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Seen on Flo that Veazy is committed to Michigan. Go Blue! Michigan De'Alcapon Veazy 49 Ponderosa CO 197

Nick Crume will be our guest clinician this week at the Avon RTC. Crume is a 4x NCAA Division II All-American, IHSAA State Champion, and current Assistant Coach at the University of Indianapolis. We've had great numbers the last few weeks and hope to see them climb as we get closer to ISWA Freestyle & Greco State. Avon RTC runs from 6:00-7:30 PM on Wednesdays. Please enter Door 20 on the southside of the school. USAW card required. Nick Crume - Assistant Coach at University of Indianapolis 4x NCAA Division II All-American 3x Division II Super Regional Champion 2013 IHSAA State Champion - 126 lbs. 4x IHSAA State Qualifier, 3x IHSAA State Placewinner (SQ, 3rd, 3rd, 1st) HS Record: 181-13

Wow. I really assumed he would have one more final year left in him with having a decent team and bringing in Colman Scott already to help with guiding the program. Heck of a career for him as both a competitor and coach.

Middle School State Champ DoubleB to Ft Wayne and @Y2CJ41 becomes his new Daddy

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

Since this new area is becoming a booming wrestling section of the state I have decided to take a visit to the Caprino @Y2CJ41 home on Sat for an "un-official" visit for a potential landing spot for a future hammer. Reporting no names but this kid has been previously Frepan/Seymour trained

In an individual sport, an individual must stand a top the podium to be the best. In team sports, an individual can clearly be the best individual but not win team championships because of a lack of supporting cast members. When it comes to the GOAT, even in team sports, individuals will be judged in the end by titles. But the lack of titles does not eliminate them from the discussion. In individual sports it absolutely does - IMO.

Team sports vs individual sports are very different. If you aren't winning titles eventually as an individual, you're losing matches and can't be considered the best. In team sports, you could lose games but still be clearly the best individual. I do agree that being a 4-timer or being undefeated for a career is overrated. Mason Parris losing a match as a freshman at a big guy weight or Howe losing early to a fellow all-timer shouldn't mean anything when compared to 4-timers that were at low weights and/or didn't face royalty as freshmen.

Legend. There's a bunch of videos from a coaches clinic he did a few years back on youtube that I watch religiously.

I’m trying to get the 2002 finals, had it on VHS but can’t find it now . My kids don’t belive I ever wrestled there until I can provide video evidence.

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Announces retirement https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2024/04/11/oklahoma-state-wrestling-coach-john-smith-announces-retirement-osu-cowboys/73294107007/

Like Matt said, I figured OSU had a succession plan with Coleman Scott, who really elevated North Carolina during his tenure there. Those are some massive shoes to fill for Scott. Smith has always been one of my favorite figures in NCAA wrestling and I will miss his scowls matside. He often has a big presence at World Team and Olympic Team Trials and I'm sure this week will be no different.

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?

Finally a tall kid in the family!

Joe's son, who is an avid Cubs fan happens to attend some club at Garrett, so I assume Double B would make his new home in the halls that sit on Houston Street..nothing wrong with that

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!

Good preview. Thanks for that. I just got to State College about a half hour ago. I'll be reporting live from the event the next couple of days, rooting for our Hoosier hammers of course. Hope to see any of you that might be around during the competition. Let's GO!

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

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Aiden did not disappoint! Some great set ups and freestyle finishes to add in our tool kit! Great job Aiden. We will be back at it next week with Sean Schmaltz from contenders. 6pm, enter door 9. Just a few weeks left to prep for freestyle and greco state.

And there is also not a set number of state qualifiers. If you are 5th in your regional but run/jump or throw "state standard" you advance to state also. One athlete can also compete in 4 events, not just 1 weight class.

We are all set for tonight 4/15/24. We have Aiden Sprague for UInday. Aiden did two of our RTCs last year and was great. Enter door 9 starts at 6. We will have some time at the end for live wrestling tonight.

The man is a living legend. OSU & the sport of wrestling is losing one of the GOAT's. He is still relatively young, I wonder what his plans are?

I think we now have some clarity for the Olympics team 86 - If Hassan recovers, he goes If not, and if Ghassempour can make weight, he will go If not, then Vaffaie goes, no medal for Iran 97 If Azarpira qualifies, then he will go if not, no one goes Iran so far has only qualified for 65, 86, and 120. I think Iran will most likely qualify for 74 and 97, It would be nice to qualify for 57 just to gain experience, no chance of medal

Iran 190 (5 gold, 8 medals) Japan 130 (2, 5) Kyrgyzstan 121 (1, 4) Kazakhstan 118 (1, 4) Mongolia 92 (0, 4) Uzbekistan 85 (0, 3) India 84 (0, 3) Bahrain gets the 10th gold and 3 other medals...4 for 4 in medals from their import participants.

Brackets Click here for brackets Schedule of Events Friday, April 12 10:00am- 2:30pm U23 Women and U17 Girls Session 1 – Preliminaries, Quarterfinals, and Consolation 3:30pm – 7:30pm U23 Women and U17 Girls Session 2– Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Consolation Saturday, April 13 10:00am to 1:00pm U23 Women and U17 Girls Best 2 out of 3 Championship Finals and 3rd, 5th, 7th place matches 10:00am – 1:00pm Session 3 Preliminaries, Quarterfinals, and Consolation 2:00pm to 8:00pm U20 Women Session 4 Preliminaries, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Consolations 2:00pm – 6:00pm 14U Girls Session 4 – Semifinals, Consolations & All Medals Sunday, April 14 10:00am – 4:00pm U15 Women Session 5 – Preliminaries, Consolations, All Medals, & Best 2 out of 3 Finals 10:00am- 1:00pm U20 Women Session 5 – Consolation, Consolation-Semi, Best 2 out of 3 Finals and Placements 10:00am – 3:00pm 8U, 10U, 12U Girls Session 5 – Preliminaries, Consolations & All Medals Entries from Indiana Division Weight Name Team 14U 108 lbs Corabella Wesley Hobart Wrestling Club 14U 163 lbs Melody Vazquez Highland Wrestling Club U15 50 kg Corabella Wesley Hobart Wrestling Club U15 66 kg Rhaigyn Trenary The Fort Hammers Wrestling U17 46 kg Kendall Moe Contenders Wrestling Academy U17 49 kg Isabel Kaplan Indiana U17 49 kg Olivia Crull Northeastern Wrestling Club U17 49 kg Julianna Ocampo Beast Mode Wrestling Club U17 53 kg Amelia Murphy Wyoming Seminary Wrestling Club U17 57 kg Ava Strayer Region Wrestling Academy U17 65 kg Aleksandra Bastaic Highland Wrestling Club U17 65 kg Maddie Marsh Red Cobra Wrestling Academy U17 69 kg Elly Janovsky Howe Wrestling School, LLC U20 50 kg Heather Crull Northeastern Wrestling Club U20 50 kg Makenize Smith Maurer Coughlin Wrestling Club U20 50 kg Julianna Ocampo Beast Mode Wrestling Club U20 50 kg Rianne Murphy Wyoming Seminary Wrestling Club U20 53 kg Elizabeth Dollar Indiana U20 55 kg Marisa Moffitt Indiana U20 57 kg Rose Kaplan Indiana U20 65 kg Aleksandra Bastaic Highland Wrestling Club U23 50 kg Makenize Smith Maurer Coughlin Wrestling Club U23 50 kg Heather Crull Northeastern Wrestling Club U23 53 kg Elizabeth Dollar Indiana U23 55 kg Catharine Campbell Grand View Wrestling Club U23 55 kg Marisa Moffitt Indiana U23 57 kg Rose Kaplan Indiana U23 76 kg Grace Doering Warrior Regional Training Center U23 76 kg Catherine McNulty Warrior Regional Training Center View full article

Great room tonight at RTC. We keep growing our numbers again from multiple area schools to raise levels of the 574 and beyond. Join us again next week for more Freestyle technique and fundamentals for FREE.

The undecided weights are 86 Kg and 97 Kg For 86, they are waiting to see how Yazdani recovers from major surgery. If he recovers well, it's him, if not, it will probably be a wrestle off between Ghassempour and Hadi Vaffaeipour. In 97, I expect it to be Azarpira, now that Mohammadian lost to the Bahraini/Russian world championship. If Yazdani does not recover well, and if Ghassempour can make weight at 86, I personally expect it to be Ghassempour. Ghassempour vs Taylor would be a match of the Olympics.

It’s happened many times in the past, Public to Private or back Private to Public . Odds are it’s going to happen many times in the future. Lol

Jesse Mendez back to Crown Point

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.

I'm no expert & am in no way close to the situation. But looking at it from a far, 17 pounds is a lot of weight to shed & keep off for an entire college wrestling season for someone built like Christian Carroll. I would suspect he is already on a pretty strict diet just to be at 97 kg, but again I have no real insight except that he wrestled 220 as a junior in HS. Cutting that kind of weight & being competitive at the college level can be extremely difficult. Mendez is a good example. He was a completely different animal this year at 141 vs 133 his freshman season. He was much more powerful this year. Chrisian is a perfect example of why college wrestling needs a weight class between 197 & HWT. And with the recent development of the competitors in the HWT class in college, it is only getting tougher for guys who are at their best around 210-220 pounds. I'm not actually suggesting adding a weight class to college but just restructuring the classes to: 125 133 141 150 160 172 184 197 215 HWT It more closely follows the international weight classes to boot.

One of the best pipelines to becoming a soccer coach is becoming a Danville head wrestling coach…

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