Here are a few:
Shonie Carter (66-13-7), Triton College – Carter is 34 years old and has fought a staggering 86 MMA bouts. One source lists him as an NJCAA All-American.
Randy Couture (14-8-0), Oklahoma State – A 43 year-old former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Couture was a three-time NCAA Division 1 All-American and a three-time Greco-Roman USA National Champion.
Marvin Eastman (7-4-0), Merced Community College – One source lists him as a two-time All-American, presumably at the junior college level. Merced no longer has a wrestling team.
Rashad Evans (9-0-0), Niagara-Westfield and Michigan State – Rashad was an NJCAA National Champion before becoming a two-time NCAA Division 1 National Qualifier. In 2003, he eliminated then-reigning National Champion Greg Jones from the NCAA Division 1 National Tournament.
Drew Fickett (29-4-0), Pima Community College – In an interview, Fickett states, “I was hit by a truck and broke my knee and two bones in my foot…I spent like four years practicing in college, but I never really got to compete too much because of injury, and the lack of a red shirt I got.” The 26 year-old is one of many MMA fighters who used the sport as a second chance of sorts when their college wrestling careers didn’t work out for them.
Jon Fitch, Purdue (12-0-0) – Fitch wrestled for five years at Purdue, but he never wrestled varsity at Big Tens.
Jesse Forbes (2-1-0), Pima Community College – One of a few ultimate fighters from this tiny college in Tucson, AZ, Forbes states on his UFC bio that he was an NJCAA All-American.
Matt Hamill (2-0-0), Rochester Institute of Technology – Hamill, now 29, was a three-time NCAA Division 3 Champion at RIT before going on to become a two-time World Champion freestyle wrestler.
Pat Healy (26-10-0), Sothern Illinois University at Edwardsville – Healy was a two-year starter for SIUE, but he never got out of his NCAA Division 2 Regional.
Dan Henderson, (22-5-0), Arizona State University- 1993 NCAA Championships, Two-time CA HS State Placer for Victor Valley H.S., 1992 and 1996 Olympian (Greco-Roman Wrestling).
Jay Hieron (7-2-0), Iowa Community College, Nassau Community College, and Hofstra – He won an NJCAA National Championship, then transferred to Hofstra and finished 5th at NCAA Division 1 Nationals.
Brandon Lee Hinkle (14-7-0), West Liberty State – Now 33 years old, Hinkle was an NCAA Division 2 National Champion at West Liberty State before becoming the UFC Welterweight Champion in his first UFC appearance in 2001.
Roger Huerta (16-1-1), Augsburg – Roger, who is now 23, went 5-6 in 2002-03 during his only season as a college wrestler. He did not crack the starting line-up for Regionals at NCAA Division 3 powerhouse Augsburg College.
Matt Hughes (41-4-0), Lincoln Community College and Eastern Illinois – Hughes was an NCAA Division 1 All-American twice at Eastern Illinois – and twice prior to that at the junior college level.
Solomon Hutcherson (10-2-0), Triton College – “I was an avid wrestler in freestyle and folkstyle, but due to personal problems I had to cut my wrestling career short,” explains “King” Solomon.
Josh Koscheck (8-1-0), Edinboro – “Kos” had four NCAA Division 1 All-American seasons – capped by a 42-0 National Championship season – for Edinboro. Josh is now a coach for the University of Buffalo.
Chuck "The Ice Man" Liddell, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo- Was the Captain of his high school football and wrestling team and was a Division I Wrestler at Cal Poly.
Terry Martin (12-2-0), Northern Illinois University (NIU) – The only stats we could find were that Terry went 2-4 in 2001-02, his senior year at NIU. (He likely wrestled there in previous years as well.)
Gan McGee (12-2-0), Cal Poly SLO – “The Giant” was a two-time NCAA Division 1 National Qualifier at heavyweight for the Mustangs, in 1998 and 1999.
Jeff Monson (23-5-0), Oregon State and Illinois – Monson lost out at the NCAA Division 1 National Tournament for OSU in 1992 before transferring to the U of I and making it to the Round of 12 in 1993.
Josh Neer (17-4-1), Waldorf College – The 23 year-old’s college wrestling career wasn’t very productive. He explains, “I wrestled in college for a year, but I ended up breaking my nose in a fight, so I kind of got hurt half way through my first year at college, but I finished out the year.”
Jake O’Brien (7-0-0), Purdue – O’Brien wrestled at Purdue for two years, redshirting in 2003-04 and going 14-18 as a starter in his second season of 2004-05. Now 21, Jake states that has been focused on becoming an ultimate fighter since he was 12 years old.
Tito Ortiz (14-4-0), Golden West College, Cal-State Bakersfield – Tito’s a unique case, and not just because he calls himself “The Huntington Beach Bad Boy.” He won a California State Junior College Championship, and then he transferred to Cal State Bakersfield – where he served as a back-up to eventual the NCAA Division 1 National Champion, World Champion, and current New England Patriot, Stephen Neal.
Trevor Prangley (11-4-0), North Idaho College – Not only was Prangley a two-time NJCAA All-American for the Cardinals, but he was a South African National Champion in freestyle wrestling.
Chael Sonnen (14-8-1), Oregon – Sonnen won two University Nationals Championships and had an NCAA All-American season for the University of Oregon.
Nick Thompson (23-9-0), Wisconsin – Nick’s website states that he wrestled for the Badgers from 2000-2002.
Frank Trigg (12-4-0), Oklahoma, Phoenix College – Trigg went the opposite way of most wrestlers, beginning his career with the Sooners before transferring to a junior college. He went 53-1 at Phoenix and won the NJCAA Wrestling Sportsman of the Year Award in 1994 and later went on to be a 2000 Olympic Trials Finalist.
Mike Van Arsdale (10-3-1), Iowa State – Van Arsdale is a former National Champion, Olympic alternate and, perhaps most impressively, is still fighting at the age of 41.
Mike Whitehead (9-6-0), North Idaho College – One of three ex-wrestlers from this NJCAA powerhouse, Whitehead was an NJCAA All-American in 2001.
Travis Wiuff (22-3-0), Rochester Community & Technical College (RCTC) – Currently weighing in at just 205 pounds, the 28 year-old Wiuff finished 5th and 2nd at NJCAA Nationals in 1998 and 1999, respectively, at heavyweight.