J'den Cox beat Minnesota's Brett Pfarr in the NCAA finals on Saturday night in St. Louis, but that kind of went without saying. He wrestled on Saturday night, therefore he won.
Cox wrapped up his third individual national title in almost perfunctory fashion. He had too much offense and far too much defense for Pfarr in an 8-2 win, his 32nd of the season.
The win finished off maybe the greatest 12 months in the history of a Missouri athlete. Cox won last year’s NCAA championship, won the U.S. Olympic trials in his weight class, went to Mongolia to clinch an Olympic bid, won a bronze medal, then started all over again.