Penn State's Zain Retherford wins 2017 Dan Hodge Trophy. https://t.co/32Jwt6O9nW pic.twitter.com/IYjgJFJ4Vg
— WIN Magazine (@WINWrestlingMag) March 28, 2017
NEWTON, Iowa — The WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy has been awarded to the most dominant collegiate wrestler since 1995. Out of an amazing group of four Hodge finalists this year, Penn State two-time NCAA champ Zain Retherford has been named the 2017 Hodge winner, presented annually to the top collegian by ASICS.
"I met Dan Hodge at a National Wrestling Hall of Fame event a few years ago. To win something like this named in his honor is pretty awesome," Retherford said. "This award symbolizes who he is as a person and competitor."
The award, created by Culture House's Mike Chapman, is named after Hodge, who was a three-time NCAA champion for the University of Oklahoma from 1955 to 1957, was undefeated over those three years at 46-0 and pinned an amazing 36 of those opponents.