Olivet College was kept alive by Coach Jare Klein. When he finally retired (he coached my uncle and was still coaching while I was in college) he helped find another coach himself. Obviously as with any small D3 college, wrestling doesn't bring in much money so it staggered with a new coach, but it was never truly in jeopardy.
Furthermore, Wrestling in Michigan has dramatically declined since the 80s to early 90s. I don't know where you think you are getting your facts from (Did Dave Dean feed you this propaganda?), but they are untrue. Michigan, in the early 90s went from a 3 tier system "A", "B", & "C/D" to a 4 tier Div. I, II, III, & IV which divided schools more evenly into all divisions as prior to that, the number of small schools of "C" & "D" actually outnumbered the schools present in the other 2 divisions. The new system even allowed smaller schools who won multiple years in a row (like Dundee, of course Cabellas made its population grow as well) to change their Division and schools not doing so well to move down divisions. With this model in play, the wrestling maintained at the high school level for a few more years. However, the numbers were not as great as in the late 80s, MYWAY then started up (and dwindled the USAW numbers) and all the small school areas that held their smaller tournaments which would lead to their kids going to USAW districts, region, and state now no longer had that opportunity and didn't have the money to join MYWAY. This has lead to much less off season wrestling in smaller areas. If you would like to believe that MYWAY increased wrestling, check into the Flint All Starts who were a top ranked kids club in the nation in the late 80s and early 90s. We had lots of wrestling prior to MYWAY which has really ruined Michigan wrestling.
If you all would like to look into these HYWAY people, please check out this link: http://www.flowrestling.org/speaker/7388-Andy-Hobbs/video/326975-Andy-Hobbs-Leading-Indiana
Notice everything he said is already present in USAW sanctioned events for much less money per tournament. Then notice what he says about Dave Dean and his "business strategy". Little Kid wrestling is not supposed to be about making money. The tournaments themselves can be used as a fundraiser for the high school they program supports, but it should not be gaining some bigshot in the area Money! USAW is not for profit. All of its money goes into training our Olympians and future Olympians out in Colorado Springs. All of our Junior (and I believe Cadet as well) wrestlers that place in Fargo Nationals can go and train for free at Colorado Springs due to USAW. What does MYWAY, HYWAY, NUWAY do for our Olympians? For our high school teams.