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What a match for Lucas Davison! On to the semis!

I think he ended up wrestling the perfect match. He pressured, pressured, pressured, wore him down, and kept testing the waters to snipe a low attack all through the last half of the match before finally getting that opening at the death. It was absolutely perfect and he needed every second to pull it off. What a thing of beauty!

125- Figs called it 157- Andonian Mr. March Clutch Funk Freak takes out #4 Scott

Castle Coach Bob Harmon retires after a very long and successful coaching career. Congratulations Coach. https://castleknightsathletics.com/Article/23242

2 DAC in the NCAA Finals, just saying

Carr v. O’Toole match was a thing of beauty! What a match.

In case you missed it on X or the college thread: Christian Mejia from Elkhart Memorial, Derek Blubaugh from Bloomington South, and Shawn Streck from Merrillville all picked up D2 national titles last night. Mejia had finished 5th twice before, was seeded only 3rd, and was in his final year of eligibility. Blubaugh had twice been national runner-up to his finals opponent, and had lost to him 5-0 two weeks ago, but finally got over the hump. Streck picked up his second consecutive title. Congrats, guys!!

Summary of last night's results for our Indiana interests: Baumann, Bates, Willham are out. C-Rooks picks up two wins and makes it to the R24 in the consis. Lemley, G-Rooks, Lee all lose and fall into that round as well. Those 4 guys each need 3 wins to be AAs. Mendez, Allred, Davison are in the quarterfinals. Mendez beat Hardy, 11-3, during the year and is clearly favored. Allred will be a significant underdog versus #2 Hidlay, who's only gone the distance in 5 of his 26 wins during his undefeated season. Davison lost 5-3 to #2 Bastida this year, and should have a shot at the upset. IU has 5 of 6 still alive in the consolations. Purdue, as noted above, has Ramos in the quarters and Clark in the consis.

Fun first round...a few things I saw: --Nothing comes easy in this tournament! So many high seeds got pushed. --The jury's still out on Starocci. He didn't look like Starocci from this season, but he didn't need to. --Blake Boarman should have been in this tournament. Both of the other ranked guys from his conference that were in a 3-way results ring-around-the-rosey with him during the duals had very impressive R32 wins. And the 3rd guy that got an automatic bid won the 32/33 match over Cayden Rooks. --IU has 3 guys with legit shots at being AAs. Lee continues to get it done in tight matches. G-Rooks continues to never show any quit and be a handful for anyone. And #23 Fongaro got a huge upset--coupled with the #26 also getting an upset so that he's now a 50/50 to get to the quarters. --Allred also got a big favor with the #26 from VA Tech upsetting #7 Glazier. Glazier crushed Allred during the year--but Silas tends to be about as steady as they come against guys he should beat. If he keeps his nerve and gets to the quarters, he obviously has two shots to win matches that would earn him AA status.

Rest in peace Coach Tim Brown. He was ALL IN ALL a good man and gave a ton to YOUNG wrestlers and the sport of wrestling in general. Tim gave all he could (willingly). Lots of good memories for a ton of people. A reminder to be present in the everlasting now. SS

Pretty sure I’m gonna get 7 finalist and win.. just saying

Fix match …crazy. Again why are we on a landline in the 21st century ?

Vito just looked like last year's Vito again.

Castle High School will be hiring a new wrestling coach after Bob Harmon retires after 40 years of being at the school.

Can the don of collegiate wrestling pickems also say that Ramos will win bloodround? Please?

Why didn't Mendez get near fall points for that spladle?

Ritchie Figs!!! You and I are on a collision course at 184 & 285, my friend.

Just give @TeamGarcia all the bananas… I quit!!!

Good luck with the backlash of moving the girls finals.

I know he’s Clutch in March, ACC Rival Ed Scott is up next . We’ll see here in a few hours if the Funk Clutch Freak shows out . He did get hammered by Scott at ACC Championships. 14-5 Major .

I couldn't do it...him getting destroyed multiple times this year was too impressed on my brain. But you only have to be healthy and resemble your best once a year for all to be redeemed.

Wanted to pick him, but he's looked rough this year due to injuries. Hasn't looked like himself for weeks. Glad to see he's more healthy now and back to his funky ways, definitely one of the most fun guys to watch in college.

They had the girls basketball state finals the week after wrestling.

Why can’t we have an announcer on each mat? @Dingo Brigade too busy?

More specifically with our Indiana interests in Session 1: C-Rooks and Baumann lost Bates and Willham won their pigtails before losing in the genuine first round Mendez, Lemley, G-Rooks, Lee, Allred, Davison all won IU got 3 of 6 into the Round of 16. Purdue got Ramos through (barely!) but lost their other 4 matches. Session 2 at 7pm ET/6pm CT

I’m currently in the third somehow, lots of wrestling left though. Best of luck!

Congratulations to Tyler Schott Congratulations to from Center Grove for signing with Bellarmine. Projected to wrestle 285. View full signing

Gotta be one of the first college signees ever from Indiana whose team didn't have a spot for him in the sectional lineup--and he's going to a D1 school. Nuts!! He's a beast. He deserves it.

The deadline to accept invitations has passed, so I am filling teams with people who I've contacted or ones that have contacted me. I went through and contacted all seniors who qualified for state and then went to semi-states ticket rounders. If I did not hear back within a reasonable time, I went to next wrestler. We are still looking for 113 and 120. 106: Mason Jones - Lake Central (Accepted) Gold Brady Byrd- Washington (Accepted) Blue 113: Jalen Sawyer- Kokomo (Accepted)Gold Logan Schnarr- Cascade (Accepted) Blue 120: Cameron Fogle-- Southridge (Accepted) Gold Brandon Didat-- Floyd Central (Accepted) Blue 126: Luke Rioux -- Avon (accepted) Gold Josiah Dedeaux -- Terre Haute South (accepted) Blue 132: Tye Linser Western (accepted) Gold Isaac Kuhn-- Hamilton Heights (accepted) Blue 138: Tony Wood-- Jay County (accepted) Gold Gavyn Whitehead -- New Castle (accepted) Blue 144: Colt Bollenbacher-- South Adams (accepted) Gold Griffin Sanders -- Mooresville (accepted) Blue 150: Christopher Bohn-- Munster (accepted) Gold Carson Fettig -- Hamilton Heights (accepted)Blue 157: Mitchell Betz-- Western (accepted) Gold 165: Duke Myers-- Bellmont (accepted) Gold Jesse Derringer -- Brownsburg (accepted) Blue 175: Chase Leech-- Garrett (accepted) Gold Bray Emerine -- Floyde Central (accepted) Blue 190: Elias Cressell-- Wabash (accepted) Gold Collin Casad -- Terre Haute South (accepted) Blue 215: Brandon Johnson Lawrence North (accepted) Gold Keegan Marting - Bellmont (accepted) Blue 285: Oluwagbe Orisadare -- Avon (accepted) Gold Tyler Schott -- Center Grove (accepted) Blue I attached all the information you'll need to know. Girls Roster Committed so far: 100 Kyleigh Honaker -- East Noble 105 Jacki Shackleford -- Ft Wayne Northside 110 Kylie Smith-Foster -- Greenfield Central 115 Tola Aluka -- Ben Davis 120 Sophia Buechner Terre Haute North 125 Rose Kaplan West Lafayette 130 Kyra Tomlison Noblesville 135 Alexes Spaulding -- Columbia City 140 Kaylea Beauchamp Jeffersonville 145 Josie Hause Monrovia 155 Leila Thomas Whiteland 170 Jaiah ONeal Brownsburg 190 Michela Clifford -- Columbia City 235 Portia Weaver - Monrovia Boys All-Stars 2024.docx

It was a great day at Mooresville for Indiana Wrestling. One high light for me was the amount of team members both boys and girls who came up to me and thanked me for having them on the team and how much they appreciated the opportunity to compete one more time. We really are producing some great wrestlers in our state and more importantly these kids have a lot of class and respect. Indiana Gold boys battled hard but came up short 37-22. Winners for the gold team were; Mason Jones Luke Rioux Tony Wood Chis Bohn Duke Myers Indiana Blue sealed a victory for our home state 35-27. Winners were: Gavyn Whitehead Griffin Sanders Carson Fettig Michael Cain Keegan Martin Tyler Schott Brady Byrd Josiah Dedeaux The girls beat Iowa 63-12, but came up short against Illinois 21-44 Double Winners for the girls were: Tola Aluka Sophia Buechner Rose Kaplan Leila Thomas Winner vs Iowa were; Tola Aluka Sophia Buechner Rose Kaplan Leila Thomas Kyra Tomlison Alexes Spaulding Kaylea Beauchamp Jaiah O'Neal Michela Clifford Portia Weaver

Honestly, I think that's just who he is as a wrestler. He very rarely blows guys out, even going back to last year. His run last year included three extremely tight matches before pinning Lee. He talks about letting it fly, but he rarely ever does against solid guys. He gets those takedowns so easily in the first and then doesn't go back and stalls, but no clue why he does it but that's his style at this point. I just wish he'd get two takedowns so I'm not so stressed.