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The Fort Wrestling Facility should be coming online at the beginning of June barring no construction issues. We are located in Fort Wayne 3 minutes off of I69. We will be hosting live wrestling nights, local academies, meet the coach sessions, open facilities, camps, and clinics. For June and July we have Tom Ryan, Logan Stieber, and Purler camps coming your way and sign ups are open. Check us out at https://thefortwrestling.com. You can also see the progress of the build out at https://www.facebook.com/wrestlefortway and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/wrestlefortway/ The whole goal is to bring more training opportunities to the area. Any support is appreciated.

You would still have wrestlers at home, on Friday night, that would have qualified had they avoided the "loaded" regional/semi-state. Wrestle-backs provides the best chance to get the Top 4 from a given location, on that given day. Nothing more, nothing less.

Logic would say send Brownsburg to Ft. Wayne SS. They drive 180 miles to the Evansville Semi State, its 139 to Ft Wayne. Can't really argue distance as a reason its a bad idea. Sure in a few years when Ft. Wayne is on the rise look at moving things again. Makes sense to put New Albany and Floyd back in the Jeff regional. I think those 2 things make the regionals and Evansville Semi state more manageable. Based on the Team State leaderboard ratings to end last season those 2 simple changes would leave... Mooresville Regional 4A # 7 CG #14 Avon 3A #3 Franklin #14 Whiteland 2A #14 Monrovia Jeff Regional 3A #1 CE #2 Floyd 2A # 7 Charlestown Bloomington Regional 3A # 8 THS #9 Bloomington South #16 Jasper Evansville Regional 4A #3 EMD 2A #11 Memorial 1A # 4 North Posey #11 Tell City

I've always wonder if it would be possible to split the semi-states east north west and south and distributed the indy area schools between those 4 semi-states as needed and use a more central location for each semi-state New Castle could host the east and maybe use Bloomington host the south. West you could use north montgomery or the Lafayette area. I'm not sure about the north. Now I understand finding locations with big enough gyms could be an issue and I'm sure IHSAA don't want to make that drastic of changes but I feel this could help cut travel and even the 4 semi-states out.

I believe it is for weight management tracking purposes only.

Wrestlebacks are fantastic and I agree we need them but as already mentioned, it doesn’t solve a situation where 6 top kids are in the same regional and only 4 make it to semi-state. No solution would be perfect, of course. Ideally, we’d balance things out and have wrestlebacks.

106 Bittner vs Seng - Seng dec 0-3 113 Williams vs Egli - Williams dec 3-3 120 Hillenbrand vs Ross - Ross maj 3-7 126 Macke vs Pierre - Macke pin 9-7 132 Coughlin vs Freeman - great match up. Teacher beats the student 12-7 138 Scott vs Boarman - Boarman dec 12-10 145 Lehman vs Hayhurst - hayhurst dec 12-13 152 Weinzapfel vs Fitts - Weinz maj 16-13 160 Nosko vs Baumann - Another great one. Total toss up. give me Baumann 16-16 170 Wildeman vs Weidner - Wildeman pin 22-16 182 Maurer vs Sollars - Maurer dec 25-16 195 J Coughlin here vs Martin - Coughlin dec 31-16 220 Unfried vs Boots - Unfried dec 34-16 285 Schwartz vs Ralph - Ralph dec 34-19 did some bumping to make the lineups work. I think '03 is a pretty strong favorite. Don't forget that if they kept the team score in '03, they would smashed the record and it would still stand today.

Quite a few Indiana guys and gals going to represent the USA at different events. 15U Pan Ams(October 21st-24th) in Mexico De'Alcapon Veazy(both styles) Julianna Ocampo(Women's freestyle) Rianne Murphy(Women's freestyle) Junior Pan Ams(June 9th-13th) in Mexico Christian Carroll(both styles) Junior Worlds(August 16-22) in Russia Jesse Mendez(freestyle) Donnell Washington(freestyle) Alara Boyd(Women's freestyle) Olympics in Tokyo Sarah Hildebrandt(August 6th-7th) Kayla Miracle(August 3rd-4th) Stevan Micic representing Serbia(August 4th-5th) *Women's 15U, Cadet, Junior, and U23 Nationals are being held this weekend.

Updated with three additions from the past weekend: Rianne Murphy, Julianna Ocampo, and Alara Boyd,

Looks interesting, might have to put it on a map to look at it clearer. I do enjoy how everyone wants to make their case to come to Fort Wayne. It must be the best semi-state if everyone wants to figure out a way to get there.

The entire Penn Regional should go to Ft. Wayne. Need to add some larger schools to the Ft. Wayne Semi State.

Congratulations to Will Kirtley from Tell City for signing with Kentucky Wesleyan. Projected to wrestle 197. View full signing

All time, I would put 125- Angel Escobedo 133- Reece Humphrey or Stevan Micic 141- Nick Lee 149- Jason Tsirtsis 157- Brayton Lee 165- Andrew Howe 174- Darden Schurg or Conner Lefever or Andrew Howe again lol idk 184- Riley Lefever 197- Matt Powless for now...Will be Lucas Davison. 285-Mason Parris 2021- 125-Hildebrandt 133- Micic 141- Lee 149- Rooks 157- Lee 165- Lee 174- Washington 184- 197- Davison 285- Parris