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Just want to congratulate everyone on their awards, and thank Joe, Mike, and everyone else on team IndianaMat for the amazing coverage you provide for our sport. Thank You Coach Lorek

Super big bummer if it is held in Evansville.

Purdue threw their hat into the ring late in the process per what I gathered while at the IHSAA. It sounded as if they had a location ready to finalize and Purdue made a strong late push that the IHSAA is considering.

Let us dream. Slow week. We don't want to drive for 5 hours. I can't decipher the dialects below Marion County. I had designs on influencing the results by the shear decibels I can cheer at. Now you want me to except that I'll be drowned out by those pesky Wildcat Fans? Sheesh!

Mr. Gorilla: Sam Goin- Crown Point 1st Runner-up: Aidan Torres- Chesterton 2nd Runner-up: Orlando Cruz- Crown Point Miss Gorilla: Aulani Davis- Kokomo 1st Runner-up: Mackenzie Konanz- Penn 2nd Runner-up: Chrissy True- Jeffersonville Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year: Center Grove 4A Coach of the Year: Maurice Swain- Center Grove 3A Coach of the Year: Steve Sandefer- Mishawaka 2A Coach of the Year: Chad Shepherd- Western 1A Coach of the Year: Joe Litherland- Tell City Girls Coach of the Year: Nick Skinner- Southport 4A Wrestler of the Year: Joey Buttler- Whiteland 3A Wrestler of the Year: Cole Solomey- Kankakee Valley 2A Wrestler of the Year: Tylin Thrine- New Castle 1A Wrestler of the Year: Tyce DuPont- Tell City Past Award Winners 1A Coach 2015- Tony Currie 2016- Brett Smith 2017- Gary Black 2018- Chuck Fleshman 2019- Tony Currie 2020- Cody Moll 2021- Neal Stahly 2022- Clint Gard 1A Wrestler 2015- Sawyer Miller 2016- Evan Ellis 2017- Eli Stock 2018- Noah Cressell 2019- Silas Allred 2020- Isiah Levitz 2021- Hayden Filipovich 2022- Marshall Fishback 2A Coach 2015- Trent McCormick 2016- Mark Kerrn 2017- Trent McCormick 2018- Frank Bumgardner 2019- Chad Shepherd 2020- Paul Gunsett 2021- Nick Kraus 2022- Tim Myers 2A Wrestler 2015- Brock Hudkins 2016- Brock Hudkins 2017- Mason Parris 2018- Brayden Curtis 2019- AJ Fowler 2020- Clayton Fielden 2021- Isaac Ruble 2022- Christian Carroll 3A Coach 2015- Brad Harper 2016- Darrick Snyder 2017- Chris Johl 2018- Matt Schoettle 2019- Sean McGinley 2020- Sean McGinley 2021- Adam Wolf 2022- Chris Cooper 3A Wrestler 2015- Chad Red 2016- Blake Rypel 2017- Joe Lee 2018- Asa Garcia 2019- Jordan Slivka 2020- Eli Dickens 2021- J Conway 2022- J Conway 4A Coach 2021- Greg Schaefer 2022- Brandon Lorek- 4A Wrestler 2021- Jesse Mendez 2022- Gabe Sollars Girls Coach of the Year 2021- Jeremy Goodlett 2022- Brad Harper Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year 2022- Crown Point Mr. Gorilla 2015- Tommy Forte 2016- Chad Red 2017- Andrew Davison 2018- Brayton Lee and Mason Parris 2019- Asa Garcia 2020- Silas Allred 2021- Alex Cottey 2022- Jesse Mendez Miss Gorilla 2021- Sarah Huse 2022- Catie Campbell View full article

I may be biased, as I’m part of the Gorilla Crew and have only frequented college wrestling boards otherwise, but there’s a reason this website has an award-winning reputation. Joe has made this forum better and better over time, and it’s still easily standing the test of time against the social media era, which as Joe said above, hasn’t been great for message boards. But yet I, and many others, are still daily-or-near users even in the off-season. Simply put, we are absolutely blessed with this board. Joe and the other OGs have built something that just keeps getting better. All of our rankers work their asses off to try and give an accurate product. And all the regular users just coming on to hype up their kid or school, or even just discuss wrestling because they love the sport, make for a great experience. In my time on the IM staff(roughly 7 years), my ranking position has progressively transformed from “this is a cool side-job, hope I do well” to “this is something I take a lot of pride in, and I want to do a good job for myself, the website, and the kids who look forward to them.” I’ve been recognized out at a bar before because I was wearing Indianamat gear. Indianamat has surpassed a normal forum at this point, we’re a full community.

Not the case this year, at semi state. Hardly knew they were there. (Except at the scorers tables)

Sorry coach if this happens and you can't get a refund I will repay you by giving you a free camp or 2 for your kid. But.... you have to help coach again.

A thriving community: Big Announcement comin' soon.

Looks like a total of six (6) D3 wrestlers from Indiana high schools punched their tickets to Roanoke, VA for next week/end’s D3 National Championships. Here they are with some extra details: Evan Burge 141# SR Wabash McCutcheon High School Central Regionals - 3rd Place Jake Burford 149# SR UW - Whitewater Crown Point High School Upper Midwest Regional - 2nd Place Kristian Rumph 149# SR Wartburg Portage High School Lower Midwest Regional - 1st Place Cole Cervantes 165# SR North Central Griffith High School Lower Midwest Regional - 2nd Place Gavin Layman 184# SO Ohio Northern University Chesterton High School Central Regional - 2nd Place Jack Heldt 285# SR Wabash Carmel High School Central Regional - 1st Place Congrats & Good luck!!!

One of our neighboring states used to have a very lively board, but it petered out and put all of its season-specific info under a paywall. Joe has endured much for little and added a lot for less. I will be forever grateful.

Tick tock…tick tock. BOOOOMMMM! First Brownsburg RWO is Thursday, March 2nd at 5:30pm. Enter Door 15. Take stairs to your immediate right and you are there. Room will be full of state level guys. Our JV are back to back JV Dual State Champions so the room will be full of great partners of all sizes. Don’t waste the off-season. Don’t have regrets when the whistle blows next season. Come get better! First RWO we have Coach Schmaltz! 3X State Placer Fargo All-American Wrestled in the Big 10 at Purdue You will get some elite technique and then we will go live! Snyder

We've been trying to till 14 weights for the girls with seniors. Today, Illinois has asked us to fill these 16 weights. 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 152, 160, 170, 182, 195 and 250. We have commits from the following senior girls: 105: AnnaMae Mosconi 110: Emma Pillion 130: Katelyn Hernandez 135: Aulani Davis 145: Ally Zuchschwerdt 152: Melissa Barradas 250: Chrissy True Senior state place winners or qualifiers get first shot at the other weights. But at this point we will open to Juniors or Sophomores who were place winners and qualifiers. Email daniel.mikesell or Gary Myers: garymyers86@gmail.com to get a chance to be on Team Indiana.

Bethel wins the “best to never place” battle, but it pretty difficult to put a “never placed” wrestler ahead of guys who made the semis 3+ times.

Sounds like you’ve been there. Or are from there. Thanks

Is Evansville in Indiana????

Just got word we are hosting it in Columbus Ohio for 1 year only. IHSAA wants to see how far schools really will travel to look at instituting a new travel rule to put in place. Heard Evansville, West Lafayette, Louisville, St. Louis, & Detroit just missed out!

Lets give an objective view of the seating and parking: Mackey holds 14,240 salable seats, buts that:s for a basketball game. As Joe pointed out, Mackey would institute a platform setup to get 4 mats. This would take out the really cushy premium seats and would also eliminate real seating. I estimate, under the wrestling setup, Mackey could get over 13,000 still pretty easliy which is more then the Gainbridge current setup.. One of the Cons as as Joe pointed out, earlier is that most of these are old wooden benches. Lower level sections 9, 10, 11 and12 are the only stadium seats which would be around 1000 seats with the other 12K being uncomfortable wooden benches. Of course, they sell the portable seat cushions with nice Boiler train logo. Also, there are no suites or boxes at Mackey, so those groups that like to do that would be without that amenity. Quite of bit of parking is available albeit a patchwork. 3 Parking garages are within walking distance at a cost of $5. Also, there's some football field parking lots close that might have a higher price. Note just East of Mackey, is mostly residential housing with plenty of free parking but you might have a few blocks. On a side note, the parking garages near the stadium have plenty of EV chargers. West Lafayette, is EV charger friendly. I was in Evansville last week, and based on the chargers available, the town in not EV friendly. Look at the Ford Center: It can hold over 11K in seating capacity, but looking at the website, the Hockey capacity is 9,437. Ill assume the seating would be the similar to the Hockey setup. The Ford Center has a big advantage in premium seating, as it has over 30-40 suites of multiple sizes and all the other seating would be stadium seats which beats Mackey. Still cant believe Purdue hasn't upgraded Mackey with their athletic budget. Anyway, Ford Center appears to have multiple garages near it with City lots costing $7 and private lots up to $20. Maybe lots at Ford Center are in closer proximity, but Purdue overall would have more parking. The Ford Center is a newer more modern facility, and probably has a more modern concourse area. But Purdue did upgrade Mackey a few years ago. The Ford Center has 22 bathrooms, couldnt find how many Mackey has.

You're not opening the Wrestling Scholar Bed and Breakfast with all you can eat tacos? You're missing out on a great opportunity!

Better reserve a room in the Lafayette area now, or you guys might be staying at the "Lincoln Lodge Hotel". I dont think they're a Priceline Insurance affiliate. Because the insurance cost more then the hotel room.

Pre allocations ,NCAA,have the big ten getting 10 men at 157,8 at 165 and just 7 at 174. All the rest of weights get 9 from the conference

Wow, it's almost as if that has been addressed before. Are you really that dense or is this a schtick of yours?

the free year due to covid really skewed things. It should normalize again

Clearly you're underestimating the power of "Denial".

Shout to my fellow Garrett High School alum, Clayton Fielden, as he'll be competing at 184 as the 13 seed. Super proud of him! #RBT

Crazy this topic is going after I already told you it will be Evansville.

Legend! RIP Coach Beckham

Indiana top seed, DJ Washington at 6, 7 seed is Rooks at 149. Then Bullock is an 8 seed. Man the conference is a meat grinder.

It is getting really bad. Guys 24 and 25 years old still collegiate eligible. They are graduating from high school at 19 years old. Or past that.

I’ll be there also . 2nd best event of the year. Normally no ducks.

This finally was delivered to Whiteland Community High school! Just to not leave any loose ends.

None of that can top the after party on Victory Bay. But we have places like Coney Island, Powers Hamburgers, some solid BBQ, DeBrands chocolates, Don Halls, and more.

Anything is better than that Kona Ice crap. I'd rather have some ice cubes with cherry flavoring than Kona Ice.

HCC- 3 Champs, 10 Placers, 12 Qualifiers 106- 1st, 2nd 113- 3rd, Q, Q 120- 1st 126- 6th, 7th 132- 2nd 138- 3rd 145- Q, Q 152- Q. Q, Q 160- Q 170- Q 182- 3rd, Q 195- 3rd 220- Q 285- 1st, 4th, 7th, Q

Craig Macke - 4,2,2,3 Freshman - lost to Gerardo Quiroz (runner up) and Thaddeus Douglas (2x fargo AA in Greco) in the 3rd place match Sophomore - lost to Aaron Clark (1,5,4) and is Franklin Community's all time wins leader. Macke beat him a week later at team state. Pinned Nick Hartman in the first period. Hartman would be a state champ the next season Jr - lost to Angel in the finals, beat Nick May (2,3,6) in the semis Sr - lost to Angel in the semis. Also lost a close match to Dustin Schlatter in a dual with St. Paris Graham

Action begins tomorrow March 1st! Let's have a great off-season making each other better.

Wabash qualified 6….

No to Purdue….. Not TripleB Approved

We can have our politicians speak against a protected group and they'll strip Indy from hosting.

The 100 pound and 106 pound weight classes were absolutely loaded with studs. Congrats to Bell and Strayer for winning.

Ty will already be contending for state titles just my opinion lol

Alright, this is nonsense, IHSAA would never hold the finals out of state. But there is word that a very late in-state entry with 23,500 seats is now in play, many luxury suites, and fantastic restaurants nearby: The United Center. The only possible hitch is if the Bulls are so bad that they are not invited to the All-Star weekend, and hang around home pretending to practice.

Coach Rolland Beckham passed away - long time Calumet Coach. RIP Coach https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nwitimes/name/rolland-beckham-obituary?id=48713553