SWINfan Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Looking through the rankings and then some old State brackets and as I always do, found a strong past bracket I thought was worth mentioning. Titled it this way in case anyone else wants to add other brackets. 2016 - 106 Strong bracket with 14 of the 16 wrestlers qualifying for State at least one other time. This group at this point has amassed 27 total State Placements and 6 State Titles, led by..... Asa Garcia - 2 Titles Brayden Curtis - 2 Titles Hunter Watts - 1 Title Jacob Moran - 1 Title Ty Mills - 4x State Placer 2nd, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd 7 wrestlers will begin competing Saturday for one last chance to make it to Banker's Life and onto the podium. They are: Asa Garcia - #1 at 132 Jacob Moran - #1 at 113 Hunter Watts and Brayden Curtis - the top 2 challengers to Super Frosh Jesse Mendez at 126 Sammy Fair Lukasz Walendzak Devon Casebolt base and TeamGarcia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Ayersman Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 That’s a tough bracket. I remember my freshman year (2009 103) had 9 state titles, so this group has a chance to beat it! If anyone wants to do the math on the placers I’d be real interested in seeing how many placements the 2009 group had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maligned Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 These 106-lb brackets over the past 15 years often look unbelievable looking back. You've got a mostly freshmen weight, so those kids can start building accolades earlier than some other freshmen wrestling stronger kids. You're automatically isolating wrestling-focused kids who will have long-term success because you have to have put in the time in middle school and younger to compete at that level as a 9th grader. Finally, you're at a weight where most kids will also be wrestling-focused (and therefore probably highly skilled with great potential to keep winning) because they tend not to be big enough to achieve the same level of success at other sports. This weight really should be dubbed the "future stars" division because it's always chalk full of future champs and multiple-time placers. SIACfan, Kyle Ayersman, SWINfan and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWINfan Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 2 hours ago, Kyle Ayersman said: That’s a tough bracket. I remember my freshman year (2009 103) had 9 state titles, so this group has a chance to beat it! If anyone wants to do the math on the placers I’d be real interested in seeing how many placements the 2009 group had. I would, but not sure how to find all the info. Its a lot easier when you can look it up on Track and click on a wrestler and get his profile and quickly see prior and future years. But I can do a quck list of the guys here: Kyle Ayersman - Lake Central Shannon Garretsor - Peru Mason Todd - Pendleton Heights Bryan Kuhn - Evansville Reitz Travis Bryant - Muncie Central Cameron Halstead - Crown Point Dusty Keif - Franklin Community Jared McKinley - Perry Meridian Cody Phillips - Union County Dylan Hall - Evansville Harrison Aurleio Medina - Munster Todd Batt - South Adams Jacob Boomsma - Bloomington South Brian Harvey - Indianapolis Cathedral Abraham Que - Elkhart Central Zach Stevens - Merrilville This is close to the time I started following wrestling in IN closely again, so I don't know some of these names. My initial thought is this group matches the 2016 group at the top, but the 2016 group is deeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILUV2PIN Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) I love when this discussion gets going! I say it ever year when this discussion gets brought up.: the 106 lb weight classes from 2011-2012 & 2012-2013 has produced a wide array of state champions and a few guys who even have had quite a bit of success in college. Look back through those names from those two years and you guys will see what I mean. http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/boys sports/wrestling/2011-12/1112StateResults.pdf http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/boys sports/wrestling/2012-13/201213FinalBrackets.pdf Edited January 25, 2019 by ILUV2PIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWINfan Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 26 minutes ago, ILUV2PIN said: I love when this discussion gets going! I say it ever year when this discussion gets brought up.: the 106 lb weight classes from 2011-2012 & 2012-2013 has produced a wide array of state champions and a few guys who even have had quite a bit of success in college. Look back through those names from those two years and you guys will see what I mean. http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/boys sports/wrestling/2011-12/1112StateResults.pdf http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/boys sports/wrestling/2012-13/201213FinalBrackets.pdf I'm a big fan of 2012.... Stevan Micic Nathan Boston Hayden Lee Tommy Cash DJ Smith Kayla Miracle Zach Davis Connor Knapp Jacob Brown Jacob Cottey Sawyer Miller etc.... piscis1956 and NewBread 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosstownrivals Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 I'm a big fan of 2012.... Stevan Micic- #1 NCAA 133 Nathan Boston- 149 National Qulifier Hayden Lee- NCAA Qualifier, NAIA Champ Tommy Cash DJ Smith Kayla Miracle- 4x NWCA Champ, Multiple JR. SR level wins Zach Davis- 1x NCAA Qulifier Connor Knapp Jacob Brown Jacob Cottey Sawyer Miller- NAIA Multiple placements Sorry if I screwed up anywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FCFIGHTER170 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) the year 2010 iirc todd,mckinley,campbell and Harvey were all at the NC semi state was serious! Edited January 25, 2019 by FCFIGHTER170 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookies03 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 As Maligned said, these are more examples of what the wrestlers did AFTER the year they were in this bracket. What is the most accomplished bracket coming into the state tournament? For Example 126 last year: Garcia - 1x champ, 1x 3rd place Rooks - 1x champ Viduya - 1x champ Mills - 2x 2nd and 1x 3rd Mejia - 1x 2nd, 1x 5th Poynter - 1x 4th Demien - 1x 7 Smiley - 1x 8 3 Crowns and 9 medals going in.... I am sure there are other examples from past years. SWINfan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Spires Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 Darn you for making this thread. I’ve had a note saved in my phone from over summer, waiting for these state finals to be over to show how difficult the 2016 106 weight class turned out to be. TeamGarcia and SWINfan 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit1990 Posted January 26, 2019 Share Posted January 26, 2019 13 hours ago, ILUV2PIN said: I love when this discussion gets going! I say it ever year when this discussion gets brought up.: the 106 lb weight classes from 2011-2012 & 2012-2013 has produced a wide array of state champions and a few guys who even have had quite a bit of success in college. Look back through those names from those two years and you guys will see what I mean. http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/boys sports/wrestling/2011-12/1112StateResults.pdf http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/boys sports/wrestling/2012-13/201213FinalBrackets.pdf I agree with the 2011-2012 group as well as with 2008-2009 group. 2011-2012 Nathan Boston, Stevan Micic, Tommy Cash, Sawyer Miller, Damon Kuhn, Conner Knapp, DJ Smith, Hayden Lee, Zach Davis, Jacob Brown, Mike Garza, and Jacob Cottey collectively have 27 medals in IN, 30 if you count Boston and Lee’s moves to Ohio and Kentucky, 7 IN state titles, 10 counting Boston and Lee out of state. Then add in their college accolades mentioned above and Kayla Miracle’s obvious resume. Very impressive group! 2008-2009 Kyle Ayersman, Bryan Kuhn, Mason Todd, Jared McKinley, Cody Phillips, Dylan Hall, Brian Harvey, Jacob Boomsma, Zach Stevens, Dusty Kief, Aurlieo Medina, Cameron Halsted, Todd Batt, and Abraham Que collectively had 28 medals in IN, 9 State titles in IN. Very impressive as well! Im sure these are some of the higher medal counts, but not sure if they are the highest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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