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I know this is a college tournament, but Joe Lee is technically still a HS senior so I posted this hear. Move the thread if need be. Joe went at 165 in the Wilkes Open Dec 22 in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He lost his 1st round match 7-6 to Will Schmidt of Sacred Heart, giving up a reversal with :24 left in the 3rd period. Joe then won 5 in a row to finish 5th, the highest possible after the first round loss . The tournament featured a lot of unattached wrestlers, but also wrestlers from many solid schools from the Northeastern US, such as Lehigh, American, Campbell, etc. I didn't see nationally ranked guys from Lehigh. The results can be found in FloArena. Nice bounce back after losing his first match and going 165 for the first time. He wrestled 157 in the only other Open tournament I'm aware of.

106 - Chundi (Car), Ester (FWS), Carter (CP), Owens (EN), Vredeveld (Cen), Williams (WB), Prichett (Fish), Berry (Shelby) 113 - Lowery (Ron), Shafer (Car), Dorman (GC), Busby (Cen), Rider (BC), Krouse (Valpo), Reyes (CP), Lee (FC) 120 - Mattingly (Car), Slivka (Ron), Wells (Greensburg), Carney (BG), Atkins (JC), Tippmann (FWS), Ludlow (Fish), Alfrey (Shen) 126 - Viduya (Ron), Smiley (BG), Kelly (CP), Evans (GC), Humphrey (FWS), Phillips (Cen), Rose (Greensburg), Bond (Valpo) 132 - Noehre (GC), Phillips (Cen), Ledesma (EN), Taylor (CP), Perry (SW), Nylin (Valpo), Condi (Ron), Spikes (BC) 138 - Moore (BG), Burford (CP), Dembowski (Valpo), Keeney (Ron), Pugsley (Shen), Struder (Fish), Stacy (EN), Bocock (Leb) 145 - Lohrey (Shen), Noehre (GC), Humbert (FC), Miller (Ron). Redd (con), Willis (EH), Beeks (SW), Bates (Hag) 152 - Lamore (CP), Browning (FC), Williamson (Leb), Delk (Shen), Beeks (SW), Clark (Cen), Wills (EH), Davis (FWS) 160 - Eitlejorge (Car), Kasch (CP), Winner (JC), Coffman (UC), Lawler (Rush), Massey (Con), Heiniger (Fish), Purtha (Hag) 170 - Lowe (GC), Traficanti (CP), Hart (Car), Kocks (FWS), Deluna (Valpo), Souder (Leb), Smith (SW), Salazar (Ron) 182 - Allred (Shen), Mahan (Ron), Potosky (CP), Christen (FWS), Frey (Car), Griffith (Rush), Holbrook (EN), Cioe (Valpo) 195 - Hansen (Ron), Ford (BC), Bohman (FC), Pierce (Rich), Bacon (Car), Lorenz (Greensburg), Brown (FWS), Berger (Northeastern) 220 - McClaine (Leb), Hare (JC), Gulden (GC), Strum (Rush), Rohn (Con), Pinaire (Eastern), Fears (Ron), Burton (EH) 285 - Foster (CP), Koors (Greensburg), Williams (Car), Swartz (FWS), Foster (BC), Harris (Ron), Greene (BG), Smith (EN)

That's funny you say that about the 3 point stance because that's exactly what I thought was his best chance to slow him down. I don't think it's possible to stop him no matter if you are in a 3 point stance or a 300 point stance?. When they are that quick all you can hope to do is slow him down. It reminds me of a funny story of when I wrestled. I wrestled Nick Hull in the Spartan Classic Semis or Finals I believe it was and I remember what i was thinking after the first period was over. I was thinking it was physically not possible that another human could be as quick as he was. After watching the video several times over the years including recently with my dad, we always laugh at me when that third period starts. When it starts we were neutral and as the ref was blowing the whistle to wrestle, Hull just kinda flinched his head the slightest at the same time the ref was blowing the whistle to start and my dad swears till this day that I sprawled before the whistle was blown.??. There is no defense for something that you do not have time to react too. So that is why you have to already be down there as low as possible in the 3 point stance or some guys I've seen do very well slowing quickness down by kinda staying down low on one knee. I was really impressed with Decatur. I don't think we have anyone in Indiana that could beat him untill we get up around 138-145. I only see a few guys IN MY OWN OPINION that could beat him at the 138 pound weight class. I couldn't believe he wasn't on the P4P Rankings. Seems like a nice and humble kid too. The crazy thing is even tho he beat Asa convincingly, I think there was a lot of things that Asa did positive and some things that Asa could learn from this match to make him overall alot better wrestler in the future (ex. Knowing which wrestlers to use a 3 point stance against and which ones to have a squared stance against). Maybe they meet again some day in the NCAA Championships(when it truly matters) and he gets his payback. Good luck the rest of the year and more importantly stay healthy.

Observations/Takeaways from the Al Smith: 106 championship match was awesome. Lots of nice scrambles and back-and-forth through the first two periods. Cruz looked great and imo established himself as a contender. A little biased, but I’d still say the 120 Finals was one of the most exciting matches of the day. Lucas Davison is even better than I thought. Penola looked fantastic in the semis and I expected the match to be moderately close, wouldn’t have ever guessed a 10-0. Columbus East has built a squad the last few years and should have multiple kids competing for Al Smith titles in the coming years. Same for Chesterton and Zionsville. Shout Out to Eli Pokorney. Takes a special talent to win the Afton Quadrangular three times, and with a chance at a fourth.

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straight up strangling dudes at the Scuffle. He tortured Cole Manley and broke him.

Include Team State and no doubt there will be many changes. Of course that is assuming the ranking experts are able to get all the information.

Spartan 126 viduya over smiley 138 burford over strueder 138 Pugsley over strueder 145 Lohrey over noehre 160 eiteljorge over kasch 182 Allred tf over mahan

I am a firm believer that you don’t grow unless you fail. And by fail I mean wrestle tough competition to make you better...you only get better when you’re getting beat, most of the time!

-Spartan notables- 126) Viduya over Smiley 6-2 132) Noehre over Phillips fall 138) Moore over Burford major . Burford over Pugsley . Dembowski over Pugsley . Moore over Dembowski Pugsley over Strueder 145) Lohrey over Noehre 7-4 Lohrey over Humbert fall Noehre over Carr dec 152) Lamore over Browning tech 18-3 160) Eitlegeorge over Kasch 5-4 Eitlegeorge over Winner 4-2 (I think) Winner over Coffman 7-2 170) Lowe over Trafiacanti 3-1 182) Allred over Mahan tech 20-2 Mahan over Potosky fall Allred over Christiansen fall Wish I could help more brother. But these are the match-ups and scores I'm most familiar with. There's some other scores/match ups in the Spartan thread that may be helpful as well. They didn't include scores on the brackets by the way. Either way.....hope the info is beneficial.

Not sure, he obviously made weight. Asa a big 26, just body types I guess . Decatur a explosive wrestler, quick on his feet. Like for Asa to stay in a 3 point stance in the match to counter act his attacks on his feet but like most matches your involved in he decides to wrestle him squared up. Decatur capitalizes on that that type of defense. They’ll tangle more through out the spring/Summer Grind . Might even train together again at Jordan Camps . Just gotta keep closing the gap.

There were some big kids there. Saw some receding hairlines and some serious ink too! Grown men I’m telling ya. Not that we don’t have that here but more there.

Asa wrestled his butt off and represented Avon/Indiana like a true champion. Very proud of why I saw from him and his team mates. Can't speak for TeamGarcia, but IMO weigh outs on day 1, rather than weigh ins on day 2, gave an advantage to weight cutters. Guys in the semi finals finished up around 7-8pm on day 1, weighed out, then didn't compete again until 1pm on day 2. If I had to guess, I'd say some boys put on 10-15lbs over night!