winner list that was posted. or maybe I missed it. Dan Gable famously held out Wes Hand from wrestling McCoy in dual Hand's freshman year. Hand of course went on to be a finalist but at that point Gable said he hadn't earned the right to wrestle someone like McCoy. Of course, this was in a dual Iowa had locked up heading into the last match. PSU crowd was pissed.

don't think so.

after seeing Jerry's Best's name on here, I kept thinking there was a good Ok St wrestler early 80s of that name but finally figured out I was thinking of Jerry Kelly.

I really don't recall Steve Young being that big. Height yes, weight not so much.

according to this article.... Only one surprise remains: OSU was the only major college wrestling power to recruit Sheets. At Tahlequah High, Sheets was 109-6-1, he won two state titles and he drew with current OSU star Kenny Monday, who won his other 140 high school bouts. Size doesn't stop Cowboy from being No. 1 (oklahoman.com)

pretty sure Teyon Ware was an undefeated 4 timer in Oklahoma as well and he did pretty good in college too

unfortunately, there have been many great wrestlers who had diminishing returns (going off NCAA tournament placings) over the course of their careers, as mentioned earlier very often due to injuries. Dustin Schlatter and Troy Letter are two that come to mind.

Whatever this realignment looks like, JMU, W&M, ODU need invites. Well I mean getting those programs back and then….

I think back half is different than backside. Back half of line-up vs guys being in consolation bracket. or that's how I read CowboyYe2024's post anyway.

lol I don’t think there are any expectations for him to be getting on the mat, maybe a little drill instruction but Barry ain’t going hard live at this point.

Wrestling is a small world

Wonder if Cary and Barry ever wrestled? Think Barry may have hung around and tried to make ‘92 Olympic team and equal level of confidence that a young Cary wrestled in trials and/or US Open that year.

USA Wrestling | Navy Wrestling welcomes Olympic medalist Barry Davis to its coaching staff (themat.com)

Chris Edmond NCAA champ for Tennessee in the mid 80s never won HS championship in NY. Mitch Clark 1998 champ for Ohio State is another NY guy that never won a state championship.

1987 NCAA champ at 158, Stewart Carter. 3rd twice and runner-up as a senior in HS in Iowa.

Stephen Neal is another one

Larry Owings

bringing back the old stuff, nice

Brandon Slay is the first Texas wrestler I remember ever hearing about

besides both Brands brothers, a few more over the years that I can think of: DeAnna, Heffernan, Martin

Metcalf's problem at Worlds was he would lose but beat the other guy up and that guy would lose next match and Metcalf was toast. I would have loved to see how he could have done in a true full bracket double elimination format.

Yeah I know. Sounds like runner-up in trials then, so national team, but I’ve seen guys listed as alternate cause they were at the trials and nothing more. Heck I’ve seen a local guy’s fan swear he was an Olympian when all he did (which was impressive, but…) was make the trials.

Saw that too after I posted. Not sure if alternate means national team or not. I’ve seen both terms used pretty loosely. But he was obviously very very good at a young age. Where’s my Easton or Lehigh people to clarify?

going back, did Bobby Weaver make the national team in '76?

The cattle prod story was part of a Flo feature I think not that old SI article. Apparently Cary wasn’t great at getting out from bottom at some point and dad utilized some….creative….methods to correct that.