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It's uncanny how many of these nominees are on my Ignored Users list. That's my favorite feature of the website. It works amazingly well.

No rules, just be glad your high school coach is in the room, many programs only have "DAD" Coaches that do the "CLUB" season. Consider yourself lucky if u have a coach wanting to improve the program!!

As the Indiana high school wrestling season comes to an end…Just wanted to give a big shout out to all of the Indiana clubs and coaches. First generation wrestling family here. My boys were introduced to the sport by their uncle/cousin. Such a great sport and community! We have met so many great people and competitors. Blessed to have such a great community and support system. The boys have had club coaches from all over the state help in their corner multiple times w/ no ties to the boys whatsoever. Just there to support Indiana wrestling. Another big shout out to contenders and red cobra. Both have been home clubs w/ outstanding coaches and partners!! This forum and the wrestling community is outstanding.

Location Hartman Arena Park City, Kansas Schedule (Central Time) https://www.naia.org/sports/mwrest/2023-24/Releases/Schedule Thursday February 29th 11 am Session I 1st Round Championship and 1st Round Consolation 6:00 pm Session II 2nd Round Championship and 2nd Round Consolation Friday March 1st 11 am Session III Quarterfinals and 3rd Round Consolation 6:00pm Session IV Semi-finals and 4th Round Consolation (Blood Round), and 5th Round Consolation Quarterfinals Saturday March 2nd 11 am Session V 6th Round Consolation Finals Placement Round 7:00pm Session VI Championship Finals Brackets Brackets on TrackWrestling College Weight Class First Name Last Name Record Seed/1st Round Matchup Cornerstone 125 Jeffrey Bailey 16-8 Unseeded vs 4 seed Brody Gee-St Mary Cumberlands(KY) 125 Adonis Boyd 25-7 10 seed vs Unseeded Jose Gonzalez-Dickenson St Marian 133 Anthony Hughes 20-11 Unseeded vs 5 seed Jackson Cockrell-Grand View Marian 141 Logan Wagner 27-4 2 seed vs Bye Marian 149 Aundre Beatty 19-13 Unseeded vs 9 seed Blake Haney-Grand View Indiana Tech 157 Elijah Chacon 21-11 Unseeded vs 4 seed Kanaipon Tapia-Menlo Indiana Tech 165 Jonathan Kervin 32-5 3 seed vs Bye Marian 165 Elliott Rodgers 10-6 16 seed vs Cameron Hargrove-William Penn Indiana Tech 174 Landon Buchanan 17-13 Unseeded vs 1 seed Riley Smucker-Life Marian 174 Noah Hollendonner 20-13 Unseeded vs 5 seed Alex Reynolds-Grand View Indiana Tech 197 Nathan Critchfield 24-3 4 seed vs unseeded John Lovett-Reinhardt Indiana Tech 285 Braydon Erb 19-4 15 seed vs unseeded Tanner Hawkins-York Marian 285 Excell Brooks 18-17 Unseeded vs 6 seed Antonio Dacosta-Menlo

This is the kind of thinking that runs young posters down the rabbit hole chasing the wrong goals. Winning and losing a day and a post are un-controllable. Focus on what you can control. Become a great poster, don't try to be the best poster of the day or the week or the year. Time is fleeting, but memes are forever. If FCFighter170 was a young impressionable poster, he'd see this and just re-hash his old wins and forget what got him to this level to begin with, hard work, hyping up his boys, and weird connections through space and time. Sometimes our greatest posts aren't wins, and because of that we learn and we build. If Ontherise219 was only trying to win the day, he'd underrank CP and Brownsburg to get the people riled up. But Rise won't sink to that level.

Every Thursday 6:00-7:30PM beginning March 7th. Use door L - the stair pool doors on the west side of the school off of Indiana Ave. MUST have a USAW card to participate. Grades 6-12 + College. We are looking forward to another great off-season with many of the region's best wrestlers and teams! Join us each week for an opportunity to improve folkstyle, freestyle, and greco techniques followed by live wrestling.

Nick Lee & Mason Parris win Gold at 65 kg & 125 kg respectively. Actually USA swept gold in Men's Freestyle. Indiana showing up for team USA!

Truly the greatest sport on the planet, and the greatest people.

Kayla Miracle also took gold (which matters a lot..explained below). Jacob Moran wrestled for Puerto Rico and lost his only match, 3-1, to the Ecuadorian who took bronze. These Pan Am championships matter for international seeding points, including for the Olympics, so we took them seriously. However, the real event is this weekend--the Pan Am Olympic Qualifier tournament. All 18 Olympic weights will wrestle until there is a Top 2, who will qualify their country for that given weight at the Olympics this summer. Nations who already qualified at a given weight by placing Top 5 at the 2023 Worlds will not have an entry at that weight. Nick Lee will attempt to qualify us for the Olympics at 65kg and Kayla Miracle will attempt to qualify us at 62kg, where neither was successful in placing Top 5 at 2023 Worlds. Jacob Moran will once again compete for Puerto Rico as well. In addition to Lee at freestyle 65 and Kayla at women's 62, the U.S. will also attempt to qualify 57kg in freestyle, all 6 weights of Greco, and 53kg and 68kg in women's. Kayla's gold at the regular Pan Am Championships was important because she took the head-to-head gold medal match from the Canadian in a nail biter, 6-6. This gives Kayla the #1 seed and puts her opposite both the very tough Canadian and a very tough Brazilian in the Olympic Qualifier event. There is no True 2nd, so it paves the way for a much easier path to winning in the semi-finals and guaranteeing our place at the Olympics. Even if Nick and Kayla qualify the weights for us, they have to come through our Olympic Trials in April like everyone else to be our representatives this summer.

Former South Adams Wrestling Coach and Army Veteran, Corey Sparks is currently battling cancer. During his time coaching Corey was a regular on Indianamat. There has been a GoFundMe organized to help with expenses. Any help would be appreciated! https://gofund.me/23ead727

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This topic is also as fun as watching my best friends, the "Grateful Dead" while smoking some "Blue Dream". I love it as much as NBA Groupie girls, while sharing some edible "Gelato'. So like l always say: " You cant win championships by being normal, by just being average". So "wrestling bill Walton, who loves wrestling, but was too tall: dictates, salutes and exhortingly publishes his vote to the "poster with the moster", the :King of social media", the "meme-master" , the royal humongus of Indianamat. The anti-average, most unnormal dude on in the Gorilla kingdom, get's Wrestling Bill Walton's heavily weighted hyper influenced vote. The envelope says "Team Garcia". Note this vote wasnt influenced by one iota from me attending multiple post concert "Grateful Dead" parties, with my bestie and Team Garcia's great uncle Jerry Garcia, the greatest musician of all time. I got some stories for you dudes, like the time I took Magic Johnson to the Hollywood Bowl. But i digress.

Alex Tsirtis vs. Jesse Mendez Blake Maurer vs. Alex Dolly "The rematch" Reece Humphry vs. Steven Micic Darren Elkins vs. Josh Holden Craig Weinzapfel vs. Brayton Lee Mason Parris vs Jake O'Brien Chad Red vs. Angel Escobedo Nathan Moore vs. Noah Weaver

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Penn High School 1- Sarah Hildebrandt too accolades to list 2020 Tokyo50 kgWorld Championships2018 Budapest53 kg2021 Oslo50 kg2022 Belgrade50 kg2023 Belgrade50 kgPan American Games2019 Lima53 kgPan American Championships2013 Panama City55 kg2015 Santiago55 kg2018 Lima53 kg2019 Buenos Aires53 kg2021 Guatemala City50 kg2022 Acapulco50 kg2023 Buenos Aires50 kgGolden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2019 Krasnoyarsk53 kg2017 Krasnoyarsk55 kg 2- Drew Hildebrandt IHSAA 8th IHSAA 6th IHSAA 2nd IHSAA 1st 3x NCAA Qualifier 2x All American

Indiana Outlaws is an another option , they run some practices in the off season at Columbus East ..

No. Are you concerned with coaches continuing to coach their high school wrestlers without giving the kids a break? Or are you worried about high school coaches coaching someone from another school? For most high school coaches, a forced downtime wouldn't be the end of the world. But right after the IHSAA State Finals is Frosh/Soph State, then USA Folkstyle State, then Freestyle season, and Freestyle State. Then Regionals. Then camps and clinics and team duals. Then, if you are lucky enough, you have a Fargo qualifier. Then more camps and clinics and practices. Then IHPO and possibly another team dual to freshen up and then high school season starts. I'm looking for that "cool down" period somewhere. August is the best hope, but now you need to get ready to compete at IHPO in September, which has turned into an absolute beast of a tournament so you better be in shape.

Perry Meridian's RTC will start Tuesday Feb. 27th. 6pm - 7:30pm Our first guest clinician will be Perry Meridian's own and current Assistant Coach at Red Cobra Wrestling Academy Brandon James. Brandon was a 4X IHSAA State Place winner, 3X FARGO AA, SUPER 32 AA, FLO AA, NAIA AA Come get better tomorrow night.

Columbus East Wrestling Club would almost certainly be the closest for your kids, but I'm not sure where the one near Cincinnati is. Contenders South in Greenwood Indiana would be probably the next closest. Pretty much Straight up I-65. Maurer-Coughlin in Evansville would be about the same as Contenders South from you. Those 3 would all be excellent choices, and all within a couple of hours from Louisville.

Maurer Coughlin, Contenders and Red Cobra would be a little bit longer of a drive.

Fountain Central High School Other than Jim Helwig (The Ultimate Warrior), I'd say our most accomplished wrestler is Laine Frazee who placed 8th in state.

Thanks for the assist!

Triton will expand its Super Dual in 2024-2025 to 8 teams. Teams carrying over from this past season include: - Triton - SB Adams - Bremen - Culver Community - John Glenn - Open - Open - Open Please reach out to AD Rodney Younis (ryounis@triton.k12.in.us) or Coach Matt Arvesen (marvesen@triton.k12.in.us)

With the calendar rolling and looking a little different for the 24-25 season, can an IHSWCA Officer tell us if Team State will be Jan 4th or Jan 11? Also, @Ironbear do you know where the girls Regional, SS, and State series will fall in 2025?

Some great Royals for sure. I was narrowing it down to 2 time qualifiers at minimum for "most accomplished", though all of these guys have an argument for "best" wrestler in HSE history. Spencer with only 1 medal, but that huge upset definitely crossed my mind. Hadn't realized Farrell qualified his Junior year, he'd be up there for sure. His kids were no slouches either (JD took 3rd for the Tigers and then Crew was a 4 time Regional Champion at Frankton). P-Rob is one of my favorite dudes in the sport, NCAA Qualifier at Purdue after his late blooming Senior year for the Royals. Neibarger was awesome. Really fun, but as you mentioned only won one medal at HSE. Pompei may qualify as most accomplished Royal in wrestling for career totality for sure when you add in his collegiate time and his coaching as well. I wasn't here for it, but according to Coach Rypel here who got teched by him his freshman year, John Tatom was the best 160 pounder in the state his senior year before tearing up his knee. As it is, he also placed 6th once for HSE prior to his career ending injury. Long story short, HSE has been way too good for way too long without having a champion. Gotta get that monkey off our back in the next 5 years.

When our U14 comes through high school it's going to be fun.

No it's to disparage the Fort Wayne semi-state as much as possibly can. Why not compare to New Castle or East Chicago? The Mooresville regional had 6 champs, 14 in the top 4, and 21 total placers. Fort Wayne had 3 champs and 12 in the top 4. New Castle had 4 champs and 10 in the top 4. East Chicago had 1 champ and 10 in the top 4. The rest of Evansville had 0 champs and 2 in the top 4. Yet here we are trying to make the Fort Wayne semi-state look bad.

I feel like the one about the way the referee declares the winner was a game changer.

Feels a bit sacrilegious to not say teammate/friend Nick Crume (Q, 3, 3, 1), and while I predict he’d win the head to head more often than he’d lose, I have to choose Hunter Watts (6, 2, 1, 3) since it says “most accomplished.” Only Jimmie with a placement all four years and only to make it under the lights twice.

If that happens there is always viagra.

CP has definitely recruited a fine team from far and wide, but at the expense of all the hometowns where those kids came from.

We had a ghost nearfall in one of our matches and when I went back and watched it they were arguing about it. The ref came up to confirm and when he walked away "See I told you" the other said "Man I just didn't see it", good banter back and forth. He didn't see it b/c it literally didn't happen!

Last visited in 2022..... Sure hope some poster joining/coming off a hiatus didn't drive him away