ontherise219 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 How do you vote for a your outstanding wrestler award? Is it the wrestler who dominated a tournament. Even if the weight isn’t the toughest is it the wrestler who wins a stacked weight class beating other top wrestlers? I always find this to be a interesting conversation and coaches have different opinions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlevito Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Why give out an OW award? Was winning a tournament not enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydokun Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Brayden won OW at Moorseville this year. I don't think he was in the most stacked weight, but did bump up to 120 and was dominate up to the finals. Then had a good match with Cash. I know he has been very humble and respectful of his follow competitor. I would hope that had more to do with it then just his performance as an athlete. To me OW should be a balance of Ability / Sportsmanship and not just based on name and the ability to pin / TF every kid as fast as they can. Just my opinion. Very interesting topic and to be honest until now i had not given it much thought. asbury4040 and FCFIGHTER170 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leaveitonthemat Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Good question. 126 will be a solid weight class at state and the winner will have run a gauntlet for sure, but you can't penalize guys like Parris and Lee for their weight class not being as tough. Usually when there is such a dominant wrestler in a weight class, people leave the weight class. If Lee or Parris tech/pin everyone they face, does their dominance get overlooked because of their competition, or even because we expected them to? Then on the flip side, does the award go to a dark horse that came out of nowhere? If someone upsets one of those two, they have my vote! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throw45 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Too often it's a popularity vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCard Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 One that is often times decided before Final matches are decided, another disrespect of the upper weights. ontherise219, indianmorg, piscis1956 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piscis1956 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 15 minutes ago, XCard said: One that is often times decided before Final matches are decided, another disrespect of the upper weights. Agreed. I'm not sure OW ballots should be accepted until last finals match is completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILUV2PIN Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 42 minutes ago, XCard said: One that is often times decided before Final matches are decided, another disrespect of the upper weights. Still over here waiting for the finals matches to be on a random draw. Poor big boys don't have nearly the amount of people watching when 11:00 pm on a Saturday rolls around..... rdrodd1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asbury4040 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 2 hours ago, Sydokun said: Brayden won OW at Moorseville this year. I don't think he was in the most stacked weight, but did bump up to 120 and was dominate up to the finals. Then had a good match with Cash. I know he has been very humble and respectful of his follow competitor. I would hope that had more to do with it then just his performance as an athlete. To me OW should be a balance of Ability / Sportsmanship and not just based on name and the ability to pin / TF every kid as fast as they can. Just my opinion. Very interesting topic and to be honest until now i had not given it much thought. I was there and that was worth whatever I paid to get in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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