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Mason Parris, Sarah Hildebrandt and Kayla Miracle all make the U.S. Olympic team. Great job gentleman and ladies. A few other Indiana natives also has a solid showing at the Olympic trials.

Today.com contacted me and picked up my story. https://www.today.com/health/men-s-health/dad-mystery-brain-illness-rcna147984

After the state finals I thought they gave up on wrestling over there.

You are forgetting Mr. Stevan Micic and Ashton Mutawa who also qualified for the Olympics.

Lots and lots of boos for Burroughs, but he wrestled incredibly well and intelligently. Soundly beats Mesenbrink. Burroughs prods Mesenbrink and the crowd booed him lustily. It was chippy on both ends and Burroughs had a great strategy. These people are nuts if they think Burrtoughs won for any other reason than being a much better, complete wrestler than the very, very young and less experienced Mesenbrink. Pretty weak in my opinion. You don't boo Michael Jordan and you don't boo Jordan Burroughs, again in my humble opinion. Nolf all over upstart Jacques 9-2.

Mendez over McKenna 8-2

Big changes are coming to high school wrestling this season. Over the past ten years the collegiate folkstyle rules have become almost a different sport with out of bound stalling, what determines out of bounds, and this past year the three point takedown. While many were clamoring for the college out of bounds rules with only one supporting point determining being in bounds it was repeatedly shot down by the NFHS due to mat and gym size concerns. This year though, the NFHS has decided that it is time to implement the one supporting point criteria for high school wrestling. While making the wrestling area a little bigger this rule will make it easier for referees to focus on the action instead of checking for the proper amount of supporting points of the wrestlers. On top of that change the NFHS has approved the popular three-point takedown. This year at the NCAA level they went to a three-point takedown. Many people were cautious, but also excited about that big change. After the NCAA season concluded many felt that the three-point takedown was a huge success. If these two big changes aren’t enough for you, the NFHS has also aligned with the NCAA level with adding a four-point nearfall. After four seconds on your back the offensive wrestler will now be awarded four points instead of taking five seconds to earn only three points. This was implemented in the NCAA since 2015 and last year they updated the rule to allow two points for two seconds, three points for three seconds, and four points for four seconds or more. The NFHS will follow the NCAA and implement all three scenarios for nearfall. Other rule changes include a clarification of the Technical Fall criteria and not requiring a 10-foot circle on the wrestling mat. Here is the NFHS article on the changes https://www.nfhs.org/articles/participants-now-inbounds-with-one-point-of-contact-in-high-school-wrestling/ NFHS Article.pdf View full article

And a coach! Katie Kriebel is the assistant coach for the Senior Women's National Wrestling Team. She will be working with the team before the Olympics and in Paris. So proud of all these Forever Hoosiers!

I believe you are correct if Mendez continues tracking on his current path. 4X HS State Champ, NCAA Champ as a true sophomore & competed very well on the senior level at the latest Olympic Trials beating McKenna, Green & Diakomihalis then only losing to Retherford 3-2. Very impressive for someone who is only 20 or 21 years old.

I have Parris as the GOAT even if he doesn't medal (which would be a huge upset if he doesn't come home with a medal). 3x state champ, 1 loss in HS NCAA champ, Hodge winner Age group world champ Sr world medalist US Olympian Sarah Hildebrant is the women's GOAT without a doubt. But Parris is the overall GOAT at the moment. And I do suspect that Jesse Mendez's final resume will place him above Parris when its all said and done.

YES.

I'm stepping out until the evening session. It appears that Mendez' quarters match again Yianni is taking place this evening. Great job thus far by our Indiana men and women. Mendez, Lee, Parris, Hildebrandt and Miracle all still alive and working for the all-important Olympic berths. Carroll lost 1-1 to Cox and was absolutely in that match until the bitter end. Great showing by him and he is getting better and better all the time. Boyd, Carroll, Nate Jackson still alive in wrestlebacks. Great action and can't wait for tonight's all-star matches at every weight. Bye for now.

Cowan Tony Abbott has retired Casey Bradley is the new Head Coach

How many takedown records were done in this manner? If you are getting takedown records by teching kids in this manner it just means you wrestled a super weak schedule and your record doesn't mean anything.

Bad Analogy. Just like your reasoning and most of your takes.

Wrestlers from all over will converge upon State College, Pennsylvania Friday and Saturday for one of 18 coveted spots on the Olympic team. Seven wrestlers with Indiana ties will look to call themselves Olympians after the dust settles on Saturday evening. Men's Freestyle At 65kg there are two entries from Indiana in Nick Lee and Jesse Mendez. Lee is coming in as the top seed, while Mendez is the 11th seed. This weight is not qualified for the Olympics yet, so the winner here will go to Turkey with hopes of getting a qualifying spot. Lee won the spot last year and wrestled at Worlds, but did not qualify the spot. He potentially see Penn State teammate Beau Bartlett or 2023 NCAA champ Andrew Alirez to make the best of three finals. Moving up to 97kg we will see Christian Carroll attempt to make the team. He qualified at the Last Chance Qualifier a couple weeks ago and slots in as the 9th seed. He will have Iowa's Anthony Cassioppi in the first round with the winner getting former Olympic medalist J'den Cox in the quarters. At heavyweight Mason Parris will sit out until the finals on Saturday. He will away the challenge tournament winner in a best of three series due to winning a bronze medal at last year's world championships. It will be very fitting to see Parris in Paris this summer. Women's Freestyle Three wrestlers will look to earn spots on the team in Women's Freestyle. All of the women's weights are qualified for the Olympics which means winning here will get you a trip to Paris. At 50kg the Queen of Granger Sarah Hildebrandt will be sitting out until Saturday's best of three finals. She has medaled multiple times on the world stage and looks to make her second Olympic team. Kayla Miracle will be in the best of three series at 62kg awaiting the winner of the challenge tournament. She was an Olympian in 2021 and qualified the weight again for the Olympics at the Pan Am qualifier. Lastly, Yorktown's Alara Boyd will look to earn a spot at 68kg. She comes in as the 5th seed in the challenge tournament. She has multiple world medals and will be a threat to make the best of three series against Amit Elor. Schedule Friday, April 19 Session 1: 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM Challenge Tournament: Preliminaries, Quarterfinals and Consolation Rounds* (ALL STYLES AND WEIGHTS) *All championship matches will wrestle prior to consolation rounds Session 2: 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM Challange Tournament: Semifinals and Finals (ALL STYLES AND WEIGHTS) Saturday, April 20 Session 3: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Final 2 out of 3 Championship Series Round 1** **Weights not currently qualified for the Olympics will wrestle match 2 in this session Challenge Tournament: Consolations, Consolation Semi-finals, 3rd place and True 3rd (if needed) (ALL STYLES AND WEIGHTS) Session 4: 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM Final 2 out of 3 Championship Series Round 2** **Weights not currently qualified for the Olympics will wrestle match 3 at beginning of session (if needed) Final 2 out of 3 Championship Series Round 3 (If Needed) How to Watch On Peacock and USA https://www.themat.com/news/2024/april/16/how-to-watch-live-u-s-olympic-team-trials-wrestling-live-on-peacock-and-usa-network Brackets Brackets on TrackWrestling TheMat.com Coverage Page View full article

The only division that required a qualification was the Girls Showcase. Only other qualification is enough money to fly out to Vegas. These are UWW age groups which are based on 3 year increments in most circumstances and utilize the ever popular metric weight classes.

If only there was a website https://indianamat.com/index.php?/history/worlds.html/ 2021 Kayla Miracle- Culver Academies Event: Olympic Womens Freestyle Championship Weight: 62kg Place: 12th 2021 Sarah Hildebrandt- Penn Event: Olympic Womens Freestyle Championship Weight: 50kg Place: 3rd 2021 Stevan Micic- Hanover Central Event: Olympic Freestyle Championship Weight: 57kg Place: 14th 1988 David Butler Muncie Northside Event: Olympic Greco-Roman Championship Weight: 74kg Place: Qualifier 1976 Pete Lee- Muncie Central Event: Olympic Greco-Roman Championship Weight: 100kg Place: 5th 1936 Richard Voliva- Bloomington South Event: Olympic Freestyle Championship Weight: 79kg Place: 2nd

I wrestled a total of like 8 min and saw the pearly gates

Health first man. Thanks again for all of the prior updates. Get well.

Wow, so sorry! Get well soon!

Dingo Brigade is putting out some really solid updates on this sites College and International board if you guys would like some more details.

Fix wins 5-1 over Suriano. Great sportsmanship between the 2 after the match. Spencer Lee nearly techs Megaludis in the first, leads 8-0 in the 2nd Kennedy Blades in a dogfight against Skylar Grote. 2-0 Blades leads in the 2nd period.

Mendez has Yanni next Carroll over Cassioppi.... has Cox next

Mendez over Green 6-3 Lee over Plantaleo 9-2

Thanks guys. I very much appreciate the support I’ve gotten from the Brownsburg wrestling community, and the Central Indiana wrestling community as a whole. I’m firmly convinced that being involved in this great sport has been a key factor in my fight. “Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” -Dan Gable I don’t know about easy, but it definitely helped!

Gable Stevenson pretty solid Indiana born wrestler

Know this topic has been covered to some degree, but thoughts on the best native Indiana high school AND college careers that have already been completed, and also if applicable international, world, freestyle in the last 50 years...? Here's my thoughts for starters. All of these were at least minimum one-time college All Americans. Number 1 goes to Mason Parris imho. after Parris names that come to mind are Andrew Howe, Nick Lee, Reece Humphrey, Angel Escobedo, Leroy Vega, Jack Effner, Kelvin Jackson, Brad Traviola, John Ginther, Jason and Alex Tsirtsis, Mark Whitehead, Adam Chalfant. Many outstanding high schoolers including David Palmer, Lance Ellis aren't included because their college careers were cut short and or didn't make All American status. I'm sure I'm missing a few.

Choosing down becomes much less relevant than ever before.

Love the rule changes, will just have to transition from TWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! to THRRREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

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Anyone see or hear about this?

He's not a huge medal favorite. He'll come in as the 4th best guy and capable of beating anyone--but if brackets work out with him on the same side as 2 of the Big 3, he has to get an upset to medal. AMENDMENT: I just researched and saw that ranking points should be locked in with Mason and the Big 3 as the 4 seeds. That will mean he can medal without beating one of them and that he's a clear medal favorite. I disagree that a loss would be a "huge" upset because the rise of new, young monsters, along with upsets by savvy vets, are commonplace internationally--but him not medalling would be an upset if the draws hold.

IU picks up 2023 Columbia 133-lb national qualifier, Angelo Rini. He's a grad transfer who was out much of this season with injuries. Avon's own Cheaney Schoeff (IU redshirt at 133 this year) enters the portal in a possibly not unrelated move.

Right behind Sarah Hilderbrandt.

You’re trashing the ECC Semi State, but we’re talking about Merrillville SS right now.

Just watched Sage get leg lace t'd vs Audrey last year. Pretty sure it could be different. Sage has refined a nasty mean streak since.

Mendez is on the verge of teching Yianni. I don't know what to say about Mendez that hasn't already been said. This was an incredible win...12-7. Youth will be served!

Nick Lee wins 9-2. Green using some stepouts to get a 3-0 lead, Mendez responds with a TD with a minute left. 40 seconds, Mendez stalking...gets the leg, get the TD and 2 for a quick exposure....Mendez winning 6-3. Wins 6-3! Indiana wrestlers have been phenomenal thus far. Yianni looking vulnerable against Larkin, who is so long for this weight. Very tough body type to compete against in FS....8-8, with Larkin with criteria...Yianni with a sweep single, chops out Larkin's leg to complete the takedown. Bricks from both sides Bartlett up on Alirez 2-2 by criteria in the 2nd period.....Alirez stalking

Lee and Mendez moving on!!!!!!

Carroll with another big toss, leads by criteria 6-6...wins it in an absolutely phenomenal match

18 year old Connor Mirasola up against McFadden at 86kg. Mendez with another TD, pouring it on, leads 8-2, Wins 8-2 Bartlett over Garrett in a changing of the guard match. Pantaleo wins 5-3 over Gross

What is VHS? Here is the IHSAA's library https://www.myihsaa.net/store/products?category=28 It has 2002, but no 1976

unknown Andrew, what’s so wrong about posting notable results? We have parents who post when their kid commits to what high school they decide to go to and that seems totally acceptable. What’s wrong with posting a kid who had a good weekend?

From what I understand the kid from Tennessee actually went to CP through like JH. Hoping those Delta boys stay home but wish the best to them no matter where they end up!

Derek Blubaugh will run Franklin's RTC this week. Enter door 21. 6-7:30pm. Also, coming with Derek will be All American teammate heavyweight Cale Gray. Cale will be there to roll around with any big kids. Derek Blub2024 National Champion at 197 ... Earned 2024 Outstanding Wrestler at the DII National Championship ... A two-time NCAA Division II National Runner-up at 197 (2021-22, 2022-23) … Back-to-back GLVC Wrestler of the Year honoree in 2022-23 and 2023-24 … Captured his first Midwest Classic title at 197 in 2023-24 ... First Team All-GLVC in 2022, 2023, 2024 and a second team nod in 2021 … Two- time NWCA Scholar All-Academic and three-time Academic All-GLVC honoree … Led the Greyhounds in victories in 22-23 with 33, while capturing 12 falls … helped lead the Greyhounds to their first GLVC Championship in 2022-23 Four-year letterwinner in wrestling for Bloomington South...two-time state placer, 6th as a junior, 4th as a senior...career record of 153-26...four-time sectional and regional champ...Conference champ as a senior...two-time Team MVP...team captain as a senior...84 pins as a prep. Engineering major...National Honor society member...National art Honor Society member...son of Rene and Dana Blubaugh... Grandson of the Olympic Gold Medalist Doug Blubaugh, winner of the 1960 Olympic gold medal ... Doug Blubaugh was also the 1957 NCAA DI National Champion for Oklahoma State at 157lbs.

100% would have to be andrew howe imo. 2nd best wrestler in the world many years behind the GOAT of our sport and pushed him to.the limit. After that micic, angel