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It's always true that the draw matters. For a variety of reasons, but especially if there's an opponent who is a bad match up for your wrestler getting knocked out before you have to face them. So many times that path to the finals makes a big difference in who makes it to the gold medal match. I feel like all of our gents can potentially beat nearly every opponent in each's respective weight class. Obviously it's very unlikely they will each beat every opponent but as Maligned said, the floor is high with this sextet. No one is a gold favorite, again mentioned by Maligned, but they are all capable of gold or silver, in my opinion. Lee and Dake would be my favorites to win it all, but Parris, Retherford, Snyder and Brooks are SOOO good too. Having 6 weight classes just creates a surfeit of talent at each weight. In this case, the end result is a loaded US team. I can't wait for this to start. There is nothing like the Olympics. Hope Kayla and Sarah bring home some hardware. Pretty crazy that one out of every 4 wrestlers on the men's and women's teams is a Hoosier. Very nearly 1 out of 3 wrestlers from Indiana if Nick Lee beat Zain.

RIP Steve

It is with a heavy heart that we must say goodbye to, not only a Beech Grove legend, but a legend in the sport of wrestling throughout the entire state of Indiana. Steve Nontell passed away this morning and if you knew Steve, you know how much he loved and advocated for our great sport. I know he’s up there sporting his orange pants as we speak. Rest In Peace, Coach!

really good breakdown, hard to disagree with anything you said (you also phrased the higher floor but lower ceiling thing really well) just two small technical corrections: - Zare has not won 3 straight world titles. He dominated in 2021 for Gold (after Tokyo), but then lost a close match 4-2 to Taha in 2022 in the last 5 seconds to win Bronze, then dominated again in 2023 for another Gold. Zare vs Taha: 4-0, 2-4, 4-0. Zare vs Geno: 15-11, 3-6, 9-2, 11-0. Taha poses the biggest challenge to Zare given his physicality but Zare won't repeat his 2022 mistake and will likely dominate everyone again to win Gold. Fun fact: Zare only turned 23 a few months ago but if he wins Gold in Tokyo he will have 5 World/Olympic medals (3 Gold). - Azarpira has wrestled Snyder twice (the last match wasn't their first encounter). in the first match (Feb '23) Kyle won 3-0 but in their more recent match (Jan '24) Azarpira won 6-3. As you said, Azarpira is very young (22) and on an upward trajectory while Kyle is arguably plateauing. btw I think it's not entirely settled that Sadulaev won't be going to Paris, there's still a chance he will be allowed to compete

Good opportunity to get some matches in before any summer duals and tournaments. Registration opens soon on Track. NO USA CARD NEEDED!

We need a team for the Zionsville Eagle. The current teams are Zionsville, Chesterton Senior High School, Floyd Central, Center Grove, Franklin Central, Lawrence North, Edgewood. It is an individual tournament. Your wrestlers are guaranteed to get 4 matches. Please reach out to me if interested. dwelch@zcs.k12.in.us

I wonder if he and AJ Schopp had some familiarity. Schopp is headed there from his Purdue post as their new assistant HC. Schopp was a multiple time AA at Edinboro.

Maybe you are colorblind? You think you are seeing green but you are seeing red? LOL

Yea … I only see (5) . (106, 113, 126, 132, 138) 285, was probably only one that caught fire in the State Series . Should he been ranked earlier ? Idk, gotta beat ranked kids to get ranked .

Come and fine tune before Central Regionals this weekend!

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Saw in an email that North Central is open.

The rest of this list shows Schoeff to Edinboro

Hope to see a big group for Ramos tonight. He is making a long trip from Purdue. Let’s roll.

So who goes up?

My thinking out loud was a premonition.

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Transfer Portal update below now has Logan Frazier committed (Transferring To) Indiana University. Welcome home Logan! Excited to watch him wrestle in front of the home crowd 125? 133? Weight WS Rank Athlete 2024-25 Year Hometown Transferring From Transferring To 197 1 Massoma Endene Junior Arlington, TX Wartburg 197 2 Jacob Cardenas Graduate Kearny, NJ Cornell Michigan 285 2 Wyatt Hendrickson Graduate Newton, KS Air Force 141 3 Andrew Alirez Graduate Greeley, CO Northern Colorado 149 3 Kyle Parco Graduate Danville, CA Arizona State 174 3 Dean Hamiti Senior Joliet, IL Wisconsin Oklahoma State 285 5 Cohlton Schultz Graduate Parker, CO Arizona State Will not transfer 174 6 Lennox Wolak Graduate Columbus, OH Columbia Virginia Tech 165 7 Terrell Barraclough Graduate Kaysville, OH Penn State 285 7 Yaraslau Slavikouski Graduate Rechitsa, BY Rutgers Will not transfer 165 7 Cam Amine Graduate Brighton, MI Michigan 157 10 Tommy Askey Graduate Pine Bush, NY App State Minnesota 165 10 Caleb Fish Graduate Eaton Rapids, MI Michigan State Oklahoma State 133 11 Connor McGonagle Graduate Danville, NH Lehigh Virginia Tech 174 13 Gaven Sax Graduate St. Robert, MO NDSU Oklahoma 141 13 Cleveland Belton Graduate Corona, CA Oregon State 157 15 Chase Saldate Senior Gilroy, CA Michigan State Michigan 125 17 Cooper Flynn Junior Seymour, TN Virginia Tech Minnesota 174 17 Clayton Whiting Sophomore Oconto Falls, WI Missouri Minnesota 285 17 Dorian Crosby Graduate Erie, PA Bucknell Gannon 141 19 Isaiah Powe Sophomore Mount Olive, AL Chattanooga 133 21 Ethan Oakley Junior Trinity, NC App State North Carolina 184 21 Brock Delsignore Junior Ballston Lake, NY NC State Little Rock 197 22 Evan Bockman Graduate Anchorage, AK Utah Valley Iowa State 133 23 Chris Cannon Graduate Oceanport, NJ Michigan 285 24 Seth Nitzel Senior Stilwell, FL Missouri 165 24 Connor Brady Graduate Powell, OH Virginia Tech Will not transfer 149 26 Jaivon Jones Graduate Shaker Heights, OH Northern Illinois 174 26 Josh Ogunsanya Graduate River Forest, IL Columbia North Carolina 125 27 Ramazan Attasauov Junior Nalchik, RU Iowa State Illinois 165 27 Kyle Mosher Graduate Rockville Centre, NY Columbia 157 30 Jason Kraisser Graduate Ellicott City, MD Iowa State Illinois 157 31 Jared Hill Junior Broken Arrow, OK Oklahoma 184 31 Maximus Hale Graduate West Chester, PA Penn 149 32 Sammy Alvarez Graduate Garfield, NJ Oklahoma State Rider 285 32 Devon Dawson Senior Brooklyn Park, MN NDSU 125 34 Colton Camacho Graduate Delmont, PA Pitt Edinboro 133 34 Sydney Flores Graduate West Covina, CA Air Force 157 34 Clayton Ulrey Graduate Grantville, PA Virginia Tech Northern Colorado 174 35 Gerrit Nijenhuis Graduate Canonsburg, PA Oklahoma 125 37 Nick Babin Graduate Westwood, NJ Columbia Pitt 133 37 Kyle Burwick Graduate Hettinger, ND Nebraska NDSU 157 37 Nick Stampoulos Sophomore Newark, NJ Buffalo Lock Haven 197 37 Spencer Mooberry Junior Osage, IA NDSU Northern Illinois 133 38 Angelo Rini Senior Mayfield Heights, OH Columbia Indiana 184 38 Rylan Rogers Sophomore Coeur d'Alene, ID Michigan Lehigh 165 39 Charlie Darracott Graduate Flowery Branch, GA Stanford 285 39 Sam Mitchell Graduate Marshfield, WI Buffalo Wyoming 149 42 Nathan Higley Sophomore Sullivan County, PA George Mason 157 44 Brock McMillen Junior Coalport, PA Pitt 285 44 Nolan Neves Sophomore Sidney, OH Columbia 285 45 Peter Ming Graduate Elk Grove, CA Stanford 125 46 Markel Baker Sophomore Freeport, IL George Mason Northern Illinois 197 47 Carter Blough Sophomore Lowell, MI Michigan State 184 48 James Lledo Graduate Lower Merrion, PA Pitt 125 49 Evan Tallmadge Freshman Brick NJ Navy Pitt 133 50 Logan Frazier Freshman Crown Point, IN Virginia Tech Indiana 149 54 Justin Rivera Graduate Orlando, FL Campbell 184 55 Chase Kranitz Sophomore Irwin, PA Buffalo Pitt 165 57 Carter Schubert Freshman Marion, NY Cal Baptist Oklahoma

That's a good problem to have as a coach.

I assume someone remembers hearing about this at the time: Cael Sanderson had very few of the matches of his 159-0 career where he didn't earn bonus points--and most were TFs or Falls. In his 40-match junior year in 2000-01, only 2 opponents held him to regular 3-team-point decisions--the legendary wrestler and fighter Daniel Cormier...and Penn true freshman and Lowell HS grad Marcus Schontube. In their match, Schontube took him down in the first period and got some decent riding time. He actually led 4-2 in the second period before the match went the direction of many Sanderson matches: with a lot of takedowns and opponent escapes. But because Schontube had built a little lead and shortened the match, he got away with only a 16-10 loss. A slightly annoyed Sanderson commented later about how the kid was "a funky dude" who scored "some goofy points." Ha! Interestingly, in Sanderson's freshman year, when he was still mortal and had seven regular decisions, he only beat Evansville Central grad James Brimm, 5-0. Also of note, the same year as the Schontube match, Sanderson owned a win over FW Dwenger grad Anton Talamantes. Talamantes, too, competed much better than the average Sanderson opponent by that time in his career, and "only" lost by major decision.

Seems like a D1-Big Ten scenario for a lot of one or two-time state champs who get scholarships, but seldom or never see the starting lineup.