CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Is there a more impressive NCAA athlete in the country than Ohio State sophomore Kyle Snyder? Regardless of sport, gender or skill - the answer is no.

Snyder won a Wrestling World Championship as a college freshman last September. He won the 213-pound weight class. That's a man's division. He was 19. No American that young had ever won a world wrestling gold medal.

Saturday night in New York, Snyder won his first NCAA wrestling championship -- as a 226-pounder in the 285-pound weight class. In what is being hailed as one of the greatest NCAA finals in recent memory, Snyder beat two-time defending NCAA heavyweight champion Nick Gwiazdowski of North Carolina State, 7-5, in sudden-victory overtime.

Rarely, if ever, have a World champ and two-time NCAA champ squared off in an NCAA final.