that's what i'm saying, he came up in weight and i didn't think he would be strong enough to handle detmer or nelson the way he has, they have been good matches, but i thought that he would probably get beat. i don't think beard could have gone up and beat cotton, a year ago. did he wrestle elliot last year? look at what happened to tyler koehn last year when he tried to wrestle up, he was just not big enough to handle beard or elliot. caldwell has done that and been successful so far. i say its
1 caldwell
2 napier
3 maple
4 watson
5 beard
6 detmer
7 nelson
napier, maple, and watson have adaptive styles, meaning their styles can change to the competition better than the others. detmer would have been a state champ a year ago had he been able to adapt better. i'm not sure beard has seen the level of competion that the others have, week in and week out. i also think another name here could be kenneth ornelas, i think he is strong enough to wrestle up a weight class or two and have similar success, again jmo.