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2013 Perry Meridian Wrestling Team - 102.5 points scored w/o scoring Friday Night (started scoring Friday Night the next year) 106: Brett Johnson SQ 113: Jacob Cottey 5th 126: Brandon James: 5th 132: Cody LeCount: 1st 138: Nick Bova: 7th 160: Riley McClurg: 1st 182: Jake Masengale: 2nd HWT: Donte Winfield: 1st Not saying it was the best team, but I'd throw this squad in the mix. 4 in the finals with 3 champs. Just think - if James doesn't lose that heart breaker to Welch on Saturday morning.. or if Cottey doesn't drop a heart breaker to Davis, who he had beaten earlier in the year, on Saturday morning.. pretty solid team. Grateful to have been apart of it. ALSO - won the IHSWCA 3A State Duals 57-13 over Cathedral (Quarters) 40-15 over Penn (Semis) 46-11 over Franklin Community (Finals)

I have always only attended the IHSAA State Tourney, whether it was to watch as a youngster or wrestle in it. This didn't really give me much perspective on the class system and all the ins and outs of how it is ran at the state tournament level in other states. I recently moved to Colorado about a year and a half ago and began coaching at a 5A school in the Denver Metro Area, where I not only had the chance to experience it first hand, but also had the chance to speak to others on their thoughts on how Indiana runs it. I definitely got a lot of 'wow! no wrestle backs'...'if you lose first/second round at semi state or 1st round at state, you are done? what if you wrestle the champion first?'...but the overall thing they all stated was 'I really wish it was just one class like IN, CA, NJ, etc.' I didn't want to judge it based on just their opinion, so I had to wait until the post season rolled around for the State Tournament, and fortunately I had a State Qualifier, so I can have added input. After going through it, I can express my thoughts. Colorado has 4 classes (2A-5A). I know a lot will say we wouldn't do 4 classes and would do 2 or 3. The concerns I have still pertain to what I saw, but who knows maybe it would be way better with 2 or 3 vs 4. My issues with the class system starts with the amount of division that causes between the state. They had 10 mats out but ran 2a/3a together and 4a/5a together making it two entirely different tournaments on the thursday, friday, sessions. They would make you leave multiple times within the tournament if your session wasn't going. Even though we ran our 5A session with 4A, there was no association at all. 4A was on mats 1-5 and 5A was on mats 6-10. and I guarantee if you were associated with 5A, you will have no chance to see the 4a matches across the event center with 10 mats going. Let alone the 2a/3a you werent allowed to stay for. This boils down to the recognition factor for these young men pouring their hearts into this Sport that will in turn grow the sport. There were 4 individuals going for their 4th state title. 3 achieved it. one was 2a, one was 3a, and one was 5a. Im sure you can assume the only one I was able to watch the whole time I was their. I wish I had the chance to watch Andrew Alirez ranked #1 in the nation at 152) in route to becoming a 4 timer, but he was in 3A. If you have affiliation with a certain class, you wont be able to watch others. There is too much going on. I did get to watch Cohlton Shultz capture his 4 timer status though, and keep his #1 in the country and #1 pound for pound status in tact. They keep everything separated and I dont see how that would be a good fit for the state of Indiana. I personally like seeing all the schools in the same tourney on the Individual side. A side note from talking to all of the individuals is the ones in the higher classes just talk down about the smaller classes and say 'everyone knows 5A is the only one that matters' and I know we say Indiana wouldn't say that, but I think over time it would trickle down and everyone would view the bigger class as more meaningful. Most of the people that were pure fans would only come for 5a and would not care one bit about the other classes. Even if I didn't have a wrestler in the 5A competition and went as a fan, it would be way to hard to watch multiple. My conclusion and my stance after experiencing it first hand (Granted Colorado may be an anomaly) is for the individual tournament for Indiana to stay 1 class, but we need to have wrestle backs at least at semi state and definitely state. I think the class system is perfect for team state, but the amount of people that weighed in that they wish their was a true champion rather than crowning 56 state champions was unbelievable. I think what draws me into keeping it one class is the amount of division between classes there is. I get why they call it 'States' now cause its as if there is multiple different state tournaments going on at the same time and you can't associate with multiple. So even if we class the individual tournament and a small school gets more state champions, they will be a state champ, but most will only be watching the bigger classes anyways. I couldn't tell you one thing about any 2a school in the state of Colorado. Name of the school, names of any wrestlers, how many they qualified/placed, etc. Because it is all separate. And I don't want that to happen to Indiana. I like being familiar with every school. I know chances of making it are harder, but Indiana is a hard state to qualify in. Just my 2 cents. It's mostly theoretical and we would never know until applied. One thing's for sure. I am sure missing that Indiana atmosphere when it comes to the post season.

Strap get Ollie and measure the mat circle. How far? 28 feet. I think you’ll find that’s the exact same measurements as the circle of our mat back at Hickory.

Coach Holden and I are proud to announce that we will be taking our rivalry to Hoosier Gym, the home of the fictional Hickory Hoosiers in the iconic 1986 film Hoosiers. The date is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The gym last regularly hosted meets in the late 1960's before Knightstown moved to their current facility. The Panthers have wrestled Eastern Hancock in the facility in recent seasons. NineStar will help us make history by doing the first ever telecast of a wrestling meet from the facility. Coach Holden and I are working on some ideas to make the event even more special. Hope you can join us for this special evening. Stay tuned for future announcements.

Jimmy you didn't explain anything, you just repeated what he said... Bang bang bang...

A board without a @TeamGarcia is not a board I wish to post on...amirite??

I've put together a list of former Hoosier HS wrestlers in college. Attached is a listing of all I could find with records where I could find them. Info on DI and DII was pretty easy. DIII and NAIA were a bit harder. I learned there are A LOT more still wrestling in college than I would have thought. The spreadsheet has 4 tabs at the bottom separating the divisions. Please PM me if I missed anyone or any schools, or if you have updated info on any that don't show records, etc. Note: The records do not include those wrestling today in the NAIA Championship. I also posted this within the Hoosiers in College - Results/Updates 2nd Half thread on the college board. For discussions on post season action, a new thread has been started here.... Hoosiers in College - Post Season Results/Discussions College Wrestlers.xlsx

Broken towel rack was my favorite

I put together a list of all former Hoosier HS'ers wrestling in college that I could find. I welcome any help with any missing info (weights, records, etc). It wasn't easy putting it together, especially the DIII and NAIA guys. Please PM me if you know of anyone I missed or there is any incorrect info. With weights, sometimes guys change mid-year, so I picked one. I hope you enjoy going through it and if so, I'll try to keep it up and add to it next year. Note there are 4 tabs at the bottom, separating Di, DII, DIII & NAIA. Within each tab they are listed by weight class. Hoosiers Wrestling in College - All Divisions Feel free to discuss here. I will start a new thread for specific discussions related to the post-season championships. Note: records for NAIA Championship Qualifiers do not include any matches wrestled today.

Overall a good indiana showing early.

I got this Pistol @3xStateChamp "Mus of cause you replying. Even Pistol can see that wit one good eye." PP Interpretation...Pistol is implying that you must have heard of "us guys" because you're replying. The one eye thing references his avi I believe which is a cowboy lookin' dude with an eye patch. Sorry, can't interpret Pistol's thoughts on why that is, just his words!!! Nor would I want to be able to interpret that mind.

Maybe 133 Brandon James vs. Enrique Early ? Could see each other in Semis

Mishawaka 2006: Josh Harper - 1st Nick Wiesjahn - 4th Benji Dolly - 3rd Ian Hinton - 1st Pat Day - 1st Mishawaka 2007: Josh Harper - 1st Nick Wiesjahn - 3rd Steven Sandefer - 5th Kurt Kauffman - 5th Ian Hinton - 1st Randy Morin - 4th Mishawaka 2008: Paul Beck - 7th Adam Guerra - 5th Josh Harper - 1st Steven Sandefer - 1st Caleb Norville - 6th Dave Balentine - 4th Randy Morin - 3rd Mishawaka 2010: Paul Beck - 2nd Layten Binion - 7th Taylor Wisler - 8th Nick Schrader - 4th Matt Guerra - 4th Ryan Stahl - 4th Richard Morin - 6th Christian Lentz - 2nd Travis Thomas - 3rd

106 Sean Johnson from Elkhart Central has accepted! Thank you LionsFan!

Wrestling and coaching in Indiana, I always appreciated the Indiana single-class system. I was lucky enough to also coach state finalists in both Georgia and Ohio who both use multi-class systems with same date/venue state finals. In my opinion, that format really took away some impact on being a state finalist and placewinner. I much prefer the single-class format. I wrestled at a DII college and, at that time, DII champions were often invited to the DI championships and some did very well. There were some DI National Champions from DII schools. I remember one heavyweight from Pittsburgh-Johnstown and some others from Cal State Bakersfield.

Hear them out there... The MILLIONS & MILLIONS of Notorious and @UncleJimmy Indianamat fans . They “are not” saying TripleB & JBiceps names anymore. WHO ? Your lucky The Greatest Keyboardist Entertainment Show Stoppers wasn’t around in those EZboard days . Tell them @UncleJimmy The Notorious

Don’t make me drag JBiceps out of retirement.... IM couldn’t handle the greatest Keyboard Tag Team of All time - TripleB and JBiceps!!!

sorry I have been and am still in training this week at work and can not post the rosters yet due to lack of time (I do all of my IN Mat stuff at work....LOL). Also am still trying to fill a few spots so stay tuned in next wk or so. Now with that said those that have already made the teams (MS and elem) we will be holding a team practice for anyone who can attend at Contenders WA march 31st at the following times: elem 10-1p MS 1-4p

MattM, You stole my thunder...I'm going to have one of the kids measure the center circle...10 feet, just like the mat back at Pendleton Heights!

In all honesty, I think it is as big as Purdue’s. Purdue also has all the other equipment (treadmills, bikes, weights, etc.) so I think Purdue wins in that regard. However, our mats are brand new, and having coaches office and kids locker room attached is awesome.

He's 3-11 on the year so better to be remembered for something....

Those were the the good old days! This site is way better though.

And I did mention that originally that it could just be the way Colorado runs it. which I didn't particularly like. If they are ran concurrently how would you be able to see all divisions? or at least focus on each class at the same weight class (for instance 126 at class 1A, 2A, and 3A)? My issue is the disconnect between each class that I experienced from CO. I feel it is inevitable there will be a disconnect over a span of 10 years. But I could be way wrong, just my opinion. I feel classed team tourney, non-classed individual tourney, add wrestle backs, make it 2-3 weekends instead of 4 (Regionals, semi state, and state for example) would be the best route at this time. But I've been wrong before. I know CA proves itself as a wrestling state and are 1 class. I am not up to date on how they run it, but I see adopting their route is the first big step.

Oooooooohhhh mannnn I miss the old board, IndianaMat is awesome, but the old board was the wild west at some points.

If anybody wants to get ready for this thing. Multiple state champs will be training hard at Red Cobra until the event. Mondays and Wednesdays 6-8 tuesdays and Thursdays 7-8:30. Make your way to TheCounty and get that work in!

I’ll take Stevenson.

Nick Lee wasn't coached by Brennan Cosgrove, thus Jesse Mendez would tech him in a minute.

Oh, I'm not offended at all. I can just see why some people don't like it, whether it is him, Mark Hall, DeSanto, whoever.

No one who reads my history of posts would be surprised to hear I am a big Lee fan, but I hate, Hate, HATE the bash Chad Red posts. Who cares how he celebrates? Let it go. He won fair and square in high school. I have never met him, but I like to think he is a really nice kid who trains hard.

Did I miss something or did my DeLorean drop me off in 2016? Their HS match was dissected and critiques ad nauseum back then. Not sure anything new can be added to that discussion or should be at this point Guys in 2019 and these guys have been in college a few years. Let’s live this in the present and what is happening now. I’m guessing we will see these two cross paths a few more time.