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So me being the mother of one of his opponents of course I'm going to root for my kid.. But I would just like to say Jesse is an amazing wrestler and even better individual.. Jace did not finish his high school career quite like he wanted do to an injury he couldn't control happened and Jesse by no means had to reach out to him but he did. Jesse I don't know if you will see this but I would like to thank you and congratulate you on your 3rd 1st place finish! We love watching you wrestle and wish you the best in the future!

County vs region Indianamat sponsored event With a middle school undercard

It doesn't matter if random fans remember who a "champion" is. It matters to the kids that win and their schools. High school athletics should not be about the wins and losses, it NEEDS to be about building up great kids to be GREATER adults. More kids participating in wrestling or other sports will never be a bad thing. Right now our participation is on a sharp decline and we need to get it back to a solid level. To what degree do we need to kill our sport to realize that this one true champion thing is detrimental to the sport? Do we have to lose 25 teams? 50 teams, 100? How man

Just came across this picture of Montgomery from Brownsburg talking to Heath from Leo after their match. I know a lot of these guys who wrestle each other are practicing together all the time and it’s amazing to see how much they respect each other. Does anyone else have any pictures or examples of instances like this?

Congratulations to Alex Cottey from Perry Meridian for signing with Tennessee-Chattanooga. He is projected to wrestle 125. View full signing

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Jason Fryar's Lat drop against Wagner in the closing seconds to win a state title has to be up there.

If we’re not talking exclusively under the lights, Joe Lee reversing Brandon James straight to his back. Banker’s Life collectively erupted on that one.

I think that Ty Mills was really good despite never winning a championship. He went 2nd, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, and had multiple wins over state champs in his career, like Asa Garcia and Jacob Moran. Crazy that he was never able to get a title, I think the closest he got was his junior year when he lost by one point to Cayden Rooks.

Ruhlman beat Bates handily in the semis this year I don't see last years Bates beating this year's Ruhlman.. Just my opinion.

In my opinion. Coaches encouraging kids to do one sport only is the biggest issue to why participation in all sports is down.

Yea when I watched it live I never seen Baumann nod because I jumped out of my seat. Insane man. He could of easily wrestled to not lose and gave up a reversal etc etc... he wrestled to keep scoring insane. Just like when he was on top yea he got too high and kept giving up reversals which made the match entertaining but he wrestled to turn him/pin him. He didn’t wrestle to just ride him. He was always looking to score and wrestled loose I loved it. Ruhlman at 220, Jesse, Zeke, Hall were all very impressive but the most entertaining wrestler for me to watch was Baumann!

Filipovichs Lutheran was clean Halls old school trojan singlet was sick..EC old early 2000s Black and red Trojan Head singlets are sick too.. Ellis'singlet was awesome

Would be exciting to see, while I've got these names up let's see what we would be seeing here: 106: Jackson vs Larocca/Rioux 113: Bahl/DeMarco vs Buttler 120: Lemley/Frazier vs Haines 126: Goin vs Schoeff/Ison 132: Roberson/Torres/Solomey vs Montgomery/Dalton 138: Mendez vs Garcia/Roberts 145: Kaiser vs Watson/Reynolds 152: Ellis vs Conley 160: Cruz vs Boe 170: Sneed vs Fuqua 182: Layman/Sues vs Buchanan 195: DeMarco vs Carrington 220: Bates vs Skaggs 285: Whitenack vs Jones This card would be ridiculousl

Most people won't ever understand small school athletics. It's easy to say just work harder. I've been coaching small schools for 33 years. It's been a struggle for most of them. We don't have the same opportunities as big schools. The lack of facilities,multiple coaches and practice partners are the biggest hurdles we struggle with.

And you could argue Reynolds as a 7th grader, and Hockaday, Brewer, Henry, Forrestsr as 8th graders all could have placed this year. Not to mention the smaller 7th graders like Dickman, Haines or the younger 7th graders Rojas or Day in 2 years that are placers and eventual champs. It won’t be #TheCounty as much as it will be #TheBurg. Their expectations along with their coaches are state championships, not placing. It will be a fun next 5 years! The wave is coming for sure.

I find the whole "down year" and "recruiting" notions preposterous when talking about EMD. They have always had the best JV in the state and have always had a top flight varsity team as far back as my mind can recall. The only thing that would alarm me is if they suddenly started to hover toward or go below the bottom of the top ten teams in the state.

Sergio Lemley wearing his older brothers singlet in Finals

We’ve seen some great one to include Baumann lat drop this year. But let’s hear some others. Maybe Lance Ellis lat drop? Asa Garcia cradle on Viduya Brendon Kelley Spladel on Schurg

De'alcapon Veazy will be at Snider next year

Haines, Miller and Street would be available. Asa Garcia vs Tyson Nisley

2018-19 - 311 Schools - 9,648 2017-18 - 313 Schools - 8,999 2016-17 - 310 Schools - 9,220 2015-16 - 310 Schools - 9,070 2014-15 - 312 Schools - 9,725 2013-14 - 317 Schools - 10,276 2012-13 - 310 Schools - 9,893 2011-12 - 315 Schools - 9,781 Over an 8 year span, it has fluctuated, but Jersey's participation is nearly identical to what it was in 2011-12. Why have they been able to keep participation at a higher and more consistent number? Statically speaking, they are a comparable state due to the number of schools that support a wrestling program,

no... this big.

Those two are gonna need a bigger boat.

First and foremost, another great season wrestlers. Thank you and to our Seniors, I wish you the best in your next journey. You have not disappointed. 106- ACTION Jackson was all business from the get go. This sophomore is going to be fun to watch the next couple years. 113- 4X time state placer and now 2X time CHAMP wasn’t about to be denied. Junior Ruble wrestles hard and as a junior, we will see him again next year for some more excitement. 120-Great hand fighting while on their feet. But Lemley was just too much on top. He had over 3:00 ride time against a sol

Call me biased all you want! But he is certainly my pick.

Kudos to this guy! I'm a late comer with him, but man, he is a tough and dangerous wrestler for anyone he faces. He can score on anyone and is very hard to score on. Makes everyone earn it every time. Thanks for your hard work.

Lets thank the West Lafayette Basketball coach for cutting him from the basketball team last year.

If Cottey has a 12-1 lead and gets aggressive and gets caught and stuck everyone would be saying he shoulda just played it safe and not been so aggressive with that lead. Lol.

Easton doster for new haven is a stud and Gavin jandreas from crown point has the skill of a state champ, I think it’s going to be a matter of size for him.

Gavin davis from Leo will be a problem!

This is like one of those things you watch that there was just so much going on that you could probably see something new everytime. Like when he hit that Lat, I missed coach coach in the background jumping and then Baumann himself nodding to the crowd. They knew it! none of this is a knock on Majors as he was one hell of a competitor and brought it too. And just classy at the end.

I was talking to a friend at NC semi-state and talked about how awesome of a match it would be between Major and Hall. After watching Baumann I’d think either of those guys and Hall would be electrifying!

Boarman has beaten in his career last night champs Kysen Montgomery, Logan Wagner, and J Conway. Food for thought.

Thank you Mike, from the Cottey family!

Alex had an amazing run under the lights runner up to Moran nationally ranked runner up to cernus nationally ranked beat 2x runner up Schoeff for a title beat 2x runner up Ruble for a title congratulations to the Cottey family! Good luck to Alex at the next level

Never!!!! 1 champion per weight class. One individual tournament.

Crown Point semi state: 106: Champ, SQ in Jackson and Cruz 113: 5th and 6th for Bahl and DeMarco 120: Champ and a runner-up 126: 4th placer Sam Goin 132: Three placers in this weight class alone: Torres with 8th, Roberson with 7th, and Solomey with 6th (Solomey placed third at this regional by the way) 138: Another champ, you all know who 145: 5th placer Ethan Kaiser 152: Runner-up, 6th place, and two qualifiers, all four wrestlers here made it to the show, Ellis in 2nd, Estrada in 6th, and Pollitt and Ponce make the qualifiers 160: Cruz in 5th and

Going for that Blake Maurer bigger 4x, I think possibly 132/126 to start finish at 152/60 kid is legit and he is a work out freak! Landon Hawkins also a 7th grader is going to be the real deal. I think he will be 4x contention

I was pulling for him to go out on top.

The question is, does he still keep the mullet and stache going after wrestling?

Parris' dump series on everybody was unstoppable.. HWBubba Dickerson hitting hit famous Dump and Pinning B.J Scott in a minute 95 finals was nasty barely accumulated 10 mins on the mat at state. Nosko chin whipping Milius(had over 200 TDs that season I heard) in the 03 finals was unreal. Mckinleys Headlock on Kieffer was BRUTAL, you could feel the thud! Mendez toss on lil Ruhlman was beautiful. Allred using the NC patented bar and Wrist Coach Black and him mastered was lights out!

The mullet master adds his name to the best to never win it list, congrats on a great career young man, you were a treat to watch every time!

My hat goes off to this kid and I had the pleasure of watching him all the way from Texas for 4 years. This kid could’ve went up once he saw Mendez was in his weight class, but instead he stuck around and competed like the warrior he is! He gave Mendez his most competitive match all year and earned his respect. He’s on my Mt. Rushmore of favorite MD wrestlers and I know the kid will go on to do great things in the future. Once again thank you Blake Boarman it was a pleasure watching you compete for past 4 years!

At LaPorte you only get your picture on the wall for winning a state championship. Fortunately for us we'll be adding another one on the wall here soon.

I think the d3 ncaa set too high of a required participation % when considering all the different state rules .. I hate it fir the Indiana D3 guys , a couple had real shots of winning it for the 2nd year in a row !!

Couldn’t have said it better. I wonder how many people commenting on Cottey’s match have ever been in a position like this. No need to put your lead at risk when you’re up 10+ points after the first.

Mater Dei fans have a right to crow a bit. They were handed a tough draw first round but as a team they wrestled hard. Coming from NE, I was rooting for Chesterton, who also wrestled well, but I have to concede that MD deserved the trophy.

Mater Dei will be fine next year. Their JV won the SIAC and their Varsity won state, twice. It's the year after they will be very down and take a few L's. 106- Isaiah Schaefer 9th 113- Evan Seng 11th 120- Reed Egli 12th 126-Tyler Vanover 11th 132-Matt Herman 11th 138-? 145-? 152-Ashton Hayhurst 12th 160-Spencer Turner 10th / Gabe Vogegel 11th 170- Brody Bauman 12th 182- Gabe Sollars 12th 195-Clay Martin 11th 220-Nick Boots 12th 285-James Ralph 12th

Looks like they need to get to recruiting