Such a sad story with Garrett. I had heard of him, but not his story. I went back to school around that time he was at PSU....so that period is like a black hole as far as following the program. Wish he could have turned things around like Marsteller did.Also problems with drugs that he never really kicked, until they claimed him.
Insanely good HS wrestler who should've been a big-time college wrestler.
This is great. Thanks for sharing. “A lot more positive then negative coming out of the accident”. I’d buy him a beer anytime.That this story does not get outside the wrestling community is baffling to me.
His complete lack of offense also played a big part.Jason Tsirtsis. Champ, 3rd - then his sister died and the poor guy was just a wreck.
Gavin Teasdale. Don't know where to begin since he never really got started but out of high school he had a lot of promise
I consider Marsteller’s two NCAA’s at lock haven a success (a 3rd and 4th if I recall correctly). Also he did beat Wick for 3rd
4timerA headline in the Pittsburgh Press titled "Love Loves To Pin" chronicled love's freshman year at Pitt. My recollection, faulty as it may be, is that Love was injured and left Pitt to join the military.
Another What Might Have Been Pitt wrestler is Mike Johnson, 3 time Lock Haven HS PIAA champ, who suffered a career ending knee injury.
Can't help but wonder if knee injuries in days past could have been repaired by "modern" surgical techniques.
Dude, Carl himself topped 156-0. If memory serves he was 159-0. Not sure who you are talking about...That was my 1st thought too. A career with 6 losses, 2 by pin, doesn't qualify him for GOAT consideration. He'd have to step in line behind Zain, Nolf, Bo, Ruth, and many other 3-timers ... even several 2-times
By constructing a question with no right or wrong answer, the minions can pay homage to their king again.
Let me know when someone tops 156-0.
I was wrestling in High School when he was just killing everyone. If I had to pick between him or JO on who would have had a better career, I would have picked Garrett, but I didn't know the off the mat issues he was dealing with. Probably wouldn't have been an all timer, but would have liked to see how he did being from Berks County myself, Nick Hodgekins. He beat Ringer at the Dapper Dan his senior year,.Such a sad story with Garrett. I had heard of him, but not his story. I went back to school around that time he was at PSU....so that period is like a black hole as far as following the program. Wish he could have turned things around like Marsteller did.
Hodgkins went into MMA instead of NCAA wrestling, right? I wrestled at Wyomissing (way back when...), so I would have loved to follow his career through college as well.I was wrestling in High School when he was just killing everyone. If I had to pick between him or JO on who would have had a better career, I would have picked Garrett, but I didn't know the off the mat issues he was dealing with. Probably wouldn't have been an all timer, but would have liked to see how he did being from Berks County myself, Nick Hodgekins. He beat Ringer at the Dapper Dan his senior year,.
Hodgkins went to Central Michigan, had a good shirt year, and then just kinda fizzled out.Probably wouldn't have been an all timer, but would have liked to see how he did being from Berks County myself, Nick Hodgekins. He beat Ringer at the Dapper Dan his senior year,.
Interesting , I wrestled for Conrad Weiser way back in the mid 80’s.Hodgkins went into MMA instead of NCAA wrestling, right? I wrestled at Wyomissing (way back when...), so I would have loved to follow his career through college as well.
For such a small (public) school, Wyomissing has a huge number of elite athletes. Alex Anzalone is playing for the Lions (saw him lead the Spartans to the 2012 PIAA title), and Matt Lytle and Ross Tucker are former NFLers. My son and I went to their PIAA semifinal a couple years ago and we calculated that the guys in uniform on the sideline were about 1/4 of the male enrollment at the school, LOL. Back around my day there, Rich Delucia was a pitcher for the Mariners.
Did you face the one Wyomissing team that made the Berks finals (86 maybe)? We usually struggled to fill a full lineup, but with Jeff Torok making a steep cut to 98 as a freshman and (current AD) Frank Ferrandino and Bruce Cafuriello as seniors (plus All-Berks halfback Kevin Neff in the middle weights), we had four hammers in that one year where everything worked out until we hit one of Wilson's best teams ever in the finals. I was in junior high then.Interesting , I wrestled for Conrad Weiser way back in the mid 80’s.
Hodgkins went into MMA instead of NCAA wrestling, right? I wrestled at Wyomissing (way back when...), so I would have loved to follow his career through college as well.
For such a small (public) school, Wyomissing has a huge number of elite athletes. Alex Anzalone is playing for the Lions (saw him lead the Spartans to the 2012 PIAA title), and Matt Lytle and Ross Tucker are former NFLers. My son and I went to their PIAA semifinal a couple years ago and we calculated that the guys in uniform on the sideline were about 1/4 of the male enrollment at the school, LOL. Back around my day there, Rich Delucia was a pitcher for the Mariners.
I was in Jr High during the Ferrandino/Cafuriello era. I did wrestle with Jeff Torok for a couple years after those other two guys graduated. He was such an amazing athlete. Wyomissing started their soccer team when he was a sophomore. By his senior year, he led the program to states. Sadly, he passed away from cancer last year.I wrestled at Wyo too! Cool to see you wrestled with Ferrandino. Also don't forget the two linemen we currently have on the PSU team. Not sure where kids that size came from. When I was in school we were always the undersized team, but well coached and and the Wing T really well.
So every Wyomissing game ever. Small world! I was a few years older than Anzalone, but remember him coming up through the younger leagues and played with his brother. I was on the 2006 team that had that miracle pass to beat Lancaster Catholic in the district championship.That was one of those Wyomissing games that I'm sure you're familiar with where they had like 35 carries for 300+ yards and 5 TDs split across 7 or 8 backs.