Brad Seever of Pleasant Ridge a junior that year with a 28-3 record coming into the state tournament that year. Chris Look of Stockton got the bye and went onto the semifinals to get beat by the eventual state champion Steve Kuder of Minneapolis, a senior. Look finished fourth to freshman Bryan Miller of Oberlin.

I have two sets of brackets from that year and only one of them had Seever as a scratch.

Maybe we should think about doing a system where alternates can be brought in from each regional if a wrestler in that weight can't compete because it seems to happen frequently the week of state that a kid will make a bad decision, get injured, or become ill during this week. I know that they do this in Texas.