In 15 years, Griffith lead Central High School to 94 wins in 100 matches, including 50 in a row at one point.

He retired on top after winning three consecutive NCAA Championships and going 78-7-4 for his career, including ten undefeated teams.

However, his 1957–58 and 1958–59 teams dominated the NCAA tournament, winning in convincing fashion with four champions and 15 All-Americans between the two years.

Chesbro only won one national title, in part because his tenure mostly coincided with the sudden rise of Iowa wrestling under Dan Gable.

Smith took over the Cowboy wrestling program in 1991 in the wake of NCAA sanctions and probation left over from previous head coach Joe Seay, who had won two national titles with a 114-18-2 overall record.

The middle part of the 1990s, however, saw the OSU program grow somewhat stagnant, at least by Oklahoma State wrestling standards.

The arena is named in part after Oklahoma State's legendary wrestling coach Edward C. Gallagher.

Gallagher-Iba was known as Gallagher Hall for nearly five decades until the name was amended to honor former Oklahoma State basketball coach Henry Iba upon the facility's first renovation during the 1987–1988 season.

During the 1978 Big 8 wrestling championships, a standing-room-only crowd of 8,300 made such a huge roar that many of the lights in the arena burst.

The home mat advantage for the Pokes and the ravenous attitude of Cowboy fans led to the arena's nickname "Gallagher's House of Horrors."

While the expansion project caused attendance at basketball games to almost double, the wrestling crowds have yet to pack the arena to the rafters as they did in the original Gallagher Hall.

However, attendance usually spikes when rivals come to Stillwater, most notably the Iowa Hawkeyes, Minnesota Golden Gophers, and Bedlam foe Oklahoma.

Despite the overwhelming mainstream popularity of the games played on the gridiron and hardwood, the Bedlam Series roots lie on the wrestling mat.

[5] This dominance over such a highly touted rival has long been a source of great pride for Oklahoma State fans.