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I feel like there wasn't much discussion on either of these events. Here are a few things I saw from our Indiana guys. IHPO 105: Reed Egli wrestled well losing to Michigan state champ Wertanen. CP's Bahl beat state qualifiers Cortez and Brady Evan Dickey beat AZ state champ and finished with 4 wins Brady beat incoming freshman Courtney 5-4 and Egli in sudden victory Haines beat Seng in SV and finished the tournament with 5 wins taking 4th. Toby Billerman beat Cortez 8-4 Courtney beat Seng 1-0 116: Gilbert lost in semi finals and finished

The main things we are focusing on is masks as much as possible such as during warm-ups, technique teaching, stretching, etc. The other is having groups of about 4 or 5 kids that can wrestle with each other. As well as the obvious things like hand sanitizer and more stringent cleaning. Meets will be interesting as we will need to space seating and possibly limit who travels based on what JV matches we would have. I think we may even need to have a "half time" for duals to clean the mats. For bigger events we may need to clean mats after each round so it would add another 15 minutes

One thing we are hoping to do is install 50+ hooks in the room so kids can hang their masks up and not just throw them on the ground between times of wearing them. Throwing them on the ground is not good when you can add any assortment of skin diseases to the mask along with your Covid! On top of that people need to wash their masks regularly, which I'm not sure everyone is doing. Now on the mask issue. Masks are NOT a cure all, no one has EVER claimed they are 100% effective. Too many people think that social distancing, masks, etc are 100% effective and when they are not they cla

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Willie Saylor (the best ranker in the USA) has named Jesse top pound for pound high school wrestler in the USA. I have had the pleasure of seeing Jesse wrestle since he was very young. It’s been amazing to see the progress that he has made and continues to make. Sky’s the limit for this awesome kid. Great kid and great family. Keep it up champ!!!

Floareana Good luck following them. That program is terrible.

Please tell me he's not at 106

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Jesse with two big wins tonight! Check out Flo Wrestling Twitter for highlights.

This weekend in Philadelphia, Bryce Lowery of roncalli takes out the #18 ranked 120 pounder in the nation (on flo rankings) Jett Strickenburger bryce won the battle 7-5 great job bryce!

Michigan is trying to put into place items to help ensure we have a wrestling season... why is that bad??? We may not like some of the things being put into place, but isnt that better than not having a season??

Ayala over Seltzer 10-9. Lots of action. Few points for both early. Ayala 2 point tilt from a ride and a takedown a little while after widened the gap and put him in the drivers seat. Seltzer spend most of the rest of the match trying to play catch up with takedowns and cuts. He got a few but couldn’t quite get there. Still showed he’s right there with the Pound for Pound guys.

Estrada with a huge win over Ragland who has been ranked in the past. Goodwin with a pin as well.

We have Christian Carroll of Penn(#15 @ 220) and Evan Bates of Chesterton(#7 at 220) 3-0 and in the quarters at 195. Carroll faces #9 Martin Cosgrove while Bates has UR Maslanek. If both win, we are guaranteed an IN finalist as they would face each other in the semis.

This is currently being solved. Not that I want to not give information, but I also don't want to give information out prematurely. But we have been working with FW Coliseum to see what we are capable of and also finding schools that would be good host schools if they are not capable of meeting our needs. Should have answers very soon.

I can honestly say that I have no idea what normal people do between Christmas and New Year's. I don't remember ever not going to this tournament and I am 34 years old now.

Rank/ Name/ Grade/ Projected High School/ Current Weight/ Projected HS Weight 1. Revin Dickman--7th grade--Brownsburg--80--(106)*Rokfin ranked #115(#2 at 70lbs)*Mobbin Ranked #2 @ 80lbs (Middle School State Champ, 2nd @ Super32 MS division, 2020 WOW Trinity Award Winner, 2X Tulsa Champ, 2X Reno Worlds Champ, Tulsa Kickoff Champ, 8-0 at Olympic club duals, McDonogh Duals 8-1, Tyrant duals 7-1 and 8-0, VAC gold 9-1 EM gold, Wildwood duals 8-0, NHSCA duals 11-0, SB duals GR 8-0 and FS 7-2, multi time ISWA triple crown winner) 2. Landon Hawkins--7th grade--Crown Point--8

For a minute I was confused and thinking Jesus how many those Winner boys came out of Jay County blonde moment activated.

The week after Super 32 as we like to wait to see how guys do there. One year we were set to release, but waited and had a few rankings change after the results.

We should probably just class the individual state tournament. That would probably take care of things. I kid... My major concern is Saturday meets...not so much in the safety, but in getting several schools together who may have varying degrees of safety measures. Hopefully our coaches and parents will react well if the host school has more stringent mask enforcement, etc. than their home school. Hosting a tournament is hard enough, let alone now, let alone if you are constantly having to ask people to follow basic safety guidelines.

Just looking to follow this up. I thought it was a valid concern and something we should all be considering as we gear up for our season. What are you guys thinking about how you will run practices? We've discussed creating groups of four for practice and you can only work within that group. The question was brought to me by my AD about using two mats for duals but only running one match at a time and once one match ends, cleaning the mat between matches. Seems like it would make the dual take twice as long but is it necessary? Tournaments, do you have ho

Though the field was diluted due to Senior Nationals not being a qualifier for anything this year, Mason Parris goes 10-0, 9-4, 9-6. 7-0, 12-2. He absolutely manhandled Tanner Hall in the final. Even without the other top guys (Gwiazdowski, Steveson, Nelson, Kerkvliet) it was a very impressive win.

My bad... I mean... Mattyb has him number one! Lol Regardless.. he will be number one!!!

Remind him that mat retuning the kid running in front of him is generally frowned upon.

As Noah said he is at Mount Carmel. I don't think the 2 younger Bailey brothers are coming either. They also had Carroll as a freshman coming to CP. He is a sophomore going to Penn. I am sure if IL cancels their season or if they move it to the summer then there will be a bunch of these guys moving to Indiana. Little over a month and we will know what IL decides.

I'm still at Mount Carmel. I don't know about Bailey.

Congratulations to Blake Boarman from Evansville Mater Dei for signing with Tennessee Chattanooga. He is projected to wrestle 133. View full signing

I didn't ask the coliseum, they were too expensive for my budget.

Maybe Crown Point can host it this year.

Whats interesting is even the cdc recommends not wearing mask during physical activities as well of making sure you're not wearing mask that are wet. So will wrestlers have to have a mask for each match plus one to wear then not wrestling? There's other issues with mask constantly coming off but whether we agree with them or not the wearing of mask should at least be constant with cdc recommendations.

He was sick last year but is much better now. I know he is on here and might respond in more detail. It’s a pretty incredible story.

I really like this decision. I think wrestlers should pick the most elite academic and wrestling rich program they can get into. Northwestern should top the list of most students - especially those in the Midwest.

This is along the lines of the two sports benefiting each other. Adams Central has been to semi state in football 3 of the last 4 years in class 1A and invited to each 1A State Duals. Over 1/2 of the current football roster of 54 has a wrestling back ground. 20 are on the HS wrestling team and another 8 have wrestled previously either in MS or in our elementary club. 9 likely varsity wrestling starters are football players including everyone 152 and up. Small schools have to share athletes for the school to have success in multiple sports. Sever

I agree, I think it would be smart to have different locations for each class if we are going to be able to pull it off.

Put two 9's together.

I heard Brecksville Tournament is top 10 in the nation.

That team has crazy depth.

Nice work!!

It will definitely be a discussion at the IHSWCA clinic tomorrow and Friday. I think it will be a huge benefit to talk to other coaches, but to also see what kind of guidance Robert Faulkens may provide. We have talked about these groups of 4 pods at our schools, but even then my admin mentioned how they couldn't be around each other in the locker room, at meets, on the bus etc for contact tracing. Nearly an impossible position.

My favorite post in a long time is hearing a dedicated wrestler trying a different sport! it’s what we preach to other sports to come try wrestling. If nothing else, the mental, break will be nice for him.

At St Charles

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Stud!

Sergio Lemley back to Chesterton. This is great for them! They return 11 of their starters from last year, and they had I think 8 state qualifiers last year. They should be pretty tough.

Goebel had a pretty good run.

Congratulations to Jordan Hodge from Attica for signing with Wabash. He is projected to wrestle 133. View full signing

IMO, absolutely zero chance Jesse goes to Purdue