Just picked this post up from a wrestling forum. Interesting. Not how you spell Alumni, but the message is encouraging.

The University of Toledo Wrestling Team is going to be starting the University of Toledo Alumini Foundation and we are searching for people who wrestled/ coached for both the university's NCAA program and NCWA program. We want to help build support for the program, keep its alum updated with program activities and events and involved with building the programs future (which is essential for bringing it back as an NCAA program). With a new wrestling room and a strong finish to our season (2nd in the conference and 12th in the nation), the program has a bright future with 8 national qualifiers and the majority of the team being under classmen. We are searching for further support from our community to help our program to continue to flourish and grow in the coming years. If you are a UT alum or know of any please have them get in contact with us ( toledowrestling@gmail.com) and bring the program back to the prestigious level it use to be!!!

Also if there is anyone who would be interested in being a full time/ part time coach at the program please contact us directly at toledowrestling@gmail.com or call our program director Joe Bendix (419) 530-3704. Any help is appreciated and goes towards the continuation of our sport by creating tomorrows leaders, and coaches.

Not sure I would be too encouraged with anything other than the movement toward being a D-I team again. I looked at the results from the NCWA matches they wrestled along with the roster. They have a long, long way to go. Many of the matches had forfeits at a number of weight classes. However, you have to build it from something. Until they start providing scholarships, this is not going to advance very far. As an example, they lost to Mott Community College, but beat the club team from U of M.

I always enjoyed attending UT wrestling matches when I was a student. Coming from NJ, which is a great wrestling state, I thought we had a good team. Too often there weren't a lot of people at the matches. I still remember seeing a heavy weight match between Harry Houska (OU) and Merril Solowin. Houska won the match after he threw Solowin, not a small guy, off the mat. I think that was the year the Houska was an NCAA champ.

One day I was hitching to school and Solowin picked me up. Really big guy.... occupied most of the front seat.

(03-31-2014 09:06 AM)Manorhouse guy Wrote:  I always enjoyed attending UT wrestling matches when I was a student. Coming from NJ, which is a great wrestling state, I thought we had a good team. Too often there weren't a lot of people at the matches. I still remember seeing a heavy weight match between Harry Houska (OU) and Merril Solowin. Houska won the match after he threw Solowin, not a small guy, off the mat. I think that was the year the Houska was an NCAA champ.

One day I was hitching to school and Solowin picked me up. Really big guy.... occupied most of the front seat.

Houska was a beast who won a national title. But Solowin was no slouch. He took third and fourth place at nationals and was a 3 time All-American.

Bring it back to ncaa D1. I hope it can happen. We had a pretty good and young team when it was dropped.

If wrestling comes back to UT, what women's sport(s) come back as well?

(03-31-2014 05:16 PM)utpotts Wrote:  If wrestling comes back to UT, what women's sport(s) come back as well?

To go along with you question, how many people are on a wrestling team? What women's sport would have that many on the team?

Drop men's golf and tennis, add wrestling. You would need a few million for a wresting facility plus extra cash for coaches' salaries.

Second thought. Wrestling has fewer than ten scholarships, but usually about 30 on the team. You might have to add women's rowing to get the numbers up for the women.

Third thought. Bump out the north wall of Savage for a two story wrestling facility and 2,700 seats on the top level to bring basketball seating to 10,000 and position UT for a better league. Total cost including adding a UT facility for rowing to the Toledo Rowing Club's building downtown: $10-15 million. Anyone win the lottery?

(03-31-2014 06:16 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  Drop men's golf and tennis, add wrestling. You would need a few million for a wresting facility plus extra cash for coaches' salaries.

Second thought. Wrestling has fewer than ten scholarships, but usually about 30 on the team. You might have to add women's rowing to get the numbers up for the women.

Third thought. Bump out the north wall of Savage for a two story wrestling facility and 2,700 seats on the top level to bring basketball seating to 10,000 and position UT for a better league. Total cost including adding a UT facility for rowing to the Toledo Rowing Club's building downtown: $10-15 million. Anyone win the lottery?

+1
Golf has not been the same since Jasinski left for Notre Dame...We definitely need a solid wrestling program back on campus...

sounds to me like they already have a new wrestling facility. I would not expect to see a new facility just for wrestling matches - although they did that at a number of the Big Ten schools. This is when it is not bad to be in the middle of the Big 10 country - by far the best wrestling conference in the country. The guys that are turned down from those schools are incredibly good. The fallout rate at those schools is also very high, so you can get a transfer who was an all-American as a freshman or sophomore. When they bring in a hs kid who is ranked #1 in the country, odds are that he will be in the line-up the following year and contending for a national championship as a freshman. If you are in that weight class with that guy, your career is pretty much over at that point.

(04-04-2014 01:20 AM)MotoRocket Wrote:  sounds to me like they already have a new wrestling facility. I would not expect to see a new facility just for wrestling matches - although they did that at a number of the Big Ten schools. This is when it is not bad to be in the middle of the Big 10 country - by far the best wrestling conference in the country. The guys that are turned down from those schools are incredibly good. The fallout rate at those schools is also very high, so you can get a transfer who was an all-American as a freshman or sophomore. When they bring in a hs kid who is ranked #1 in the country, odds are that he will be in the line-up the following year and contending for a national championship as a freshman. If you are in that weight class with that guy, your career is pretty much over at that point.

Any pictures or video of new wrestling facility?

I haven't seen any, just going from the write up that was posted on Yappi.

(04-05-2014 11:12 AM)MotoRocket Wrote:  I haven't seen any, just going from the write up that was posted on Yappi.

Thanks. As far as facilities, we practiced and wrestled meets in the field house. Cost to go back to D1 shouldn't cost too much more as far as that goes. Meets could be done in savage.