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Thursday Jan. 9, Snider and Homestead will wrestle in an event titled "Takedown The Stigma" This is a free event where donations will be accepted for Mental Health Awareness. More information is posted on the following link: https://www.parkview.com/sports-network/news/sn-news-story?news=601

One thing is for sure...having watched and participated in this debate for years (my stance is for classing, by the way) it is good to see that both sides have been significantly more civil and open to hearing the arguments of the other. Good job, message board!

Sometimes you need to dot your i's and cross your t's...or add a t.

Thanks to @littlevito for putting these together

The Takedown the Stigma-Wrestling for Mental Health Awareness was a success bringing in over $1900 in donations! Thanks to Bowen Center, Parkview Behavior Health, Parkview Sports Medicine, Remedy Live, the Snider Counselors, and fans!

Congratulations to Seth Rohrbach from West Vigo for signing with Trine. He is projected to wrestle 141. View full signing

Thank you. I saw he was back there the other night and was wondering where he’d land.

Nice cant wait to see Kelsey Bilz from Madison pull some upsets.

The 120 and 126 watch lists are pretty wild also. There are about five kids at each weight who are incredibly close to the #8 spot.

There's a young man from South Adams that could be on the 106 list. Been watching him work our middle school kids for a few years. The Jay County 113 should be a SA starter. Not sure why he's down in Jaytucky this year.

120, 170, 182, and 195 are looking like the deepest weights. Top to bottom those weights look tough! Especially 170, and 182!!! Wow

Great work Mike!

Yea I flipped it this time. It was real close match at the harvest. Dancy was up in the third and hezzy got the fall in the 3rd.

Solid job big dog! I'm surprised 1 & 2 at HW aren't flipped with Their head 2 head match.. then again that's your area and might know how the match was going before the fall.

Grace Merchant - 9th Jazlyn Gramlin - 10th

I think the thought is that Yianni will be a 149 when he comes back. So hopefully Lee can stay down and avoid him.

By JEREMY HINES Thehines7@gmail.com Hamilton Southeastern senior Andrew Irick suffered a devastating knee injury in the spring of his junior year. It might have been the best thing for him. Irick knew, because of the injury (he tore his ACL, MCL and meniscus), he wouldn’t be able to remain in the 220-pound weight class. He also knew he needed to get stronger, but he couldn’t do much with his legs in the weight room due to the surgery on his knee and the recovery time needed. So, he started working upper body. Weight gain wasn’t an issue because he was planning to bump up to heavyweight for his senior season. “He probably put on 55 pounds,” HSE coach Nick Brobst said. “He’s a totally rebuilt athlete now. His wrestling reflects that. He’s bigger, way, way stronger and way more aggressive with his attacks. Wrestling in the heavyweight division makes him look even faster. He’s a much, much improved wrestler over what he was last year.” Last season Irick was no slouch. He had his best season of his career, ultimately finishing fourth at state. Irick started out as a freshman in the 182-pound class. He then moved up to 195 as a sophomore and 220 as a junior. Those early weight class competitions forced Irick to get better on his feet. That has ultimately helped him now that he’s in the heavyweight class. Irick’s older brother Matt wrestled for Indiana University. His other brother, Spencer, wrestles for IU now. Matt worked a lot with Andrew to help him on his feet and with takedowns. That has transformed Irick’s attack on the mat. “He has got a lot more aggressive on his feet,” Brobst said. “We used to joke that he wrestled using what we called the ‘Irick stall’ where he would do anything and everything to make a match last forever. Last year he started developing his own gas tank and now he doesn’t want the matches to go that long. “He still has that heavyweight mentality to a tee,” Brobst said. “Last year he won on Friday night at state. At weigh-ins Saturday morning his teammate was eating yogurt, fruit and a granola bar. Andrew is there eating a bag of leftover Halloween candy. He said ‘this is what I do. Leave the process alone.’ “ Irick is currently ranked No. 2 in the state in the 285-pound class. He’s ranked just below Brownsburg’s returning state champion Dorian Keys. The two could potentially wrestle in 10 days at the Hoosier Crossroads Conference tournament. “Conference is important,” Irick said. “But ultimately my goal is to win a state championship and that’s the bigger picture for me right now. I want to be at my best come tournament time.” According to coach Brobst, Andrew goes through a whole gamut of emotions before he wrestles. “Andrew is probably the first kid I’ve coached in 10 years that’s just never serious,” Brobst said. “He’s a complete goofball everywhere he goes. But come meet time, he goes through this process. He’s nervous at first. Then he starts doubting himself and thinking he can’t beat the other guy. Then he decides he’s going to go out and kick that guy’s butt. Something clicks and he’s ready to go. It’s like that every match.” Irick is in the top 10 percent of his class academically. He has a 4.27 GPA and plans to follow in his brothers’ footsteps and wrestle at Indiana University next season. He will study biology or chemistry with the goal of becoming a doctor. Like wrestling, becoming a doctor runs in the family. Both of Irick’s parents are doctors, his grandfather is a doctor, his uncle is a doctor and both of his brothers are studying to be doctors. “It’s hard to see him as a doctor, knowing him as an 18-year old,” Brobst said. “But I have no doubt that he will be. He might go into a field where he works with kids. He’s extremely good with kids. My son is a kindergartener and thinks Andrew walks on water.” Irick is focused on getting back to state this year and potentially making is way to the championship match. “The atmosphere at state is just indescribable,” Irick said. “I can’t wait to get back there.” View full article

Isn't it Coach Brobst not Brobs? Seems like he is a regular contributor on here?

Happen to us last weekend. We lost to East Central 78-6. Two of their wins were forfeits, rest were pins, and our win was by pin.

We are having parents register their daughters for the IHSGW State Championships. You must have your school register their girl wrestlers and have your high school coaches or assistant coaches take them to this tourney and coach them. Please understand if any high school girl has not been registered by their high school or head coach they will not be able to participate. Gary Myers Director IHSGW.

Sorry. Don’t want you to get what I’m saying twisted, I think Alexandria is doing an OUTSTANDING job of doing things the right way! Every time I go to a youth event and see 30-45 little Tigers out there and all the parents getting into it, I get excited for what that town has coming up! My entire family minus myself are Tigers, and you are absolutely doing fantastic things! just pointing out how you (and others in your boat) could have more immediate success at the HS level of it were classed and the work would be lessened. Burn out in our profession is very real. And many small towns don’t have another guy to take up the torch when one leaves due to it. Keep up the great work! No doubt we’ll start seeing maroon and gold Tigers at Bankers life soon!

Date: 01/08/2020 Entity: IndianaMat Type: Dual Ranking Class: 1A 1. North Posey 2. Bluffton View full team ranking

I like lifting the travel restrictions but cannot stand class sports, for any individual sport. You do this and you never have Mendez v Watts last year. You don’t have 10 of the state championship matches from last year. And you never have Chad Red v Nick Lee, probably the best indiana high school state match of all time. You won’t have 10,000+ fans at bankers life cheering on the 2 best kids in the state under the lights. It’s very simple, the more state champions you have the less it means. You win a state championship and you are one of the best 14. You win a state championship in a class system and you are one of the best 42. A state title simply will not mean as much.

Hey man, feel free to ask. Feel free to let me know if there is someone being completely overlooked; I want this to be as accurate as possible, and for the kids who crack the rankings for the first time to be ecstatic when they see their name. I just need information on the kids who are being overlooked.

One of the best Rivalries in the Region going on tonight at Merrillville high school. Region Sports network will have the broadcast I will be on the call with Larry Babcock.

Those mat tactics will really change when you need to cut a few more ounces to stay under. Sure Coach I could pin him, but I need to work off this extra sip of water and bit of a granola bar so I'm grinding out an OT win instead. Elmo from Vision Quest would have said it best for this scenario....it's what happens in that six minutes.

Stanley is unstoppable!!

Said this a million times, but we need the IHSAA and IHSWCA to join forces even more than right now. Like posted above, they need to get rid of the schedule limits so that you can have single class individual & classed individual tournaments and team dual tournaments. 4 tournaments to get more wrestling in and hone the craft of our best teams and individuals. Not sure if we start earlier or same time as other states, but I know Ohio ends a month later. Why not have the classed individual tournaments and classed team dual tournaments in early to mid January and treat them like Al Smith's, Mater Dei event, and other big individual & dual tournaments? Then have the single class dual tournament in February and single class individual tournament in March?

Also makes you wish our 7/8th graders could compete in our IHSAA State tournament like MN. Imagine B Lee, N Lee, J Lee, C. Red, J Mendez, etc being allowed as 7/8th graders to compete in 106 or 113 as middle schoolers. This years Incoming 6th graders have a some very accomplished Natl youth wrestlers. Dickman, Harden, Reynolds, Stanley, Rioux, Hawkins, etc...they have won multiple titles against older competition. Would be great to see them compete at an early age. Just like it would have been for the great wrestlers before them. MS stste this year could possibly see the most 6th grade champs ever? Would be a great stat to see.

I don't comment on these often but I will say I believe that Indiana being single classed is the reason we are so tough at the top. In some states like Georgia there are as many as 7 classes for wrestling that means you have almost a full 8 man bracket of state champs. I feel like that waters down what it means to be a state champion. However I completely agree with a dual meet state being classed just like our IHSWCA has done for our state tournament gives all of the small schools great opportunities to show their talent but at the end of the day there is ONE state champion. Every year there are kids from small 1A and 2A schools that are high on the podium I believe this proves every year that wrestling shouldn't be classed because no matter where you come from if you put in the work you can get to bankers life, it doesn't take going to Cathedral, Perry, Brownsburg, Avon, etc, you can be a state champ from anywhere if you put in the work.