In the second segment of my Iowa Wrestling Recruiting Class of 2020 Wish List, I am going to shine the light on Dustin Plott from Tuttle, Oklahoma. Plott is just entering his junior year of high school and he is already very well known as one of the best high school wrestler in the country. Plott is currently ranked #4 behind three seniors at 170 lbs. by FloWrestling. In the Flo Class of 2020 rankings, Plott is ranked as the second best overall recruit for his class.
I was able to see Plott compete in person in Las Vegas at the UWW Junior Nationals in April. As a high school sophomore at 74 kg/163 lbs., Plott was competing against nearly all college wrestlers that had anywhere from 1-3 years of college experience on him. What Plott did was very impressive. After opening the tournament with two tech falls, in the quarterfinals Plott defeated Kaleb Romero of Ohio State, 12-8. Romero was the number one high school wrestler in the country at 170 lbs. in 2017 and is in line to be in the starting lineup at Ohio State this year as a redshirt freshman. To have a sophomore in high school wrestling at that elite of a level is very impressive.
In the semifinals, Plott defeated Tyler Dow from Wisconsin, 13-11. In the finals, Plott dropped an 8-6 decision to our own Jeremiah Moody.
At Junior Nationals, Plott placed second at 170 lbs. and had a very good tournament. With the performance that Plott had at UWW Junior Nationals and Junior Nationals, I believe he is if anything underrated. This guy is a real goer. His stylish is entertaining. What I like the most about Plott is that even though he is at a very high level right now, I look for him to get much, much better. I always look for recruits that are still improving and have not already reached their peak. Plott is still improving at a high level and he has a tremendous upside.
Considering that Plott won his high school state title as a sophomore at 160 last February and competed at 163 and 170 this spring and summer, I project him to be at 174 in college.
As far as a recruit in Oklahoma, Iowa Wrestling did sign Mark Perry out of Stillwater, OK in 2003.
I will have additional installments of my Class of 2020 Wish List released throughout the week.
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