For three decades the NHSCA Nationals have featured the best high school wrestlers from across the country. The event shows no signs of slowing down as we gear up for the 31st edition.

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As we wait for the first whistle from the Virginia Beach Convention Center, let's take some time to look back at some of our favorite matches and most impressive competitors over the last decade or so of NHSCA history. 

2009

Going back eleven years reveals a bounty of worthies from the current generation of American freestyle competitors. 

Two-time world medalist and 2020 Olympic hopeful James Green won the 130-pound sophomore championship. 

Two-time NCAA champion and world bronze medalist Nick Gwiazdowski was runnerup at 189, also in the sophomore division.

And here's high school senior Kyle Dake winning a semifinal bout at 140-pounds.

Dake's accolades are too lengthy to fully recount, but the highlights are legendary. The first person to ever win four NCAA titles at four different weight classes is now a two-time UWW World Champion and is looking to cement his legacy with an Olympic medal from Tokyo. 

It's remarkable to watch a decade old match from a teenage Dake and see his stingy defense and smothering top game all more or less fully formed.

You can also travel in our wayback machine to 2009 and watch three-time All-American from Kent State, Ian Miller, wrestle in the 140-pounds sophomore finals, or Mizzou's 2015 NCAA champ, Drake Houdashelt, wrestle in the 140-pound junior finals, or Oklahoma's 2013 NCAA champ and current Missouri assistant coach, Kendric Maple, in the 135-pound senior semifinals. 

Other Olympians and Olympic hopefuls that wrestled at the NHSCA National Championships in years past include Jordan Burroughs, J'den Cox, Frank Molinaro, Zain Retherford, Thomas Gilman, Jordan Oliver, Nahshon Garrett, Pat Downey, and Vito Arujau.

2014

Flash-forwarding five years yields another bumper crop of hammers plying their trade in Virginia Beach before they were NCAA stars. 

All-Americans Pat Lugo (Iowa) and Max Thomsen (UNI) faced each other in the finals of the 138-pound junior final. Thomsen won that battle and would later beat Lugo in 2017 at the Southern Scuffle. Lugo would get his revenge at 2019 Midlands, and is now ranked #2 going into the Big Ten Conference tournament in his senior year. Thomsen is also doing well, ranked ninth nationally for the Panthers.

You can also watch the 132-pounds senior final between four-time NCAA qualifier for NC State Sean Fausz, who somehow made 125 every year for the Wolfpack, and current Oklahoma State 141-pound starter Dusty Hone. 

Or perhaps you'd like to watch Northwestern All-American and 2020 NCAA 133-pound title contender Sebastian Rivera win the sophomore 106 title? You can, just click the link!

2015

Future Olympians are no stranger to the Virginia Beach Convention Center in late March. Michigan Wolverine and San Marino's 86kg Olympic rep Myles Amine won 152-pound crown in the senior division against VMI's soon-to-be national qualifier Neal Richards.

The #2 ranked wrestler in the nation at 197-pounds is Noah Adams of West Virginia. He beat Andrew Berreyesa to win a sophomore title at 170-pounds in 2015.

And how is this for a quarterfinal bout? Two wrestlers ranked #4 in the nation at their respective weight classes, Quincy Monday for Princeton at 157 and Penn State's Roman Bravo-Young at 133. As high school freshmen, they wrestled at 106-pounds.

2016

You can find a full set of finals results from 2016 here. Some great bouts that stick out are Michigan's Joey Silva and Arizona State's Jacori Teemer as sophomores in the 126-pound final. 

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You can also watch Rutgers' Nic Aguilar win a sophomore title at 106-pounds or Michigan's Kanen Storr beat Iowa State's All-American Jarrett Degen in the 138-pound senior final. 

2017

As we roll through the years we have now unlocked the ability to peruse FloArena to pick out choice matches from three years ago. 

UPenn's Anthony Artalona was a rising middleweight star then. You can watch him win a junior 145-pound title below. 

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Aaron Brooks, Joey Silva, and Jacori Teemer also won junior titles in 2017. 

2018

FloArena is back in 2018 to show off the incredible array of talent that made their way to Virginia's most famous beach. 

Aaron Brooks, Joey Silva, and Jacori Teemer also won titles again. Brooks and Silva became four-timers and Temmer a three-timer, having only lost to Silva in 2016, making the class of 2018 one of the best in NHSCA history. Those three are all redshirt freshman (though technically a grey shirt for Brooks), starting for Penn State, Michigan, and Arizona State respectively and looking for their first All-American honor in their inaugural varsity season.

2019

It's a little early to know which alums from the class 2019 are going to go on to collegiate success and beyond, but you can bookmark the FloArena page for future reference. 

One name that does stick out from the seniors is 285-pound champ Yaroslau Slavikousi. The Harvard true freshman earned the #1 pre-seed at this year's EIWA CHampionship and as the ninth-ranked heavyweight in the nation is a threat to make the podium in Minneapolis. 

Other senior champs having solid seasons while redshirting include Virginia Tech's Sam Latona, Northwestern's Chris Cannon, Lehigh's Malyke Hines, and Cornell's Chris Foca. 

All of which is to say, tune into the 2020 NHSCA Championships to catch tomorrow's superstars today!