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WOW yourself, can't handle criticism don't read it...you've heard of free speech right...try getting out of the state and opening your mind a little and see what this state can do to improve instead of living in your own little world...whatever though you just enjoy...

I would hope the attendance would be "quite good", it's a high school gym how hard is that to fill up??!!!! No, Indiana doesn't have much respect across the nation, could be that most of the top talent leaves the state!! Y2 your examples of college duals are a pretty weak argument, a dual with Michigan State, the only other Big 10 team who ends as badly as Indiana and Purdue and a 3 way in Ohio with small schools and lower division schools. I guess that means you consider Indiana college wrestling to be at that level. What is a shame about this is that the dual would be a great opportunity for young wrestlers and most won't see it because the high school gym will be too full. Whatever though keep making excuses and Indiana college wrestling will stay where it is in the Big 10, at the bottom of the barrel...

A college dual, a big 10 dual, at a high school!!!! That is such a joke, no wonder Indiana wrestling has zero respect!! It's insane to have the defending national champions, a team that averages 10,000 in attendance and has set the NCAA record for attendance on several occassions to be put in a high school gym. What will be funny is that the dual will be a quick and easy bloodbath Purdue will be lucky to win a match!

The IHSWCA is going to do team rankings but not individual doesn't anyone else think thats crazy?? Wrestling is an indivisual sport, even the IHSAA recognizes it as an individual sport, those are the rankings that matter. I have never seen a state organization do team rankings and not individual, talk about a step backwards!! Anyone worry about reading the national team rankings for high school wrestling, I don't think so but when the individual ones are published people are quick to post them on the boards. Individual sport, individual accomplishments, individual rankings...

Why would you need a bus for 5 kids?? Seems like a smaller group could get the costs down a little. Yes I know how some other states qualify kids but not that many states are willing to go below 5th and that's in the case of a particularily deep weight class. Look at the overall numbers from the other states doesn't look like everyone else filled all the possible spots. Quality is better than quantity, are we really desperate enough to send kids that didn't place even place? Pull the rosters and compare them to the state results, especially in juniors.

Keep up the "boos" thats too funny, maybe I hit a nerve! No, I don't think a wrestler who cannot place high enough at the state tournament or a regional should be offered the opportunity to go and compete at Fargo, so sorry to sound mean. Fargo is a qualifier tournament, USAW has allowed the states to determine their qualifying process but apparently Indiana doesn't feel there is anything required to qualify. Why even waste the money to hand out "qualifier" packets at state, just hang up a sign up list and everyone can add their name and the coaches or team leaders can just pick later, it's the same thing. There are other "open" tournments to choose from so stop trying to water down the brackets for everyone else by sending kids that shouldn't be there, obviously the "send them all" practice yielded very poor results for the year. Keep your throwback singlets (and yes many kids I have talked to hated them) and take everyone who wants to go and then the state can continue to look like the weakest wrestling state in the midwest. The argument can be made just look at the Big 10 results. Indiana has some outstanding wrestlers who can and should be recognized and applauded but when we place seomthing like 7 out of over 100 we look weak and those 7 look like flukes instead of the great wrestlers they are. The idea of raising the costs for state or raising card costs is ridiculous, the cost for state is already one of the highest in the country and almost double the cost of many states. Like I said boo away, but we should not be sending kids to Fargo who can't handle a top 3 finish in the state, that's why it's a qualify tournament somebody gets left out they're big booys let them set the goal to qualify the next year and when they achieve that goal it will mean even more on and off the mat.

Dingo, I disagree 100% percent Fargo is ot an "open" but a national event that wrestlers are suppossed to qualify for and wanting to go doesn't qualify a kid...I guess we should let everyone who wants to wrestle at high state state wrestle there too? Returning Fargo to the true qualifiers would increase the competition in the state, clubs and the few local tournaments so that the kids can qualify instead of just asking mommy and daddy to write a check because they "want" to go. Wrestling is about working hard to achieve success not just "wanting" to be good. Did anyone notice that Indiana does host schoolboy duals and costs for the kids is still ridiculous, ask a few of the parnets how mucg they paid to attend a tournamant here iy was still ov $600 each and thene $10 per person per day to watch and that is without hotel and food costs since many didn'y live in the Indy area.

Personally I'm not sure what looked worse, where the state ranked overall in team scores or the singlets they were wearing!! I think a lot of the problem was that many of the kids there simply shouldn't have been. Look at the results from state and then look at the Fargo rosters you'll see plenty of names that were well below 3rd place or not even on the list, why were they there? Fargo is about earning the right to compete not about who's mommy and daddy can afford to write a check, if a wrestler doesn't finish in the top 3 they shouldn't be allowed to go, period. If that means sending fewer kids then send fewer and stop wasting everybody elses time with junk matches and don't go and talk about "experience" if you can't finish top 3 here you have no business on the mat at Fargo, its actully depressing to watch. Nebraska took only about 10 kids and overall had a better turnout. Someone needs to be looking at why our best were not there, I know that for several money was a factor and Indiana is one of the only states I know of that isn't helping kids with these costs. ISWA certainly seems to be taking in enough money to help with the costs maybe if we only extend the Fargo invitation to those who earn it then we could keep costs lower and implement a "scholarship" system to help offset costs to those who put in the effort and work to win state. For example, the champion would get a higher cost offset than the runnerup who gets more help than the 3rd. If our best were at Fargo instead of a lot of those who couldn't place at state or didn't even wrestle at state we would have done substantially better. No offense to the kids, I understand that if you can go to Fargo most want to but it isn't right for kids who place high to sit at home over affordability when others take their place because their families are able to write the check. And please who ever came up with the singlet design NEVER try to design another one. Thank you Cashe for not wearing one in the finals!!