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Didn’t Eiter coach McHenry in HS?

Only one bronze in that era

Chertow also placed 6th. That year he lost in OT to Cuvo in semis and did the slide. Cuvo won his 2nd title that year. Same tournament, Saunders lost on criteria in finals to Santoro who won his 2nd title that year.

reading back through this thread and connecting the dots - kind of wild that Lindland and Rulon Gardner were on same Nebraska team. Greco studs

from 1 seed one year iirc

random trivia about some of the older guys on this list that I don't think have been mentioned yet. Dwight Hinson beat 3 timer Eric Guerrero 3 straight years in Big 8 finals and had a pretty dominant overall record vs EG. Mike DeAnna's two finals losses were to 3 timers Mark Schultz and Mark Churella. He'd beaten Churella in Big Ten finals that same season. Roger Frizzel never made a final. Nate Carr and Kenny Monday era. 3rd 3 times and a 4th place finish. John Fischer like Frizzel never made a final. 20+ NCAA tourney wins. Joe McFarland's two finals losses were to Barry Davis who was winning his 3rd title and to Kevin Darkus. JM, BD, and KD all won world silver medals in freestyle. Mike Mann was a two time runner-up. The 2nd one was to 3 timer Ed Banach who was winning his 3rd title. The score was 4-3. Mann beat Banach 3 times that same season. Kevin Jackson with the most eventual world level success of the guys on this list. Olympic Gold and two World Golds. NCAA wise was 2,3,3,7. 2nd place finish was to Royce Alger of Iowa who would end up with 2 titles plus a World silver.

for a single season I absolutely agree, he was probably going to win the Hodge that year before the other Moore (Cliff/Iowa) beat him in NCAA semis.

yes he won it in 2001

with transfers being so common now, have to be quite a few potential matches between former 'mates. For example, 2nd rd at 125 could have Ventresca VT v Flynn Minnesota.

Iowa 1978 did it as well (wrestlingstats.com)

forgot about that one, you are correct

yep Davies lost to future UFC/Pride legend Mark 'the Hammer' Coleman in the finals. Minn had 10 AAs they year they did it. ASU had 7.

Yep Minnesota in 2001. Before that think last one was Arizona St in 1988.

I hope you're right and this is better than your hot take that he would make Big Ten finals. Let's go Turley

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.

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.

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.

Iowa - in order of most likely to make a final: Caliendo, Ayala, Buchanan In order of most likely to win: Ayala, Buchanan, Caliendo

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.

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.'

I think they meant 1st 4 timer at heavyweight.

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

when I finally gave up and started shaving my head, I joked that I was applying for a coaching job at Penn St.

I resemble this remark.