ENoblewrestling Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) My wife asked me this while watching the Big 10's and I did not know the answer... Are there any officals who where really good wrestlers in high school/ college (semi-state/state)? I assumed the answer was yes, but I didn't know off of the top of my head, so does anyone know the answer? Edited March 8, 2022 by ENoblewrestling clarification FCFIGHTER170 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyHardcastle Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Harper Dedman (7th,SQ), Austin Faulkner (SQ) and I am pretty sure Eli Hickman (4th)are all young guys that I've seen officiating the last couple months. MUSKEEWRESTLER, bomber_bob and FCFIGHTER170 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUSKEEWRESTLER Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Henry Wilk - HOF wrestler, HOF coach, and HOF official FlyNavy, Penn04, Steven Sandefer and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Eric McGill has risen through the ranks of the NCAA officiating. He has done D3's and D2's while doing ACC conference matches the past few years. He is getting close to being at the NCAAs and you'll likely see him there in the near future. He got his break when he was reffing IHPO and a college coach put him in touch with some higher ups in the reffing world. busstogate, pfk_86, BrodyHardcastle and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomber_bob Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 22 minutes ago, bigballerb said: Harper Dedman (7th,SQ), Austin Faulkner (SQ) and I am pretty sure Eli Hickman (4th)are all young guys that I've seen officiating the last couple months. Eli and Mark Maldonado (State Placer) both come down and work our Holiday Duals in December. BrodyHardcastle and FCFIGHTER170 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickfor6 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Kenny Hughes Jake Rodriguez Scott Vlink @Jcjcjc just officiated the Hobart Folkstyle open... lemercad and FCFIGHTER170 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahawkeye Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) Steve Anslinger was a state qualifier. Great official, great coach great with little kids, and older kids as well. Steve refs high school and grade school levels. Steve will ref with the same professionalism at any level but will occasionally crack when he's got really young wrestlers, he takes the necessary time to show proper starting positions and has a little fun with the little ones. He does NOT take any disrespect of any kind and I think that's pretty cool. If Steve isn't already in the HOF he is well on his way. Edited March 10, 2022 by Ahawkeye ontherise219, FCFIGHTER170 and Cricket21 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrestling Scholar Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 I would say 98% of the officials that i know and work with are ex-wrestlers with a varied and diverse level of wrestling accomplishments. Its a great way to stay and contribute to the sport and you get the best seat in the house. FCFIGHTER170 and MUSKEEWRESTLER 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leggin89 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 From the officials from this weekend (Big 10s): Mike Chase was a 2x ACC Champ at University of North Carolina Angel Rivera wrestled DII in New England area. Jason Wedgbury wrestled at Northern Iowa 2x National Qualifier Jeron Quincy was a DII National Runner Up at University of Central Missouri Curt Frost was a couple time state qualifier in Iowa Matt Sorochinsky was an Ohio (I believe) state champ and a DIII Runner Up at Ithaca College. These are just the ones I know. FCFIGHTER170 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoberlin Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 I saw Joe Caprino in a ref outfit at "The Gateway to State" Charger Classic this past weekend. Y2CJ41 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Wadkins Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) I know I'm going to miss some very notable guys in this response, however here goes my list anyway. International level: Alexander Medved (USSR) was a several time World & Olympic Champion back in the late 1960's and early 1970's who rose to be one of the elite international officials in the world. NCAA: Wade Schalles (Clarion) and Chuck Yagla (Iowa) were NCAA champions before they became elite college officials. Eric McGill (Munster) is well on his way to making this NCAA list down the road. IHSAA: Indiana State Finalists, Don Hinds, Larry McMillen, Mike Faulkner, Henry Wilk, and Steve Hunter all wrestled for a prep State Championship before donning their striped shirts and officiating at multiple IHSAA State Finals. Please feel free to add your own names to this list...as I am certain to have omitted several deserving of being recognized here. Edited March 8, 2022 by Coach Wadkins MUSKEEWRESTLER, FCFIGHTER170 and DrunkJoeNamath 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 21 minutes ago, aoberlin said: I saw Joe Caprino in a ref outfit at "The Gateway to State" Charger Classic this past weekend. If you keep it up, you'll see me donning them more and at Homestead matches ONLY! aoberlin and FCFIGHTER170 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleJimmy Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Kory Cavanaugh (SQ/4th/6th) started officiating this year. The sport provided him a Wabash degree and valuable life lessons and memories. It was important he gave back and with a dearth of officials it seemed like the best way to do so. Special thanks to @cbarnettfor guidance and getting things rolling for him and to Henry Wilk, Dave Coburn et al for mentoring etc. i hope more recent grads consider staying involved in whatever way possible. DrunkJoeNamath, Jstephenson1356, MUSKEEWRESTLER and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcsd309 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 JD Minch- state placer and Purdue letterman MUSKEEWRESTLER, Cricket21, DrunkJoeNamath and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Humble Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 At this year’s State Finals: Lonnie Chamberlain, 2x state finalist for Adams Central at 98lbs and former coach at New Pal MUSKEEWRESTLER and FCFIGHTER170 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCard Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 We need to seriously evaluate the way that our Officials in Indiana move up through the ranks, not just in wrestling but across all sports. I say this because it was explained to me that our system is implemented by the IHSAA. For those that are not aware of our system, you have to have "x" amounts of tournaments at each level before you can move on to the next. I think in a time that we are being told our Officials are getting older and more scarce, that we start to reward our better young Officials with ascending through our tournament series more quickly. I mean what is the point of rating a guy a "semi-state" level if he can not even officiate one? Oh, and while I am on my soapbox here, we should also have a minimum number of slots that are reserved in which we vote the best officials in the State. How crazy is it some of the guys we consider the best have to sit out every two years, I think this is the time frame, someone correct me if I am wrong. If we want our best wrestlers there, then we should want our best Officials there as well. In our current system, it is possible that you can reach an NCAA Championships faster than you can our IHSAA State Finals. I am not saying to blow the whole system up, there are pros and cons, as such with anything. However, we should really look into tweaking this system, so we can reward these younger up and coming stud Officials that we are talking about in this thread. tangarrray, bomber_bob, MUSKEEWRESTLER and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUSKEEWRESTLER Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Agreed. Not saying that the officials at the state finals are bad. We just need to see more variety. (i.e. younger) lemercad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamInjuryTime07 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 2 hours ago, XCard said: We need to seriously evaluate the way that our Officials in Indiana move up through the ranks, not just in wrestling but across all sports. I say this because it was explained to me that our system is implemented by the IHSAA. For those that are not aware of our system, you have to have "x" amounts of tournaments at each level before you can move on to the next. I think in a time that we are being told our Officials are getting older and more scarce, that we start to reward our better young Officials with ascending through our tournament series more quickly. I mean what is the point of rating a guy a "semi-state" level if he can not even officiate one? Oh, and while I am on my soapbox here, we should also have a minimum number of slots that are reserved in which we vote the best officials in the State. How crazy is it some of the guys we consider the best have to sit out every two years, I think this is the time frame, someone correct me if I am wrong. If we want our best wrestlers there, then we should want our best Officials there as well. In our current system, it is possible that you can reach an NCAA Championships faster than you can our IHSAA State Finals. I am not saying to blow the whole system up, there are pros and cons, as such with anything. However, we should really look into tweaking this system, so we can reward these younger up and coming stud Officials that we are talking about in this thread. I couldn't agree more on this. I am not sure why we would not want our top officials at the state finals each year. It is frustrating to see some of our best guys in suites or sitting in the stands because of the current rules we have in place. Like you stated if we use ratings voted on by our coaches why does it really matter how long they have been an official, example if you have a 2nd year official but he is being rated by the coaches to do a semi-state or state finals then let them do it! MUSKEEWRESTLER 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busstogate Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 I don't know his mat accomplishments as much as his brother's, but I do want to say I was very, very happy to see Ray Pettit from Hammond ref at state this year. He wrestled under Karl Deak at Hammond High and has been a spot-on official at every event I was at when coaching. He is as much of a kind gentleman as he is a great ref. FlyNavy, MUSKEEWRESTLER, Sperez59 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beamaker Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 On 3/10/2022 at 7:35 PM, busstogate said: I don't know his mat accomplishments as much as his brother's, but I do want to say I was very, very happy to see Ray Pettit from Hammond ref at state this year. He wrestled under Karl Deak at Hammond High and has been a spot-on official at every event I was at when coaching. He is as much of a kind gentleman as he is a great ref. Is his brother Rob? busstogate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCard Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 8 hours ago, Beamaker said: Is his brother Rob? Yes busstogate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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