Former NCAA Champion Joe Solomon dies...

[androcles]

...won the 1954 NCAA Championship for Pitt as an unseeded wrestler!...
...served as an EIWA, EWL and NCAA referee from 1956 to 1985...
...Joe was one of the few refs who was a fan favorite...

 

[SetonHallPirate]

Any relation to current ASWP wrestler Ryan Solomon?

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Former NCAA Champion Joe Solomon dies

CLICK HERE for his obituary

 

[El-Jefe]

Any relation to current ASWP wrestler Ryan Solomon?

Unlikely, maybe something distant. From the obit, he spent his entire life in the Pittsburgh area, and his kids are all in Pittsburgh or Philly.

Ryan and his father Greg both grew up in Milton, 3+ hrs NE of Pgh in central PA.