The 2024 NCAA Wrestling season has come to a close. Five Badgers represented Wisconsin in Kansas City at the National Championships this past weekend: Eric Barnett (125), Joseph Zargo (149), Dean Hamiti (165), Max Maylor (174), and Shane Liegel (184).
The 2024 NCAA Wrestling Tournament was full of storylines of the wrestlers and their accomplishments and histories. Who won for the first time? For the last time? Second? Third? Fourth?!
All of those stories get coverage. The Penn State Nittany Lions and their two four-time champs, the wild 125lb weight class, the crazy 165lb semi-final, the insane 174lb quarter-final, or the fact that it seems there are a couple of athletes in the tournament who are so old they could have their own children wrestling in the tournament (?