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Grenadier2012

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  1. Howe is always my default answer. Untouchable. People seem to forget he also had wins over 3 of the top 5 guys in the country at his weight in the same day at Fargo too. If we’re splitting hairs with Angel, his lone HS loss was a better loss than Escobedo’s. Not a great argument, but I stand by it.
  2. I’m going off what the original injury post said that it happened multiple times this year and he continued to wrestle with it and pop it back in. You’re also conflating my post with the CP poster. I’m just saying that’s a crazy injury to wrestle through and can’t imagine it won’t lead to chronic pain. I just question what we’re doing as a high school wrestling culture, as a whole, sometimes. Tough. Yes, insanely tough. A great idea, maybe not if it’s coming out all the time, but what do I know, I’m not a doctor.
  3. Man, I don’t know how a high school kid gets medical clearance to compete with an injury like that. I’m all for being tough and wrestling through the hurt, but that seems over the top. Good luck walking without significant pain after 30. Also, back to the original point, this will inevitably lead to an injury time call in every match. Hard to watch.
  4. I miss old downtown Evansville. Specifically Hammerheads. Home of nickel PBR’s and the “stance dance”. Heck, if you stayed late enough you could even get beat up with some beer bottles.
  5. Came to comment this one. Good stuff! I remember some old curmudgeons being upset about it.
  6. Ignorance. Arrogance. Indifference to the needs of a sport outside of round ball. I blame the Milan Indians for winning a state title in basketball in 1954. The IHSAA seems to cling to that anomaly as a good reason to spit in the face of conventional wisdom and maintain an antiquated competition system at every possible turn.
  7. I might be wrong, but…by not being in the weakest regional in the Evansville SS they now have an opportunity to draw a kid from that regional in the first two rounds if they qualify. Better match ups for them.
  8. 01/16/2024 11:00 PM
  9. Not defending or bashing the class argument, but those two are anomalies. First state champs in their respective school history if I remember correctly. It's far more likely to happen from a blue blood or larger program. I get what the OP is saying. The gap has grown significantly. Indiana used to be known as a top heavy state. However, now that the depth is coming along, without wrestlebacks, the "ticket round" tragedies are becoming far more frequent.
  10. Alex Tsirtsis, Dillon Whitacre, Eric Aue, Cahmelan Porter. I believe in that order. Up in at least one of the matches, if not two. Broke his foot in the sectional finals as a senior wrestled through, but faded in the Porter match. It gets brought up every year but we (Madison) have arguments for best to never place and best to never win. Michael Galbreath, early 1990's, (3x qualifier, 2x runner up). We'll clear that bad juju in due time.
  11. Bringing in new refs will help solve the officiating shortage, which is more what the second part of the post was about. And agree to disagree that it wouldn't diminish frustrating calls in some situations. No way to quantify that, but wrestling has changed so much in the past 15 ish years, and continues to, that you can't convince me kids who wrestle today wouldn't understand those positions compared to those who wrestled in the late 70's. I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone from that era. We have a lot of great officials from then, but times change and we need fresh blood was my biggest point.
  12. Inconsistencies in the way stalling was called on top and assistant officials seemingly being spectators instead of following their roles were the biggest issues I saw, but overall it wasn't the worst I've ever seen. One that stood out in a good way for me was #6 (Joshua Howard). Good command presence, consistent on calls, in good positions, good anticipation of the action. It's a thankless job and we desperately need officials. Hopefully we get some talented wrestlers coming up who understand the nuances of scrambling and awkward positions to start reffing.
  13. 2007 ish? Salmonella outbreak? Got me too.
  14. I'd say the same to sound inconspicuous. Gotta get them off your trail. Good thinkin' brother!
  15. 2014-160-My way of getting to name drop my program. Not the most well known but still fun to watch. Jordan Partee/Gabe Koontz. I believe it was Partee relatively close in the season. Koontz took it 5-1 in the finals at semi-state (closer than the score), then on a last second TD for 3rd at state. Initially a no call which was rightfully (painful for me to say that) overturned and given. Crowd was heavily invested from the sound of it.
  16. Looks like they took a page from the NCAA's emerging sport program. Girl's wrestling will most likely be the testing ground for the process which coincides with the NCAA right now. It also looks like a feasibility study to see if the sport will survive, which shouldn't be an issue with all the work that has already been done and it's growing popularity, especially in Indiana. I'd imagine they saw multiple potential sports on the horizon and wanted a more stringent way to regulate the addition as opposed to looking bad as previously mentioned by simply voting no. No one wants to be the bad guy and this is a way to put it on the stakeholders of each sport if it doesn't pan out.
  17. I take that back. The video is still up, but the song is different. I imagine a copyright issue was involved.
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