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All-Time Leading Scorers 1928 - 2024


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Using the current method of scoring these are the Top  30 and ties:

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New to the top 30 this year:

  • Aaron Brooks #10 and tied with Ed Ruth (was #125 prior to this year)
  • Daton Fix #17 by virtue of five tournaments, as you can see he is 125th on a per tournament basis.
  • Carter Starocci #27 (was #128 prior to this year)

 

Also moving up:

  • Vito Arujau was #230, is #51 (tied with Andre Metzger, Rick Bonomo, Mark Branch, and Troy Nickerson)
  • Keegan O'Toole was #190, is #35 (tied with Jordan Oliver)

 

New to the rankings this year:

  • Trent Hidlay #157 with 65 points (Jared Lawrence, Tolly Thompson, Eric Voelker, Chrsi Campbell, Gary Breece, and Rex Peery)
  • Greg Kerkvliet #121 with 69 points (tied with Doug Schwab)
  • Parker Keckeisen #90 with 92 points (tied with Ross Flood, Carlton Haselrig, Mark Lieberman, Chris Pendleton, Travis Lee, and Michael Lightner)

I know I will have my detractors here, but I also like to look at their scores in years 2 through 4. You will notice in the table above that when you sort by total you have to go all the way to #30 to find the only three year era wrestler, a little known kid named Dan Gable. In the table below, I also knocked out Gables' pigtail matches for this.

Years 2 - 4

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3 hours ago, ionel said:

McCready pinned all but 3 guys in college may have pinned all he wrestled at NCAA but doesn't make list?  Or did I miss him?  

Pinfelled? Yes, Earl McCready was known to do that a time or two.

Alas, he suffers from the lack of matches. Having wrestled only 8 matches in 3 tournaments, he has by far the fewest number of matches among the top scorers. In 1928 he only had to wrestle twice to be crowned champion of a four man bracket.

But on a per match basis Earl is the top of the heap. To highlight the difference in eras, notice that the top 14 on a per match basis all started their career prior to 1956.

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2 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Pinfelled? Yes, Earl McCready was known to do that a time or two.

Alas, he suffers from the lack of matches. Having wrestled only 8 matches in 3 tournaments, he has by far the fewest number of matches among the top scorers. In 1928 he only had to wrestle twice to be crowned champion of a four man bracket.

But on a per match basis Earl is the top of the heap. To highlight the difference in eras, notice that the top 14 on a per match basis all started their career prior to 1956.

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But if you normalized it to current tournament score etc, he would have matches.  Highest pin rate in NCAA history and yes his Ralph-fall rate was unbelievable.  

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14 minutes ago, ionel said:

But if you normalized it to current tournament score etc, he would have matches.  Highest pin rate in NCAA history and yes his Ralph-fall rate was unbelievable.  

I did no extrapolation, just rescoring.

Who knows what a man of such limited stamina would have produced with double the matches?

But that is what the per match score is for.

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