Looking at this list I have to ask is this just College Wrestling or is all wrestling? If its just college that I guess you can probably pull Steveson off at least right now with one championship and one Hodge. That means everyone on this list has at least 3 championships and a Hodge. If you include international competition I guess maybe you pull Nickal off with no senior level world gold medals and 3 NCAA championships and only 1 Hodge? Really had to do.
Maybe it does if you have to pull a guy with 4 off to put him there? Or a guy with an an Olympic Gold Medal? I guess you could argue that Zain's or Nickel's brackets were tougher?
And you could also make a case for Lee, as a True Fresh, when he possibly should have won Most Outstanding Wrestler at Nat's that year with who he had to beat.
Not sure if it’s just B10s or NCAAs or including international accolades as well but David Taylor was a 4X NCAA finalist and I don’t recall him ever losing in the B10. I believe he set a record when he had 4 pins and a tech at I believe the 2013 tournament. Olympic and World Champ to boot. I think he definitely trumps Retherford, who was 5th, 3X champ.
David Taylor's B1G career started in 2010, which is over 10 years ago. That may explain his exclusion. The graphic title includes "of the last 10 years."
Blair!
So Shane makes an exception to add a 5th person to mount Rushmore and still somehow leaves Spencer Lee out of his list in the past decade. Pretty weird.
How did Shane arrive at 5? There are 4 on mount Rushmore. He made an exception to add 1 but still left out Spencer. Funny logic.
I don’t think anybody touches GSteve right now or recently. Not even late 1970s or early 80s Dan Gable lol.
It just kinda reveals Shane's level of understanding and "deep" thinking.
As a former room tripping HWT I kind of resent this comment although I also kind of agree with it. There is obviously much more skill in high school at the middle weights. The lower weights have a lot of guys that are young and only on the team because they can make the weight and HWT has a lot of guys that are also on the the football team that just want something to do in the offseason or want to help their footwork. There are also a guys at both those weights that wrestle all year round and have wrestled for years just not quite as many. I think just saying that a move that works at HWT that would not work at 125 though proves a huge skill gap is oversimplification. At the lower weights flexibility plays a much bigger role than strength and probably leverage where at the higher weights strength and leverage play a much bigger role than flexibility. Gable Steveson is an an example of HWT with lightweight flexibility but he is also as strong as the rest of the HWT field. If he was not he would not succeed at that weight class.
Yea. It’s also a fact that people left 125 and you can’t leave HWT. There’s nowhere else to go
