Pete Mehringer
Here is a short resume:
Self-Trained Kinsley High School Head Wrestling Coach
2 Time KSHSAA Champion (Hitch hiked to state tournament as a senior and still won)
Olympic Gold Medalist
NFL Player (3 years with St. Louis Browns and 1 year with AFL team Los Angeles Bulldogs)
Movie Actor (Extra in "Knute Rockne All-American" and stunt double in "Road to Zanzibar")
Professional Wrestler

I think that if he had the opportunities that are now available he could have been a force to reckon with. Heck if he had just had the ability to wrestle in college more than a year he would have wrestled in several Olympic Games.

On a side note, that darn Phog Allen isn't all he's talked up to be. He would not allow the sport of wrestling to last at KU.