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The Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestling team is a NCAA Division I wrestling program and is one of four Big 12 Conference schools that participates in wrestling. Since the team's first season in 1914-15, it has won thirty-four team national championships (three of which are unofficial), 134 individual NCAA championships, and 213 wrestlers have earned 425 All-American honors. The Cowboys won the first official NCAA Division I Wrestling Team Championship in 1929. The Cowboys have won 47 conference team championships and 234 individual conference titles. The program owns an all-time dual meet record of 1021-113-23. On January 28th 2011, OSU became the second school in NCAA history to record one thousand dual victories, joining Iowa State University. ==History== Cowboy wrestling extends back to 1914-15 when A.M. Colville coached the school's first team. That team lost the school's first dual meet to Texas. The next season, legendary coach Edward C. Gallagher would take over the team. He coached the first national championship team in 1928. He was also the coach of eight of the first ten national champion teams as his teams won in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940. Only a strong 1936 Oklahoma team coached by Paul Keen kept him from sweeping the first 10 official NCAA Championships. He coached 50 official All-Americans and 26 official individual champions in the earliest days of the tournament. Following his death in 1940, the school had to find a coach who could continue their winning tradition. The man chosen to replace Edward C. Gallagher was Art Griffith. Art Griffith was the coach for Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma before succeeding Gallagher. In his 15 years there, he won 94 of 100 matches, including 50 in a row at one point. Because of this experience, he was selected to be the new Oklahoma State head coach. It ended up being a good choice, as he won 8 NCAA Championships in his 13 seasons there and continued two streaks left by Gallagher. First, he extended the four consecutive championships Gallagher had left with to 7, finally losing out in 1947 to Cornell College. Second, he extended the 27 consecutive dual meet victory streak to 76, before finally losing in 1951. Griffith's wrestlers won 27 individual championships and were All-Americans 64 times from 1941-1956. He retired on top after winning three consecutive NCAA Championships and going 78-7-4 for his career, including ten undefeated teams. One of Griffith's wrestlers, Myron Roderick, was chosen to immediately succeed his former coach following his retirement in 1956. As a wrestler for Griffith, Roderick went 42-2 and was a 3 time national champion from 1954-1956. After he returned from the 1956 Olympics, he took over as head coach. His first team was one of his least successful, finishing fourth at nationals with only one champion and 3 All-Americans to his credit. However, his 1957-58 and 1958-59 teams dominated the NCAA tournament, winning in convincing fashion with four champions and 15 All-Americans between the two years. His 1960 team couldn't compete with a much stronger Oklahoma team coached by Thomas Evans. However, Roderick's teams once again rebounded with championships in 1961 and 1962, winning 5 individual championships and another 15 All-Americans. By the end of his career in 1969, he had coached 7 team champions, 20 individual champions, and 79 All-Americans. The dual success continued – but the national titles ran dry – into the 1970s and 80s, with Tommy Chesbro leading the way. The sudden rise of Iowa wrestling under Dan Gable shut off the NCAA title train, as the Cowboys won only one title under Chesbro’s watch. He was the coach from 1969–84 and his dual mark of 227-26-0 was the best record in the history of the program until it was passed recently by current coach John Smith. Smith has recently re-established the dominance of OSU over the rest of the wrestling world by winning four straight national championships (2003–06). Smith took over the Cowboy wrestling program in 1991 in the wake of NCAA sanctions and probation leftover from previous head coach Joe Seay who had won two national titles with a 114-18-2 overall record. Smith’s first season saw the Cowboys take second at Nationals, but his second season was crippled by the probation. The Pokes went 4-7 and were banned from post-season competition. But the next season, the Cowboys were back as top wrestlers who had taken a redshirt year during the probation (such as four-time champion, and current assistant coach Pat Smith and Alan Fried) were back on the mat. OSU went 13-1 that year and won the team title. The middle part of the 90s, however, saw the OSU program grow somewhat stagnant. Wrestlers were still winning individual titles and claiming All-American honors and the team was still winning Big Eight and Big 12 Conference crowns, but their showings at Nationals were disappointing. Between 1995-2002, the Cowboys placed no better than second (once, in 1997) and finished third three times (1998, 1999, 2001). But in 2002, the Cowboys were back in the saddle once again, winning the conference and NCAA titles and sporting a 17-0 record. Including that championship season up through 2005, OSU sported a combined record of 55-2. Smith currently has 239 wins as coach at OSU, the most ever in school history. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oklahoma State Cowboys wrestling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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