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I'm not galagore, but I'm guessing he's in part referring to the fact that 95% of 1A kids would have a one-weekend postseason. It's hard to get excited about a sport when no one on your team can get past sectional.

Indiana Olympic Regional Training Center practices/IN RTC are starting up this week! We are looking forward to have the best wrestlers in the midwest coming an and competing every week. Here is all the information that you will need! NOTE: This is not the same as high school RTCs. You must qualify through one of the criteria. You will find a link below for this. Location: Assembly Hall 1001 E. 17th St. Bloomington, IN 47408 Days/Times: This weeks' seasons will be on Friday, April 1st at 5:50 pm and Saturday, April 2nd at 10:00 am. The rest of the times can be found at the link below. RTC Calendar Requirements to attend: 1. To qualify to train at the Indiana RTC, you must meet one of the requirements listed here. 2. Live within 250 miles of Bloomington, IN 3. Have an updated USA Wrestling card. If you do not have one, follow the link to apply. 4. Fill out the form below to let us know how you qualify. RTC Google Form

Party is back on this Thursday from 6-7:30pm! We have Coach Bradley as our clinician. 3X State Champion NJCAA National Runner-up Marian University Head Coach Enter Door 15 Snyder

Eracleo Vallejo will be our clinician on April 4th. He will be making the trip down from Wabash College where he has coached for 11 seasons. Wabash is coming off a Runner-up placement by 1 point at NCAAs this season. Roc was a D3 All-American (5th) at Manchester College. He brings a wealth of knowledge and was an absolute destroyer on his feet in college. Outstanding guy to learn from!

Why do we not take same amount of schools in each class?

Whiteland needs to get an at large bid to this 9 starting Seniors next season Buttler & Brooks both went to state. 6 of the made it to semi state. Grandinetti won Sectionals and then got concussed in practice and missed the regionals. While kids he beat went on to state. Warriors should be in a conversation for at large.(IMO)

My gut tells me the super sectional would be detrimental to struggling programs from small schools.

Option X: ALL wrestlers in the state meet at 1 location. Randomly draw wrestlers to the mat, just like WWE Royal Rumble.... last wrestler standing is the single class-one weight State Champion.... no holds barred!

For those coming to the RTC, please enter the south side (closest to 17th street).

I feel if we were to go to 3 weeks we need to plan it as if it could become a permanent thing because there's a chance ihsaa could like the format used and choose to keep it. That's said I like sectionals the way it is... 9 to 10 teams top 4 move... alot of small and or struggling programs rely a on the success of having regional and semi-state qualifiers... any expansion to sectional sizes is going to negatively affect smaller struggling teams. An idea would be with regionals being a short tournament would be to skip it an have 4 sectionals meet to make a regional round that functions like semi-state. Yes that would mean there would be 8 regional/semi-state sites. I know in the past the idea of having more than 16 state qualifiers have been suggested. What if we do that and have the top 3 at regional/semi-state make state giving us 24 qualifiers. Since they showed they're willing to run friday of state all day we could run the 1st round 2 vs 3s then the second round champions vs the winner of the first round... obviously wrestle back would be ideal but we need to assume that won't happen. To me this would be better than option 1 or 3. But maybe I'm on an island on my own... or we go with option C, class wrestling... No? Too soon in the thread? Ok ignore the last part.

Make the Pumpkin Pushers wrestle our boys off for the Venue rights

I’ve seen a lot of comments about how team state needs to be in a major venue, but before when it was IHSAA it was at Center Grove. It would be really cool to be at Hinkle Fieldhouse, but I think each class having its own location eliminates a lot of the problems that were experienced when it was in one venue. Spotlighting the finals under the lights was definitely a very cool experience this year for 4A