This Years SS Terrible Draws

[SIACfan]

Now I only concentrated on the potential Ticket Round matches & only if both wrestlers are ranked in the top 10 in the State. There are plenty of other bad draws, but to me these are the ones that standout.

 

Fort Wayne Ticket Round

113    #4(#2) Jalen Sawyer-May (Kokomo) vs. #7(#3) Levi Johns (Bluffton)

 

East Chicago Ticket Round

132    #6(#2) Guillermo Rivera (Lake Central) vs. #8(#3) Sonny Sessa (Crown Point)

150    #9(#3) Kaptur Nowaczyk (Crown Point) vs. #7(#2) Caydn Smith (Plymouth)

215    #1(#1) Will Clark (Crown Point) vs. #7(#5) Kameron Kauffman (Warsaw)

285    #2(#2) Brady Beck (Rochester) vs. #6(#5) Collin Foy (Hanover Central)

 

New Castle Ticket Round

138    #6(#2) Gavyn Whitehead (New Castle) vs. #7(#3) Peyton Hornsby (New Palestine)

150    #8(#3) Braden Getz (Roncalli) vs. #4(#1) Jacob Weaver (Rossville)

190    #10(#4) Clay Guenin (Greenfield-Central) vs. #3(#1) Luke Penola (Zionsville)

215    #8(#3) Jackson Weingart (Cathedral) vs. #10(#5) Shaun Glass (New Palestine)

 

Evansville Ticket Round

106    #6(#3) Royce Malone (Monrovia) vs. #4(#2) Brady Byrd (Washington)

120    #3(#1) Ty Henderson (EV.  Mater Dei) vs. #4(#2) Preston Haines (Brownsburg)

120    #9(#5) Walter Hagedorn (Tell City) vs. #7(#4) Isaac Ash (Monrovia)

126    #1(#1) Isaiah Schaefer (EV.  Mater Dei) vs. #6(#4) Dominic Brown (Center Grove)

150    #2(#2) Hunter May (Floyd Central) vs. #3(#3) Tommy Gibbs (Brownsburg)

190    #8(#4) Jett Goldsberry (Heritage Hills) vs. #2(#2) Kaden McConnell (Center Grove)

 

Given 16 wrestlers per weight get to go to the State finals, anyone ranked in the Top 10 who gets eliminated by another Top 10 wrestler in the Ticket Round at SS without the chance of wrestle-backs is a complete injustice. JMO!

Edited February 5 by SIACfan

[Banks]

14 minutes ago, SIACfan said:

Now I only concentrated on the potential Ticket Round matches & only if both wrestlers are ranked in the top 10 in the State. There are plenty of other bad draws, but to me these are the ones that standout.

 

Fort Wayne Ticket Round

113    #4(#2) Jalen Sawyer-May (Kokomo) vs. #7(#3) Levi Johns (Bluffton)

 

East Chicago Ticket Round

132    #6(#2) Guillermo Rivera (Lake Central) vs. #8(#3) Sonny Sessa (Crown Point)

150    #9(#3) Kaptur Nowaczyk (Crown Point) vs. #7(#2) Caydn Smith (Plymouth)

215    #1(#1) Will Clark (Crown Point) vs. #7(#5) Kameron Kauffman (Warsaw)

285    #2(#2) Brady Beck (Rochester) vs. #6(#5) Collin Foy (Hanover Central)

 

New Castle Ticket Round

138    #6(#2) Gavyn Whitehead (New Castle) vs. #7(#3) Peyton Hornsby (New Palestine)

150    #8(#3) Braden Getz (Roncalli) vs. #4(#1) Jacob Weaver (Rossville)

190    #10(#4) Clay Guenin (Greenfield-Central) vs. #3(#1) Luke Penola (Zionsville)

215    #8(#3) Jackson Weingart (Cathedral) vs. #10(#5) Shaun Glass (New Palestine)

 

Evansville Ticket Round

106    #6(#3) Royce Malone (Monrovia) vs. #4(#2) Brady Byrd (Washington)

120    #3(#1) Ty Henderson (EV.  Mater Dei) vs. #4(#2) Preston Haines (Brownsburg)

120    #9(#5) Walter Hagedorn (Tell City) vs. #7(#4) Isaac Ash (Monrovia)

126    #1(#1) Isaiah Schaefer (EV.  Mater Dei) vs. #6(#4) Dominic Brown (Center Grove)

150    #2(#2) Hunter May (Floyd Central) vs. #3(#3) Tommy Gibbs (Brownsburg)

190    #8(#4) Jett Goldsberry (Heritage Hills) vs. #2(#2) Kaden McConnell (Center Grove)

 

Given 16 wrestlers per weight get to go to the State finals, anyone ranked in the Top 10 who gets eliminated by another Top 10 wrestler in the Ticket Round at SS without the chance of wrestle-backs is a complete injustice. JMO!

IHSAA is forever going to ruin potential state placers with the lack of work on their end. I understand that some kids are going to have hard ticket round match ups, thats unavoidable. But a lot of the time there are ways to relocate matches and truly have the top 16 in each weight class make it through. But, until someone at IHSAA really takes a look at things with a mindset to fix it and make it better, every year we are going to be unsatisfied with the way this state runs the state tournament series. 

[Deer Dad]

If you think about it, kind of stinks for anyone #16 or better to be against a higher ranked guy in the ticket round. Wrestling (like life) isn't fair and maybe it's incentive to work harder for the next season, unless it unfortunately happens to a senior.