I wasn't necessarily suggesting that Wetmore can take anyone (10 minute high school 2-miler) and turn them into an All-American. I think what Wetmore does better than most top notch programs/coaches is identify undervalued talent and then develops it.
For example Gonzales had solid times for a Colorado altitude kid. (like 4:18/9:23) What's interesting is he went down to sea level in only one race and ran 9:00 flat while beating a couple "superstar" Washington State runners. Clearly Wetmore had the advantage of having Gonzales in his "back yard", but he was able to get him to commit to CU with no athletic money, where as a lot of other D1 coaches clearly missed out.
Same goes for Forsyth. While Forsyth had respectable PR's of 4:18/9:09 those performances placed him around 200th or so in the national rankings. Wetmore has been quoted as saying (paraphrasing) "Kids that run 9:15 in southern California aren't the same as kids that run 9:15 in Maine." The same could be said of Maryland where Forsyth is from. Again he had a few full scholarship offers but not many and ultimately choose CU for no athletic money.
I believe both these kids will have very successful college careers.
Mixing in these kind of athletes (See also Blake Theroux, Morgan Pearson, Pierce Murphy) with the occasional Ben Saarel or even Ammar Moussa (highschool version) is what makes Colorado successful. Also let's see what kind of production Wisconsin gets out of the 9 or 10 studs they brought in this year and how many scholarships they have next year.