Gut-
I know these guys got better in college, but they were pretty darn good in high school too. Everyone gets better in college or doesn't survive as it is a different level.
It is amazing to me that you think that these two guys were cured of the "Kansas Style" by spending a year or two in the same room as a guy from Uzbekistan. They were good in kids, got better in Jr. High, then got better in high school, then got better in college. . . . That is what great wrestlers do regardless of "style."