Spoke to a friend of mine and he mentioned there is talk of Rutgers Newark reinstating the team.Any news to that? I remember they had some scrappers back in the day. A couple of guys beat some ranked D1 dudes in opened tournaments, as they where a very small D3 program.But they had some tough SOBs.I visited John Guira (A good friend and former opponent) at the TCNJ tournament in 1988 when he was coaching at NYU. I saw 3 dudes that where tearing through people...126 lber, 134 lber and their Hwt. Forget their last names but I remember hearing Chris, Scott and someone else.The heavyweight was some big Italian looking kid I never heard of ( nor the light weights), he mopped up the Rider Heavyweight who was ranked in D1, pinned the D3 NCAA runner up in less than a minute, then met Wayne Catan in the semis and took him into 2 rideouts, but locked his hands on top and lost 6-6, 1-0.I never saw anyone handle Catan like that before.Took him down twice and rode the hell out of him for 3 minutes.The 134lber took Bonomo into 2 overtime, but lost on riding time. Anyway...the ole days.Would be interesting to see the re-emergence of both Rutgers Newark, Kean and Montclair St.They had the Monacos, Pete Gonzalez, Pete the Greek.All great wrestlers that should have been D1.
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