Hillbilly JIM

100% would have to be andrew howe imo. 2nd best wrestler in the world many years behind the GOAT of our sport and pushed him to.the limit. After that micic, angel

Gable Stevenson pretty solid Indiana born wrestler 

I’d put Howe then Angel at number one and two if you do NCAA results only. Howe 2-1-3-2 Angel 3x big ten champ National champ and 4x AA, never placed lower than 5th at NCAA, world 5th. Micic was a world champ this year if we are including world level accomplishments 

Jason Tsirtsis NCAA champion 
 
Jesse Mendez Future NCAA champion 
 
Darden Schurg D3 national champion 

Common denominator CG, CP, BB club/ feeders/ MS programs are all at the top as well. why not work from the bottom up. Very hard but proven success. 

Absolutely not. There are way more factors than that. What I am saying is that it can be done at a small school and it is done at small schools. Yes, your wrestlers need good practice partners. It is your job as a coach to recruit those partners and build relationships with them and their parents to get them to fully buy-in.
 
After working for years to build numbers and make a sport cool in a place where it isn't.  Here is where I currently stand. Numbers aren't everything and can be a bad thing if you don't have enough coaching staff and you aren't able to separate them into different practices. We had 50 wrestlers this year. I would much rather a smaller group of dedicated wrestlers than a bunch of kids that are trying the sport out and most of them will quit before they are seniors.  I have made that clear with my team and parents so we will see how many we get next year. 
 
I just don't see this as a sport you can be halfway in. Like I tell my wrestlers it is like not fully committing to a backflip. You are going to land on your head.

Then the need for class/division wrestling becomes less substantiated in this case. Why create a system that rewards part time individual sport participants? Our state system rewards the consistent wrestler who is dedicated to the sport. I imagine that only a few of the top wrestlers at each weight are competing in other sports. 
 
I don't think "class wrestling is needed to help multisport athletes get a chance at winning a title" is the argument that wins the day here. 

Rebranding!!!!! Briliiiant.  Class wrestling sucks.  But "Division Wrestling", thats good.

It's different this time...this isn't about class wrestling...it's about divisions.