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I would like to see a riding point. If you ride a wrestler out for an entire period, 1pt will be added. You can only earn 1pt in a match. No need for riding time clock. A wrestler should be rewarded for a ride out. Most of the time the are called for stalling at some point.

I would take stalling out of the penalty chart so that a person cannot be DQed for stalling, or a comnination of stalling and other penalties. I believe that changing stalling a simple 1 point penalty for each occurrence would free Officials to call it more consistently throughout the match. I feel like many officials pace themselves for fear of creating a situation where they will DQ someone.

No time limit. First Headlock wins.

To add to that... Get that GPA as high as possible. Also... GET A HIGH SAT OR ACT SCORE!!! I have said it before. Start taking SAT or ACT early. I would say sophomore year at latest. Figure out which one your wrestler is better at and focus on that test. For Carson it was his SAT. The great thing about SAT is that it is given by The College Board. The college board offers Khan Academy training (SAT prep) free on its website. After you take the test, Khan Academy will know the result and cater a lesson plan for that student. Get on there everyday (5 days a week) and practice SAT. While you can not study for specific SAT questions or test, you CAN get really good at working through the test and become really good at taking test. Take the actual test as many times as possible until you get the score you want. The test will be super scored by the vast majority of colleges. For example: If you get a 650 on math and a 700 on reading the first test and 700 on math and 650 on reading the second time.... your score will be 1400. TEST PREP IS KEY!!! The NCAA only allows 9.9 scholarships per team. most team carry over 30 kids. DO THE MATH!!!! You want that full ride??? Then most likely you will need some academic help!!! Unless you are a very top guy in the nation in a weight class, you are not getting a full D1 ride. With this said.. the NCAA requires student athletes to meet certain thresholds (GPA,SAT score, class rank, or ACT scores) to get the academic money. If this was not the case, they would just give everybody money and say "he's getting a full academic ride". This is information that my family had to find out on our own. I truly hope that this helps a few kids that want to wrestle in college. BTW... @Kookie953 Mrs. Mattyb is without doubt the beauty in our household. You cant look like me and get a catch like that by being dumb!!! Haha!!!

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......

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

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.

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

Too many folkstyle matches end up being 1 minute of excitement and 5 minutes of the top man controlling the bottom man. If I was the wrestling czar... Push out points (I'll stretch the reach of my czar powers) Reset to neutral from top/bottom position if no scoring after 30 consecutive seconds. If top man scores back points reset the 30 second clock. This way you add urgency and excitement to every top/bottom position, eliminate the staleness of when the top man holds down the bottom man for extended periods of time without scoring, and maintain the spirit of the folkstyle. As an added bonus, this increases the value of a takedown assuming that you can hold down your opponent for 30 seconds. Obviously, this would be a major change for the sport. I don't expect it to happen any time soon. But if it did, I think that folkstyle wrestling would be a much more enjoyable sport to watch and participate in.

So maybe I'm not explaining my view very well. 106 generally has one of the highest forfeit rates. A lot of schools just try to find any kid who weighs less than 106 (usually a freshman who hasn't started growing yet) to get forfeits. If we started at 113 and added a weight in the middle or upper weights now that Varsity spot would be filled by a bigger and in a lot of cases a more "varsity" ready athlete. And to answer your questions... If they’re great, why throw them on jv? Not throwing them on JV. If they are a JV level wrestler then yes they could be great at the JV level (maybe this is a philosophical difference as I don't see greatness measured in Ws and Ls but rather everything else gained from being a wrestler - hard work, dedication, sacrifice, discipline, etc. You can achieve greatness in these areas without being a state placer or champ). Putting a 100 lb kid with no muscle tone on varsity seems more like throwing them on varsity rather than throwing them on JV if they are truly JV caliber. Would you rather have guys like Cernus and Cottey on jv? No. They would most likely be on varsity just at 113. They could cut less weight and I'm pretty sure they would still be great. What I would really rather see is upper classman get more opportunities to be a varsity athlete. 100 lb freshman getting to be a varsity athlete because he is the only one that weighs less than 106 over a junior or senior who is a back up wrestler in the middle or upper weights but is still pretty good.

4 point near fall 3 point take down 2nd injury time = 1 point and choice (too many kids using injury time as a break, and simply giving them the choice to go on bottom is not always beneficial) Allowing teams to enter more than 1 kid per weight at sectionals and individual tournaments ( would have to cap it at a certain #)

Coach I think that is a really interesting take on riding time. I've seen people bring up riding time before, and have always felt that it would be too much of a pain with the clocks and all of that. This is a simple solution that would reward a skill in our sport that is currently not scored. This is a really good idea imo. I think it would produce more scoring too. Getting away on bottom would be huge if this were the case. I also think you would see more people choose neutral if this were implemented. This would really have a big effect on strategy.

Unpopular opinion: decrease the number of weight classes to 12. It makes the sport more competitive across the board; prepares kids for the next level (10 weight classes) and makes it easier for schools of all sizes to field a FULL team. 109 117 125 133 141 149 157 165 174 184 197 HWT

Great night last night with Olympic and gold medalist Momir Petkovic!! Great attendance and effort! Looking forward to the next 3 of these!

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.

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.

If I could change anything I would add a weight in back in the middle. Those weights always seem to be loaded with both talent, and numbers. I think you would actually see the % of FF go down as most teams could fill another middle spot. Also the 15th weight would make a difference for tie-breakers and things like that. 106 113 120 125 130 135 140 145 152 160 170 182 195 220 285

It's not a judgement call any more. It's a simple, you step out the guy gets a point. The time it was an issue was when people gamed the system to drop to their knees as they were going out of bounds to avoid the "step" out. That was fixed fairly quickly. The step out is a very easy rule and concept to understand. I like the way out of bounds is called in college, BUT would not want high school refs to have that kind of power of judgement on every time someone went out of bounds. The stepout would be a lot easier to implement with high school refs and it is fairly simple to see who steps out first.

Playing devils advocate on the “step out” rule. So if im controlling the center of the mat and shooting you to the out of bound line and I take one more shot and you do a quarter turn and shoot me out, I’m stalling? Also, what happens if I take a shot in the middle of the mat and drive until you’re off the mat?(not blantly shoved off). To me a step out rule would be too judgmental, if you want to enforce college rules, so be it. However, if you just say if you get shot out you can be stalling even if there’s a scramble. Not a huge fan of it.

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

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.

Roncalli had 9 total wrestlers named academic all state. 5 of those wrestlers were semi state qualifiers too.

I heard the Team Jeff Ironman will give out a @dstruck bobblehead to the winners.

Rumble at the resort held at Belltera Casino in Vevay Indiana give out awesome Spartan Helmets! The finals are held on a stage and the wrestlers get to choose their entrance music for the finals like the ufc or wwe and they introduce them over the speakers.. pretty cool...It's a really fun tournament and I highly recommend it.. been the last 2 years and it was a blast when Carson wrestled Wilham in the finals for the 2nd year straight.. it's always held in June iirc.

Room was absolutely packed last week! Awesome technique from Silas Allred and then we laid the smack down with lots of live. We have another chance for you to get better this Thursday! Our clinician will be.... Cody LeCount 3X State Finalist, 2X State Champion High School Record 183-2 Fargo National Runner-up