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Picking ten dream matchups at each of the modern weight classes is a nearly impossible challenge given the enormous amount of talent that has passed through the NCAA tournament in the last eight decades. But we decided to take on that challenge anyway.
First, we started out by identifying who we would like to see take on the four-time NCAA champions. This is a dream NCAA match-up after all. So, that means Cael Sanderson, Logan Stieber, Pat Smith and Kyle Dake automatically earn a spot on the dream match-up list. Wouldn't it be a treat to watch these guys wrestle collegiately again?
Amazingly, moving down the list of all-time NCAA greats, there are quite a number of three-time NCAA champs. So many, in fact, that some of them will not make this dream match-ups list. Given that, we added another twist to the dream matchup picks. Athletes with three NCAA championships AND an Olympic medal in freestyle were given preference over three-time champs without Olympic podium experience. And in some cases, a gold medal and two national championships trumped three college titles. World Championship experience also factored in to this debate.
In order to place a few more limits on this dream matchup exercise, we also set additional criteria, starting with the idea that no two wrestlers from the same collegiate team could be matched up together. An athlete who competed at one school and went on to coach at another school can wrestle an athlete at the school where he was coaching, but teammates cannot wrestle against each other. Teammates would never wrestle each other in an NCAA finals, so that's the rule we followed here. We also did not pick matchups between two wrestlers who have competed against each other before. We're dreaming here, people.
In addition, modern weight classes were used as the base, which meant that in order for the dream matchup to fit, an athlete would have to have wrestled in a comparable weight class. Note that some of the criteria listed here may not be applied in all dream matchups because sometimes the personality mix or history between schools was too good to pass up.
This could be recency bias, but given that Stephen Abas is the only three-time 125-pound champion and Spencer Lee is chasing that same title this year, it's hard not to think of this as the ideal 125-pound dream match.
Abas solidified himself in Fresno State's history books when he became the first wrestler in program history to win three NCAA titles and a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics. There's almost half a dozen other three-time lightweight NCAA champs that could be interesting in this dream matchup, but Abas is the only wrestler to win three NCAA titles ever at 125 pounds, the modern weight. Ricky Bonomo and Greg Johnson each won three titles at 118 pounds before the weight class was removed, Barry Davis won two titles at 118 and one at 126, Mike Caruso won three titles at 123 pounds, and Gray Simons won three titles at 115 pounds. For now though, let's play out an ideal matchup with Abas in this spot. Abas graduated with a 144-4 record, with undefeated records in his junior and senior seasons and earned a spot on the NCAA 75th Anniversary Wrestling Team in 2005. Today Abas is the head coach of the Fresno High School wrestling program where he coaches youth athletes who could continue to add to California's wrestling history.
Wrestling against Abas in this dream matchup is none other than two-time 125-pound NCAA champion Spencer Lee. Given all the great lightweights to have won NCAA titles, it's probably too early in his career to pick Spencer Lee as the best opponent for Abas, but he'd create a fun challenge for the Fresno State legend anyway. Lee holds a 45-5 overall record heading into his junior season with the Iowa Hawkeyes, but he's undefeated at the NCAA tournament in March. A Pennsylvania native, Lee won three high school state titles with Franklin Regional High School before losing to now-teammate Austin DeSanto his senior season. He's also accumulated two Junior World Championship gold medals and a cadet world championship medal. Lee has suggested previously that he's chasing Olympics dreams but has yet to announce if he will be taking an Olympic redshirt year this year to prepare for the 2020 Trials. He could also continue to wrestle through the college season and work to qualify and earn gold like Kyle Snyder did in 2016. Regardless, we're lucky to have at least two more years of watching Lee compete in the NCAA. Now if only we could have had the chance to see him wrestle Abas.
Who better to wrestle Gable than one of his own athletes? Iowa star and current Hawkeye head coach Tom Brands found his own collegiate and international success while wrestling for Gable as a Hawkeye from 1989-92, winning four All-American honors, three NCAA titles and then an Olympic gold medal in 1996 at 62kg. Another option for a dream matchup at this weight could be Oklahoma State head coach John Smith, who won two NCAA titles and two Olympic gold medals at 62kg as well as four World Titles. Smith and Brands have wrestled together before, so for now we'll stick with Gable vs. Brands as the dream matchup, but Gable vs. Smith would be pretty entertaining as well.
Of the four four-time champs, Dake is the only one to have one his title in four different weight classes, which made him a tricky athlete to place on this list. However, Dake's first title came at 141 pounds, the same weight class where Stieber won his last two titles five years after Dake left the weight class. If we have the opportunity to go back and create a dream match-up, let's put these two four-time NCAA champs together.
Stieber recently announced his retirement from competition after an impressive career that included his four Big Ten titles, four NCAA titles, an NCAA team title, a Dan Hodge Trophy, and a 2016 World Championship. He's now coaching at the Ohio Regional Training Center where he'll look to help the next generate of Ohio superstars. His wrestling resume stands out in history, but if there's one wrestler who competed in a similar weight class who might be able to take down Stieber in a dream matchup, it's Dake.
The list of NCAA greats who have competed at 149 pounds or at a comparable weight is long, but we have to start with one of the most recent multiple-time champs. Wrestling for the Nittany Lions from 2014-2018, Retherford won three NCAA titles at 149 pounds, earned two Hodge trophies for his performances and helped lead his team to four team titles at the national tournament. Earlier this summer, Retherford also took down Cornell's two-time NCAA champion Yianni Diakomihalis at a Final X wrestle-off in Wilke-Barre, Penn., to earn a spot on his second senior world team. A superstar who took on the world last week is an easy choice for a dream matchup and this weight and the challenge comes when picking his competitor.
The deciding criteria will be Olympic experience. Mark Churella, Nate Carr, Lincoln McIlravy, Larry Hayes and Bill Koll each picked up three NCAA titles, with at least one of those titles for each coming at a comparable weight to 149. Koll, Carr and McIlravy were the only two to wear the Red, White and Blue on the Olympic stage, and McIlravy and Carr were the only ones to medal. Churella qualified for the Olympics but did not have the chance to compete because of the U.S. boycott in 1980. This decision may be unfair to Churell and Hayes, who both have as many credentials as Retherford, but Retherford is young and hasn't had as many chance to chase his Olympic dreams. Regardless, watching him wrestle Koll, McIlravy or Carr would be a blast. We have the opportunity to have another coach of a school wrestle an athlete from that school if we pick Koll, so that's what we'll do.
The two-time champ from Nebraska won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics, earned the Hodge Trophy during his collegiate career and also has four World titles to his name. Burroughs took bronze at the 2019 World Championships last week, and if we can win gold next year in Tokyo, he will tie Oklahoma State great John Smith as the only American to win six World titles. All that to say, let's go with Burroughs in this dream matchup. Could he beat Pat Smith if those two wrestlers were both in their prime at 157 pounds today?
Welcome to the Mark Schultz show. The Sooner star is a three-time champ and Olympic gold medalist, with one of this three titles coming at 167 pounds. Though Schultz is likely more known for his success at 177 and his famous NCAA finals match against Ed Banach, he's a good fit for this dream matchup as well. Wrestling for the University of Oklahoma, Schultz won titles during his sophomore, junior and senior seasons before representing the United States at the 1984 Olympics and winning a gold medal. Schultz is also a two-time world champion and member of the International Wrestling Hall of Fame. At this weight, given his career accomplishments, he's hard to beat, and few have the credentials to compete with Schultz.
Taylor is a two-time champion, two-time Hodge trophy winner and 2018 World Champion. He's beaten the best in the world, and he'll look for an Olympic bid in 2020. Known as "Magic Man" for his skills on the mat, Taylor left a legacy at Penn State and will still be seen as one of the many greats to come through the program under the guidance of head coach Cael Sanderson. He lost at the NCAA finals his freshman year to eventual MMA star Bubba Jenkins before winning the title his sophomore year while also winning the Gorriaran Award for the most pins in the least amount of time. Though Taylor was stopped in the NCAA finals his junior year by four-time champion Kyle Dake, Taylor did finish his career on top as a senior NCAA champion. Wrestling internationally at 86kg, Taylor has a lot of history left to write and watching him wrestling Schultz would be a wrestling fan's dream. Taylor's world title separates him from Dieringer and Williams and though he doesn't have Williams' Olympic experience yet, Taylor's career is far from over.
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