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Mat-side weigh ins. You said I'm czar for the day. Haha. As a process guy in my "professional" life, the whole idiocy of weigh-ins days or hours before actually wrestling defeats the purpose. It would literally take a few seconds per match. You miss weight, it's a forfeit. All the sudden you have eliminated your issue of kids cutting too much and people will wrestle their true weight.

Indiana becoming a state that allows middle school wrestlers to compete on high school teams. This may help avoid FF's, especially with small school programs. I believe other states that allow middle school wrestlers to wrestle on high school teams are Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Iowa=traditionally strong college programs?? I may be incorrect with the states listed, but if memory serves me correctly I thought some states at least allow 8th graders?? May not be a reality for this to happen in Indiana. If it is taking place in other states, why not Indiana? I imagine we can all argue that some 8th graders if not 7th graders could stand on the podium at Bankers Life......

Add another weight class between 220 and HWT to give 15 classes so that "normally" number of matches won would be the only tiebreaker needed. Make HWT just be 290 with no allowances and have the added class be 255.

OK, time to play rules czar for a day. What rule/rule change would you propose to make the sport better? To save everyone some time, there will probably NEVER be one foot in bounds for a takedown. The safety concerns from the NFHS will always trump added benefit from more scoring at the edge. With many gyms having inadequate space, it would be difficult to have a uniformly enforced rule. Here is my proposal: Four point near-fall after a four count. Rationale: More scoring equal more excitement. Also, easy to understand: two count in danger equals two points, four count equals four points. More reward for scoring should encourage more mat wrestling leading to fewer out of bounds situations, speeding up matches. Also, bigger scoring opportunity could lead to more comebacks from deficits. Ideally, faster matches might even lead to NFHS someday approving six match limit instead of five. A 16 man bracket with full wrestlebacks to third could then be done in one day. Let's hear your thoughts on this and your ideas for a rule addition/change. New proposal period for wrestling rules opens June 1, 2019

I would want to take the subjective element of stalling completely out of it. I'm not suggesting a stalling rule. I'm suggesting a step-out rule that makes out-of-bounds situations fully objective. Know where you are and don't step out. It doesn't matter who initiated. It's just another layer of mat awareness, body positioning, and tactics. But the big bonus is it automatically takes away a significant chunk of stalling in a natural, unbiased way.

Carmel had 9 Academic All State this season. 8 of them were Semi State Qualifiers. 182 Cameron Bacon, GPA 3.87, SAT 1420 195 Jackk Heldt, GPA 4.31, SAT 1440 106 Suhas Chundi GPA 4.41, 1590 SAT (Yep, he missed one. We remind him often of it!) 152 Gabe Davin GPA 3.42 126 Joey Langeman, GPA 3.65 160 Garrett Sharp GPA 4.13 220 Haakon VanBeynen GPA 3.60 285 Jon Williams GPA 3.35 Brendan Mattingly GPA 3.85 It's quite impressive what they Greyhounds do in the classroom.

I guess we’ll disagree, I do not like step out idea at all.

http://www.ihswca.org/news/2019-academic-all-state It is obvious that excelling at "Academics" and Wrestling is the quickest way to attract D1 recruiters: Jacob Moran 4.35 G.P.A. Silas Allred 4.08 G.P.A. Carson Brewer 3.6 G.P.A. Asa Garcia 3.57 G.P.A. Cayden Rooks 3.5 G.P.A. All of the above are State Champs but more importantly are on the academic -all-state list. Oh yeah and all will be attending a D1 University for little to no money out of pocket. A combination of academic / athletic scholarship is the secret.

This should end the confusion

The step out isn't judgmental, it's pretty simple...if your foot steps out of bounds no matter the action the other guy gets a point. It's actually the easiest rule out there to interpret.

Love the idea here too. Evens the playing field a bit and would likely grow the sport a lot because Football athletes (and coaches) are often not huge proponents of our sport (even though they should be with all the transference) because of weight cutting. They don't want their boys getting smaller for any reason.

1) 100% agree on the step out 2) First injury time used when opponent has not been called for an illegal move = opponent gets choice. Second time wrestler must withdraw. Stops (hopefully)wrestler from using injury time to recover and if a wrestler is that injured he must stop the match twice, probably shouldn’t be in there. 3) I’m good with a 4 point near fall and a 3 point takedown. Keep rewarding offensive wrestling

Two thoughts: 1. Reduce tech fall differential to 10 points. Or, give the option for tournament or super dual sites to use a 10-point tech fall rule. Rationale: Speeds up long days. Another step toward reducing mat time that might allow for 6 matches in a day in the future. Doesn't reduce possibility of big comeback because comebacks will seem just as miraculous if they happen from a 9-point deficit with a 10-point rule as they do now with a 14-point comeback with a 15-point rule. And 99.9% of matches will have the same winner even with a reduced point differential requirement. 2. Aside from blatant shove-outs, award a point for an opponent stepping out of bounds from the neutral position. Rationale: Speeds up matches by reducing out-of-bounds stoppages and adding a few more points here and there. Forces exciting wrestling as wrestlers must stay in bounds. Becomes a second-nature rule very quickly, as evidenced by the easy adaptation that took place when freestyle competition adopted a similar rule.

Fort Wayne shall rise again! We should have a nice bounce back year. Fielden will be ranked number 1 next year. The Railroader is from Y2's Alma Mater so I know this to be true. Lil Ruble should be a handful. Don't sleep on Heath from Leo. He keeps climbing the Ladder. Mason Winner and Lone will be pushing for state tittles. Kaden Lone will be one the best Freshman in the state. Stroud from Manchester will make noise. My Alma Mater R.Nelson Snider is on the upswing. Huntington North is as well. There may be 4 ranked heavies from the Fort Wayne Carroll Regional. Parrish is back. We still have the Levitzs. Me no worried.

One your first point, isn’t that part of what makes wrestling so great? It’s available to kids of all grades and all weights. It’s the only sport where someone that weighs 100 lbs can actually contribute and be great.

Clearly the Brewer kid must have a really smart mom. Only thing questionable is her decision on who to marry.

States that I know allow 8th graders are New York, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Kentucky, Florida(private schools only I believe). Iowa and Oklahoma do not allow middle school kids in high school. I don't necessarily see this as a good thing as you'll be throwing out an under prepared kid just to save a forfeit. Retaining those kids after they took beating after beating would not be easy.

I have coached both sports for the past 8 years and it is a hard sell to the Head Football guy that losing even 10 pounds is going to be okay for the kids long term future. It was much tougher at smaller high schools as to fill out a line-up it was going to take 7-8 football players and obviously weight classes matter so to get in the line-up a 190 pound linebacker may go to 182 for the season. That does bring into question the mat-side weigh ins a little as well though: If I'm at a smaller school and have 2 kids that weigh 164 naturally and a really good kid that weighs 178, obviously 178 has no problem maintaining for 182 and one of the 164 pounders easily goes 170, but the other one is fighting an uphill battle to keep under 160 on a regular basis. At HSE, I can probably find another athlete willing to do the sport because of our sheer numbers. When I was at Mooresville even (1400 students) or TC Howe (300 students), probably going to be a problem for me and may increase forfeits. I think the rule nets positive overall, but probably won't happen because of small schools and trying to fill weights becoming more difficult.

if adding a 255 or anything close to that, why not just make HWT an open class with no limit. Let the future D and O line kids wrestle. It would also bring in more kids as the football coaches would want their kids getting in better shape and improving footwork.

Awesome! Good luck to Carson. Let him know that if he feels compelled to continue his PB&J ritual, that I won't hold it against him

We found out about this during the recruiting process. Carson was about a day away from signing with Hofstra in the EIWA which has the second most ncaa bids behind the big ten. He took a last minute visit to Ohio, loved the school and the coaches. We loved the fact that it was fairly close. Throw in the fact that the MAC was about to become a power conference!!!! We were sold. Should be a great conference. I think it should be similar to the EIWA in overall strength.

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

Hoosiers Wrestling in College Update 030619

COLLEGE RULES These kids are training to be NCAA National Champions. Going to College to wrestle Folkstyle. Why not start warming up to the Rules like in Middle School ? MS, HS, College

Literally !

I was hoping Lee would get the first seed so he could avoid McKenna until the finals. If the seeds hold, I can see Red upsetting Carr and making the finals.

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.

The EZboard days were the good ole days

Not my greatest wrestling memory but I tell the story of getting booed out of Rec Hall. I was wrestling heavyweight at 205 and lost 6-2 to 2 time AA and MMA fighter Pat Cummins. I was just trying to survive and stalling a lot. I can still here those boos and that wasn't in their strongest years. I'm sure he will one day tell the story because it is a good story. The other funny part of that trip was when Greg Schafer and I were in the van together he said "Sisson I liked you when you were wrestling 184 but the minute you started wrestling heavyweight I hated you. I hate all heavyweights!" My feelings would have been hurt if the giant Mt Dew I was drinking and Doritos I was eating at the time didn't taste so good.

Let's see the pick'ems based on semi-state! The brains of the state reside in Fort Wayne! Brains over brawn any day of the week!