The one weight where we are like Russia

[Peso 331]

Hey, it may not be much, but we have one weight where we are often 2 or even 3 deep in world medal level wrestlers.  163/74KG  the USA has had quite a run. In the 76 Trials, Stan Dzeidzic, Wade Schalles and Lee Kemp battled it out.  A few years later, Monday/Schultz, now JB, Kyle and David.  I'd love to see an open World Championship.  As many as you want to enter.  What a deal that would be.  

[nyum 238]

Hey, it may not be much, but we have one weight where we are often 2 or even 3 deep in world medal level wrestlers. 163/74KG the USA has had quite a run. In the 76 Trials, Stan Dzeidzic, Wade Schalles and Lee Kemp battled it out. A few years later, Monday/Schultz, now JB, Kyle and David. I'd love to see an open World Championship. As many as you want to enter. What a deal that would be.

David who??

 

 

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[Peso 331]

David who??

 

 

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Taylor.  I realize he's up a weight, but just a year ago he was down there.

[Illifornia 21]

Joe Williams, Slay

[BigTimeFan 1,032]

David who??

 

 

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LOL, yeah. 

[BigTimeFan 1,032]

The depth at 74kg has always been impressive. A few other weights had from time to time had some serious depth as well.

[KTG119 820]

World/Olympic  performances going back to 1972:

1972 Wayne Wells Gold

1973 not top 6

1974 Dziedzik 5

1975 Carl Adama 5

1976 Dziedzic Bronze

1977 Dziedzic Gold

1978 Lee Kemp Gold

1979 Lee Kemp Gold

80 Boycott

81 Kemp Bronze

82 Kemp Gold

83 Schultz Gold

84 Schultz Gold

85 Schultz Silver

86 Schultz Bronze

87 Schultz Silver

88 Monday Gold

89 Monday Gold

90 Koll 5th

91 Monday Silver

92 Monday Silver

93 Schultz Silver

94 Schultz 7

95 Schultz 5

96 Monday 6

97 St John 16

98 Marienetti 11

99 Joe Williams 4th

2000 Slay Gold

01 Williams Bronze

02 did not send team

03 Williams 13

04 Williams 5

05 Williams Bronze

06 Donnie Pritzlaff Bronze

07 Joe Heskett 5

08 Ben Askren 6

09 Dustin Schlatter 23

2010 Trent Paulson 29

11 Burroughs Gold

12 Burroughs Gold

13 Burroughs Gold

14 Burroughs Bronze

15 Burroughs Gold

16 Burroughs 9

 

1976-1993 medal every year except boycott and Koll 5th one year. crazy. 

[Coach_J 2,073]

Could throw in Doug Blubaugh--the exact weight was 73 kilos, but essentially part of the legacy.

[tec87 349]

I always knew that this was historically one of our strongest and successful weight classes but it's really cool to see it listed out like that. Wow!

[OKnowwhut 59]

Kudos... a really nice thread.

[KTG119 820]

another decent weight for us (the kilo equivalent of something in the 130s-think as low as 132 and as high as 139)

 

1976 Gene Davis Bronze

77 Jim Humphrey Silver

78 not top 6

79 Andre Metzger Bronze

80 boycott

81 Mike Land 5

82 Randy Lewis 4th

83 LeRoy Smith Silver

84 Randy Lewis Gold

85 not top 6

86 Joe Mcfarland Silver

87 John Smith Gold

88 Smith Gold

89 Smith Gold

90 Smith Gold

91 Smith Gold

92 Smith Gold

93 Tom Brands Gold

94 Brands 11

95 Brands 9

96 Brands Gold

97 Cary Kolat Silver

98 Kolat Bronze

99 Kolat 4th

2000 Kolat 9th

2001 Bill Zadick 7

2002 did not send a team

03 Eric Guerro 11

04 Guerrero 16

05 Michael Lightner 22

06 Mike Zadick Silver

07 Zadick 27

08 Zadick 19

09 Shawn Bunch 29

2010 Zadick 25

11 Reese Humphrey 9

12 Coleman Scott Bronze

13 Humphrey 9

14 James Kennedy 10

15 Humphrey 12

16 Logan Stieber Gold

 

edit>looking at this again, between Kolat and Scott is was pretty bleak, only the 1 silver for Zadick. Other than that time frame, not too many hiccups.  

Edited August 12, 2017 by KTG119

[tec87 349]

Heavyweight picked up for us in the 80's when this Bruce guy took over. lol

 

1970: Greg Wojciechowski-4^th

1971: Buck Deadrich-DNP

1972: Chris Taylor-3rd

1973: Mike McCready-DNP

1974: Mike McCready-DNP

1975: Mike McCready-5th

1976: Jimmy Jackson-DNP

1977: John Bowlsby-DNP

1978: Greg Wojciechowski-5^th

1979: David Klemm-DNP

1980: Greg Wojciechowski-DNP

1981: Harold Smith-5^th

1982: Bruce Baumgartner-DNP

1983: Bruce-3rd

1984: Bruce-Gold

1985: Bruce-3rd

1986: Bruce-Gold

1987: Bruce-3^rd

1988: Bruce-2nd

1989: Bruce-2nd

1990: Bruce-2nd

1991: Bruce-7th

1992: Bruce-Gold

1993: Bruce-Gold

1994: Bruce -2nd

1995: Bruce-Gold

1996: Bruce-3^rd

1997: Tom Erikson-4^th (poor Tom stuck behind Bruce so long)

1998: Kerry McCoy-4th

1999: Stephen Neal-Gold

2000: Kerry McCoy-5^th

2001: Kerry McCoy-4th

2002: Kerry McCoy-DNC

2003: Kerry McCoy-2nd

2004: Kerry McCoy-7^th

2005: Tolly Thompson-3rd

2006: Tolly Thompson-DNP

2007: Tommy Rowlands-5th

2008: Steve Mocco-7^th

2009: Tervel Dlagnev-3rd

2010: Les Sigman-9th

2011: Tervel Dlagnev- 5th

2012: Tervel Dlagnev-5th

2013: Tervel Dlagnev-5^th

2014: Tervel Dlagnev-3^rd

2015: Zach Rey-DNP

2016: Tervel Dlagnev-5^th