Chuck Cone

By anyone’s definition, Chuck Cone is the most outstanding, most decorated
wrestler ever from Howard County, having won three IHSAA state championships.

Wrestling at Kokomo High School, Cone won his first state title at 103 pounds as a sophomore in 1963. He followed that up by winning at 112 pounds as a junior and 120 pounds as a senior. In that senior season, Cone led Kokomo’s team to the runner-up spot at the state meet. Over Cone’s final three seasons, he never lost a match.

Cone continued his career at Indiana State University where he won two Indiana Collegiate Conference championships. In 1967, he earned a bid to the NCAA meet at Kent State where he finished 5-2 in the 115-pound class.

He coached high school wrestling for 25 years and was also national wrestling coach of the United States Association of Blind Athletes.
Cone was inducted into the Indiana Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1975.