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40 minutes ago, gimpeltf said:

The best part of them wrestling for Nazareth (because I got to kid Mike about this) was that before he moved there he searched out where there would be a Frack family with kids that wrestled about the same age as his. 

I remember this as well! Two Fricks and one Frack 🤣

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1 hour ago, flyingcement said:

I remember this as well! Two Fricks and one Frack 🤣

More of both total- not sure how many in any one line up. There were 4 Fricks- Travis, Eric, Thad and Colin. Not sure how many Fracks.

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Gotta go with Smith's calendar year + 1 month from July 86's Goodwill Games to 87 Worlds. Starts with a win over Isaev, torches Sanchez with a chest wrap in the NCAA final,  throws Alexeev on his head with a Metzger* in a dual, and ends with another win over Isaev.

 

*when John Smith is so much better than you that he goes upper body, you're in some serious trouble.

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4 hours ago, jackwebster said:

Gotta go with Smith's calendar year + 1 month from July 86's Goodwill Games to 87 Worlds. Starts with a win over Isaev, torches Sanchez with a chest wrap in the NCAA final,  throws Alexeev on his head with a Metzger* in a dual, and ends with another win over Isaev.

 

*when John Smith is so much better than you that he goes upper body, you're in some serious trouble.

From his how high can you go series? 

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19 hours ago, jdalu75 said:

Mike Frick in 1976.  Defending NCAA champ at 134, missed the fall semester due to academics.  Weighing 144, beat Mark Churella at 150 at Midlands, lost by a point to Pete Galea in the finals.  At 142 drew with Brad Smith in the Iowa dual, then beat Smith in the All-Star meet.  At 150, beat 1975 NCAA 142-lb champ Jim Bennett in the Yale dual.  In the NCAA finals at 134 he fell behind 2x champion Pat Milkovich 3-0, then won 7-4.  Brad Smith was the 142-pound champion.  The top 4 at 150 were Chuck Yagla, Galea, Churella, and Bennett.  Finished the season with a 19-0-2 record.

I may be just a little bit biased.

 

Really good, but not even close to these top guys.

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17 hours ago, flyingcement said:

I remember this as well! Two Fricks and one Frack 🤣

 

16 hours ago, gimpeltf said:

More of both total- not sure how many in any one line up. There were 4 Fricks- Travis, Eric, Thad and Colin. Not sure how many Fracks.

During that time period Penn State had Fritz to add to potential confusion NCAA Champion 1975 (great match vs. Milkovich)

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48 minutes ago, Fadzaev2 said:

During that time period Penn State had Fritz to add to potential confusion NCAA Champion 1975 (great match vs. Milkovich)

Different generation. The Frick/Frack was 2000s (maybe even late 90s)

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8 hours ago, jross said:

^^^ Welcome 3 year letterman to the board.  

https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman

 

Three Year Letterman

@3YearLetterman

Feb 15, 2022

I’m going to recommend you drop the sarcasm right now. I’m a youth football coaching legend, and I literally couldn’t turn a door handle this morning because I have so many championship rings. I’m guessing you turn door handles with ease.

 

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Just to summarize, it seems like the candidates for best individual college + senior-level years are as follows:

  1. 2023 Arujau
  2. 2021 Steveson
  3. 2016 Snyder
  4. 2011 Burroughs
  5. 1999 Neal
  6. 1988 Smith
  7. 1987 Smith
  8. 1978 Kemp
  9. 1964 Uetake
  10. 1948 Glen Brand (NCAA champ + Olympic champ)
  11. 1924 Robin Reed (pre-NCAA AAU champ + Olympic champ)
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On 1/13/2024 at 4:43 PM, jchapman said:

Hard to pick any one of these four wrestlers over another.  

That's the best take of the post.

So many greats here. So many insanely great wrestling years.

Why try to reduce it to a simpleton "Batman vs Superman" type argument? That's just dumb.

ALL of these guys are incredibly impressive. The best part is reading through the list of the greats. 

 

 

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