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Some French family moved to Culver...not sure if I am spelling the name right, but I think it's something like Forfet? Forfit? Something like that. Anyway, must be a big family because they are filling like seven of our weight classes this season.

Huyvaert’s run at 153. 6-0. Scored 63 points against 6 given up (all escapes/cuts). The list of names was pretty impressive.

Stadium Graphics out of Greenwood does all of our wall signage. They do a great job! We post the following signs. -Team photos -Season leaders for Takedowns, Wins, Pins -Career leaders for Takedowns, Wins, Pins -IHSAA State placer/qualifiers -State Champion signs

Lots of impact freshman in the brackets at ihpo. It will be interesting to see how they do. Trayvon Ducking Brownsburg Case Bell Brownsburg Colin Strayer Crown point Ceaser Salas Crown Point Daniel Brown Center Grove Marcus Malone Center Grove Noel Verduzco Lowell Tate St. Laurent Cathedral Case Bridge Avon Anthony Zuranski Avon Brenden Bentz Madison Jacoby Moore Hobart a couple to keep an eye on this weekend

The quality and depth is on par with pretty much every year. Many of the wrestlers participating don't even need to qualify for early entry, but still come here to prepare for the Super 32 and other fall events.

Charlie LaRocca lost in the ticket round in both his freshman and sophmore years. Freshmen year lost to Liam Krueger of Columbus East. Sophomore year lost to Isaiah Schaefer of Mater Dei. Then went on to win back to back state titles.

You can see our state champ paintings in the background here

Mason Paris …HS Track State Champ, Football, HS, State Champ, World Champ & Olympian Wrestling

I could be speaking out of pocket, but wouldn't Tylin Thrine qualify as a surprise champion? For anyone besides @FCFIGHTER170, he called it very early. Especially given the fact he beat Logan Frazier, which most people thought was a lock, on the way to his state title as a freshman.

Truly incredible the jumps he made. Won one match as a freshman, still below .500 as a sophomore and regional exit, then semi state champ and 6th as a junior, and then state runner-up as a senior. Just kept grinding and it definitely paid off.

Freshman 2016- 106 Asa Garcia Season High Ranking was around #8 Final State Rankings #10 Sectional Runner Up Regional Runner Up Semi State Runner Up, Blood Round match vs. #1 Cayden Rooks won in UTB to make it to State . State Friday Night beat #7 Lukas Waldenzac (SV 7-5) Saturday Morning beat #8 Brayden Curtis (OT 1-0) Semi Finals beat #4 returning State placer Kory Cavenaugh (5-2) Finals Match pins #2 Returning State Placer Keyuan Murphy, who he lost to twice in Dual & Team State that year. Nobody picked Asa that year . It’s was his first time running the gauntlet in his weight class . Did it again in absolute brutal 126 weight class in 2018 .

Ryan Sweet from Southwood back in 93 at 152. I'm pretty sure he never made it out of Regionals and was never a sectional champ, but found his groove his senior year. Won Conference, Sectional, Regional, Semi-State, and then lost to Matt Armentano from EVMD in the state finals. Wasn't a state champ, but it was one heck of a run to watch.

Verduzco is a freshman. 6 pins and a 12-1 win in the finals. Definitely the OW in my opinion.

Lucas Szymborski 2x Tennessee champ is in Indiana

With school starting I know there was a lot of transfer rumors of transfers. Any wrestlers have a new home?

Indiana guys that had great performances that weren't mentioned already Carter Fielden getting to the finals in a tough weight Case Bell, Dominic Brown, and Gavin Lewis at 123 that weight was LOADED! Gunner Henry teching Caesar Salas was impressive along with a good win in the finals Roudebush looked good, he must have had somewhere to go Nathan Reyes was the only Indiana wrestler in the top 6 at 116. Jacob Weaver had a good tournament making a run to 3rd Some of these weights were insane and you'll see guys at state that went 2-2 or 1-2.

168: Evan Roudebush - 5 matches, 5 pins

That rumor has persisted for a while. Pretty sure the Byes are actually French-Canadian, not French. Understandable that people get it mixed up.

Marshall Fishback from Rochester went from 5th at sectionals his sophomore year and was the state champ his senior year. Only wrestled for 3 years!

Lynn Panko is an absolute freak.

Start on Page 10 and you can go year by. year to see how close it came. The early years are obviously a little more spoty on season records but by the mid-70s it starts to pick up. https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/Wrestling Records Book_0.pdf

Deron Phillips LaSalle High School 1988 119lbs. Deron had never advanced beyond the sectional before he ran the table as an undefeated State Champion in 1988.

Anyone remember The Firm w/ Nas, AZ and Foxy Brown? This all reminds me of their song "Phone Tap" "What's the deal-y? I just touched grounds down in Indy Brought some transfers with me, IHSAA be floatin' around silly" "IHSAA got yo' phone tapped, what you gon' do? 'Cause sooner or later, they'll have your whole crew All they need now is the right word or two To make it all stick like glue, then you through IHSAA got yo' phone tapped, what you gon' do? 'Cause sooner or later, we'll have your whole crew All They need now is the right word or two" Anyway, been grinding to get you the dirt: My sources tell me Rojas and Boe to Lake Highland Prep Malones and Hornsby to CG. Hornsby cleared to wrestle and I'm 95% sure Malones are cleared. Bender is THS, he just lives in Illinois. Crown Point wins the Caesar Salas sweepstakes. Traevon Ducking and Case Bell to Brownsburg, but not sure that's a surprise.

Paul Petrov (Hanover) went from his freshman year not qualifying to being a State runner-up the following year, not a champ but still a big jump

Jeremiah Harvey (Culver Academies) at HWT in 2011 i thought Damon Howe of Plymouth was gonna get the Win that year I think Harvey went into OT in almost every match at State that year. Connor Graber (Northridge) at 182 in 2018, everyone thought that Nathan Walton (Brownsburg) was a guarantee for the title coming off of 2 3rd place finishes

Chris Fleeger at Midwest RTC

I was impressed with Heather Crull. Looked like a medalist to me.

Looked Spookily Good(not sure that's a word but it should be).

Homer pick. Jordan Partee - Madison. Placed 4th in wrestling as a Senior. All-Conference in Football in a tough football conference at the time. All-State in track and wrestling. NAIA All-American at Indiana Tech in triple jump and long jump and at one point led all divisions in long jump his freshman year. Kid was ridiculous, and a phenomenal person to boot.

Really solid preseason event. Great job to the Bailey's and Outlaw wrestling in putting together a solid event. What were some of the stand out matches on the weekend?

I will second that… but from a referee’s perspective. Going to 3 pts. for takedowns was not a big deal and so much easier using one point of contact in bounds for both takedowns and wrestling in general. I only saw two coaches get a little out of hand and ironically, they were from the same club (club to remain nameless). Outside of them, the coaching was great. I was very impressed! Would I go back and ref it again? Absolutely… like I said, overall it was a great day with lots of good wrestling. Plus, two knuckleheads wouldn’t be enough to keep me away!

Hunter Douglas pinned 2 x Illinois State Champion Tyson Waughtel. Before the talks start, he also beat Layne Horn by a technical violation at the end of the match that was not intentional and personally something I had not seen called before. So that match was going to overtime between two great wrestlers.

Lots of pictures from the Wild West Duals this past weekend - Free to download -- Elementary photos coming soon https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qnKKn1aG2SHJkdft/ Our next event will be IHPO

Hey coaches, what do you put up in your room as far as accomplishments, records etc...... I plan on putting up all our state qualifiers, 100 win club, and team accomplishments. Do you guys put up records up? Can you post some pictures so I have design ideas? Appreciate it!

Hoosier Wrestling Inc. has created an awesome fundraiser to support the Indiana Regional Training Center. A small batch of Grappler bourbon. Only 400 bottles available and are hand numbered. Must be 21 to purchase. If interested in supporting the program and getting a really nice bottle of bourbon, please send the needed information on the form to: Brian Anderson Executive Director Indiana RTC LFTBWC@gmail.com Payment Can be made via Venmo: @HoosierWrestlingInc1

Knox High School 1 Coach and 4 Wrestlers last season. Just got board approve to add another coach and currently have 7 girls signed up.

James Brimm Evansville Central, James Leavell Decatur Central, Brandon Wright Warren Central, Gelen Robinson Lake Central. (The Central Boys)

Colin Whetsel of New Palestine. He got 6th in Sectionals as a Freshman(2023) and 6th in the state as a Sophomore(2024).

Jermaine Brooks 1991 160lb State Champion from FW Northrop High School. Super fast and incredibly strong. Could've been a world class gymnast. His hit list is cray. His state title celebration was backflips all the way around the mat and an aerial dismount! Legendary!

I can think of a million: C Red, Thrine (pick one), Rickie Clark, Blake Mulkey, Kris Rumph, Mike Wenning (a long time ago), Manzona Bryant

I wasn't coach at the time, but from what I have been told Garrett Pepple was JV as a freshman. He and Connor Knapp were same weight. Knapp was a qualifier as a Freshman. I believe Garrett was a light 106. Anyhow he went from JV to state runner-up at 106 as a Sophmore. Was a runner-up and champ at 113 his junior and senior year.

Marshall Fishback in 2022. Ranked tenth and was only a semi-state qualifier the previous year. He beat a peak Jacob Johnson UTB 3-2 in the semis that year. Holden Parsons at Heavyweight in 2020 when Dorian Keys dominated most of the season before being upset by Irick in the semis. Rhett Hiestand and Katrell Moss in 2014 at 160 and 195 who beat Vinny Corsaro and Brian Wagner in the finals that year. Matt Hurford in 2013 at 182, a weight I thought would either go to Jake Masengale or Dakota Thacker.

Marshall Fishback HWT 2022

and that major in the finals was over my guy Carver aka National Triple crown winner

Anthony Lapsley vs. Kevin Carr was an insane show of skill meets athleticism. I always thought Kevin was the most truly gifted athlete of the Carr brothers. A few more throwbacks: Nick Corpe of Elkhart Memorial was another multi-sport, freak-of-nature, do-anything athlete. Ben Wissel of Richmond always made me raise my eyebrows. James Torres of Lake C too. All of that said, I think Vernon Cannon of LC vs. James Leavell of DC in OT--the year that Leavell pinned his way through the most prestigious national folk style tournament, NHSCA senior nationals--might be the the matchup of the most combined athletic talent I ever saw on an Indiana mat.

I have been there it’s not a fun process. Good luck I hope he is cleared and ready to go

I was def thinking about him being 1 but didn't want to toot my own horn anymore than I already had lol He def is 1 of the biggest surprises in history considering all the things you listed. That freshman year run he had was 1 of the best I've ever witnessed going 42-0, with him beating 5 of the 7 state placers, as well as the defending state champ. You're def not out of pocket my friend.

I believe Schwartz only won 3 matches in 2008 and then qualified for state in 2009.