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I’ve heard all the slights. I saw the stats. If you were to believe most of the rhetoric about our area you’d think the coaches don’t care or are just not knowledgeable. Wrong assumption. I must say today I’m proud of my adopted area. I saw guys that coached when I wrestled. I saw young guys like Monsieur LeCount. Riley Lefever: The Super Charger Legend. Now a coach for my Hoosiers? . Rod Lone. Mr. Cowboy boots himself the magnanimous Barry Humble let me chat him up. No longer a “pack a day” Southside Legend Rodney Bolden. Riley McClurg. Big Coach Hall from Trine. Andy Oberlein. And listen up: Monroe Central: I didn’t catch his name but I have to go fishing with this guy: you have a winner over there. Nick Krause had several interesting takes and points. The Northside Legends Legend: Gralan Early. What I’m saying is I was impressed: I’m hard to impress. I don’t know how many wrestlers were there but at least 70? Angola brought a contingency. Wabash/Northfield brought a bus. I said all that to say this: I like the direction WE are heading. I even saw Ole Y2. We were as cordial as we’ve never been. I respect the guy he does a lot for the wrestling community here and state wide. Props are due give people their flowers whilst they can still smell them. Saw coach Ojeida from Northrop. I give him a hard time but he loves to help the kids. Salute. Coach Tun and Veazy: tireless Warriors. Juwan Bolden and Everett Green deserve props too: they’ve taken what I’ve taught them collectively and paid it forward. I saw some real eaters amongst the young wrestlers. Wade welcome to Da Fort once again. Let’s go Fort Wayne Semi-State!

You did a good job too @leggin89. A tournament like this couldn't be put on without a lot of great people. Indiana Tech wrestlers did a great job setting up on Friday Trine wrestlers and some Indiana Tech girls were great at the tables Mark and Kyle doing an awesome job with Track and even shifting bouts on the fly. The Carroll trainers who came and kept everyone from bleeding too much The referees who made some good calls and kept Barnett from blowing a whistle. My assistants Briggs and Smith who helped coordinate facility stuff. The police officers who helped with a couple small issues Adam Hartsough with amazing photos(check Facebook) The great wrestlers, coaches, fans and parents that came, kinda hard to be a great tournament without those. LT Hawkins for taking two third place medals Lastly, my wife and kids who manned the front and did a great job. Thanks everyone for a great weekend of wrestling. It is nice to have such a big event in this state that is a WRESTLING state!

I am very happy to be back in coaching and have accepted the Head Coach position for New Albany.

The Columbus North Wrestling program is excited to welcome Jacob Fleckenstein and Adam Wolka to our staff! Fleckenstein finished High School with a 159-17 career record, was a two-time Indiana state place winner, and went on to wrestle at Purdue. While at Purdue he earned Big10 wrestler of the week honors and finished 19th on the career takedown list. Adam Wolka joins CN with previous experience in both Head and Assistant Coaching roles. Wolka, a multi-sport athlete in High School (FB & WR) and semistate qualifier, brings a wealth of Big-Man wrestling knowledge to the CN program. Welcome to Columbus North!

Here is a unique view, it's not the style it's the fact that we tend to burn kids out at a younger age. They wrestle 100's of matches a year when they are younger and thus leave the sport sooner than they should. On the women's side they tend to start later and there are limited number of women's events to attend so they aren't putting the grueling season on themselves like the younger boys are.

Man Indiana is ontherise pun intended. These guys coming in to high school and the next wave of middle school guys are tough! This group showed they are not afraid of tough competition and showed out. That takes guts, great job! so CP-BBurg-Mater dei battling out for a title.

Middle schoolers LT hawkins had a day finishing 3rd!!!!! Evan Stanley was right there with haines and the best kids in indiana beating state placers etc, jeffrey hueyvart beat state qualifiers, and clinton shepherd who just turned 13 beat a couple Ohio state qualifiers and they all competed with the best high schoolers in the country! Future is bright for indiana wrestling. Middle schoolers have some upcoming hammers. Also, the tourney was ran incredible!

They catch your eyes, I’ll give you a few Jake Hockaday, Caden Brewer, Cody Githrow* spell check, Kade Law from yesterday sessions . Freshmans performances was outstanding.

I heard that Bishop Sycamore was coming to Al Smith this year. I hear they have a loaded squad with D1 recruits.

@ The Fort Wrestling Facility Friday September 10th from 6:00 - 9:00pm you can come get a quick roll in, cut some weight, check your weight on a certified scale, listen to jams, and hang out and watch wrestling on the TVs. Come check out what everyone is talking about. If you are member of The Fort it is included. If you are not you can pay a $10 drop in and sign the waivers. You can sign up here: https://thefortwrestling.com/sign-up/join-the-fort/ Hope to see you there!

Can Bishop Sycamore attend Connersville instead. I feel it maybe our best shot at getting any coverage of that one.

Jesse Mendez is making his third straight trip to FloWrestling’s Who’s #1 and Christian Carroll is wrestling in his first event. Both are looking to build upon a strong spring and summer and win their respective matches. Carroll has been nearly unbeatable since last fall when he won the Grappler Fall Classic and followed that up with a Super 32 belt. This spring he was runner-up in freestyle and Greco-roman to eventual world champion Braxton Amos. After that he dominated at Fargo and won a Junior title at 220lbs. Carroll is the first Indiana wrestler to win a Fargo Junior championship and a Super 32 championship. The match for Carroll will be the main event and a big guy super match. He will face off with the top ranked heavyweight in the country, Nick Feldman. Both “heavyweights” weighed in under 230lbs, so this is closer to a light heavyweight match-up. Feldman has won Beast of the East and National Prep titles to go along with winning at Who’s #1 a year ago. He’s an Ohio State commit and will be a great match-up for Carroll. This will NOT be a boring big guy battle. Jesse Mendez is making his third trip to Who’s #1 and looking to be the first competitor to four wins in the event. The past two years Mendez has had to wrestle multiple matches, but this year he only has one in Michigan’s Casey Swiderski. Mendez has had quite a busy off-season that has included a trip to Russia for Junior Worlds, recruiting visits, and even being the grand marshal of the Crown Point July 4th parade! His opponent, Casey Swiderski will look to pull off a big time upset and is likely the only one crazy enough to voluntarily take a match with Mendez. Swiderski is an Iowa State commit and according to everyone in the know has a similar style to Mendez with great technique, high pace, and tenacious attitude. Like Mendez, Swiderski has won three state titles in Michigan for Dundee High School. He was also a Fargo runner-up to Tagen Jamison of Texas. Look for this to be another great match. The schedule begins on Saturday with wrestling starting at 7pm ET/6pm CT. Mendez will be the 11th match, while Carroll will be the final bout, match #14. You can watch all the action with a loaded card of the top wrestlers in the country on FloWrestling. View full article

Stanley vs Haines quarterfinal match was a thriller, Haines wins but watch out for Stanley who's only 8th grade

A name nobody knows yet Andre Merritt 163 junior from whiteland finished the day 6-2 and top 6 in the weight losing to the 3rd and 4th place kids. Beat several good kids including a Michigan state champ, and ended the day with a very respectable 6-3 match against IN state champ Conway.

Good luck with that Wolka fella.

I’m sure you feel that way for no personal reasons. You don’t get many opportunities to represent your country though; especially as a 14 year old from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Besides: the grand prize in folkstyle will come in February. Enjoy your weekend.

IHPO has tougher competition. Veazy will be lucky to wrestle more than two minutes at Pan Ams.

106- Cutting WeightHard (3X IHOP Champ, 10x Fargo AA, Committed to University of Tennessee 113- Flyweight Pinner (4x State champ MS,AL,TX, AK 6X State Qualifier, Committed to Oregon 120- Malcom Stunner ( 6x UWW Medalist Bio says he is from Lativa, uncommitted) 126- Sir Sticks-A-Lot ( Career Record 151-1 150 career Falls only lost in High School was to Flyweight Pinner at the Sunshine Open, Verbally Committed to Vanderbilt 4.75GPA/4 132- Louie LeftFoot ( Signed a MMA contract at 12 years old, Committed to Last Chance U) 138- Maximus Gluteus ( 8x AAU National Champ, 4x Southeast Regional Champ, Committed to University of South Carolina) 145- Johnny Scramble (not much on bio page except he taught Bo Nickel everything he knows, Cael U wants him but uncommitted at this time) 152- Mark Stallsout (Career Record 145-93 either wins by fall or losses when he gets DQ'd for stalling "well that's what his coach says") 160- Void Forfeit' (Hometown Wilderness Michigan via Paris, France not too many other details Committed to Lake Mitchell University in Cadillac, MI) 170- Transfer Waiver ( waiting to be released by Brands brothers for violating NIL, Committed to Florida Gulf Coast) 182- Blast Double ( 2021 Russian State Champ at 45kg , Committed to Baylor) 195- Marcus Fish ( had to do a lot of digging on him but doesn't look too impressive) only wins I could find were Forfeits in 2015 but did get pinned a lot 220- Jose' ( Hometown Port O' Verde, Belize never lost in Central America, Committed to University Wrestling School in Idaho ) must be a stud with just a First Name 285- Phil I'onlygetcaught (Career Record 286-7 only losses listed are getting caught in headlocks multiple D1 offers for Football and Wrestling waiting to see how much money he is offered from WWE) I can't wait to be in this seeding meeting in December, let's hope Steve and Fabian have extra security cause its going to get heated!!!!!!!!

It was a good meeting with some great dialogue. The bottom line is we aren't going to get better by just having couple teams improve and we aren't going anywhere anytime soon unless we work together. Yesterday was another step towards that.

It was nice to see a full room of coaches, sharing ideas and having very good discussions..

Elite over Outlaw in a barn burner. Great summer wrestling. Too may good matches to name them all. I would like to acknowledge Gunner Henry with a huge win over double Fargo all American Herzog from Minnesota

Very very very good point! You see that same principal with Mason Parris playing multiple sports and not being burnt out going into college.. Also I think Folkstyle serves it's own purpose with developing the FS side with pinning combinations (at jr Worlds O'toole sticking the olympian in a cradle (the same guy Chamizo had a hard time with 3-1) There's should be no debating that training all Styles def helps you become better at each one individually... It's balancing work load and evolving all while having fun and not being over trained and burnt out.

Excellent point Joe. To add to that; the Russians do no more than 7 competitions a year. Because the women focus more on training they are more ready when competitions come. I think to we’ve done a good job as a country of growing the sport of women’s wrestling and I believe the results reflect that.

Here is 1 big guy Austin Maroni 8th 2021 ISWA Freestyle Runner up 2021 ISWA Folkstyle Runner up 2021 Illinois AAU State Championships 3rd 2021 Supreme Shootout 12u Duals 4-1 2020 ISWA Dual Team state 5-1 2019 ISWA Freestyle State Champion 2019 ISWA Folkstyle 3rd

He'll win his share of HS state titles!

Championship interviews with some great nuggets of information

Fleckenstein was fun to watch even though he was from rival East Central Trojans, not the Nc Trojans lol.

Ranked wrestlers at the two DI Indiana Universities or with Indiana ties 125 #6 - Drew Hildebrandt (Central Michigan) #13 - Devin Schroder (Purdue) #28 - Brock Hudkins (Indiana) 133 none, no Micic listed 141 #1 - Nick Lee (Penn State) #4 - Chad Red, Jr. (Nebraska) #21 - Parker Filius (Purdue) #26 - Cayden Rooks (Indiana) 149 #30 - Graham Rooks (Indiana) 157 #5 Brayton Lee (Minnesota) #9 - Kendall Coleman (Purdue) #26 - Joe Lee (Penn State) 165 #19 - Gerritt Nijenhuis (Purdue) #22 - Jake Tucker (Michigan State) 174 #10 - Donnell Washington (Indiana) 184 #20 - Max Lyon (Purdue) 197 none 285 #2 - Mason Parris (Michigan) #20 - Lucas Davison (Northwestern)

Has this little event called The Pan-Am Games to train for. In case y’all forgot.

Hey Randall. Mr. Faulkens confirmed that we will go with the 14 weight class option in 2023-2024.

Might even get the tournament on ESPN!

I heard Hawk was contacting Bishop Sycamore in Ohio to see if they had anything scheduled for that date.

Those Brown kids (Gavin and Brayden) used to wrestle for a school across the river from us at Union County Ky. They were studs in the youth/middle school program there. Gavin is committed to Ohio State

B.S. was replaced by South Harmon Institute of Technology.

IN well represented in Natl MS Rankings... For IHPO Huddleston #4 (70), Bell #8 (80), Dickman #2 (85) all too small, Rojas #4 (160) & Harden #4 (180) not registered. Harden will not be due to football. Stanley #4 110 at 109... Hawkins #9 120 & Reynolds #5 130 both registered at 116.

Did Eppert ever wrestle Wright? I feel like that’s one I could still watch again and again and again.

I believe there were a little over 90 wrestlers in the room last night.

Seltzer, Ruhlman and Koontz 100% on bonus point victories!

That was a great tournament, bailey had a couple good wins over tishner and feeler , ruble dropped a close one to meiszner from Illinois as well . Bahl up 132 with some good matches including a win over a Illinois state champ

Outlaw black and Elite athletic club looked really good tonight. I’m guessing that they may see eachother in finals tomorrow. Ran smoothly. Some good off season wrestling right here in Indiana. Look forward to great matches tomorrow. Start time at 9:30 am.

Just wanted to remind everyone one final time that the Warrior RTC @ Indiana Tech starts Sunday... Fort Wayne LEGEND and current Indiana University Wrestling Assistant Coach Riley Lefever will be in attendance at Sunday's 6:00pm practice! Coach Lefever wrestled at Wabash College, where he was a 4x DIII National Champion, team captain and a First Team Academic All-American, and was also a UWW Junior Age Group National Team Member. Lefever then moved to State College, PA where he spent five years training freestyle with the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club under the tutelage of Cael Sanderson. In 2018 Riley earned the bronze medal at the Dave Schultz International Memorial tournament at 92kg and a bronze medal at the Outstanding Ukrainian Tournament. In 2019 he earned third place in the World Team Challenge Tournament. We are hosting our Coaches Summit this Sunday 8/29 4:00pm-6:00pm. We encourage any youth, middle school, high school, and college coaches that are interested in making their program better and growing the sport as a whole in Fort Wayne and the surrounding area to attend. Coaches you can bring car load(s) of athletes with you on Sunday, and they can hangout during the coaches summit in the wrestling facility until our 6:00pm workout. Free Open House Workouts are this Sunday 8/29, Monday 8/30, Wednesday 9/1 @ 6:00pm-8:00pm. Athletes, Parents, and Coaches are encouraged to attend these workouts. Groups of Indiana Tech Men's and Women's wrestlers will be at these workouts. We encourage boys and girls of all ages to attend these wrestling practices. We also encourage parents and coaches to come see the facility, meet the coaching staff, and see what we have to offer. Fall Session starts next Sunday 9/5... We offer fall, winter, and spring training sessions for all ages and ability levels. We also will offer wrestling camps in the spring/summer, and are willing to come to your school or club to run a clinic. Why You Should Join The Warrior RTC To Supplement Your Training: COLLEGE COACHING STAFF with a strong track record of developing talent & producing results at every level: elementary, middle school, high school, college & post-collegiate. TRAINING PARTNERS you will find both quality & quantity to push you and give you a variety of looks and different feels in our training environment. COLLEGE WRESTLERS wrestle with and be mentored by our men’s and women’s teams at Indiana Tech. FACILITY train in a state-of-the-art 25,000 square foot wrestling building. AFFORDABLE MEMBERSHIP we offer sibling and team discount rates, a membership discount program, and discount rates on camps we host & satellite camps we run. CORNER COACHING we will provide coaching at competitions and tournaments. PRIVATE TRAINING opportunities are available year-round. Private workouts are tailored to the athlete’s specific needs. We believe this hands-on and focused approach is one of the quickest ways to make progress and jump levels. COLLEGE RECRUITMENT we are able to provide resources to assist wrestlers & families as they navigate the world of college recruiting to help athletes find the right fit for their choice in a college wrestling program. Contact: info@warriorrtc.com or 317.501.8306 Website: www.warriorrtc.com Coaches Summit & Open House flyer.pdf HS College Flyer.pdf Elem ^0 MS Elite Flyer.pdf Little Warriors Flyer.pdf

How about these 2 non high school studs in the field both training partners Hawkins and Stanley

My son never placed at Folkstate….. until he started playing travel baseball and his wrestling season got cut in half. His best year was last year (year 7 for him) and it was the least amount he has ever wrestled. Maybe 20-25 (rough guess) matches from Thanksgiving to Folk state.

If you find your in Granger,IN near South Bend please join us as Sarah returns home with her Bronze medal. We have been overwhelmed with the support and love we received while on this Olympic journey and just want to thank all of you. It’s great to be a Hoosier!

He might be related to me ?

Hearing another State Champ bout to throw his name in the mix at 129 . #TheCountyTMZ

That's for sure. For example, you could add Stanley, Schaefer, Hockaday and Jendreas at 109. And, Hawkins, Doster, and Reynolds at 116. And that's just a few; there are others. Should be fun.

I thought the young kids looked really tough.

Lol I never wrestled below 130 in HS.. You'd def win cuz I'd be a corpse with no heart beat.