awill0352 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 What’s the latest on next year’s state finals location? Keep hearing its getting moved out of Indy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Fort Wayne or Evansville Steven Sandefer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 (edited) Best case scenario would have been Hinkle Fieldhouse. The central location and seating are there, although based on prior attendance it would be a tight fit. Balls States Worthen arena is already used for Gymnastics and Volleyball most years. It slightly away from the center of the state but has enough seating. Pretty much the same story with Purdue’s Mackey Arena. I honestly don’t want it squeezed into a HS gym that’s not accommodation to fans and atmosphere wise a big disservice to the wrestlers who qualify. I just wish the IHSAA was proactive with trying to work with the colleges on this at the end of last season when there was plenty of time to adjust things. I fear if they haven’t locked anything in by now many of the somewhat centrally located colleges would have already had scheduled set for next years boys/girls basketballs season and little ability to shift dates. Edited January 14, 2023 by MattM New Palestine Wrestling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyzirkle Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 New Castle High School did a great job with the 1985 state finals. The Chariots of Fire music they played during the parade remains my most inspiring moment of the finals to this day. Has the state finals wrestling fan base grown too big for New Castle? Ironbear, No One Famous and Hlang95 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookie78 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Brushy Prairie Chicken_noodle_soup128, busstogate and Aidan Sprague. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2CJ41 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 1 hour ago, tonyzirkle said: New Castle High School did a great job with the 1985 state finals. The Chariots of Fire music they played during the parade remains my most inspiring moment of the finals to this day. Has the state finals wrestling fan base grown too big for New Castle? Per Robert Faulkens it will be at Fort Wayne or Evansville. Trev Young, Tcarter and IU89 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGCATSontheMAT Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Ford Center please!! Place will be 75% MD fans Cricket21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket21 Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 Evansville can take this, we have enough parking for all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busstogate Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 19 minutes ago, Y2CJ41 said: Per Robert Faulkens it will be at Fort Wayne or Evansville. Please make it the War Memorial. Trev Young, Tcarter, manchwrestlingdad and 11 others 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleB Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Ft Wayne w the tailgating in Victory Bay!!! Y2CJ41, ILUV2PIN, lemercad and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 First plane ride to state??? piscis1956 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualwrestlingfan Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 A bit torn as if it's in Ft Wayne, it will be close to attend. However part of the fun is getting away from the area. Evansville is forever away from here and not desirable. manchwrestlingdad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awill0352 Posted January 15, 2023 Author Share Posted January 15, 2023 With Ft Wayne and Evansville you have the same thing. Close for one half of the state. Extremely far for the other half. I know the Ford Center very well. Extremely nice arena with modern amenities. Seats around 10k. What does Ft Wayne have for an arena? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrestlingfan937 Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 I heard connersville did such a good job with the spartan they won the 2024 state championship tournament boilergrappler, Jstephenson1356 and Tcarter 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahawkeye Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 (edited) Ohhh man I lost track of this conversation just figuring it would have zero chance to go to Evansville. This would be heaven on earth! Please God let it be Evansville! I mean come on stranger things have happened, the Cubs won a WS and come to find out Democrats are just as crooked as Republican's, who would have thought? It's time for Evansville to host the 2024 IHSAA Wrestling State Championships! Edited January 15, 2023 by Ahawkeye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualwrestlingfan Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Isn't there anything in the suburbs of Indy like Carmel, Zionsville, Westfield that could hold it? jaycer02 and Birdie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#watchingithappen Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 I would think Worthen Arena at Ball state would be the easiest for IHSAA to line up since they already hold the volleyball state championships there. And it’s more centrally located than Evansville and Ft Wayne. Coplen187, Coach Day and ILUV2PIN 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookie78 Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 8 hours ago, awill0352 said: With Ft Wayne and Evansville you have the same thing. Close for one half of the state. Extremely far for the other half. I know the Ford Center very well. Extremely nice arena with modern amenities. Seats around 10k. What does Ft Wayne have for an arena? Look like the Coliseum can hold upto 13,000 MUSKEEWRESTLER 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangarrray Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 (edited) Has any consideration been given to shortening the series a week by combining sectionals and regionals into the same week? You could hold the “super regional” on Friday and Saturday with full wrestle backs to get a true top 4. By doing this you could possibly still get into the field house a week earlier without NBA conflict and have a foot in the door towards wrestle backs. Edited January 15, 2023 by tangarrray TZeis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyHardcastle Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 18 minutes ago, tangarrray said: Has any consideration been given to shortening the series a week by combining sectionals and regionals into the same week? You could hold the “super regional” on Friday and Saturday with full wrestle backs to get a true top 4. By doing this you could possibly still get into the field house a week earlier without NBA conflict and have a foot in the door towards wrestle backs. MUSKEEWRESTLER, H.Kai-man, Nate Spangle and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 23 minutes ago, tangarrray said: Has any consideration been given to shortening the series a week by combining sectionals and regionals into the same week? You could hold the “super regional” on Friday and Saturday with full wrestle backs to get a true top 4. By doing this you could possibly still get into the field house a week earlier without NBA conflict and have a foot in the door towards wrestle backs. You could even move the season forward or back a week, but that gets shot down immediately every time and I’m not sure why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyHardcastle Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 31 minutes ago, Thor said: You could even move the season forward or back a week, but that gets shot down immediately every time and I’m not sure why. This seems way more reasonable and possible. I am curious on why the IHSAA shuts that idea down too. MUSKEEWRESTLER 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silence Dogood Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 That's what they are doing for basketball. https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/now/march-madness-nba-star-game-094919374.html RAJR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAJR Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 Interesting article. So Neiding from the IHSAA says, Gainbridge is home for basketball and that's where they want to be. But, for Wrestling, people are just going to have to travel for a year. WOW, right there in "print". IHSAA doesn't give 2 you know whats about Wrestling. Par for the course... Ahawkeye, ILUV2PIN and Thor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahawkeye Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 As much as I would love it to be in Evansville it really does need to be in Indy at Gainbridge. Evansville would do a great job but it's not really fair to the far northern wrestlers to come all the way down here and the same for the southernmost wrestlers to travel all the way to Ft. Wayne. jaycer02, tangarrray and D Summar 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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