He was second at 157 last season and a National Wrestling Coaches All-American in 2020, when the NCAA Tournament was canceled because of the pandemic. He is Princeton's just third three-time All-American. Quincy Monday will forever be remembered as one of the all-time greats in the history of the Princeton University program after he concluded his career with a third-place finish in the loaded 165-pound weight class. Griffith, a three-time NJSIAA champion at Bergen Catholic, is just the third three-time All-American in Stanford's history. He got to the quarterfinal this season before he was defeated 2-1 on the riding time point by 2021 157-pound champion David Carr of Iowa State. Griffth was the runner-up at 165 last season after a 6-5 defeat to Missouri's Keegan O'Toole. Its head coach is the legendary Rob Koll, who completed his second season at Stanford after a highly successful 28-season career at Cornell. The Stanford program, which has a great tradition, is alive and well with its second life.
It's awesome just to think you can kind of touch and move people and do something bigger than yourself.'' "Just being able to take care of business and do what I had to do meant the world to me and my family. "I did what I was taught to do since I was a little kid,'' Griffith said. Griffth was wiping tears from his eyes when he was asked about the ovation and his legacy by Kessenich. "There's a lot of guys who have won national championships, but very few who have saved a wrestling program,'' ESPN reporter Quint Kessenich said to Griffith. '"Thankfully, the wrestling world rallied, and here he is in a Stanford uniform." "He was the catalyst for the movement to keep Stanford wrestling,'' said long-time wrestling analyst Tim Johnson on Saturday on the ESPN U broadcast. The momentum from Griffith's title became an unstoppable locomotive.
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