Gary Dillingham, SUNY Cortland mat champ, long-time coach, dies of heart attack

Gary Dillingham, a 1962 SUNY Athletic Conference champion wrestler at SUNY-Cortland who went on to a long coaching career at Cortland High School, died of an apparent heart attack while maintaining statistics at a high school wrestling event Wednesday night, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported Thursday. Born in Buffalo in Oct. 1938, Ralph Gary Dillingham was keeping statistics at a multi-team meet with Solvay, Westhill, and J-D/CBA when he collapsed, according to Cortland superintendent Michael Hoose.

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