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Avon crowd erupts as it appears Luke Rioux just secured his 100th high school victory. If that the case, congrats young man

Looks like Kendall Moe made the second day of the girls portion as she is in the semi-finals. She'll finish tomorrow.

Columbus East having a week our young squad battling: Columbus East over #11 Carmel 39-29 Columbus East over #16 Greenfield Central 40-23 Columbus East over #18 Franklin 40-19 Columbus East loss to #4 Perry Meridian 32-33 Some great duals against some well coached teams.

1. Wyoming Sem 268 points …… 11. Brownsburg 77 points …. 18. Crown Point 59.0 points 19.Center Grove 56.5 points …… 130. Walsh Jesuit 0 points … but probably $100,000 in pocket! All three in top 20 out of 130 teams.

On the first day of Christmas, IHSAA gave to me, lowest success rates in the country. Indiana qualifies a significantly lower number of wrestlers to their state tournament annually when compared to other states. Here’s a comparison to 8 other nearby states: The Outlier State Population Annual State Qualifiers Classes Qualifiers per Class Indiana 6.8 million 224 1 16 The Norm (8 state comparison) State Population Annual State Qualifiers Classes Qualifiers per Class Iowa 3.2 million 1008 3 24 Pennsylvania 12.9 million 840 3 20 Illinois 12.5 million 672 3 16 Michigan 10 million 672 3 16 Ohio 11.7 million 672 3 16 Missouri 6.1 million 896 4 16 Nebraska 2 million 896 4 16 Tennessee 7 million 616 3 16 (12 in 1A) A big part of wrestling is setting and pursuing goals. The IHSAA does a great job at its state tournament of putting on a great show…the wrestling state finals is an amazing event. However, it is an event that very few Indiana wrestlers get to experience. Think of some of the positives that occur when a wrestler makes it to state: 1. The community gets excited about wrestling and their wrestlers 2. The school makes announcements about their accomplishments and hosts student pep rallies for wrestlers 3. T-shirts are made with the wrestlers name on it “road to state” 4. Coaches recognize the accomplishment by putting a wrestler’s name on wrestling room wall (list of qualifiers) 5. Young athletes see all of these activities and are inspired to want to be wrestlers (youth and middle school participation numbers get a boost) By qualifying so few to state makes these types of positive activities a rare occurrence for wrestlers and wrestling programs (except for powerhouse programs). Also, the IHSAA consistently eliminates amazing athletes at semi-state. We have college level wrestlers coming out of Indiana who never qualified for a high school state tournament. Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association has been asking to take more to state. This request is consistently denied by IHSAA assistant commissioner Robert Faulkens. Is that the right decision? Given we don’t have classes, should we only take 16 wrestlers per weight, which appears to be the minimum when compared to other states? If you agree Indiana should take more to state, click “Like”.

Carnahan is toughest regular season tournament in Indiana - and it’s not close. Not even a little bit. Snyder

Revin getting a MFF… he will take 5th

HUGE ! win over last year Ironman Champion and I think #2 in the Nation !

Dickman over Munaretto, huge result for Dickman

Orman (Edgewood) over Frazier (Zionsville) Fall Orman (Edgewood) over Kessinger (Floyd Central) MD

Michael White of LN over #4 Chase Leech 8-7. Sean Tankersley of LN over #10 Ayden Campbell 8-3.

Dickman going for 5th & 6th Ison & Clark Brothers going for 7th & 8th Great Job Fellas

We could see a change this week. Wyatt wrestled great, that last one was tough Hockaday and Mason Gibson was a great match! I thought Jake had 2 near fall at the end overtime was really exciting great Tournament Hockaday

Living up to its name… gotta be an Ironman to get through it!!! Shout out to all the Ironmoms that stuck it out today. Indiana is doing well. Great seeing the Indiana kids that are wrestling at Mt. Carmel. Those boys are class acts.

Tough day for the zebras. one got bonked in the head with a towel; the other was taken out at the knee by a wrestler from an adjacent mat. he was down for a while, but fortunately got back up. he is going to feel that on Sunday morning. Avon was impressive. Their coaches and bench brought a lot of intensity.

At the Traicoff today, 144 pounder Jeffrey Huyvaert of New Prairie majored Dillon Graham of Indianapolis Cathedral 17-6 and 150 pounder Jayden Lewis of New Prairie with the decision over Michael Ortega of Portage 8-2.

Plymouth loses to Hobart, Hobart Loses to Harrison, Plymouth beat Harrison, Harrison loses to Mville

Also, Plymouth beat Merriville as a team 41 Plymouth 36 Merriville

NR Alonzo Chantea(Plymouth) over #15 Joy Cantu(Merriville) by TF

Round 4 Results: Bloomington South 61, Castle 18 Mater Dei 69, Jeffersonville 12 Avon 53, Civic Memorial 21

Thanks for clarification. I was going off the lineups provided here. Familiar with most EMD but not Avon upper weights.

Round 2 Results: Jeffersonville 53, Castle 21 Mater Dei 46, Civic Memorial 21 Avon 62, Bloomington South 12

Larson over Shapker 10-8 OT

Avon. Larson 175. Nichols 165. Makyi Hines 190. Joe O at 285

Clark & Clark for CP

Makyi Hines wrestled for Avon

Dickman & Ison Places, who else

Avon came out swinging. Solid performance by the Orioles. #BringBackTheTights

No thanks. We're good without it. Round 1 results: Castle 36, Civic Memorial 33 Avon 41, Mater Dei 18 Bloomington South 47, Jeffersonville 24

Stewart over Murphy by fall 40-18 Avon And that's a wrap. Great energy and showing by Avon.

Very impressed with Goelz after the dual with Brownsburg . Will be a contender down in Dirty South Semi State .

I Schaefer over L Rioux 7-5 12- 6 Avon

December 16

Yet they think he’s only the 2nd best kid in the state

9 Central time

Big win for Kresja over ranked kid from st.eds!

I think wrestlers who were pretty tough tend to hang out with other wrestlers who are pretty tough, so when they think back on their youth, they have memories mainly of wrestlers who were pretty tough. They prune the memories of un-tough people through the years. The people who weren't pretty tough in wrestling probably aren't posting and reading this board, so they don't come up with a counter argument through personal experience, so the only side our observations is the tough side, while we are cognizant of both tough and untough people around us today because we don't have to have very good memories for that. Kids in my day were a mixture of tough and un-tough. Some of my teammates worked extremely hard to improve themselves. I had a few teammates who worked extremely hard when I wrestled them which helped me a lot. I'm eternally grateful for these teammates and developing that type of character is the focus of my coaching career. I also had teammates that weren't tough, and I wouldn't spend much time thinking about them if I didn't coach where I encounter their contemporary archetypical counterparts allowing me to remember hundreds of wrestlers from all my years all at once. The best part of coaching is encountering a kid that reminds you of an untough kid in the past, but helping them develop into a kid who reminds you of a badass tough wrestlers you remember from the past. I vent to my dad every single season about something that annoys me currently with kids, but he always has a story to top me. His 35 years of coaching just have better highs and better lows than my 16 when it comes to positive and negative examples of toughness, work ethic, dedication to overcoming adversity. I think of a wrestler from the 90s who lost his mother and didn't ever have his dad around on a weekly basis because it opened my eyes to the most important struggles some kids go through, and my dad was an amazing father who allowed me to learn about what it meant to succeed as a person through wrestling. He always gave me opportunities to analyze the actions of the wrestlers on his team from the time I was old enough to analyze until the I graduated and he retired. I also think of the kids who quit the morning of sectionals a few years after that last kid graduated who I think had very strong homes, and I've been trying to figure out why kids like that don't want to put it on the line.

One of my favorite quotes when I hear the ole "kids these days" complaint: “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” - Socrates around 400 B.C. Kids will always be kids. Coach Mayaab at clinic said a few years ago that we have to build relationships and "milk" these kids. Going from playing Fortnite every day to being screamed at in a hot, sweaty, smelly wrestling practice is not enticing to any 14-15 year old kid. Not to mention, we expect them to show up, work hard, and then tell a kid with 10% body fat that he has to lose weight? Those can be difficult conversations if there is not a strong relationship between that coach and wrestler. Rules without relationships = rebellion. Gone are the days of demanding respect to gain respect from a kid, because they will just find something else to do. But if you show respect to the kid, I feel they will always gravitate towards the thing that gives them attention and love.

At 175 last night: Gage Gulley Noblesville pinned #17 @190 Crew Farrell Frankton

Absolute travesty, I would send a sternly worded email to the Munster school board.

Not me. I meal plan for my kid and then make him watch me eat junk all the while I tell him he is soft.

Last night was senior night for the Munster wrestling team. But, I guess that wasn't important enough to open the concession stand for the dual against Highland. So I had to endure without my favorite in season food. For last night, Munster gets 8 slices of pizza out of 8. But those slices all have anchovies, pineapple, and jalapeno on top of them. And my dogs licked them. Next stop on the tour is Dec 13 at Hanover Central High School. Thank you for reading.