Greatest Ohio High School Wrestlers of All Time

• cruiser_96

  

  Half Full Nelson;1393531 wrote:... I don't think Fickell was a better all-around wrestler than David Taylor, or Allen Fried, sorry.

  Yes you do. <jedi mind trick font on>
• MPhillips

  Half Full Nelson;1393531 wrote:Don't get me wrong...I think Fickell was great, and agree that he'd probably pin everyone on this list. But, the fact that he happened to be a heavyweight and was thus larger than (almost) everyone else listed...well, you get my point. I don't think Fickell was a better all-around wrestler than David Taylor, or Allen Fried, sorry.

  No need to be, "sorry." :huh:
• jyanok

  Dunyasha "Tubbo" Yetts from Steubenville
  Harry Lester
  Willie Wineberg
  Demarr Pentorn
  Alex Stepanovich - one of the best heavyweights I have ever wrestled.
• Half Full Nelson

  

  cruiser_96;1393539 wrote:Yes you do. <jedi mind trick font on>

  "David Taylor and Allen Fried aren't the droids I'm looking for."
• cruiser_96

  

  Exactly!!!
• MPhillips

  16 yr old Fried wrestling Smith. Dieli announcing! Doesn't get much better.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thvAaRFgDy0
• Half Full Nelson

  

  MPhillips;1393569 wrote:16 yr old Fried wrestling Smith. Dieli announcing! Doesn't get much better.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thvAaRFgDy0

  Someone should just ask Bob Dieli who HE thinks is the greatest Ohio HS wrestler of all-time. Whatever he says will be etched in stone as gospel, and all future debates on the subject will be moot.
• cruiser_96

  

  ...which is why we don't ask!
  
  Nor do we ask him the best weights for high school wrestling, or which rank-er is best, or, the ever popular, state v. states!!!
• MPhillips

  Half Full Nelson;1393646 wrote:Someone should just ask Bob Dieli who HE thinks is the greatest Ohio HS wrestler of all-time. Whatever he says will be etched in stone as gospel, and all future debates on the subject will be moot.

  It's as simple as who runs the best front chancery series of course.:huh:
• Half Full Nelson

  

  MPhillips;1393674 wrote:It's as simple as who runs the best front chancery series of course.:huh:

  LOL..."chancery." Is that like calling your couch a "davenport?"
• snugglyhippo

  Interesting...wow, you mean Coby Boyd didn't invent this? Unbeleivable.
  
  George Hackenschmidt, known as the Russian Lion, was born in Russia, but lived nearly all his life in London.
  His specialty was Graeco-Roman, but he made a match with Gotch at the American Style. The contest took place in Chicago on April 3, 1908, and Hackenschmidt quit after a rough combat lasting two hours and three minutes.
  He was an amazing athelete with an unparrelled physique for his time, and an attention to technique that matched. Here he describes the Head Chancery Hold, as taught in his book COMPLETE SCIENCE OF WRESTLING.
  "There are points which no wrestler should fail to study thoroughly. He must remember that ther are counters to most wrestling holds, and that just at the moment he is congratulating himself that he is on the high road to victory, he is frequently in serious danger of defeat."---- George Hackenschmidt
• snugglyhippo

  Read the last part especially with Darby today...there will be some match that is 14-4 when the losing wrestler will pin the other to win...always happens. Listen to George Hackenschmidt kids! Wrestle 6 minutes!
• MPhillips

  snugglyhippo;1394046 wrote:Read the last part especially with Darby today...there will be some match that is 14-4 when the losing wrestler will pin the other to win...always happens. Listen to George Hackenschmidt kids! Wrestle 6 minutes!

  "There are points which no wrestler should fail to study thoroughly. He must remember that ther are counters to most wrestling holds, and that just at the moment he is congratulating himself that he is on the high road to victory, he is frequently in serious danger of defeat."---- George Hackenschmidt
  
  Snuggly
  Did it happen? Did the kids listen to Hackenschmidt? Some of the 106's must have! :thumbup:
• Dust_E_Roads

  jyanok;1393549 wrote:Dunyasha "Tubbo" Yetts from Steubenville

  Ah, yes. Another of Steubie's finest!
  
  http://www.wtrf.com/story/16208760/former-steubenville-athlete-arrested?clienttype=printable
• MPhillips

  "Valley boy."
• hang_loose

  If I missed it, I'm sorry.... Didn't see Jamie Kasser mentioned.. He is still kicking @$$ (just in international competition ).:thumbup:.
• MPhillips

  Jamie gets looked over quite a bit. The fact alone that he's still competing should get him a mention. That and he had regualr seaon records of something along the lines 62-0, 54 or 55-0(Which at the time was a National record) 28-1, Loss came in the state finals.
  A Summit Station legend from the Ken Ash dynasty. The best ever from Licking Heights.
  He deserves a mention, I agree hang_loose. Thanks.