Shane Griffith was the star of the NCAA Championships a few weeks ago — the Stanford 165-pounder, despite the school announcing it would cut the program in July, worked his way to an NCAA title by going through four top-10 seeds (he started as the No. 8) in his five wins, including a win over No. 1 Alex Marinelli (Iowa) in overtime in the quarterfinals. The redshirt sophomore wrestled in a plain black singlet throughout competition and the only thing he wore with Stanford on it was a sweatshirt that said 'Keep Stanford Wrestling.' He was a major storyline of the event, winning just the second NCAA title in program history (though it seems the program is beyond saving, based on recent comments from the admin) and being named the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler.
He has a career college record of 40-1 (64-3 if you count his redshirt year) with the lone loss earlier this year to Arizona State's Anthony Valencia in the Pac-12 Championships (7-1).
There have been rumblings about him possibly ending up at Michigan (as well as classmate Real Woods, though I haven't heard quite as much chatter about Woods recently), and wrestling fans may have heard of Pat Mineo on Twitter. He runs a huge facebook page about amateur wrestling and gets a lot of scoops about various wrestling happenings.
A recent tweet from Mineo:
I just edited since I noticed Tweets aren't pulling up right now, but Mineo quoted a tweet he made in December saying 'imagine if Griffith was a Michigan Wolverine …' with a meme captioned 'very [soon],' and that isn't the only place I've heard about Griffith and U-M being a strong possibility.
It'd be interesting to see where he fits into the Michigan lineup, if he comes, but he'd be a huge addition regardless of where that is. Cam Amine was the seventh-place finisher at 165 pounds this year, so one of the two could move up and take over at 174, if sixth-year senior Logan Massa moves on.
He has a career college record of 40-1 (64-3 if you count his redshirt year) with the lone loss earlier this year to Arizona State's Anthony Valencia in the Pac-12 Championships (7-1).
There have been rumblings about him possibly ending up at Michigan (as well as classmate Real Woods, though I haven't heard quite as much chatter about Woods recently), and wrestling fans may have heard of Pat Mineo on Twitter. He runs a huge facebook page about amateur wrestling and gets a lot of scoops about various wrestling happenings.
A recent tweet from Mineo:
I just edited since I noticed Tweets aren't pulling up right now, but Mineo quoted a tweet he made in December saying 'imagine if Griffith was a Michigan Wolverine …' with a meme captioned 'very [soon],' and that isn't the only place I've heard about Griffith and U-M being a strong possibility.
It'd be interesting to see where he fits into the Michigan lineup, if he comes, but he'd be a huge addition regardless of where that is. Cam Amine was the seventh-place finisher at 165 pounds this year, so one of the two could move up and take over at 174, if sixth-year senior Logan Massa moves on.
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