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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!

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

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?

County vs region Indianamat sponsored event With a middle school undercard

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

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 many would open your eyes to an issue with participation in this sport?

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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.

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

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.

If that was to occur some of his videos may require a warning for the young, elderly, pre-existing heart conditions, or women who are pregnant.

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 ridiculously stacked, and there's even enough talented wrestlers to make a B team composed of mostly qualifiers and placers. Winner of the A team dual gets to call their regional the hardest in the state of Indiana. (With an exhibition between Tyson Nisley and whoever else wants it, NCAA hasn't been treating us D3 wrestlers very well and ya boy wants to wrestle someone)

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

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

Boarman and Cottey as teammates

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, yet they have nearly 3,000 more participants in a single-class state.

no... this big.

Congratulations on Putnam County on having their first state champ. Kysen Montgomery we are proud of you no matter where you go to school.

Those two are gonna need a bigger boat.

Participation levels dropping 20-25% and a drastic increase in forfeits. Add to that all of the "fun" stuff athletic directors have to deal with in wrestling such as our weight management plan, hiring and finding coaches, and everything else. Wrestling is an easy target to get the axe when schools are looking to cut costs and headaches.

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!

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!

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.

Sergio Lemley wearing his older brothers singlet in Finals

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

Faulkens made it clear on WZBD radio yesterday that he is STRONGLY opposed to class wrestling...

106 Larocca, Rioux both ticket rounders 113 Buttler , Courtney 8th and SQ 120 Haines, Stanberry 8th and ticket round 126 Schoeff, Ison 2nd and 3rd *all 4 made it to state 132 MONTGOMERY and Dalton 1st and 5th 138 Garcia and Roberts SQ and ticket round ( lost to Mendez and boarman) 145 Watson and Reynolds 2nd and 3rd 152 Conley and Rust 5th and ticket round (lost to eventual state champ) 160 Boe and Keith 7th and ticket round (lost to eventual state champ) 170 Fuqua and Hess SQ and ticket round 182 Buchanan and Pugliese 2nd and SQ 195 Carrington and Dickens 2nd and SQ ( Easton was also a SQ) 220 Skaggs and Oliver SQ and ticket round 285 Jones and Johnson 3rd and SQ (Kaba was also a SQ) So thats a state champ... and 4 runner ups.. 13 medals!

When Jace beat Gavin, I told my wife that it was going to be Jesse and Jace in the finals. Sad that he didn’t get to finish the tournament. Hopefully he is doing better today. Jace was the first kid that made Jesse want to train harder. Definitely a dangerous and fun wrestler to watch. Thank you for the nice post.

I think some people are taking the thread, based on the title, as wrestler who was a first time places. Rather than the first placer that school has had. Congratulations to all first time placers though. It’s a big accomplishment and for some schools, while not the first ever, it the first in a long period of time for their program.

I think he was on the swat team, bad news if you're a bad guy! Of course he's either 40 or getting real close by now, I still wouldn't want to tangle with him!

He literally did a sit up with the guy Tee'd up with a half in, and displayed super Human Strength to rag doll him! I wish so badly we could have ppl upload different state finals on here.. Imagine a video archive incorporated into this site.

Graduation edition county vs region

I've coached at small schools--kids don't want to come out because they think they have no chance to advance. Those of you that think "just having the opportunity to compete" is enough for kids these days, are wrong. Classed team state doesn't move the needle for kids wanting to participate. Kids want to know there is a payoff at the end of their struggle. Is it guaranteed if we had 2 classes? No, but at least they feel like they have a fair chance. I can't get kids to come out when I tell them we are in a Sectional with Brownsburg, Avon, Plainfield, Pike and Ben Davis. And if you get through that, the Regional with Center Grove, Franklin, Mooresville, Martinsville, etc... While programs aren't being dropped, at what point do teams stop getting dual meets scheduled? When they have 8, 9, or 10 forfeits? Nobody wants to schedule those teams. I don't have the numbers, but I would bet we are getting more of those teams every year. Maybe I should have told them to come out anyway and just work harder. That seems to be a pretty popular opinion to small school problems...

Congratulations Alex! Going to be awesome seeing you and boarman show off our Indiana talent down south.

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.

I'm glad to know Ohio, Iowa, and Pennsylvania are running their tournaments the silly and wrong way.

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!

I believe she wins the Franklin Country Region next year and has a chance at making the State.

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.

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.

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.