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Kresja Knocked off Bennet #5 in the country at 145.

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

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.

But a fun night. Looks like Caden is having a great tournament, good look the rest of the way!

In the round of 16 Brownsburg Gunner Henry Jake Hockaday Brady Ison Caden Brewer Revin Dickman Center Grove Reese Courtney Eddie Goss Charlie LaRocca Wyatt Krejsa Tyler Schott Crown Point Paul Clark Will Clark LT Hawkins Anthony Rinehart Still a lot of wrestling left...

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.

Just wrapped up the first round of 64 with these guys winning from Indiana. Many others had byes first round. Brownsburg Revin Dickman Brady Ison Parker Reynolds Caden Brewer Max Forrester Center Grove Justus Thrasher Charlie LaRocca Eddie Goss Reese Courtney Wyatt Krejsa Silas Stits Crown Point Gavin Lewis Gavin Jendreas

I know they say....no exemptions... but last year exemptions were given. If Brackets don't fill up to 32 they let kids in. I had a kid place last year that didn't get to compete at the qualifier b/c he was medically cleared. 32 didn't sign up so he got in and went on to place 8th.

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