The Open Mat Forum

apparently, Casey Cunningham has said that Shakur received his 6th year. I can only assume Cassar gets one too now, since he has a much stronger case.

Agreed on Cassar, but in the same statement where Cunningham confirmed Rasheed had received his 6th year, he stated Cassar had not yet heard back. It makes me wonder if they really did ask for two years. Otherwise, I'm not sure what the hold up would be. Then again, like in any administrative process, I'm sure there are paper work snags and other issues that crop up. I can't imagine Cassar getting denied completely in any case.

I will never understand the NCAA making a rule to allow for a 3rd party reviewer, then not using it at the NCAA tournament. Then again, they still have bye points in the rulebook and they don't give those out at the NCAA tournament anymore so I guess I shouldn't be THAT surprised. The challenge system is ridiculous as currently constituted.

No one has given the answers to my easy questions in the first post of this thread. I guess they were too easy.

Maybe this one is a little harder. In what two consecutive years did an undefeated D1 wrestler take the only loss of his college career in the NCAA Finals? Who were the two wrestlers, and by whom were they upset?

1970 - Dan Gable (Iowa State) upset by Larry Owings (Washington)
1971 - Dwayne Keller (Oklahoma State) upset by Roger Weigel (Oregon State)

Adding to the misery, both were seniors who won every college match they wrestled until the final one. The match after Dwayne lost to Weigel, his brother Darrel won his second NCAA title, completing his first undefeated college season by beating...Larry Owings.

I mean, technically Gross went undefeated too. 

I can't remember if it was last year or the year before that there were 10 undefeated after the conference tournaments, 1 at each weight. I tried to look up whether we'd ever had 10 undefeated champions. I couldn't prove it had. It may have in the early days, but the records are spotty.


I'd say the most likely wrestlers to win the title with a loss include Zahid, Fix, Suriano, Spencer Lee, Kolodzik, or McKenna. Maybe the White/Dhesi/Cassar triumvirate at 285, but Gable looks great.

He has done really good work with the Oklahoma RTC but, obviously, the success at the college level has yet to follow. I still think you have to give him next year and the year after to see how his recruits develop and to get rid of a few more holdovers. It can be difficult to change the culture when the old guard is still around.

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All of this is 3rd hand info/observation from afar, but he seems to be excellent at identifying the strengths of his staff, then delegating tasks that use those strengths in the best ways possible. He also seems to be a good CEO, raising money, and dealing with issues that come up. The Zadick situation was a good example of that. I believe Zadick is a good coach, but there was obviously an issue there that threatened to derail the progress the program was making. Instead of burying his head in the sand or trying to make everyone happy, Dresser dismissed a guy who had been with him for several years. At the time, some wondered if that was the right call, but the way they are wrestling right now, it is hard to argue with.

We'll see where this goes. They aren't back to the level they need to be for the Dresser era to be considered a success, but I was impressed with the way they battled against Oklahoma State yesterday. Carr looks like the real deal as well. If the recruits keep coming, all signs point to the Cyclones climbing back into the top 10.