Team wise they didn't place very high, but they qualified 5 guys in 8 weight classes back then. The format back then had 4 All Americans and basically if you were beaten before the semis, the only way you had a chance to wrestle back to challenge for 2nd was to have been beaten by the champion. Then 1st and 2nd round guys would wrestle and winner would advance and face the next guy all the way til the guy that finished 2nd would either beat the guy that won that little wrestleback or would lose. If he lost, the 2nd place guy would be the automatic 3rd and the loser of the wrestleback would become autmatic 4th.

If the guy came all the way through the back and lost to the 2nd placer, everyone that lost to the 2nd placer would then have a consolation bracket from round 1 up to challenge that guy that lost for true 2nd to vie for the 3rd place.

Anyway, Kstate had 5 guys that year that qualified for 8 weight classes, many of them would have All Americaned if the bracketing allowed full wrestle backs like now (even if only to the 4th place).

So I salute:

Farland Fansher-121lbs

Verle McClelland-136 lbs (3rd seed, lost in semis and that guy that beat him lost in finals, thus no All American wrestleback chance)

Glen Duncan- 145lbs

Keith Collins- 165 lbs

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Leon Reynard 175 lbs (unseeded and finished 3rd losing to an eventual Hall of Famer)


5 men that qualified and represented Kansas State wrestling with pride way back in 1940!


Yours in wrestling,

The Swayz
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