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Didn't know how to bump the old discussion up. Just thought people should watch the video and see the hard work behind the scenes. http://www.captiongenerator.com/395472/Team-State-Committee-of-Power-Meeting

That’s right you over paid professional pumpkin tossers you were right not to try to take that weekend. Smart move to have that ridiculously high scoring hooping fest a different weekend so to avoid crossing paths with our time honored grappling tradition. Another one for the good guys.

Avon gets another starter back last night. Iswa state champ Jayden Williams makes his debut with the team. Still waiting for senior 195 Andrew Frank to return next week. Mason Miranda and Carson Brewer returned over the weekend. The Orioles take down number 10 Zionsville 55-20. Team is shaping up for team state.

It’s not a silly record #TheCountyLawyer ... I told my son in Middle School I’m not driving an hour to BFE to watch you pin a kid in 10 seconds . Give me my $ worth In gas. It’s carried on to HS . He’ll have Avons Takedown Career record this year as a Jr. Personally I like to see a Tech/Pin before a Pin any day .

Huge Thanks to Bloomington South for traveling to southern Indiana on a Wednesday night. The Final Score was Bloomington South 36 vs Floyd Central 25. Match count was 7 to 7 with Bloomington winning the bonus point battle. The atmosphere was awesome with the lights, sound, and state finals announcer Kevin Whitehead calling the action. The matches were just as exciting as the atmosphere. It was a great night for wrestling. We (Floyd Central) are excited about getting to compete in their Regional this year. Also shout out to the Madison youth program and Silver Creek Middle School (Local Start up team) for coming out and being the opening act. Just like the varsity there was a lot of exciting matches. If you would like to watch the action it is has been posted to our Facebook Page.

I agree 100%. It will all be settled on the mat. We wish everyone nothing but success. I personally think we're all winners here. Our state is loaded with hard working kids, parents and coaches that put a lot of time and money into all of this. The end product is a blessing if you're a fan!

Just my 2 cents......may not be worth a nickel. But I personally feel like drawing comparisons in a way that has each team wrestling "straight up"........isn't a fair assessment of who'd actually win. I realize that's the only way to do it on paper, without making hypothetical guesses about what moves a team would make. However......in a match up like Cathedral vs Brownsburg.........or in a possible showdown next weekend featuring Burg vs Portage, I think something as meaningful as the coin flip can have huge implications. I'm as interested in hearing of the coaching strategies ("hearing" because we plan to still be wrestling), as I am to learn of the winners of possible match-ups. A healthy Avon could create some casualties as well. But hammer vs hammer aside......things could get pretty creative in regards to moveable parts. Just my opinion obviously. Exciting weekend regardless of how things shake out!

your finger hit "3" instead of "4" for #PainTrain..........being a bigger guy I have those type of mis-typings all the time so I am sensitive to it so no worries

That was the name that came to mind for me as well. That kid was great on his feet.

You can view rankings for michigan on michiganmat. They are new and their rankings are very similar to that on grappler. Though grappler has updated rankings. DCC has 16 total ranked wrestlers in division 1, but one of their #1s is ineligible until late January due to transfer. 103(3rd),112(5th),119(1st), 125(4th,7th), 130(3rd,4th), 135(1st ineligible), 140 (1st,8th), 152(1st), 160(7th), 171(6th), 189(9th), 215(4th), 285(5th). Niles has 4 ranked wrestlers in division 2, including the Franco Brothers. 103(9th), 112(6th), 119(2nd), 145(9th) Edwardsburg doesn't have any ranked wrestlers. Just because that is where they are ranked doesn't mean that is where they will wrestle or are wrestling. The rank makers haven't figured it all out as to where people are wrestling, yet. And of course, Michigan weight classes aren't quite the same so there will be some motion is weight location due to that, too.

Brownsburg 30 Cathedral 24

Yea Asbury gave laplace all he wanted this summer and I could see him keeping it respectable for sure

Asbury would not get pinned and may actually win !!!! Lee understands the need for points at all times and don't sleep on Glaze (kid is a plain and simple beast) 39-19 Dogs kill it !!! #TheCounty # PainTrain #WiesjahnTrained (the last & final year)

I'll take the under on this dual having 5 pins.

No on the broadcast if you fast forward to 1:36 you can watch the match. It was 3-1 Davison, streck went throw with :10 left and went o his back for the 8-1 finish pretty great match

1:36 #2 streck vs #1 Davison

I believe Portage dropped to #5 prior to Traicoff off of a loss to Perry at Harvest without Rumph or Maceo in the lineup or Fattore, Colza, and Triana for Hobart which would have certainly changed the placements for all of the teams in those weight classes. Now, I do have to say, that I must have a different opinion of what thrashing a team is. Yes, Cathedral definitely wrestled well and systematically but 35-21 is not a thrashing. There were two OT matches that Cathedral won and a match that was 5-2 with :40 left and Cathedral got the reversal and 3 nearfall to win 7-5. It was a close dual, and Cathedral certainly wrestled better than Portage. Hats are off to the wrestlers and coaching staff as that is a really talented Portage team (which I don't think we have seen the last of or even their best meet yet). Portage looked uncharacteristically slow and worn down all day, and Cathedral capitalized on it.

Floyd Central High School is once again doing "Rage on The Stage" This is an idea that we took from some of the college programs around the country. We will be wrestling Bloomington South in our Schools auditorium. Floyd Central has a nationally recognized theater program and they help us put on a really god show with lights and music. This Year we will be wrestling the Bloomington South Panthers!! We have State Finals veteran official Kevin Hulsman to officiate and we have also landed the State Finals announcer Kevin Whitehead to announce this event. If your are in the Southern Indiana Area you should really come check out this event. We also plan on running Facebook live. So like our page here Floyd Central Facebook Page to watch. Dec. 13th Youth/Middle School 5pm JV 6:30pm Varsity Face Offs: 7:00pm

Is it about resume or who is better? Brownsburg dismantled Avon and will get a huge bump to their resume if they win Team State next weekend. I would love to see a dual between Brownsburg and Cathedral, but Cathedral chose to opt out.

@decbell1do you have a bias towards all PPs or are you picky?

I think you dropped this

Likely Al Smith... my bad

Dane has a huge PP bias

By JEREMY HINES Thehines7@gmail.com In 1994 Indiana female wrestling was in its extreme infancy. So when Katie (Downing) Kriebel and her dad met with Pendleton coach Dave Cloud about joining the high school team – she was a little nervous. Coach Cloud told her dad that he had never had a female wrestler before. “Dad told him that he had never had a daughter that wanted to wrestle before, either,” Kriebel said. “So, he told him that they were in the same boat.” Cloud agreed to let her wrestle. That would be the start of many firsts for coach Cloud where Kreibel was involved. Kriebel was a good athlete. She played softball and trained in Judo. In fact, it was her love of Judo that got her curious about wrestling. “I trained with the boys in Judo,” Kriebel said. “It wasn’t a big deal in Judo. But, I noticed that a lot of boys that didn’t know any Judo at all, that were wrestlers, came over and were very good right off the bat. I decided I needed to learn wrestling, too.” She wasn’t quite prepared for the rigors of the sport as a high school freshman. In her very first practice she threw up during conditioning. She didn’t want to appear weak, so right after she vomited she started to run. She made it through the first practice, and won over some of the guys who were questioning her toughness. “That first week of wrestling was the first time in my life that I had tried something and didn’t know whether I could do it or not,” Kriebel said. “I was hooked. Once I made it through the first week and I knew I wasn’t going to die, I loved it. I loved the challenge of it.” Kriebel didn’t fare well early on – but she was battling more than just her opponent across the mat. Her first match was a junior varsity contest. When she walked out on the mat the opposing team and their parents were laughing noticeably at her. “I didn’t like that,” Kriebel said. “But I was too nervous to really care. I ended up catching the kid with a head and arm that came from Judo and winning that match. Then everyone was laughing at him. I remember it not being fun at all because of everyone else’s reactions.” Kreibel didn’t like that people made fun of her, but she also couldn’t stand the fact that the person she was wrestling would get ridiculed too. “I came from a time when you had to pick your battles,” Kriebel said. “I definitely had every sort of response you could imagine. Some moms and dads were concerned for my safety. Some were concerned because they didn’t teach their boys to hurt girls. They were worried about touching and that sort of thing, too. But most of those issues really got resolved on their own once they started seeing me as a wrestler.” Kreibel said that by her senior year, some of her biggest critics had become her biggest fans. “I never intended to be a pioneer,” Kriebel said. “I didn’t have a mission for equality or rights or girl power or anything like that. I just loved wrestling. Even if it was my mission – I figured out that actions speak a lot louder than words. I could talk about why I deserved to wrestle, or I could just go out and double leg a kid and show them.” Kriebel finished with a .500 record in high school. She made varsity as a senior and placed third in sectional in a time when only the top two went on to regional. “Katie just had this toughness about her,” coach Cloud said. “At first I was concerned about her safety, but she quickly dispelled that. She was really, really tough. She got smashed a few times, but she always got back up.” In fact, Kriebel was so tough she didn’t care who she wrestled or how good they were. She would face anyone. “Katie had grit and determination,” Cloud said. “We had a wrestler win state, Donny Sands, and when we had challenges she challenged him. Nobody else dared challenge Donny. But she had a lot of courage and heart. He beat her, but she didn’t back down.” Kriebel’s senior year was the first year girls had a National tournament – and she won it. She went on to qualify for the junior world team her freshman year of college and placed second. That was the first year the US took a full women’s team with a coach and paid for everything. Kriebel later won the first Women’s World Cup. She took bronze in 2005 and 2007 at the World Championships and was eventually an alternate for the 2008 Olympics. “Wrestling gave me the opportunity to see 22 different countries,” Kriebel said. “It was pretty great to see how big the world actually is, but some things in the wrestling room is the same no matter where you’re at.” Kriebel never dreamed she would return to her roots in Pendleton. She coached a year at Oklahoma City University and then moved to California without any plans to return to this side of the Mississippi river. Then, Eric Kriebel, a longtime assistant coach at Pendleton passed away unexpectedly. She returned home and ended up starting a summer wrestling club in Pendleton in his name. She wanted to keep his legacy alive. She married Jay Kriebel, Eric’s nephew and the two have two girls, Camryn, 3 and Clara, eight months old. Kriebel is the varsity assistant coach at Pendleton now. She sits beside the very coach who doubted whether she could make it as a wrestler back in 1994 when Katie and her dad approached him. “Katie has had a lot of firsts for me,” Cloud said. “She was my first assistant coach to start dating another coach. She was my first assistant coach to marry another coach. She was my first coach to go into labor during a match.” Cloud said that Kreibel was coaching a match three years ago when she started having back spasms. That night he got a text that just said “I’m going to have a baby now.” Kriebel has juggled the life of a coach and a parent for three years now. She demonstrated moves to the team while she was pregnant, and even carried Camryn in a baby sling while coaching at the New Castle semistate. “Wrestling is all Camyrn has known,” Kriebel said. “I coached while I was pregnant with her. I showed front headlocks when she was in my belly, and she was literally on top of kids’ heads. She has never not known wrestling. She even calls the guys on the team ‘her guys’. “ Kriebel is going to let her kids decide for themselves if they want to wrestle or not. She loves the sport, but she also wants what’s best for them. “I could really talk about wrestling for hours,” Kriebel said. “It’s honest. It’s very honest. You can’t b.s. very much in wrestling. If you have grit and perseverance, integrity and pride and you are willing to put a lot of work in without getting a lot back, then eventually you will be rewarded. It takes so much. You earn your spot. You earn everything.” Her passion for the sport is infectious. Pendleton now has nine girls on the team and is hoping to have 15 next season. “That’s sure a big change from where I started,” Cloud said. “But that’s great. I believe wrestling is the greatest sport in the world, so why wouldn’t you want girls doing it too?” View full article

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To bad up here in the northeast they hit us with unsportsmanlike for taking kids down.