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From the Bulldog Premier Facebook Page. sounds Like Anthony is doing better today. Prayers for a speedy recovery

Thank you to all the folks responsible for such a great day of wrestling yesterday. Whether you are the folks that provide individual rankings, team rankings, team seeding, event organization, or the REFEREES, coaches and wrestlers, days like yesterday reward all those growing this sport in Indiana. Thank you to the IHSWCA for creating this event and not only continuing the team state opportunities for all these teams, but also showing a better use for “basketball” courts . . .

Did we choke? Yea, we certainly could have been a lot better today, but I also think Terre Haute South was a heck of a lot better than an 8 seed and we were over seeded. We still didn’t wrestle up to our seed though. Look where they finished and look where we finished. Does seeding change brackets and where we finish, probably not with how we wrestled today. THS is tough and have a heck of a program. Their guys came to wrestle and beat us up first round, no doubt. We weren’t ready to wrestle and it showed, but that’s why this tournament is great for all these teams, it’s tough and shows many teams deserve the recognition of their hard work. You have an #8 seed knock off a #1 and a last minute voted in #4 Columbus East battle through and make it to the finals against a solid #2 Mishawaka. No excuses, we have to do better, if we want to win a team title. Hats off to THS for knocking us off, Columbus East for showing they deserved to be there with the vote in with a runner up finish and to Mishawaka for taking home the title. The doors is open if you want to come help coach these guys up. I know I can always improve as a coach and could use some more knowledge.

Fort Wayne Snider should have been invited to 3A state. I don't know who makes those decisions ,but next year I'm guessing; you won't be able to keep us out. Matter of fact I'll make a prediction we'll be seeded #1.

It’s a tough job to seed and I don’t think there is any intent to “shaft” any team. While pathways to the top might be enhanced by seeding, results are the products of performance. Yesterday teams and individuals proved that statement. The “vote in” process came up big yesterday, looking at Greenfield Central and the late addition of Columbus East and if I may offer my “Humble” opinion, South Adams in 1A. SA was a number 12 vote in and finished fifth with 7 Freshmen in the lineup and only 2 seniors.

Brownsburg and Crown Point has wrestled 3-4 state championship level events this year. They have 0 undeated wrestlers. Will pay dividends. If you have a high level age group kid = better of traveling every other weekend to find competition than staying local. It is like kissing your sister - you wrestle the same kids. Lots of kids will benefit more in a good room practice -then traveling sitting in a gym all day to wrestle 3 time for 2 minutes.

THS as a whole is an underrated team. They might not have the fire power, but their floor was impressively high across the line-up today. Much tougher than an 8 seed… CE was a great vote-in, battling to the finals. A few good/bad breaks going the other way could have changed A LOT of things today; but that’s why we wrestle the matches. Roncalli is still a great team with great coaches who will only get better after today.

Grown adults talking disparagingly about kids on a public forum tells us all we need to know about you as a person.

4A results 1st Crown Point - 1 seed 2nd Brownsburg - 2 seed 3rd Center Grove - 3 seed 4th Cathedral - 7 seed 5th Perry Meridian 4 seed 6th Penn - 8 seed 7th Mater Dei - 6 seed 8th Carmel - 5 seed 3A Results 1st Mishawaka - 2 seed 2nd Columbus East - 4 seed 3rd Greenfield Central - 3 seed 4th Terre Haute South - 8 seed 5th Roncalli - 1 seed 6th Hobart - 6 seed 7th Floyd Central - 5 seed 8th East Central - 7 seed 2A Results 1st Western - 3 seed 2nd Jay County - 1 seed 3rd Hamilton Heights - 7 seed 4th Norwell - 5 seed 5th Delta - 2 seed 6th Garrett - 4 seed 7th Bellmont - 6 seed 8th Rensselaer Central - unseeded 9th Wawasee - 8 seed 10th Heritage Hills - unseeded 11th Owen Valley - unseeded 12th New Prairie - unseeded 1A Results 1st Tell City - 4 seed 2nd Adams Central - 3 seed 3rd Rochester - 1 seed 4th Cascade - 2 seed 5th South Adams - 7 seed 6th Prairie Heights - 8 seed 7th Bluffton - unseeded 8th North Posey - unseeded 9th Cowan - 6 seed 10th Southmont - unseeded 11th West Central - 5 seed 12th Winamac - unseeded

Unfortunately Evan Cruz took another L to semi-state qualifier Joe Caprino. Dude has his number and those extra reps on the footwork trainer are finally paying off for the old man. And now picture evidence

me you Roncalli Grow up, Peter Pan/Count Chocula. If 8 over 1 upsets weren’t possible, we wouldn’t invite 8 teams. Congrats to Roncalli on a fifth place showing. I would have loved to have that, as they took it to us Brickies in the place match.

Champs 4A- Crown point (also Center Grove3rd, Cathedral4th, Penn 6th) 3A- Mishawaka (Columbus East2nd, Hobart6th) 2A- Western (Garrett6th, Bellmont7th, Wawasee9th) 1A- 6th Prarie Heights all attend Al Smith this year, 3 of the 4 champs. Might need to invite Tell City in the future. All teams looking, message Mishawaka about attending 2023 a good way to get Battle Tested before the Team State

Most impressive to me as I watched 4A State Championships . 1. Crown Point - Didn’t skip a beat from its record 2022 IHSAA State Championship run . Proved they’re probably gonna make a run at their own record . 2. Parker Reynolds - was I watching a lil’ Zain Rutherford with these tight tilts . Kid a freshman, wait till he gets man strength around his Jr. Year. I’ll take a skilled wrestling technician over a pinner everyday. That’s just me . 3. Center Grove - Larocca (spell check) what an impressive comeback win over Brownsburg . Kid has a gas tank like no other. Didn’t give up being down 5-0 in the late 2nd & 3rd periods . My Comeback of the Day Wrestler . Wow ! 4. Logan Frazier- made it look easy all day. Not sure he broke a sweat. He’s ready for the next level . Cat playing with its food out there yesterday WOW ! 5. Hosiah Smith - Indiana we have a Contender at 285 . Looking forward to this match up again with Jones . Awesome match !

South Adams definitely Came and showed they belong!! One thing I found very interesting is the gap in the 1A and 2A and even 3A this year is not big. Rochester beat Western earlier this season by 3, as well as Cascade beating Hamilton Heights by 1. The top 4 in 1A I think can easily compete with any 2A and I think any 3A school based on some results. Love seeing the small schools continue to grow and compete with the big dogs!

Why are the brackets being run single elimination in the first round? Seems like a golden opportunity to use wrestlebacks at the State Finals?

Scoring was 15 points for champion correct 10 points for picking a top 4 team correct, -2 points for each spot off For example 1A Your picks Tell City- 15 Cascade- 6 Rochester- 10 Bluffton- 0 Name Total Trevor Young 135 Bigtoe19 129 Joe B Hall 129 Chris Meeks 126 Y2CJ41 122 Kevin Watkins 118 Ryan Kendrick 118 John Morris 116 Mitchell 116 Joe Stanley 116 Tristan Wilson 116 Josh Gaskill 116 Coach AJ 114 Joshua Roehm 113 George Markou 113 Nathan Wynn 112 Caleb 112 Adam Harmon 111 Quinn Harris 111 Phil Arnold 107 Chad Walden 106 Scott 104 GBALDWIN 104 Out of Towner 103 Brody Hardcastle 103 Matt Herrmann 102 Austin Early 101 irishfb88 101 Jake Wilson 100 Dr Baker 99 SIwrestling 99 AJ Bradley 99 Brandon Miller 99 Ron Allen 99 BJGartenman 99 X_R A T E D 99 Joe 98 Nick Joyner 98 Matt Campbell 97 Cheyne Reiter 97 Cody 97 Ron 96 Tim Smith 95 Nate Spangle 95 Bobby smith 95 Nat Wood 93 Gerry Pratt Jr. 93 Brett Johnson 93 Zach Lee 91 Mason Shepherd 91 Chad Hersh 91 Jacob Koselke 91 Region Hendricks 91 Raven27 91 Tyrel Sloan 90 James Mendenhall 90 Mando 89 MUSKEE WRESTLING 89 Chinwhipper 89 Robert 88 Josh 88 Jason Cook 87 John Adams 86 Ryan Gipson 86 Kathy Palacios 86 RaeAnn Ploughe 85 Tom Bartle 84 Jacob Stephenson 83 Danny Day 83 Ed Maldonado 83 David Marquez 82 Cash Turner 81 Jeromy Kendall 81 Austin Clausheide 80 Mike Stidam 78 Erika 78 Daniel Brown 77 Damen Jackson 76 Darden Schurg 75 Adam Barger 75 Lyndsey Glaze 73 Sarah Dickman 72 Tyler Beach 72 josie day 70 Kristen 62 Larry 47

Shout out to Columbus East for believing in themselves by fighting for that vote-in spot and making the finals. Good program with tough kids who are always well coached.

These are the rankings for 106 in the state and country going into girls state this week. Might be a top 3 weight in Indiana regardless of gender! #1 IN/#5 USA julianna ocampo #2 IN/#6 USA heather crull #3 IN/#20 USA makenzie smith #4 IN/#13 USA joy cantu

Please …. You don’t know crap ol’man about no wrestling and TeamGarcia ! With that said ….. Let’s just group them all together and have a Giant Royal Rumble Team State Duals .

i concur

I would love to share mine.:) Seeded 7th and ranked 8th in the state and beat 24-0 Heritage Hills first round, then wrestled Number #2 seed Delta and ranked 2nd in the state 43-33 then lost to #3 Western by 8pts and for 3rd and 4th place match we won 45-30 over Norwell.

Perfect reply Side note, probably one of my all time favorite quotes

Still have some kinks to work out on some things, but the 1A gym did pump out some noise today. Glad to have our kids compete at this event.

Can we get a list of teams (with seeds) and then how they actually finished???? Would like to see, but too lazy to do it because I just ate a whole large pizza! Give us the data so we can all judge if the seeding really sucked or not. Please???

Patrick Collier… here is what I will tell you… go back to sitting on your couch now.

What ever he said?

All day

Absolutely! ACWMC is the right choice.

Back to the coliseum???

It will be done the same as the boys and will be released Monday evening at the latest.

I like Smith. He looks like he can beat anyone at anytime in close matches. You have to be able to open up on him and that doesn't look easy to me.

Nisely done(See what I did there)...But so much chalk I'm coughing.. 106: Horn over Bollinger 113. Jendreas over Haines 120. Hockaday over Tishner 126.Frazier over Ali 132. Leavell until someone proves me wrong 138. Solid Solomey over the insanely slept on Parker Reynolds 145. Torres will Toro Anthony Bahl 152. I loves the Bowery Boys so I'm going with Lowery My Bwoy. 160. The Iceman Goins 170. A Ruhlman shall once again Rule the Roost. My only lock. 182. C'mon now...Easy Veazy or will it be a cruise for Cruz...Give me Veazy 195. Hansen over Purdy 220. Criminally underrated Clark over Brady Beck 285. Hosia Smith over Big Clark

Looks like Mega Millions is climbing. Might buy a ticket and maybe I'll win. If so, I'll build a venue in Adams County for it.

A handful of notable results from the Wayne County Classic this weekend where there was some good old fashioned wrasslin’… six mats rolling with 14 or 15 teams in attendance. 106 - #7/#1 Heather Crull (Northeastern) WBD 1-0 over UR Quinten Keen (Winchester) 126 - UR Jack Davis (Bishop Chatard) WBF over #19/#5 Jesus Aquino-Morales (Union County) 132 - UR Cameron Volz (Eastern Hancock) WBD 7-1 over UR Sam Bustamante (Bishop Chatard) 138 - UR Jackson Marker (Centerville) WBD 8-4 over UR Sam Bustamante (Bishop Chatard) 160 - John Rushenberg (Bishop Chatard) WBF over UR/#7 Jordan Takara (Union County) Bishop Chatard and Beech Grove both went 8-0 in duals with BC winning on greater point differential (466). Would have been nice to have those two schools wrestle a bonus ninth round.

Amazing day of wrestling. Congrats to Tell City on an amazing run! Also congrats to Adams Central and Rochester and everyone else in the 1A field! It was a great day of wrestling and everyone brought their best with what they had. Hope to see you all back at this great event next season, but until then, the Cadets are getting back to work! 364 days until Team State 2024!

Title says it all… Here are mine based on the last few weeks. Winners are in bold. 106 – Revin Dickman (Brownsburg) vs. Layne Horn (Rochester) 113 – Preston Haines (Brownsburg) vs. Gavin Jendreas (Crown Point) 120 – Jake Hockaday (Brownsburg) vs. Ashton Jackson (LaPorte) 126 – Logan Frazier (Crown Point) vs. Toby Billerman (Perry Meridian) 132 – Brady Ison (Brownsburg) vs. Kyrel Leavell (Warren Central) 138 – Cole Solomey (Kankakee Valley) vs. Cheaney Schoeff (Avon) 145 – Anthony Bahl (Crown Point) vs. Aidan Torres (Chesterton) 152 – Bryce Lowery (Roncalli) vs. Anthony Rinehart (Crown Point) 160 – Sammy Goin (Crown Point) vs. AJ Steenbeke (Penn) 170 – Cody Goodwin (Crown Point) vs. Delaney Ruhlman (Bloomington South) 182 – Orlando Cruz (Crown Point) vs. De’Alcapon Veazy (Snider) 195 – Gunner Henry (Brownsburg) vs. Luke Hansen (Roncalli) 220 – Will Clark (Crown Point) vs. Brady Beck (Rochester) 285 – Leighton Jones (Brownsburg) vs. Paul Clark (Crown Point)

And only because I have not met Makenzie Smith, at least three of these girls are great people! I’m sure if I ever get a chance to interact with Ms Smith my statement would change to all these girls. I am looking forward to some fireworks on Friday.

WOW! That is outstanding. "Team with the deepest wgt class?" Team Indiana Girls

I hear you. But I know what I'm talking about. 2 wrestler ranked in the top 5. 4 current Semi-State qualifiers. We should have at least 7 to 10 this year. Our backup 106 will be in the lineup next year and I'm telling you he is on the level. Only 2 seniors. As things sit we are #11 on the Power Poll. You coud say I'm reaching. Tell me that after Semi-State.

1A at Franklin was loud when I stepped into watch for a few minutes between our breaks. Hard to get a good venue that allows fans that close to the matches but also has the room for all. The close tight atmosphere makes it loud and crazy, but certainly has its drawbacks when it comes to seating for all.

Western 2A Team State Champs!!

Congrats to Tell City! They're starting a dynasty down there. Glad to see AC beat a good Cascade team that beat an improving SA squad. SA had a good showing. Hopefully both AC & SA keep improving to match Tell City & Rochester.

Tell city vs. Adam central in the finals in 1a

I thought Gilcher at 157 & Bulluck at 285 had nice wins over ranked guys.

Tell City did only forfeit 1 weight class (hwt) last year during the state tournament, but gave up 6 points at 195, 220, and hwt every duel during that tournament and were still able to come out on top.

I’ve said it before and will say it again, Tell City is the 2 time returning champions and only lost 1 senior from last year’s team. it will most definitely be a super competitive 1A tournament, but IMO the Marksmen should absolutely be the number one seed. Good luck to all of the teams next weekend.

IN HIS OWN WORDS.... "It all came down to me wanting and needing a change. Indiana University is an amazing place and I will miss all of the relationships I’ve built while here but it’s time for a new adventure and a place I believe can get me to where I need to be." "I ended up choosing Rutgers for a few reasons. First and foremost I needed something different all together from scenery wise to a place where nobody knows me so I can reinvent myself in a way. Another big reason was the coaches and practice partners I would have there not only during season but in the off season for freestyle as well. Lastly the fans and people bring the energy and they love wrestling over there so it’s an opportunity I can’t pass up!" "I’ll head there after this semester and should arrive early January. Fan can expect a show every time I step on the mat. I’m excited to go out and earn their respect and their support match by match. That’s the beauty of going somewhere that nobody really knows me!" Asa Garcia

1. Big Ten Network 2. Frequent Flyer Miles 3. Travel the local Midwest when they are around . 4. Where there a will, there’s a way . We’ll make it work