Igel, as always, you have made an asinine and completely ludicrous statement. We are all dumber for reading what you just wrote. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
You haven't seen a heavyweight deserving of OW for 4 or 5 years? What about Carrol, Hemmerling, Staab, Beltran, Ubben, Pulliam, Seiler, Greer, Lewis, Venegas, Dyer, Sprigg, etc etc etc. Many of these guys were all-americans. Do you think they earned that status by merely doing headlocks and the infamous Fat Man's Roll? All of these gentlemen were capable of far more than simply pushing each other back and forth, and deserve more respect from both you and the wrestling community. None of these guys were deserving of an Outstanding Wrester award? Not one? Josh Carrol, who finished 3rd in the country, was not an outstanding wrestler? You've got to be kidding. Just because Abilene hasn't had a good fatty in awhile doesn't mean other schools haven't had some pretty dang good ones. (Heck, even I beat Abilene's fatties.)
On the grander scale (grander = schools besides Abilene), fat guys get the short end of the stick. Sure, many of them push each other around and it looks like there's no action, but is a 3-2 Grater/Cornejo match any less of a wrestling match than a 3-2 Hemmerling/Carrol finals match? I think not. Do skinny and fat guys exert the same amount of effort? (If anything, I would say fatties use more, simply because it's harder to move both their own and their opponent's weight.) Last time I checked, each match lasts six minutes. Because their matches are lower scoring, does that make them worse at wrestling? It's a different style of wrestling, but it's still wrestling, and you can still be a pretty outstanding wrester if you weigh over 160 pounds.\
The fact that OW ballots are handed in before the finals is a travesty. I don't know how I feel about drawing the starting weight for the finals, but I think it should be a requirement that the OW ballots are handed in after the meet. If the coach of...I dont know, let's say...Abilene, realizes his team is 500 points behind and wants to get his team on the bus early, that's fine, but he should forfeit his vote. Makes sense to me.
