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Winners Win

wrestleknownothing

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"You gotta win to get love. That's just life. Look at Don Shula, legendary coach. Look at that Asian guy, holds the world record for eating all those hot dogs in a row. Look at Rue McClanahan, from the Golden Girls. All three people great champions. All loved."
- Our generation's greatest sports philosopher

This quote moved me so much that I decided to see who the greatest winners of our time were. Using the results of the first, third, fifth, and seventh place matches for the last 10 tournaments we can figure out which team ends their season with a win most often.

Surely that must be Penn State. Maybe Cornell. How about Michigan?

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Turns out The Ohio University, Air Force, Michigan State, Brown, and Clarion are the Rue McClanahans of college wrestling. They are greater winners than the lowly lions, the big blah bears, or the woeful wolverines. And so we must love them. These five titans of college wrestling are the only teams to win ALL of their season ending matches.

Indisputably this makes them the greatest winners of all time of the last decade.

Below are all the teams to win at least half of their final matches.

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Active streak with at least one finalist is a much better metric!!!
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Life must not be that short. You take time to comment on Rue McClenahan.

Actually, I cited the name as a point of discontinuation, I didn't comment on it.

I still don't see how any thespian, even Sylvester Stallone who portrayed one is a "champion".

I thought you stopped at "me", but continue...
 
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