Anyone have a guess in comparing Women's Elite wrestlers to NCAA
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Do you mean where would a woman rank if she was wrestling NCAA mens?
No, there is no way other than opinion of doing that.
Good question though.... I am sure opinions will be all over the mat.
It would be hard to justify on merit. In PA for example, no women have qualified for states. The better answer for both men and women is establishing women's programs.
Is there really such a thing as free speech? I ask because John McEnroe asked a similar question about, I think, Serena Williams, and everyone started calling him a sexist pig and blatantly put words into his mouth that he clearly did not say nor mean.
John McEnroe got unwarranted grief for his comments. I remember years ago Chris Evert Lloyd was married to British tennis player John Lloyd. Chris was ranked #1 in the world, and John Lloyd was ranked around #100 on the men's side. Chris was asked what it was like for John to lose in tennis to his wife. Chris laughed and replied, "John lose to me? I'm lucky to get a game from him."
There is a reason men and women compete separately in just about all sports. Men are stronger and faster than women in general. Yes there are some women that are faster/stronger than some men but the fastest/strongest women are not as fast/strong as the fastest/strongest men. Acknowledging this is not sexist. The best WNBA teams would lose to the top high school teams.
In a sport like wrestling at the D1 level the strength difference would be even more evident and sheer physicality would trump whatever advantage the best women have in technique. While I'm sure there are some D1 guys that they could beat I don't think they could beat the ones that warrant ranking any of the women highly, if at all. I've personally watched current members of the women's senior team wrestle high schoolers and college kids.
In a sport like wrestling at the D1 level the strength difference would be even more evident and sheer physicality would trump whatever advantage the best women have in technique. While I'm sure there are some D1 guys that they could beat I don't think they could beat the ones that warrant ranking any of the women highly, if at all. I've personally watched current members of the women's senior team wrestle high schoolers and college kids.
Olympic bronze medalist, Patricia Miranda, wrestled 125 for Stanford and had one D1 win. Silver medalist, Sara McMann did not crack the lineup at Lock Haven.
The linked article says Sara couldn't wrestle for LHU because she was on stipend from USA Wrestling. Just to reason why she didn't crack the lineup.
it also says she went 1-2 at the PSU Open, getting pinned in the 1st in both of her losses (in fairness, one of those being to the great Scott Moore). I looked up the guy she beat from Lehigh. His career college record was 3-27.
