No one has ever beaten four #1 seeded wrestlers in their career, but there are two wrestlers who took down three top seeds. Name those wrestlers.
The Giant Killers - NCAA Tournament Trivia
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Extra Credit Question: What team has the most wrestlers (5) with multiple career wins over a #1 seed?
Extra, extra credit question: What team had the most wins against #1 seeded wrestlers in the finals of the 2021 NCAA tournament? 
Jason Nolf & Carter Starocci?
I'm suspect they both beat a #1 seed while winning their first title. They both were injured & lost their #1 seed, but then came back after injury & beat whomever became the #1 seed. So, that'd be two each. I'm hoping there was a third for both some other year. That's my best guess.
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Nolf only ever beat one #1 seed (Hidlay).
Starocci is a two timer having beaten Kemerer and Lewi.
Another two timer. One of eight two timers that beat the same guy both times.
Interesting. Wasn't Imar #1 when he got pinned by Nolf? I thought that was Nolf's 2nd win over a #1 seed. That was an awesome match!
I got you on a technicality. That was not in the NCAA tournament.
I believe you are missing the OP's point....and I could be wrong. The #1 seed would have been the number one at Nationals, not at any point during the regular season.....if I am reading the question correctly. For instance, freshman year Braeden Davis was the #1 seed. He lost twice so each of those people would get "one". Theoretically, you could beat a number one and still not win it all....to do it three times without having extraordinary success at the tourney would be very rare.
I said Dake.....I don't believe he was top seed as a freshmen. He beat Frank who was the number one seed. I think DT was the #1 seed too.
That was my initial guess as well, but he was the #1 seed in 3 of the 4 tournaments, with only 149 where he was #4 and beat Frank Molinaro
@SRATH is correct. I could have made it clearer by specifying in the body as well as the title. My apologies.
That was in a dual.., I think the OP meant at NCAA Tournament
That has happened four times. The other three were in the 1990's.
In 1990 Iowa State's Gary McCall did the double deed to North Carolina's Doug Wyland.
In 1991 Oregon's Curt Strahm took West Virginia's Dominick Black to the shed twice.
In 1997 Lehigh's John Van Doren taught two lessons to Oklahoma State's Mark Smith.
Oh oh oh. THAT Dake. Sorry. Molinaro and DT were both the #2 seed.
Shane Griffith?
2021 Marinelli
2022 Wick
2024 Lewis
2021 Marinelli
2022 Wick
2024 Lewis
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Well done, Jack.
2021 was the start of a special three-peat. Griffith slayed two giants that year. First Marinelli and then Stanford's AD. Too be clear the Stanford AD was a giant ahole.
In 2019 Arujau lost to Rivera.
Hint: The second wrestler may be hard for this board to swallow.
Winner winner.
Now which school has 5? They had wrestlers do this in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and 00's.
5 what? lol. If you are referring to the school that had at least one wrestler each decade to beat a 1 seed then I think it is PSU. wild guess not picking the “obvious” ones.
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His problem was he was the #1 seed twice. And the highest seed he ever beat was #6.
Isaiah Martinez?
119-5 overall record
2015 & 2016-Champ
2017 & 2018-2nd Place (Cenzo beat him in the finals both years)
Two of those five losses were from the redshirt year. (And so were 9 wins from the redshirt year.) We should not be counting redshirt years. If we count redshirt years, then Cael would not be undefeated.
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Well, I'm wrong again. Trivia clearly isn't my forte. Lol.Two of those five losses were from the redshirt year. (And so were 9 wins from the redshirt year.) We should not be counting redshirt years. If we count redshirt years, then Cael would not be undefeated.
Darryl Burley's college career was well before I even got into wrestling. I never would have come up with that one. My search was limited to the past 10 years. How does one get a tie in wrestling? I'd never heard of that before.
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back in the day, there were some weird scoring rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tournament rules: if you were tied after 6 minutes, you wrestled another full 6 minute match - and if still tied, it came down to criteria (the worst being, referee decision) ... and ties were fairly common
To come full circle, it is the Oklahoma Sooners who have had five wrestlers beat a #1 seed twice in their career.
One of my favorite bits of weird scoring trivia is Oklahoma State's Dick Hutton was just a ref's decision away from becoming the first four time champ (though it was his third attempt). He was also a ref's decision away from becoming a two time champ. In the 1949 UNL final he lost to Verne Gagne by RD and in the 1950 final he beat Fred Stoeker by RD. Both matches were 1-1 at the time.