Back in that day Mindlands brackets were sometimes harder than NCAA D1 tournament. Believe he won 3 tournaments against D1, wrestlers. Vegas was also a tough tournament then. Pretty sure he beat all the top guys in the NCAA bracket except Hahn. Hahn was at Vegas. Willson beat the guy at Midlands that beat Hahn at Vegas. The only thing one might argue is that he had a higher pin percentage outside of D1. But I bet the committee also looked at his pins against D1 for comparison, this was back when the followed the criteria and spirit of Hodge. The writeup on that year makes sense, not sure we'd say the same on this last "half hodge" year.