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Seems that way. Some clubs up there need to get on the weekday tourneys!!! They are awesome. Been seeing 50 to 150 kids get two or three solid matches in a couple hours. It’s awesome! I see this much like the duals at the elementary level. Both are very good products that are cost effective and convenient for families. Went to Red Cobra on Friday. Bout 80 kids. Several youth hammers and several high school state placers there. Mark Durham running track. JD Minch and Zach Errett reffing. $10 entry fee. Two full mats. Nice medals for the kids (not expected but really cool). Weighins from 5 to 5:30. Everyone got 2 to 4 matches and was done by 9. Can’t beat it. This is what the people want.

This year The Compound Indy decided to take some of Indiana's best to Kingsport TN, a place where traditionally Indiana has been well represented (Indiana Outlaws, Indiana Smackdown, ISWA Team Indiana). With some of the best wrestlers in the nation in attendance(Teams from Indiana (3), Tennessee (5), Alabama (3), Missouri (2), Georgia (7), Michigan, Illinois (3), Iowa (4), Maryland (2), Pennsylvania (2), and Virginia), we were able to win the tournament (34 teams) in the last AAU Duals held in one the the top venues in America. Big Shout out to our GREAT parents who made this trip spectacular! A big CONGRATULATIONS to all teams and individuals who competed on this busy National Wrestling Weekend (Indiana Outlaws, Indiana Smackdown, ISWA Team Indiana, and wrestlers who competed @ UWWs). *This was the first time a Indiana Team has ever won this event! * This event was on Track. All results and bouts are archived HERE The Compound Indy 8-0 Tournament Champions 40 Mikel "Shorty" Anderson - 8-0 Gold AA TMOW 45 Mason "Mace" Baylor - 8-0 Gold AA 50 Connor "MadMan" Maddox - 6-2 Bronze AA 55 Alex "Big Al" Huddleston - 8-0 Gold AA 60 Kaid "Not Afraid" Jackson - 5-3 Copper AA 65 Caleb "The Future" Schaefer - 6-2 Bronze AA 70 "Darth" Revin Dickman - 8-0 Gold AA 75 Landen "Gooey" Haines - 6-2 Bronze AA 80 Parker "The Brand" Reynolds - 6-2 Bronze AA 85 Isaiah "The Wildcat" Schaefer - 5-3 Copper AA 90 Silas "No Mullet" Foster - 4-4 95 Kyle "Irish Nightmare" Harden - 8-0 Gold AA 100 Kyle "Lake Michigan" Jelinek - 5-3 Copper AA (MI) 108 James "Drink More Milk" Ingle - 5-3 Copper AA (OH) 108 Noah "Ribs" Terry Alt 116 Danny "Young Blood" Zmorowski - 6-2 Bronze AA (OH) 125 Landon "The Freak" Terry - 7-1 Silver AA 140 Garrett "G-Funk" Abernathy-Schiefelbein - 6-2 Bronze AA 170 De'Alcapone "DP" Veazy - 8-0 Gold AA 220 Triston "Valpo Warrior" Meschede - 5-3 Copper AA *We return 9 of 19 kids from this team! #Indiana #CompoundStrong #MFFM Kenny Harden

No doubt, floarena is the poopy flavored lollipop of the bracket world. Getting to it is no picnic either. That said I love the video and for the last year or so the streaming has been good. You have to keep in mind Flo doesn't promote wrestling they just sell folkstyle/freestyle crack to those already addicted. Addicts are willing to endure great pains to get their fix. Flo is testing your fortitude with floarena

The best way to help increase the local tournament attendance is to incentivize it. If you go to one local even your freestyle state cost is reduced by $X, two events it is reduced by $Y, and so on. With spring breaks(some being two weeks long now), nice weather, maybe other sports, etc families make the decision to attend freestyle state in January or sooner. How much more would attendance increase if they didn't have to worry about driving to Indy twice during the week to get qualifiers in?

Again, I know that people don't like it and do understand to the why. My point was that I have personally seen some better wrestling and numbers are up. With that said... when the whole thing was put in place, I am sure that the weeknight deal was not in anybody's mind. As the result of trying to get the qualifiers in, we are now getting great mini tournaments and freeing up some of our weekends. I see better freestyle and enjoyed my Easter a bit more. Just saying, I'm seeing good stuff.

I was skeptical about the weekday tournament before, but most have turned out pretty well. It hasn't been too much different than attending many of the Saturday events where you normally get 3-4 wrestlers in your weight class anyway. And now that they have become more advertised thing rather than a couple clubs trying to just sneak in an event at the last minute for their own kids to qualify, I think most people appreciate that additional option weekday events provides. If anyone in the central or southern part of the state (or the north if you want to make the drive) still needs to get another qualifier in, Seymour is hosting a weekday tournament this Wednesday. We had a pretty solid turnout last year for our first time hosting this type of weekday event. Almost everyone got at least 3 matches in, everyone wrestled on full mats, we were out the door at a decent time, and you get to be in the newly crowned largest high school gym (according to permanent seating calculations).

It is all based on the area of the state you are in. The Indy area is great, but the northern part of the state is not doing as well.

Congratulations to Jack Heldt from Carmel for signing with Wabash. He is projected to wrestle 197. View full signing

Congratulations to Cameron Bacon from Carmel for signing with Wabash. He is projected to wrestle 184. View full signing

My son isn’t in HS, but I will say Indy Freco at Southport was a pretty good tourney. He got 8 matches in one day. Not bad so close to home. All matches were on trackcast and the subscription was only $2.

Congratulations to Alex Mosconi from Indianapolis Cathedral for signing with Ohio. He is projected to wrestle 149. View full signing

Final FloNationals Results Cadets Jesse Mendez and Silas Allred CHAMPIONS *Both will represent the USA at the Pan Ams Braydon Erb 4th Zeke Seltzer 7th Blake Boarman and Macartney Parkinson 8th Juniors Matt Lee, Eli Dickens, and Joe Walker 2nd Hayden Lohrey and Will Crider 3rd