A family that wrestles together stays together
There are seven sets of brothers at the state finals this year, including two sets from Crown Point. The biggest difference in weight is between the Akers brothers coming in at 138lbs and 195lbs.
Sets of Brothers
Riley and Justin Akers from Crown Point
Bo and Blake Davis from Garrett
Dax and Hunter Hiestand from Yorktown
Nick and Joe Lee from Evansville Mater Dei
Darden and Daylan Schurg from Crown Point
Evan and Ethan Smiley from Beech Groove
Jake and Nate Weimer from East Noble
Grade Breakdown
There are 19 freshmen that qualified for state, none above 182lbs and 8 qualified at 106lbs.
There are 43 sophomores that qualified for state with nine coming at 113lbs and at least one in every weight class.
There are 66 juniors that qualified for state with the most being at 145lbs with 8 and least being 285lbs with 3.
There are 96 seniors that qualified for state with 10 at 138lbs and 285lbs and with zero at 106lbs.
Wins are good, losses are bad
The most wins coming into the event is 52 by Harrison’s Seth Meyer. Mason Parris of Lawrenceberg has the most wins without a loss with 51. There are 21 wrestlers with zero losses, 22 with one loss, and 25 with two losses.
The most losses belong to Gleason Mappes of Center Grove with 19 losses on the season. There are 15 wrestlers with 10 or more losses.
In total the wrestlers at the state finals have combined for 8,149 wins and 989 losses or an average of 36.4 wins and 4.4 losses.
Rankings Matter
In the preseason magazine there were 166 wrestlers ranked that made the state finals, which is 66%. Note that the preseason rankings only rank 16 wrestlers. In the final rankings there were 172 ranked wrestlers or 75% that qualified for state. Of the unranked wrestlers to make it to state, three were semi-state champions: Austen Laughlin, Dru Berkebile, and Dezman Goddard.
I am #1
Seven wrestlers were ranked preseason #1 and still ranked #1 at the end of the season: Colten Cummings at 106lbs, Garrett Pepple at 113lbs, Chad Red at 126lbs, Tommy Forte at 152lbs, Blake Rypel at 182lbs(now at 195lbs), Kobe Woods at 220lbs, and Shawn Streck at 285lbs. Brandon James started the season ranked #1 at 138lbs, but was #2 for a few weeks and now is #1 once again. The same goes for Dylan Lydy at 170lbs, who started the season at #1 and fell, but is now back at #1.
Conference foes qualify for state
Four wrestlers from the Northeast Hoosier Conference all qualified for state at 126lbs: Nate Weimer, Owen Doster, Daniel Gunsett, and Kobe Raypole. Even more interesting is all of these wrestlers are underclassmen AND the alternate is also from the same conference.
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