Wiegel is the animal , he chooses not to wrestle freestyle but don't hold that against him . THIS IS FOLKSTYLE NOT FREESTLE ! The freestyle rankings are coming soon .
Ditto to that Tommyboy. That is exactly why Dustin Reed should be really high on the list. How can you argue with his accomplishments? Four time finalist, three time champion, over 150 wins. Additionally he placed at Virginia last year as was mentioned so he has proven himself on the bigger stage, just not the stage that "freestylers" think he should have to prove himself on. I went with Lincoln to kids state ten times and Reed was there every year. I think he placed like eleven times, plus he won it several times especially the last two years in the high school division. He is definitely bona fide.
I also believe that Cody Eastman deserves big props as he is a four time high school medalist who won it this year. He also placed every time he went to kids state and won it like three or four times. And I believe he is the last Kansas wrestler to beat B. Humphrey in folkstyle. Talk about nails tough, you are talking about Eastman.
I agree that freestyle helps make wrestlers better, any wrestling will do that, but I do not agree that you have to wrestle freestyle to be better, unless you want to be successful internationally. The history book is chalked full of DI AA and champions that never freestyled and littered with freestyle AA that never achieved DI AA status.