They dropped the program and the movie says he sat out his soph and almost all jr year. Then when the team comes back he's going to be cut until the team unites and they decide he can stay. In reality the program was cut for all of ten days and he finished 4th that year at 125 then 7th his jr year (they said he was pinned in the finals).
They also say McDonough had never lost, never had a point scored on him, and had won 2 consecutive titles. We obviously know this to be inaccurate as well.