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Coaches of the Year 1A- Chuck Fleshman 2A- Frank Bumgardner 3A- Matt Schoettle Wrestlers of the Year 1A- Noah Cressell 2A- Brayden Curtis 3A- Asa Garcia Mr Gorilla Co-Mr. Gorillas Mason Parris and Brayton Lee 2nd Lucas Davison 3rd Graham Rooks

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/22532373/marjory-stoneman-douglas-wrestlers-remember-chris-hixon-competing-memory

A few of those guys should be at IU , but Goldman sucks

I agree, @JMILL has volunteered to pay for all the USA guys' flights out of his own pocket so that we don't lose money. For all the bad things I have said about him, he really stepped it up for this event.

sounds like some jealous buckeyes ???? GO BLUE!!!

The RCA Dome would be way too cold in February (since it is a parking lot now) Lucas Oil Stadium would have to give the IHSAA a great deal/discount to use it affordably.

This is called doing something to showcase the talent in our state and not caring about a jabroni running a fake national tournament. This event will be showcased and promoted on FloWrestling for the whole country to watch.

Here is our first match-up! Mason Parris vs. Brandon Whitman from Dundee, Michigan

Congratulations to Nick South from Columbus East for signing with Indiana. He is projected to wrestle 165. View full signing

NAIA is scholarship wrestling. I equate it to D2 in the quality of wrestling. I will never understand why someone would not want to free education. Especially coming from a D3 school like myself.

http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/columnists/jim-peters/jim-peters-cal-college-striving-to-gain-traction-as-landing/article_3898901b-86f6-5e08-83fa-361796eb832c.html a great article about calumet college

New Castle will have open room on Monday and Thursday nights. Time and start date to come!

Please contact Coach Matt Behling, Culver Academies at matthew.behling@culver.org if you finished as one of the top two seniors in your weight class at state. The team is already coming together. We are happy to hear from either the wrestler, wrestler's parents or wrestler's coach.

What RCA dome wrestling might look like.

Date: April 14th Location: Brownsburg High School 1000 S Odell St. Brownsburg, IN 46112 Time: 6pm Tickets: Adults $10 Students(K-12) $5 Under 5 Free Click here to purchase tickets and gear Indiana Lineup 113: Jose Diaz- Wheeler 120: Colin Poynter- Portage 126: Ty Mills- Brownsburg 132: Graham Rooks- Columbus East 138: Kris Rumph- Portage 145: Christian Hunt- Yorktown 152: Brayton Lee- Brownsbur 160: Jack Eiteljorge- Carmel 170: Noah Warren- Perry Meridian 182: Conner Graber- Northridge 195: Lucas Davison- Chesterton 220: Mason Parris- Lawrenceburg 285: Brandon Streck- Merrillville Coaching Staff Darrick Snyder- Brownsburg Matt Schoettle- Perry Meridian Mark Kirchgassner- Lawrenceburg Honorary Head Coach Dick Neal aka The Ancient Elder USA Lineup 113: Cevion Severado- Christian Brothers, Missouri 120: Joey Melendez- Montini Catholic, Illinois 126: Malik Johnson- Christian Brothers, Missouri 132: Real Woods- Montini Catholic, Illinois 138: Cole Matthews- Reynolds, Pennsylvania 145: Alex Lloyd- Shakopee, Minnesota 152: Jacori Teemer- Long Beach, New York 160: Jared Franek- Fargo West, North Dakota 170: Travis Wittlake- Marshfield, Oregon 182: Jared Krattiger- Waterford, Wisconsin 195: Tanner Sloan- Alburnett, Iowa 220: Brandon Whitman- Dundee, Michigan 285: Jake Levengood- Vacaville, California Team USA Coach Israel Martinez- Montini Catholic, Illinois Special thanks goes out to our sponsors Indiana State Wrestling Association KC Battlegear Invicta Wrestling Academy View full article

Looking for some big guys to round out a VERY solid team. All weights get 5 pound allowance. Needing good kids at 195 220 and 285. Can be graduated seniors. Cost will be about $350. Will have to buy own food. Matt Brewer 317-201-0644

April 7/8, 2018 NUWAY Individual & Club Team Nationals Weekend LOCATION - LANSING CENTER 333 East Michigan Ave. Lansing, Michigan 48933 Saturday April 7th All INDV. & Sunday April 8th, 2018 - Wrestling Starts at 9am *Round Robin Pool Play to Bracket Championship Dual Team Tournament *College Out of bounds rules *Multi State Teams Accepted! Saturday April 7, 2018 ~ All Ages Individual Tournament (See Age Based Split Start Times) Saturday 9:00 AM Start Time - Divisions. "HS TEAM" GRADE 7TH-12TH 102, 108, 117, 125, 130, 138, 145, 155, 167, 187, 220, & HWT K-8TH GRADE TEAM 47, 52, 57, 62, 67, 72, 77, 85, 92, 102, 110, 119, 129, 140, 160, & HWT *NO BACK UPS WILL BE TAKEN INSTEAD, WE WILL TRY AND FILL 2 TEAMS IN BOTH DIVISIONS. AWARDS - TOP 4 TEAM AWARDS AND CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM SHIRTS 2 OW'S - 2 FINAL MVPS - 4 WINS ALL-AMERICAN STATUS Elite is looking to fill dual teams! Contact www.EliteAthleticClubLLC.com or EliteAthleticClub@Comcast.net or 219-841-1906

Is there anyplace having RTC near Connersville, Indiana now? Our son is looking for places to go .

SOUTHERN THRONE SC, MYRTLE BEACH Tournament Schedule 4/28 Saturday - Individual Tournament Split Start Sessions 9:00 AM ~ Start Times for Divisions. Youth (D1) Ages 6-Under / (D3) 10-Under // (D6) Ages 15-16 // Girls 12-Under Division. 1:30 PM ~ Start Times for Divisions. Youth (D2) Ages 8-Under // Youth (D4) Ages 12-Under // Youth (D5) Ages 14-Under // (D7) Ages 19-Under // Girls Youth 9-Under // Girls Ages 19-Under Division. 4/29 Sunday - All Team Duals Start at 9:00 AM (All Division's) NO WEIGHT ALLOWANCES. TEAM 1 *HS Grades 7-12: 3 Periods ~ 1 ½ Minutes 102, 108, 117, 125, 130, 138, 145, 155, 167, 187, 220, HWT. TEAM 2 *15-Under Age Based Teams: 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 110, 120, 130, 140, 160, HWT (Max 260) 3 Periods ~ 1 ½ Minutes (Must be 8th Grade or below) TEAM 3 *12-Under Age Based Teams. 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 107, 115, 125, 135, HWT (170 max) (3) One Minute Periods. Gear Orders must be in by April 5TH, and wrestlers must at least wear an Elite Athletic Club Singlet to participate. Individual Tournament sign up is parent’s responsibility to register and sign up. Please sign up under Elite Athletic Club as they do team points for this portion as well. $550 will include Dual, travel, housing for the week, just need money for food while we are there. *Travel in team vans *Stay as a team in a team house (trying to book on the beach!) Depart from Elite Athletic Club - 6am April 26th Head Home from Rental home 6am May 1st Travel and Housing are included, if the wrestler is not traveling with the team it is still factored into the total. Housing if the wrestler chooses not to stay with the team I have to know as this effects the cost for others. Parents wishing to stay with the we only have room for 3 and is on a first come first serve basis! Top 4 placers will receive custom Team & Individual medals. (Special OW Awards for each Division) . Winter Throne ring to each champion in the individual competition Individual Tournament will Crown a Team Champion based on TrackWrestling Points. Elite is looking to fill dual teams! Contact www.EliteAthleticClubLLC.com or EliteAthleticClub@Comcast.net or 219-841-1906

Link to brackets http://static.psbin.com/8/0/mza4mk5vindjbd/NJCAA_Wrestling_Brackets-2018.pdf Link to nationals information http://njcaa.org/sports/wrest/2017-18/national_championship/index 157lbs Steven "BAM" Lawrence- Ellsworth 174lbs Burk Van Horn- Lincoln 184lbs Luke Sinkovics- Ancilla

We will hand out the IndianaMat awards for Mr. Gorilla, wrestlers, and coaches of the year.

Well done. As always, you guys put out great info and represent the state well.

How about the likes of Tristen Tonte or Vinny Cosaro. Both were 3x finalist and ran into buzzsaws.

Still looking for student athletes that want an education and continue wrestling for a low cost. Look us up.

Due to his circumstances the people at Wrestling USA ruled that he wouldn't be eligible for the event.

I found this - https://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/tam/genrel/auto_pdf/comp101-4-multi-sport-sas.pdf I looked in the NCAA Guidelines - http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D118.pdf and found these 15.5.9.1 15.5.9.1.1

The NAIA school I went to had a dual with IU and SIUE and we went to some decent D1 opens (Joe Parisi Open, Michigan State Open) As a whole the NAIA competition is getting alot better too

After this year about 163 two-time state champs There are only 9 four-timers though. You didn't have to take your boots off to count.

I think D2 is a little tougher which gives it more depth and it has more schools and just more name recognition to get kids there. But NAIA is catching up. The thing about wrestling is that there so many high school wrestlers with not that many college opportunities. So when you do get a wrestler that doesn't make D1 or D2, they're still the guys not that far from the top guys. I went and wrestled at a NAIA school and its competitive, but its not life or a job like the D1 wrestlers commit to. Ill add that its rarely a free ride in NAIA, but the schools make the scholarship have a discount rate to tuition that makes it cheaper than the state school.

So I was bored at work and did some research on the 2017 138 bracket (maybe with some motivation, I'll research the rest of the brackets). Here is what I found: 2017 Northern Qualifier (29 participants) - Of the 12 who qualified, 9 came to the Championship in same weight class Southern Qualifier (12 participants) - All automatically qualified, 5 participated in same weight class 2018 Northern Qualifier had 15 participants. 2018 Southern Qualifier had 10 Participants. Indy Nationals had 22 participants this year (I might be off 1-2 wrestlers). Some also wrestled in both the Qualifier and Nationals. Comparing participation data, it appears overall there were more wrestlers in 2018 vs 2017 (Which you would expect as this event gains traction). So how did 2017 participants fair in placement and what was their original seeding: Top 8 2017 Frosh/Soph - 138lb - 24 Participants 1. SSQ - 138 - Sophmore 2. SSQ - 138 - Sophmore 3. 5th Northern Qualifier- Sophmore 4. SSQ - 132 - Sophmore 5. DNP Northern Qualifier - Freshman 6. SSQ - 132 - Sophmore 7. SSQ - 138 - Sophmore 8. 5th Southern Qualifier - Sophmore So 5 out of the Top 8 were Semi-State Qualifiers (not a big surprise here). Of the 24 participants, 19 Participated in the 138 lb class for either SS or their qualifier. 5 Participants came from 132 lb weight classes for the Frosh/Soph Championship. 3 of which were SSQ, 1 got first in the qualifier and the other got 4th. Last bit of information: There were 19 Freshman/Sophmore's in 2017 who made Semi-State, of those only 8 went on to wrestle in the Frosh/Sophmore Championship (3 placed at IHSAA State and were not eligible). Two wrestled in the 145lb class. So in total 10/19 wrestled in the Frosh/Soph Championship who qualified via Semi-State.

Any more hashtags and he might make you feel young again by given you the old euthanization.

Joe - They have a 2nd place wrestleback at the section individual tourneys However, it looks like if you lose the championship and have already beaten the consolation winner, then by rule you get 2nd place automatically. If you haven't wrestled then there is a match for true 2nd

Do they have snowcones at Lucas Oil? If not we can't have it there.

you probably are used to that being a reality coming from (#)) TheFort

Add one more.... Flo/Intermat/WrestlingUSA Senior ranking 2/2/1 vs. one of our #1's

Reported on so many levels. Love for Mason to become a gridiron Wolverine demolishing unworthy Bucknuts in The Game.

Harrison Ohio runs one, fairly sure New Castle runs one

Congratulations to Josh Smith-Goheen from Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger for signing with Indiana Tech. He is projected to wrestle 125. View full signing

I think there were 26 wrestlers who wrestled in the Frosh/Soph State Finals in 2017 that made the IHSAA State Finals this year.

I will be doing a state finals recap today at 6:30

I posted this in a different thread I think we take for granted how awesome indiana wrestling really is. We may not have 5 guys in every weight that are ranked nationally, but the show and production of the state finals is second to none. Legit freakin awesome with 2 guys battling for a title under the lights. No can defend once I left southern indiana after teaching and coaching I moved to Arizona and went and watched their state finals.... Holy crap it's pathetic, I've never even gone back, not one time. Yet every year I watch ihsaa via track wrestling..... Even though it severely disappointed this year. Watching on track wrestling this year was a train wreck. Arizona has like 5 classes and multiple kids at STATE with losing records like14-17 or 12-15 and these guys call themselves state qualifiers. U can watch other stae finals on YouTube and just see that they don't compare to what we have going on in the Hoosier state

Finally, someone else on here who gets it.

This year's state meet was great, as always - but, what is your favorite state finals and why? For me, it was probably Chad Red's senior season. The electricity in the air for that Lee/Red match was one of the coolest things I've experienced in the sport. Last year the most fun was the third-place heavyweight match.

U of m football sucks..so he must not be that good at football..go bucks

Great to see the program progress, even if it’s incremental. The men ,the new coaches,inherited have a whole new aggressiveness to them. This helps ,when high schoolers are considering, to see the in room progression. Nothing but good things in West Lafayette.

If they don't have a spot light they aren't true champions.

I know we have talked about this multiple times. I just wanted to say thank you to all of the 126 lb wrestlers for staying at the weight and not dropping to 120 or bumping up to 132. (Obviously some couldn't because they had great team mates at the weight above and below.) Watching all 4 of the semi finalists walk out on to the mat was maybe the most excited I have ever been at the state tournament outside of red vs lee. Then you look on the outside mats and realize there are 4 other guys who are semi finalist/finalist caliber level as well, that came up short. All legends in my eyes. Thats the deepest weight class I have ever seen in my 18 years of watching the state finals. Obviously that is debatable but these guys made a very strong argument and have my vote. That was a blast and this is a sincere THANK YOU! -nick duke

No disrespect Fabio, but there is no chance the answer is clear if looked at objectively. As Y2 said, it's like splitting hairs. I personally went with Mason and here is why: As has been mentioned football (and maybe other reasons) have limited his off-season tournaments. But is there really any doubt in here that Mason would not have done just as well had he wrestled a full schedule? And secondly, I think it is a different kind of impressive with what Mason was able to do as a freshman. Look at this year's tournament. There were 0 freshman state qualifiers above weight 152. For Mason to go in and compete like he did at a higher weight as a frosh and finish 3rd to me is the tie breaker. If he had :20 more he probably wins it all, but we all know about ifs and buts... To lose 11-10 to an undefeated senior at an upper weight, but dominate everyone else as a frosh, is just something special in my eyes. Again, we're splitting hairs because we just saw two of Indiana's best ever. And how crazy would have been if Joe Lee stuck around and dominated 160? He would have 3 titles, a runner up finish to a 2xer and all of the off season accolades. I am just happy I got to sit back and enjoy watching both of them "work" and will continue doing so in the future.

Yessir... and what about kasper.. you know Indiana is loaded when NATIONALLY ranked kid gets 6th... similar to Kobe woods.. ranked nationally then losing twice at state.

I'd put Walton right alongside Ty Mills in that category