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Rickie Clark and Robert Samuels put on the best consolation match spectacle in Indiana wrestling history.

EVERY year since 1968.....

This will be 30 in a row for me. Qualified for 3, placed in 2 of them. Coached in some capacity in 7 of them. So many memories, too many to count, but so many heartbreaks as well. What a great weekend, especially seeing old friends and making new. Hoping I am fortunate to see 30 plus more! Good luck to everyone this weekend and remember that regardless of what happens you are part of one of the greatest fraternities in the world.

Hope this works...if I remember right the camera missed some of the best action, but still worth a watch Samuels vs Clark

Year 16. Favorite match = Samuels v Clark 2017

GO WALKER!!

Last 30 years 26 as a coach - the Lee/Red match was so electric I have never seen the stadium that intense, great atmosphere!

Before the college conference and post season begins I just wanted to take a second to thank everyone who has been contributing to this forum. For many years this place had been pretty sparsely used, with many results threads being hijack. I’m glad to see the consistent traffic this forum has received this season. I’m amazed at the effort by several posters to highlight wrestlers from multiple programs and in all division. And I’m pleads this forum is finally being used by most posters as a place to highlight the achievements of these hard working young men rather than as a avenue to spawn negativity. Keep it going Indiana. There is life beyond HS wrestling and I’m glad more quality posters are interested in talking about it.

I’m 19 years old and this will be my 19th time in a row. I’ve gone every single year of my life, and I plan to keep it that way.

Wheeler has Jose diaz jr class of 2018- Franklin & Marshall D1 Isaiah Mohmed class 2019 - Wisconsin whitewater D3 Trey buhler class 2018- university of Indianapolis D2 Clay Turpin class of 2016- Indiana tech university NAIA Giovanni Diaz class of 2020- Franklin and Marshall D1 Just remember wheeler has about 530 students enrolled and we only had a wrestling program for the last 7 years

Why do football coaches seem to get "what they want?" Wrestling probably makes just as much money for the IHSAA. We need to look at ourselves first before we start blaming others. Recruiting is bad, changing times in swimming is bad, but changing alpha weights and other weight loss plan shenanigans are detrimental to an athlete's health. It's akin to making a kid participate with a concussion. The coaches are a part of the problem as to why we can't even get simple things passed like scoring at the state finals. Faulkens understands wrestling enough to know what is good for the sport and what is bad. Wrestling isn't that hard to figure out, but when he has to field 100's of calls sectional week because of weight management issues it wears on him and the staff. By no means is either organization perfect, but we need to first look at ourselves and see how we can help the situation. You can't blame the ref for calling you pinned if you put yourself to your back.

I'm pretty sure I've posted this idea on here before, but here it is again... Let's start with some IHSAA philosophies, since they are the ones ultimately making the decision. Bobby Cox and company don't like "wrestlebacks" so this is something different. They are used to the one-and-done postseasons of football and basketball and have asked the wrestling coaches how many times someone should be allowed to lose and still move on. Our answer should be 2 - double elimination. The IHSAA views all 4 weeks as one big tournament. So, make the whole thing as close to double elimination as possible, like every other wrestling tournament in the world. That means we should guarantee that someone has lost twice in the tournament series or lost once to someone who has already lost twice (i.e., 4 over 1). Right now, there are 2 times when this does not happen. One is the pigtail round of Sectionals, which should be fixed by not pairing unseeded wrestlers against the top seeds. The only other spot that happens is the ticket round of Semi State, where an undefeated postseason wrestler can lose to someone with 1 postseason loss. That's what this solution will fix. The IHSAA also doesn't believe in upsets. They believe whoever wins must be the better wrestler. We cannot use any upsets as examples, because in their minds upsets do not happen. But if we can show them the fundamental flaw in their system that can be easily fixed with minimal effort, it has a much better chance of passing. And finally, the IHSAA likes to make more money and loves it's own ideas. This fix appeals to both of those philosophies, as well. And now for the idea... Qualify the top 5 out of each Semi State. Several years ago, the IHSAA had one year when they added matches to 5th place, but it was only for team score purposes. We bring back the IHSAA's own idea, so the ticket round losers pair up at the same time as the semifinals, and those winners wrestle for 5th at the same time as the 1st and 3rd place matches (like they do on Saturday of State). If your SemiState ran the semis on 2 mats, then this would take no extra time. If your SemiState ran the semis on 4 mats, then this would add about 45 minutes to the tournament. This year, New Castle was done around 6pm with 10 minute breaks between rounds and a 30+ minute lunch break. State will then have 20 per weight class, which will be more fans/money for the IHSAA without watering down the state tournament. Pair up the 4's versus 5's for an opening round on Friday night before the usual first round. Banker's Life can easily hold 6 mats to actually make Friday night go quicker. Details about the 20-man state bracket can be worked out later, but there would definitely be some exciting 4v5 and 5v1 matches on Friday night. Again, these would not be "wrestlebacks" - they are 5th place matches. They are not meant to give kids who lost (or got upset or had a bad match) an extra chance. This just fixes a systemic flaw in the "double elimination" of the tournament series overall. If the Coaches' Association proposes it like this, it would have a better chance of being approved by the IHSAA. A couple of additional benefits to this would be having a true alternate (6th place finisher) and more accurate team scores.

Been there since 1984. I have worked it for the last 20 years. It is always exciting.

20. Still get the chicken tender basket at least once a year and i get ice cream during the finals every year. No excuses play like a champion.

More importantly is having a strong coaches association and coaches that don't try to cheat the system. There is no better way to hurt the sport than by doing things like changing alpha weights.

Good luck to all of the Indianapolis Catholic Youth Organization's (CYO) wrestling alumni competing at the State Finals this week. The following alums competed in CYO's Little Guy (K-4) and/or Cadet (5-8) wrestling program: Bryce Lowery – Roncalli – St. Roch Evan Dickey – Cathedral – St. Simon Josh Johnson – Cardinal Ritter – St. Michael Alex Cottey – Perry Meridian – St. Barnabas Little Guys Zeke Seltzer – Cathedral – St. Simon Christian White – New Palestine – Holy Spirit/Eastside Little Guys Carson Eldred – Westfield – St. Maria Goretti Sam Slivka – Roncalli – St. Barnabas Brendan Mattingly – Carmel – St. Maria Goretti Logan Bailey – Cathedral – Christ the King Alec Viduya – Roncalli – St. Jude Elliott Rodgers – Cathedral – St. Maria Goretti Johnny Parker – Cathedral – St. Michael Jacob Huffman – Cathedral – St. Michael Congratulations also to CYO Wrestling Coordinator Kevin Troy who is being inducted into the Indiana Wrestling Hall of Fame!

My favorite matches are as follows 1.) Red vs Lee 2.) Mauer vs Dolly 3.) Samuels vs Ricky Clark 4.) Campbell vs Petrov 5.) Sessa vs williams ev central

It was better than the Finals

https://www.d3wrestle.com/ Usually has all the D3 meets and those usually over lap into some of the D2, NAIA, JUCO, and D1.

52 will be the winner so far in this thread.

I've watched that match dozens of times and it gets better every time!

One of the best matches ever in banker life!

In the last 10 years at Jeffersonville High School, we've had two D1, four D2 (two will be D1), 9 NAIA, one D3, and 6 JUCO. Also the team manager for Ohio State is a Jeff Wrestling alum and we will probably have another D2 signing here in a few weeks 2009 – Caleb Browner – Campbellsville NAIA 2010 – Ryan Dewitt – Waldorf College NAIA 2011 – Alonzo Shepherd – Indiana University D1 (four year starter) 2012 – Brent Browner – Indiana Tech NAIA 2012 – Elijah Curtley – Indiana Tech NAIA 2013 – Jasi Coureur – West Virginia Tech University NAIA 2013 – Nick Stewart – Lindenwood Belleville University – Illinois NAIA 2014 – Gavan Jolley-Little – Indiana University D1 2014 – Tavion Lucas – Marian Military Institute JUCO 2015 – Jasi Couereur – St. Catherine NAIA 2016 – Darian Newbolt – Manchester JUCO 2017 – Josh McCorkle – Bellarmine University D2 (soon to be D1) 2017 – Vaughn Lloyd – Manchester D3 2017 – Josh Cooper – Ancilla JUCO 2017 – Shawn Williams – Ancilla JUCO 2017 – Carson Somerville – Ohio State University (team manager) 2018 – Luke Smith – Indiana Tech NAIA 2018 – Josh Craig – Bellarmine University D2 (soon to be D1) 2018 – Josiah Freeman – University of Indianapolis D2 2018 – Carlos Molina – Lassen Junior College JUCO 2018 – Jacob Laughlin – Lassen Junior College JUCO 2019 – Isaiah Fultcher – Tiffin College D2 2019 – Carlos Santos, Indiana Tech NAIA

Exactly... look at Parris attacking both sides and keeping the big men on their back foot guessing.. You're right about our sport evolving.. ..its the oldest sport there is and we are still creating more techniques.. think about Askren and that funk roll where he passes the laces and turns his D into offense..Rodgers pulled it off vs Noehre earlier this season.. just 10 years ago there wasn't hardly none of that.. angel also mastered thigh picks out of the front head position and was wrestling like an elite mature international level guy as a freshman.. Jaggers said it was like ice skating up hill.. every where he went Angel was already there..Our sport has come along nicely and its guys like Angel who showed us what was possible.. Along with Reece,Howe and Mendez..Allred is another that's evolved through competing im all 3 styles and tying them together! Vega ws another 1 that adapted FS well into folkstyle.. it's not a coincidence that most Folk Style studs are also FS studs..We need FS as our style at the all age divisions instead of Folk imho Its similar to how MMA is the most efficient fighting art because it ties all disciplines into 1 and is more appealing to a variety..Just wrestling Folk is like just Boxing and then going into MMA without other tools.. look how good America is with FS being our secondary style..if we made it our main focus our country would evolve the sport to another level and our MEDAL count im international competition would be higher.

It would be really cool if we as a state had a set number of weight classes that were all the same, instead of them changing each week due to different middle school conference rules/regulations.

Pfff Andrew Howe went through almost back to back years of teching every single guy. Think his senior year in the finals he only beat the guy by 14 cause guy didnt want to get up anymore.

Jarred and he won a decision in the finals over Yorktown kid iirc.. He's ranked top 10 in the world at 125 and should've never been cut from the UFC.. had terrible luck there and should be undefeated still.

Geez, I was coming on to get updates and see if anyone wanted to buy a shirt. Sorry to hear @GenHeavyHandz. I hope for a speedy recovery dude! I’ll take your place in the match with @FCFIGHTER170 lol

Well..... “with that said“ as @Mattyb always says in every ...... single........ post ....... he’s ever posted on here. Matt Brewer, @UncleJimmy and I have made a commitment #TheCounty to bring life to this Forum. Our kids are wrestling in College and we would like bring some humor and facts to College Forum. Glad we are sharing info, news in the College divisions, I would like to go further and post somewhere where on here all the Open tournaments are happening around the Country, maybe links to register . Looks like a lot of Open tournaments are in Ohio this year . Just found that out recently myself . Great points @MattM !

I do have an inside “Track” on who is running the tournament. And the rumor is all points are to be added this year from each round. And that is how the scoring is showing when looking as a viewer!

126, 160, 170, n 182 are a nathty combo for 1s n 2s..n i no a ting or 2 about combos

The best are always in a garage off Cleveland St.

Maybe @ontherise219 @Bigyusmand @indianmorg can talk about the best and worst tattoo parlors in da region on Gorilla Radio.

I don't wish no ill will on you one bit! And actually makes me sick to my stomach that you could've died bickering over nothing..I wish you a speedy recovery and hope you're ok.. Call me petty or whatever you want but I got a heart and would never want you to go through this crap..I would've never even said anything had you not started this thread and have in the past tried letting it go.. get well man and take care of yourself!

I went to my first State in 1965 but my consecutive string started in 1971 so congrats to my friend Pete. It’s like a family reunion but I can tell you as good as it’s in the stands it’s even better on the floor.

This is my 18th in a row, kinda low compared to others. Maybe we can get everyone to stand up that has been to X number of state championships like they do at NCAA's.

Wow, this will only be my 28th consecutive year.

Not to be that guy - but, after spending my morning reading this thread I have four thoughts. 1) This was super entertaining. 2) I hope you get better quickly Gen. Lucky you caught things when you did. 3) FC is literally one of the guys in this sport that will give you the shirt off his back if it helps you. He will help anyone try to become a better wrestler and he loves the sport like few other, period. 4) I'm thinking...and this may be a bit out of line (probably not on this thread), but seeing the hospital pic I am fairly certain the weight class would have been more around the 220 mark than the 167. Now - carry on. Let the making up commence.

This is why I love how the neutral game has progressed over the decades. There are so many evolving situations that are being created from the whole tie vs. space set up dialectic. The mixed tie variations I have seen Angel teach is proof of the philosophical changes. The transitional contact and breaking contract, pulling the trigger on shots timing is also becoming verifiable technique to use in current times, along with added emphasis on the reshot. You just can't have plan A anymore, or even just plan B to go with A.

Damn man, this is a blessing im disguise then.. lord knows what would've happened had you went longer without getting diagnosis..btw just so this isn't too mushy Ill Name drop a little for ya like old times Gralan Early and my best friend Matt jaggers use to have wars.. Jaggers beat him for the FS state title their last year cadet..Gralan got revenge that following HS on Saturday morning their sophomore years at IHSAA state.. That match alone showed me a valuable lesson all my guys obide by... Early realized Jaggers was very Takedown from the tie oriented... Nasty Snap downs (seem him bounce countless guys heads off the mat from their feet with it) ankle picks and Butt ducks aka boot scoots...So everytime matt would reach,Gralan would change levels and take him down...It was genius on many levels.. not only did he make adjustments to beat matt it drove home many technical points..If a guy reaches for your head he's given up his heads and hand D..Anybody reaching isn't expecting q guy to change levels.. He assumes they'll be there when he reaches and he isn't.. and when a guy is so use to wrestling a certain style it's very hard to make im match adjustments when they're that committed... Both guys had magnificent careers with both wrestling under the lights! And All my guys know "if they reach, you teach"..

That’s right, that’s the 1 that I didn’t look at the state brackets to check grades because it was a no brainer haha whoops

The Region Bragging Rights dual meet was hosted by the Times at Purdue Calumet. It invited the best Seniors from the circulation area in Indiana and Illinois to face off and Blythes would provide singlets for the match. Last time they had it was around 2010.

I couldn’t agree with my brother from another mother more. !! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR !! at ISWA State .

1. Will Viduya get the golden bookend? Alec Viduya won a state title as a freshman at 113lbs, but since then his nemesis Asa Garcia has tripped him up twice. Garcia is in Bloomington now and the path seems clear to end on top of the podium. The other likely contenders include Brock Ellis, Jaden Reynolds, and Reece Luhmann. Luhmann went to overtime with Viduya last week. The "golden bookend" has been done three other times throughout Indiana history. The first was Ray Webb of Bloomington University who won titles at 120lbs as a freshman and 145lbs as a senior. The next to do it was current Evansville Mater Dei coach Greg Schaeffer. In 1995 he won a state title at 100lbs and again reached the top step of the podium in 1998 at 119lbs. The last person to accomplish this feat was Indian Creek's Ethan Raley. He won a title as a freshman at 103lbs, then again at 135lbs as a senior. 2. Team Race The team race is going to be hotly contested from the getgo. Mater Dei looks to be the favorite on paper early on. Crown Point has some brutal Saturday morning matches that could determine the state title. Brownsburg is lurking with a couple state title contenders and other placers. Never count out two-time defending champions Cathedral. Friday night could set the stage for one or more of the contenders to pull away from the field. However, a couple slipups could mean another team or two comes into contention. Saturday morning will be filled with fireworks that will give us a great indication of who will come out on top of the team race. 3. Will the class of 2021 get a title? As of this writing the current junior class has yet to win an individual state title. This can and possibly will change on Saturday night. Top contenders for a title include Alex Cottey(113), Blake Boarmann(138), Evan Bates(220), and Brock Ellis(145). Cottey has one loss on the year, but his opponent did not qualify for state. Boarman has a wide open weight class where the top guys have all beaten each other. Bates and Ellis both have yet to be defeated by an Indiana opponent this year. 4. Famous firsts Indianapolis Lutheran's Hayden Flipiovich is the school's first state qualfiier. Will he be able to crack the code and be their first placer as well? Attica, Monroe Central, and River Forest have never had a state placer in their history. Will Jeffrey Bailey be the first Ingot state placer? Logan Swallow won a semi-state title last week and could be the Golden Bear's first state placer. Jordan Douglass was the first state qualifier in Rambler history two years ago, but has yet to reach the podium. There are 32 schools that have a state qualifier that has yet to have a state champion. The ones that might just break through this year include Garrett's Clayton Fielden, Hamilton Southeastern's Andrew Irick, North Montgomery's Drew Webster, Norwell's Cale Gray, Sullivan's Lane Gilbert, and Wheeler's Giovanni Diaz. 5. Best dressed From shiny pants and shorts to Tonte's custom taylored suits, who will stand out in the fashion department? Will Cathedral be wearing their robes this weekend? Which coach will have the strongest beard game? All of these are valid questions that will get answered this weekend. View full article

You must’ve misread my post... I said I was a REGIONAL champion... That’s one level past his sectional title.... Still have the ribbon on my wall to prove it! I also scored an escape on a state champion once... Glad I could clear that up...

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

Are you hiding from someone?

I have thought that the top 6 should advance out of each semi state. Same idea above to determine 5/6. 24 man state bracket. Semi State champs and runner ups get a bye round 1 of state.

Watts loses to Jordan Decatur in the finals. They dueled penn state last night and came and won this today. Carson beats a solid Russian in the finals 14-3 to win his 4th open of the season. Had a runner up finish this year also. Putting together a very solid redshirt campaign. #ProudDad