NCAA D-I Wrestling Finals-Tonight Live on ESPN

[duran]

8:30 pm EST. You never know if you will see a future UFC contender competing for the last time in college.
This is my Super Bowl.

[duran]

NCAA Division I Tournament, March 20-22, 2008

State where Athlete # of National Qualifiers # of All-Americans
did his HS wrestling

Ohio 31 9
Pennsylvania 46 8
Michigan 16 8
Iowa 20 7
New Jersey 29 6

University of Iowa won the team title and crowned 2 individual Champs,
neither of whom were Iowa natives.

[Boo]

Darn it duran, I saw this too late. That is something I would have actually turned ESPN on for. Considering I haven't had the TV on for about a week, that's saying something.

[duran]

I should have posted it a few days ago. Sorry. I e-mailed you a two minutes highlight vid, which includes the only pin of the night, by Okla. State's Coleman Scott. Scott got a takedown off the whistle and immediately went headhunting, locked up a low leg cradle, and that was all she wrote. It was electric. Scott is a Pennsylvania boy, and wrestled at the same HS as Josh Koscheck. PA had two other champions, Keith Gavin from Pitt and Phil Davis from Penn State.

[Boo]

NCAA Division I Tournament, March 20-22, 2008

State where Athlete # of National Qualifiers # of All-Americans
did his HS wrestling

Ohio 31 9
Pennsylvania 46 8
Michigan 16 8
Iowa 20 7
New Jersey 29 6

University of Iowa won the team title and crowned 2 individual Champs,
neither of whom were Iowa natives.

If I understand this correctly, the first number is the number of athletes originally from that State. Yes?

As for the # of National Qualifiers and # of All-Americans... for Iowa, are the 20 national qualifiers wrestlers from Iowa or are they from all over and they went to college in Iowa?


P.S. Thanks for the vid.

[duran]

Sorry - it did not "translate" well from my Word doc. In the state of Iowa's case, the 20 represents the number of athletes who did their HS wrestling in the state of Iowa (and qualified for the NCAA tournament by finishing high enough in their conference tourney 2 weeks prior) and the 7 represents the number out of that 20 who earned All-American status this past weekend by virtue of finishing in the top 8 in their weight class.

[Boo]

Thanks for the clarification duran. See I told you, as long as you talk real slow, I catch on just fine.