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Amateur Wrestling News All-Decade Team, 2010-2019

Want to start a fight?
One sure way to get something started: put together some sort of list of “all-time great” wrestlers.
Amateur Wrestling News — the nation’s oldest wrestling publication, covering the sport since the mid-1950s — has carried on a longstanding tradition with its an All-Decade Team for 2010-2019, put together by the magazine’s writers. And what a decade it was! In the nearly 90-year history of NCAA D1 wrestling championships, only four men have earned four national titles … and two of them did it in this decade: Ohio State’s Logan Stieber … and Cornell’s Kyle Dake.
The magazine its selections for the top three wrestlers in NCAA Division I each weight class … along with “honorable mention” choices. In presenting the list, AWN’s Jim Kalin provided some of the ground rules: “Many of the decade’s best wrestlers competed at multiple weight classes during their college careers. To help sort this dilemma, one of the guidelines for our writers was to place choices at the weight they had wrestled at least two seasons …”
“The main stipulation was that the wrestler had to compete at least two seasons in this second decade (2010-2019). That eliminated greats such as Brent Metcalf/Iowa, Jake Varner/Iowa State, and Angel Escobedo/Indiana, all who were seniors in 2010.”
Kalin anticipated the discussion/arguing about their choices.
“There will be disagreement from our readers regarding this All-Decade Team. There was disagreement amongst AWN writers.”
As Kalin points out, the top three wrestlers in each weight class are ranked in order as named by AWN writers … with their placements for each year at the NCAA Division I championships.
125:
1. Spencer Lee, Iowa (1st place/1st place/TBD/TBD)
2. Jesse Delgado, Illinois (7/1/1/0)
3. Matt McDonough, Iowa (1/2/1/0)
Honorable mentions: Nico Megaludis, Penn State (3/2/2/1); Nathan Tomasello, Ohio State (1/3/3/3); Darien Cruz, Lehigh (0/7/1/5); Anthony Robles, Arizona State (0/4/7/1).
Rest of the story at
http://intermatwrestle.com/articles/22277?fbclid=IwAR1iN5X2rF8BQeAEm75ah5wgNl9g2kE74a9iC7VPdA20VlV0l26AXOhbevQ

August 28, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized