MattM Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Wrestling Article http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/02/09/indiana-high-school-wrestling-evansville-mater-dei-best-ever/23118865/ Other Sports http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/02/09/all-time-great-indiana-high-school-teams-sport-by-sport/23121467/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayruss Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Was there any doubt ? BeastMode#31 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoMD Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Was there any doubt ? No team ever will touch what Goebel and Helfrich put together that year. 7 in the semi finals. 4 consecutive weight class champs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogoplata89 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 It really is something to be marveled. The 2003 finals in general could go down as one of the best top to bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrq Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 How about the 1933 Bloomington team don't you remember how good they were????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasbeen130 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Does anyone have the 2003 lineup and results against St Paris Graham and EMD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) Does anyone have the 2003 lineup and results against St Paris Graham and EMD? Hook n Half had it listed at 39-15 The following is an excerpt from "We are MD...A History of Mater Dei Wrestling" The Wildcats travelled to Columbus, Ohio on January 18 to compete in the National College Duals. Mater Dei rolled over, Lisbon, 56-12 in the first round, and Cincinnati Lakota East, 58-13, in the second round. Their last opponent, St. Paris Graham, was much more formidable. The national polls had Mater Dei at 11th, while St. Paris Graham was ranked second. St. Paris Graham was a buzz saw and defeated the ‘Cats, 39-15. The loss broke Mater Dei’s 116-match winning streak and handed Mater Dei its second dual loss in 253 matches. "If our streak mattered, we wouldn't have accepted this challenge,” said Mike Goebel. “We never talk about that. We just saw this as a chance to wrestle a quality opponent, somebody who will make us better in the long run.” St. Paris Graham was the real deal. Standard-bearer Blake Maurer lost only the second match of his career, a 3-1 decision to Joe Dennis. "It was a great match," said Goebel. “He (Dennis) got a takedown with two seconds left. We didn't question it when we were there, but when we watched the tape, Blake was clearly out of bounds and Dennis' foot was on the line. The match should've gone overtime, I guess. But that doesn't necessarily change the outcome. The guy was a bear. Blake will learn from it, go on and get better." "The guys came back to the room and decided they needed to work harder, and that's what they've done," said Goebel. "We didn't lose anything that really mattered, we just lost a match. But even at that, if we win all four of our close matches, it's a tie. And if we get those and Craig Weinzapfel gets the pin at 145, which we thought he had, well, we could conceivably win." Maurer faced an unfamiliar foe in his match with Dennis: Nerves. “To be totally honest, I was very nervous,” said Maurer. “The match was at Ohio State. I really wanted to go to Ohio State. After my warm-up, I look in the stands and there is Russ Hellickson (Ohio State’s wrestling coach) setting next to my dad. I’m like, ‘Holy crap, I need to get it done out here.’” Mater Dei tallied wins from Matt Coughlin, Craig Weinzapfel, Sam Wildeman and Chaz Schwartz. Schwartz won with an eight-second pin at heavyweight. The Wildcats were disappointed with their performance. “The whole dual was about ‘What ifs?’” said Craig Weinzapfel. “We had a bunch of one-point matches that went the wrong way. To not do our best was a real let-down.” In Paris St. Graham, Mater Dei found themselves sampling their own medicine. “Everywhere we wrestled, people always talked about what good shape we were in,” said Craig Weinzapfel. “That team (St. Paris Graham) was in incredible shape; incredibly strong. It seemed like they had the mentality that they were going to go as hard as they could no matter what.” “We were at the weigh-in,” said Wildeman. “I’m looking at this guy, and he is around my size (160 pounds). One of the guys on the team, said ‘No, that’s who Macke (125 pounds) has. The guy was huge. He was a man.” “Graham won all of the close matches,” said Maurer. “Their conditioning was better than ours. We had our opportunities; we just didn’t get it done.” Edited February 14, 2015 by MattM hasbeen130 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) No team ever will touch what Goebel and Helfrich put together that year. 7 in the semi finals. 4 consecutive weight class champs. Not to mention 3 EMD wrestlers ran into the Trio of Griffith studs during state. A. Escobedo over Macke in semis (only person to beat him that year besides the St. Paul Graham match) A. Hernandez over Coughlin in finals (only person to beat him that year) A. Tsirtsis over Scott in semis. Worth noting that these guys weren't just a few good state champs taking out the three EMD wrestlers. Those three statistically go down as some of the best wrestlers in Indiana wrestling history. You place about anyone else into their spots and its likely the count of EMD finalist and champs would been even more impressive in 03. Edited February 14, 2015 by MattM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Spires Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 While I agree '03 Mater Dei was probably the best team, '10 Mishawaka deserves a bit of credit. They had a monsterous team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayruss Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Many deserve mention but MD '03 was the best hands down. Perry, Griffith, and several Indy teams had some good teams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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