Wabash College Athletics

Riley, no one in the country would dispute the fact that you are the NCAA Division III Wrestling G.O.A.T. – greatest of all-time. Hard stop. No other non-scholarship wrestler has ever dominated the sport the way you did in your four seasons at Wabash – capping each year with a National Championship. In fact, you never once lost a match to a Division III wrestler and were the Division’s Most Dominant Wrestler three straight seasons. You won virtually every tournament in which you competed, including Division I tournaments; you knocked off Ohio State’s All-American, Kenny Courts, to take the Eastern Michigan Open as a junior. In addition to winning four National Championships, you were a Four-Time Pete Vaughan Award-winner as the College’s most outstanding athlete. You finished your sterling career with the highest winning percentage in school history, a record of 158-6, and more than half of those matches ended in pins. You were also an excellent student, earning CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-America honors in your junior and senior seasons. It’s always difficult to rank the greatest of all-time, but not in the case of Riley Lefever – no student-athlete in Wabash history was ever as consistently dominant.