Best to Never Win a State Title

[bigG]

I believe you are correct. Hang the innocent.

[DarkKnight]

Yea... I was shaking my head at that one... a sibling thing.

Lampe was a good one.

[TLV]

I believe you are correct. Hang the innocent.

BigG, he was convicted of Battery, a class misdemeanor with a potential penalty of $10,000 and 9 month in jail and Disorderly Conduct a class B miss. with a penalty of 1000 bucks and 90 days in jail. He plead no contest to both, was found guilty of both and was fined. The WIAA got it right IMO.

[DarkKnight]

well, we don't have to rehash it I suppose.. it was what it was..

Now back to the topic, I believe most of the wrestlers have been mentioned... who has time to make a list???

[bigG]

I believe you are correct. Hang the innocent.

BigG, he was convicted of Battery, a class misdemeanor with a potential penalty of $10,000 and 9 month in jail and Disorderly Conduct a class B miss. with a penalty of 1000 bucks and 90 days in jail. He plead no contest to both, was found guilty of both and was fined. The WIAA got it right IMO.

Was he convicted before the suspension. Would it not be unconstitutional to do such a thing, if he were not yet convicted?

I thought he was cleared. My mistake.

[wis_grapler_08]

I wonder how many other sports get this in-depth about the best athlete that wasn't quite the best.

Who are some of the best wrestlers to never even make the wiaa state tourney?

[TripletDad]

Brian Colburn - Lax Central
Shawn Smith - Chippewa Falls
Russ Keuhn - Holmen
Tom Campbell - Holmen
Nick Ammerman - Holmen
So many great wrestlers didn't win that title but were just as good if not better than ones that did. 

[TLV]

So many guys had great year and went to state and perhaps placed .....and then the next they were sick....or injured....or had a bad match at the wrong time.  I remember kid from Janesville Parker who had placed 4th at state his junior year. Got his knee twisted up in finals of regionals to a guy he could handle easy and defaulted.....end of career. Kevin Wilmot who I Mentioned before, went down state twice and senior year he and the guy in the weight class above hiim were both ranked #1 in the state. Kevin has bad match in semis of Sectionals against a kid he had previously hammered and doesn't go to state. His training partner does go to state and wins it.

[OneEyedFatMan]

Has Jeff Gregorich been mentioned( Waunakee, 1979)?  A serious stud, undefeated coming in...only to lose by a slam first round.
Went on to wrestle for Indiana State, then the Badgers.

[npope]

Has Jeff Gregorich been mentioned( Waunakee, 1979)?  A serious stud, undefeated coming in...only to lose by a slam first round.
Went on to wrestle for Indiana State, then the Badgers.

That was an interesting one - Gregorich was a stud, for sure. My wrestler was the one that got slammed in that match. The slam was accidental, but a slam, nonetheless.
The trainer wouldn't let our kid continue so our head coach had to make a call as to whether we default (and let Gregorich move on) or accept the win by DQ. In that moment, we couldn't know whether our kid was going to be able to wrestle in the next round and the slam occurred so early in the match we really couldn't know whether our kid had a chance at picking Gregorich off, i.e., whether Gregorich was simply so dominant that the writing would have been on the wall. So, in that moment, we felt we owed it to our kid to accept the win by DQ and see what happened once we were off the mat - which ended up as a forfeit in the next round (subsequent assessment by trainers kept our kid out of the next match).

So, both Gregorich and our kid were out. Had we known, we likely would have let Gregorich slide by, by not accepting the DQ win. Sad circumstance. But to be sure, Gregorich was a good one - shame it ended like that for him.

[maggie]

Ill stick to my pick of Mineral Points Joe T, just by looking at who he wrestled in tho's finals and lost too.. and what they accomplished afterwards...

[Street Glide]

Gabe Paulson SR year, I think 2012 record of 43-0. Ranked #2 popped his miniscus stretching out2 days before sectional.   Some consolidation his brother Bennett picked a championship this year.

[Gizmo6]

Rich Tomaszewski from Weyauwega-Fremont was the winningest wrestler in WI history when he graduated. Back when it was all one division he was 120-9, 4x State qualifier(5th,3rd,3rd). Won a few National titles as well, went on to wrestle for UW.

[Flatbottom]

Luke Harness-Winneconne. 176-14 record.  5,3,2 placing at state.  Only 2 losses jr and sr year coming in state semis and state finals.  Just a physical wrestler. Awesome to watch

[bigdawg]

Luke Harness-Winneconne. 176-14 record.  5,3,2 placing at state.  Only 2 losses jr and sr year coming in state semis and state finals.  Just a physical wrestler. Awesome to watch

+1 right here. He just bossed people around I loved his physicality