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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

Sawyer Miller finishes up a solid season with OT takedown to win the NAIA National Title at 125. Not to be out done teammate Enrique Early also capped off his season with a OT victory to capture the NAIA National Title at 133. Indiana Tech has puts themselves in a position to possibly finish as the NAIA Runner-Ups.

The NAIA Championship began today. @125 Sawyer Miller (#2 seed), IN Tech is in the Quarterfinals and will face former Hoosier turned Buckeye Hayden Lee, Cumberlands (KY). Chris Sharp, Marian is alive in the consolation bracket. @133 Enrique Early (#2 seed), IN Tech and Brandon James (#6 seed), Marian are in the Quarterfinals. They would meet in the Semis if they both win. @141 Gaige Torres (#4 seed), IN Tech is in the Quarterfinals. Mason Miranda, Marian was eliminated. @149 Justin Atkinson (#7 seed), IN Tech defeated Marian's Bailey Moore (#10 seed) in the Round of 16. Atkinson moves on to the Quarterfinal. @149 Robert Humphrey won is first match before getting sent to the consolation bracket. He won there and is still alive. Logan Hurley, Marian was eliminated. Note: The NAIA allows multiple qualifiers from the same school. @157 Mason Gaines, IN Tech won his first match, then dropped to the consis where he won and is still alive. Brett Johnson, Marian was eliminated. @165 Jacob Gross (#7 seed), IN Tech won his first match, dropped to the consis and won so he is still alive. @174 Nathan Walton (#4 seed), Cumberland (TN) is in the Quarterfinal. Jared Swank, Cumberlands (KY) lost his first match and won in the consis over fellow Hoosier Jake Weimer, IN Tech. Swank remains alive and Weimer after winning his first match, lost his next two and is eliminated. Also @174 Jack Servies, Marian lost two in a row and is eliminated. @184 had Hoosiers knocking each other off. In the opening round, Sam Osho (#11 seed), Marian, beat fellow Hoosier Aaron Mosely, Campbellsville (KY). Osho lost in the Round of 16 and then won in the consis and remains alive. Mosely fell to the consis and faced fellow Hoosier Josue Hill, IN Tech. Hill had one his first match then fell in his second. This time Mosely got the win in the battle of Hoosiers and remains alive. Hill is eliminated. @197 There were no former Hoosiers @285 Nick Fowler (#10 seed), Calumet, won his first two and is in the Quarterfinals. Ethan Bunce (#12 seed), Marian lost two and was eliminated. The Quarterfinals and next two rounds of consolations will begin at 6:30 pm (Central) tonight.

Indiana and IN Tech has two new NAIA National Champions! @125 Sawyer Miller (South Adams) gets the escape in the 3rd period and a takedown in sudden victory to get a 4-2 win for the title. @133 Erique Early (FW Snider) wins 4-2 TB-1. Down 2-1 in the first :30 TB period, Early got a takedown to take a 3-2 lead into the 2nd :30 period. He chose bottom and was let up to go up 4-2 and avoided a takedown to win. Those were the only two former Hoosier HS'ers in the finals. NOTE: My apologies but I have been typing Early's first name as Enrique but the correct spelling is Erique. CONGRATS to both Sawyer and Erique!

Indiana guys Thaddeus Dietrich, Luke Sinkovics, Trystan VanderAa, and Austin Laughlin all competed at NJCAA Nationals out of Ancilla College located in Plymouth, IN. State’s only JuCo program.

Ha ha. TeamGarcia, I think you changed my quote just a bit. My mention of Captain Obvious was intended to be a gentle subtle jab at someone else on here that also used to post on the old IHSWCA discussion board and other wrestling related discussion boards years ago.

Ok, I always thought tickets went on sale around the start of the current years tournament. Just curious if anyone had an idea

Early results before I have to run out for awhile... @125 Sawyer Miller won by fall at 1:00 and moves on the to Final. He'll face 12 seed Randy McCray who took out 1 seed Justin Portillo @133 Enrique Early won his semifinal 10-7 and moves on to face 1 seed Shiquan Hall of Grand View. Hall beat Early 2-1 in the Grand View Open in November. @141 Gaige Torres lost by major 15-4. It was tied at 4 entering the 3rd period and Torres gave up a reversal and then a pair of 4 point nearfalls. A riding time point made it 15-4. So Indiana will have two wrestlers in the Final vying for an NAIA title with several others still alive in the consis who will place and earn AA status. Not bad!

Thanks, SWIN. Great info!

Full results on all Indiana wrestlers up to the Quarterfinals posted on the college board.

Link updated with addition of 4 guys from Campbellsville (KY) Hoosiers Wrestling in College - All Divisions (update)

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.

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)

Until a team comes up with 600 pts, like the 49 Bloomington. There shouldn’t be a an Argument

Well, what if you took Bloomington (7) Champions and they probably have a few Placers back then . Where would they fall in that unofficial scoring system ?