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In the House (Tuesday): Olympic medalists Baumgartner, Scott, and five 1971 Junior Nationals champions

by Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling

Olympic bronze medalist Coleman Scott was in the house during the Junior Nationals.


On Monday, with both men’s freestyle 16U and Junior competition going strong, it was a crazy, busy day, and we just ran out of time to get our In the House story posted.


You missed it, right? Or did you?


In any case, we come back with a day and a half of people watching in the Fargodome.


Right off the bat, one of the greatest Olympic heroes of all time is here, two-time Olympic champion, three-time World champion, four-time Olympic medalist Bruce Baumgartner, who serves as USA Wrestling’s president. Baumgartner carried the U.S. flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga.. You can’t have a better representative of the Olympic movement than Bruce, can you? Bruce goes on the World champion, World medalist, NCAA champion and Junior Nationals champion lists. (I watched him win his Junior freestyle title in Iowa City in 1978).


Another Olympic medalist was busy on the floor, 2012 Olympic freestyle bronze medalist Coleman Scott, the head coach at North Carolina. We can also add Coleman to the list of past Junior Nationals champions and NCAA champions.


Before we go back and celebrate all the other great champions we saw recently, every good thing must have a start. For the Junior Nationals, the start happened in 1971 in Iowa City, the first time this classic event was held. Now that we are competing in the 50th version of this great show, USA Wrestling invited back as many of the champions from the inaugural event as they could get to Fargo.


Tonight, as part of the opening ceremonies prior to the men’s freestyle Junior finals, five of these historic winners from a half-century ago were introduced to the crowd as special guests of USA Wrestling.


Those first-time Junior Nationals winners in the house were:Joe Corso of Iowa (114.5), Kit Shaw, Washington (132), Dan Holm, Illinois (154), Chuck Berrier, Iowa (165) and Dave Curby, Michigan (191). Holm is also a past NCAA champion for Iowa.


Back to the Senior stars. The Olympian list will also include freestyler Frank Molinaro, an assistant coach at Arizona State.


The n World medalist list expanded when we saw Leigh Jaynes, a women’s freestyle World bronze medalist, matside. Jaynes is the head women’s coach at Delaware Valley College.


New World Team members include Bruce Baumgartner, Leigh Jaynes, Zach Rey, Chris Bono and Brent Metcalf .


NCAA champions include Bruce Baumgartner of Indiana State, Coleman Scott of Oklahoma State, Zach Rey of Lehigh, Frank Molinaro of Penn State, Chris Bono of Iowa State, Jayson Ness of Minnesota, Troy Nickerson of Cornell, Brent Metcalf of Iowa, Chris Perry of Oklahoma State, Jared Lawrence of Minnesota. Although we meant to do this, we left Derek Moore of Cal Davis off the NCAA champ list last time (although we had him on the college assistants list).


NAIA women’s champions include Katlyn Pizzo of Campbellsville,


Men’s college head coaches to add include Coleman Scott of North Carolina, Roger Reina of Penn, Leo Kocher of the Univ. of Chicago, Troy Nickerson of Northern Colorado, Dan Wirnsberger of Bucknell, Chris Bono of Wisconsin, Mike Poeta of Illinois, Roger Chandler of Michigan State


Women’s college head coaches new to our list are Lee Miracle of Campbellsville, Donnie Stephens of the Univ. of the Cumberlands, Brandy Green of Limestone, Leigh Jaynes of Delaware Valley, Paulina Biega of Sacred Heart,


Men’s assistant college coaches J Jaggers of Ohio State, Brent Metcalf of Iowa State, Jason Chamberlain of Utah Valley, Chris Perry of Oklahoma State, Joey Dance of Davidson, Chris Williams of Michigan State,


Women’s assistant college coaches Katlyn Pizzo of Campbellsville, Zack Cook of North Central and Charlotte Fowler of the Univ. of the Ozarks.


Junior National champions list will expand with Bruce Baumgartner of New Jersey, Coleman Scott of Pennsylvania, Jayson Ness of Minnesota, Brandy Rosenbrock Green of Michigan, Troy Nickerson of New York, J Jaggers of Ohio, Ridge Lovett of Idaho, Zach Sanders of Minnesota, Jason Chamberlain of Utah, Brent Metcalf of Michigan, Jason Chamberlain of Utah, Joey Dance of Virginia, Mike Poeta of Illinois,

IN THE HOUSE SCOREBOARD (through Tuesday)

Olympic champions: Bruce Baumgartner, Kenny Monday, Momir Petkovic

Olympic medalists: Bruce Baumgartner, Nate Carr, Tervel Dlagnev, Brandon Paulson,

Olympians: Frank Molinaro, Bruce Baumgartner, Coleman Scott, Nate Carr, Doug Schwab, Eric Guerrero, Sanshiro Abe, Momir Petkovic, Derek Waldroup, Ben Askren, Daniel Cormier, Kenny Monday, Tervel Dlagnev, Andy Bisek, Ike Anderson, Brandon Paulson, Shawn Sheldon,

Olympic referees: Zach Errett, Rick Tucci, Stacey Davis, Sam Julian

World champions; Bruce Baumgartner, Logan Stieber, Kenny Monday

World medalists: Leigh Jaynes, Bruce Baumgartner, Katie Downing, Daniel Cormier, Kenny Monday, Tervel Dlagnev, Andy Bisek, Alli Ragan. Brandon Paulson, Logan Stieber, Shawn Sheldon

Senior World Team members: Leigh Jaynes, Bruce Baumgartner, Zach Rey, Chris Bono and Brent Metcalf , John Oostendorp, Jason Klohs, Nick Simmons, Deanna Betterman, Doug Schwab, Eric Guerrero, Katie Downing, Tony Ramos, Veronica Carlson, Steve Marianetti, Daniel Cormier, Kenny Monday, Tervel Dlagnev, Andy Bisek, Logan Stieber, Brandon Paulson, Obe Blanc, Joe Betterman, Alli Ragan, Max Nowry, Ike Anderson, Alli Ragan, Shawn Sheldon

Junior National champions (boys): Joe Corso of Iowa (114.5), Kit Shaw, Washington (132), Dan Holm, Illinois (154), Chuck Berrier, Iowa (165), Dave Curby, Michigan (191). Bruce Baumgartner of New Jersey, Coleman Scott of Pennsylvania, Jayson Ness of Minnesota, Troy Nickerson of New York, J Jaggers of Ohio, Ridge Lovett of Idaho, Zach Sanders of Minnesota, Jason Chamberlain of Utah, Brent Metcalf of Michigan, Jason Chamberlain of Utah, Joey Dance of Virginia, Mike Poeta of Illinois, Brock Zollinger of Idaho, Ryan Morningstar of Iowa, Cody Brewer of Missouri, Jason Klohs of Minnesota, Damion Hahn of New Jersey, Eric Guerrero of California, Russ Hughes of Pennsylvania, Travis/Trent Paulson of Iowa, Nick Simmons of Michigan, Mark Reiland of Iowa, Brandon Paulson of Minnesota, Kenny Monday of Oklahoma, Adam Hall of Idaho, Tyrone Lewis of Oklahoma, Matt McDonough of Iowa, Derek St. John of Iowa, Ben Askren of Wisconsin, Deron Winn of Missouri

Junior National champions (girls): Brandy Rosenbrock Green of Michigan Deanna Betterman of Maine, Desiree Zavala of Washington, Amanda Hendey of California, Emily Webster Tew of Missouri, Alisha Howk of Wisconsin, Veronica Carlson of Illinois, Vayle Rae Baker of Pennsylvania, Emily Shilson of Minnesota, Nicole Woody Tyson of Maryland, Rachel Watters of Iowa, McKayla Campbell of Ohio, Na’Tasha Umemoto of Oregon

Junior World champions: Nicole Woody Tyson, Mark Hall, Dom Bradley

Head Men’s College Coaches: Coleman Scott (North Carolina), Roger Reina (Penn), Leo Kocher (Univ. of Chicago), Troy Nickerson (Northern Colorado), Dan Wirnsberger (Bucknell), Chris Bono (Wisconsin), Mike Poeta (Illinois), Roger Chandler (Michigan State), Tony Robie (Virginia Tech), Jim Moulsoff (Augsburg), Neil Erisman (Little Rock), Matt Acevedo (Drexel), John Oostendorp (Coe), Mike Denny (Marysville), Zach Tanelli (Columbia), Doug Schwab (Northern Iowa), Damion Hahn (South Dakota State), Eric Keller (Wartburg), Marcus Gordon (Bloomsburg) Jon McGovern (Univ. of Dubuque), Tom Hall (Trine Univ.).Chris Ayres (Princeton), Steve Marianetti (Elmhurst), Link Davis (Emmanuel), Roger Kish (North Dakota State)

Head Women’s Coaches: Lee Miracle (Campbellsville), Donnie Stephens o(Univ. of the Cumberlands), Brandy Green (Limestone), Paulina Biega (Sacred Heart), Leigh Jaynes (Delaware Valley), Kevin Corbett (Lyon College), Shannyn Gillespie (Lakeland), Nicole Tyson (Oklahoma City), Amy Hildebrandt (Trine), Breonna Neal (Ferrum), Brazel Marquez (Alvernia), Angelo Crinzi (Grand View), Jason Moorman (King)

Assistant Men’s College Coaches: J Jaggers of Ohio State, Brent Metcalf of Iowa State, Jason Chamberlain of Utah Valley, Chris Perry of Oklahoma State, Joey Dance of Davidson, Chris Williams of Michigan State, Frank Molinaro (Arizona State), Russ Hughes (Bloomsburg), Ryan Morningstar (Iowa), Joe Dubuque of (Princeton), Cody Brewer (Virginia Tech), Javier Maldonado (Little Rock), Muzaffar Abdurakmanov (Harvard), Miguel Baray (Univ. of Dubuque), Cam Eppert (George Mason), Derek Moore (California Baptist), Randy Pugh (Northern Iowa), Derek St. John (Iowa State), Tony Ramos (North Carolina), Tervel Dlagnev (Nebraska), Andrew Howe (Northwestern), Zach Esposito (Oklahoma State), Obe Blanc (North Dakota State), Mark Hall (Penn), Gary Wayne Harding (North Carolina), Dom Bradley (Missouri), Jordan Leen (Pitt), Drew Headlee (Pitt), Travis/Trent Paulson (Virginia)

Assistant Women’s College Coaches: Arelys Valles (Grand View), Alli Ragan (Grand View), Rachel Watters (William Penn), Jessica Rottier (UW-Stevens Point), Julia Salata (King), Dominic Adams (Lourdes),

RTC coaches: Nate Carr of the Cyclone Wrestling Club, Jeff Buxton of Lehigh Valley WC, Brian Medlin of Illinois RTC, Emma Randall of NYC RTC,

USA Wrestling National Coaches: Momir Petkovic, Gary Mayabb

NCAA champions: Dan Holm (Iowa), Frank Molinaro (Penn State), Bruce Baumgartner (Indiana State), Coleman Scott (Oklahoma State), Zach Rey of Lehigh, Chris Bono of Iowa State, Jayson Ness of Minnesota, Troy Nickerson of Cornell, Brent Metcalf of Iowa, Chris Perry of Oklahoma State, Jared Lawrence of Minnesota, Derek Moore (Cal Davis), Nate Carr (Iowa State), Mark Reiland (Iowa), Joe Dubuque (Indiana), Cody Brewer (Oklahoma), Doug Schwab (Iowa), Damion Hahn (Minnesota), Eric Guerrero (Oklahoma State), Sanshiro Abe (Penn State), Max Askren (Missouri). Chad Lamer (South Dakota), Tony Ramos (Iowa), Matt McDonough (Iowa), Derek St. John (Iowa), Ben Askren (Missouri), ,Kenny Monday (Oklahoma State), Tervel Dlagnev (UN-Kearney), Logan Stieber (Ohio State), Andrew Howe (Wisconsin), Mark Hall (Penn State), Jordan Leen (Cornell), Zach Esposito (Oklahoma State)

WCWA champions: Emily Webster Tew (Oklahoma City), Emily Shilson (Augsburg), Nicole Woody Tyson (Oklahoma City), Rachel Watters (Oklahoma City), Breonna Neal (King), Julia Salata (King), Alli Ragan (King)

NCWWC champions: Emily Shilson (Augsburg)

NAIA women’s champions McKayla Campbell (Campbellsville), Rachel Watters (Oklahoma City), Katlyn Pizzo (Campbellsville)

Veterans World medalists: Michael Tuck, Rudy James, Chris Brown, Jordin Humphrey, James Medieros, Bruce Moe

Note: Those helping identify folks for this column include Joe Wedra, Koral Sugiyama, Jason Bryant, Gabby Lord-Klein and others.