2 State brackets standout the most to me, and they were both in 2004.
1 is for the quality of top competitors- 2004, 321A, 145 Pounds.
Champ = Drennan Minneapoplis
Runner-up = Johnson Norton
3rd - Englebert Beloit
4th- Pyle Sabetha.
I believe that Johnson, Drennan, and Pyle each were individual state champs and Englebert was a multiple time placer. They had all wrestled during the year and each match was extremely close. That was a bracket that could have gone anyway.
Another amazing bracket was also 2004, 4A, 152. There were 9 wrestlers with 30+ victories going into state, in addition to a 29 match winner, a 28 match winner, and a 25 match winner going into the state tourney. The finals involved a sophmore (Taplin from Abilene) defeating a freshman (Strawn from Holton). Those 2 youngsters were obviously men to wade through so many other men to get to the finals of that bracket. That bracket is the toughest I have seen at state to place in. There were returning state placers that didn't even sniff the podium in that bracket. It was a fun one to watch!
