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2016 was one of our best senior classes

106: Asa Gracia 3X champ

113: Colton Cummings 2x champ

120: Drew Hildebrandt 4x placer

 126: Brock Hudkins 2x champ

132: Chad Red 4x champ

138: Brayton Lee 3x champ

145: Joe Lee 2x(would have been 3x) champ 

152: Trent Pruitt 1x champ

160: Jacob Covaciu 2x champ

170: Drew Hughes 2x champ

182: Blake Rypel 2x champ

195: Jake Kleimola 1x champ

220: Mason Parris 3x champ

285: Shawn Streck 2x champ

You could put this group against any year and they'd be favorites.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– The Indiana wrestling team under second year head coach Angel Escobedo have released their 2019-20 schedule.
 
In the Hoosiers first season with Escobedo at the helm, Indiana picked up a victory over No. 12 North Carolina at the South Beach Duals. It was the first win over a top-15 opponent since 2008. Indiana also took down No. 25 Stanford, to achieve multiple ranked wins in a season for the first time since the 2008-09 season.

In the upcoming season, the Hoosiers will match up against four teams that finished in the top-10 at the 2019 NCAA Championships. 
 
"I'm looking forward to another great competition season," IU head coach Angel Escobedo said. "We have a tough schedule, but you have to compete against the best and beat the best to be the best."
 
The Hoosiers will open the season at the Michigan State Open on Nov. 2 in East Lansing, Mich. Following that competition, they will go to New York for the Journeyman on Nov. 10 and the Black Night Invite at West Point on Nov. 17.
 
Indiana will host its first dual meet of the season as they welcome North Dakota State to Wilkinson Hall on Nov. 22.
 
Following the NDSU dual, the Hoosiers will compete in the UNI Open on Dec. 14 and the Midlands tournament Dec. 29-30.
 
January 10 will be a date to circle on the calendar as the Hoosiers host Iowa in their Big Ten opener at Wilkinson Hall. Another key home match will be Monday Jan. 20 when the Hoosiers host Purdue.
 
Other home matches include Wisconsin (Jan. 31), Minnesota (Feb. 2), Nebraska (Feb. 9) and SIUE (Feb. 16).
 
The Big Ten Championships will be hosted by Rutgers (March 7-8) and the NCAA Championships will be in Minneapolis at U.S. Bank Stadium, the home of the Minnesota Viking, March 19-21.

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue wrestling head coach Tony Ersland announced his 2019-20 schedule Thursday, unveiling three tournaments and 17 dual contests for the Boilermakers this season. Purdue will compete at home five times, hosting the Boilermaker duals in the non-conference slate and welcoming four Big Ten foes to West Lafayette in 2020.
 
"We're excited about the opportunities that lay ahead," said Ersland. "We feel like this year's schedule features some great challenges and will have us ready to succeed come March at the Big Ten and NCAA Championships."
 
The Boilermakers open 2019-20 at the Michigan State Open on Nov. 2, and will send the majority of their roster to East Lansing to get the season underway. They'll remain on the road the next couple weeks, set to compete in a trio of duals at the 2019 Journeymen Classic at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York on Nov. 9 and heading to Fargo, North Dakota to face North Dakota State on Nov. 17.
 
Purdue will square off with Buffalo, Utah Valley and Arizona State in the Empire State, and meet the Bison for the second time in the last three years, defeating NDSU 26-6 on Jan. 26,2018.
 
The first home meet of the season is scheduled for Nov. 24 as the Boilermakers welcome Clarion, Northern Illinois and Indianapolis to Holloway Gymnasium, and will wrestle a round-robin set of duals in front of a home crowd.
 
The Boilermakers return to Las Vegas in early December for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, with another star-studded field awaiting in the desert. Purdue finished 10^th in 2018 behind place-winning performances from Griffin Parriott, Devin Schroder, Dylan Lydy and Christian Brunner, including a runner-up finish from Parriott at 157 pounds.
 
The last two non-conference dates are set for a Dec. 19 dual at SIU Edwardsville and the 2019 Midlands Championships. Purdue last met the Cougars in 2017, beating SIUE 31-9 at Holloway Gymnasium. Northwestern will host Midlands at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, as the Boilermakers return as a full team after finishing seventh with 84 points in 2017.
 
The Big Ten schedule begins Friday, Jan. 10 with the Boilermakers heading back to Northwestern for the conference opener, and returning home Sunday, Jan. 12 to host Iowa. Purdue's annual rivalry bout with Indiana follows Monday, Jan. 20 in Bloomington.
 
Purdue has two duals in each of the following weekends, heading to Maryland and Rutgers on Jan. 24 and 26, respectively, and then hosting Minnesota and Wisconsin on Jan. 31 and Feb. 2. The Boilermakers' homestand continues Feb. 7, hosting Nebraska for the final home dual of the season and the conference slate wraps up on the road Sunday, Feb. 16, heading across the state line to face Illinois for the Big Ten finale.
 
The postseason opens with the Big Ten Championships on March 7, hosted by Rutgers at the RAC in Piscataway, N.J. and the Boilermakers return six national qualifiers with plans to head to U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the 2020 NCAA Championships.
 
Purdue awaits word of potential television broadcast matchups from the Big Ten Network, and all duals are subject to change based on that schedule.

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@riley bettich is having some issues getting around these days...but on a better note I have a new Jeep!

44 minutes ago, smitty11 said:

Do you have to pay for this service?

Not everything in life is free...yes the streaming is not free.

3 minutes ago, smitty11 said:

Interested to hear how the boarman/mendez match went.  Did Boarman get a takedown on Mendez?  Was also interested how the consolation matches went in this bracket seemed like some upsets along the way.  

Here is the link to the brackets.
https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/opentournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=478901132

There is also video on there so you can watch all the matches.

34 minutes ago, base said:

Austin Boone (Lowell) over Alec Viduya for the championship?  Austin Boone isn't a familiar name - was he at state last year?

Boone is a three-time state champ from Michigan. He has been in and out of the national rankings since he was in middle school and I believe on the Flo senior big board. He's legit and really tough.

Lots to digest, so many great matches from start to finish. I'm looking over the brackets now and gonna be watching matches all night long.

177 on the final Stud List. You can go into the Track event and see all of the separated wrestlers.

Just a note on seeding/separation, we do it like Fargo with 6 different categories.
1. State Champion/IHPO Champion
2. State 2-3/IHPO 2-4
3. State 4-5
4. State 6-8
5. State Qualifier
6. Other Criteria

When the brackets are build TW will seed randomly based on each group. 

For instance if there are 3 #1's, they will be seeds 1-3. If there are 2 #2's they will be 4-5 seeds, and so on. Separation will move with a wrestler if they change weights.

40 minutes ago, Mattyb said:

Here’s a question...  What’s more difficult to win, State or IHPO?

Last year 7 of the 2019 state champions participated
Winning IHPO titles were
Mendez, Moran, Rodgers, Allred, and Brewer

Others
Slivka got 4th and Littell lost to Mendez

In 2017 5 of the champs participated and only Brayton Lee won a title.
Asa Garcia was 2nd behind Travis Ford-Melton
Kris Rumph was 4th
Jordan Slivka was top 6 losing in the semi-finals
Jacob Moran was top 6 losing to Mendez in the quarters
 

Over 750 events added and an average of over 12 schedule points per team out of a possible 18.

Lots of schedules need updated still so find your favorite...or not so favorite team and add their events. Make sure if it is a tournament or super dual you check the host school to make sure it's not a duplicate event.

25 minutes ago, bigballerb said:

I’ve heard the youngest one might be the best of the three😅

We'll get a good gauge in about 10 days....

185 and 135 both just got a little juicier!

Rusellburg lost to Dickens at the Mater Dei Classic and Noehre at the Wabash World Championship Duals this spring.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue head coach Tony Ersland rounded out his coaching staff Monday, naming Leroy Vega as his volunteer assistant coach for the 2019-20 season. A three-time NCAA All-American, Vega will work primarily with the lower weight classes. 
 
Vega's name is widely known on the Indiana high school wrestling scene, from his days on the mat and to most recently, his days in the corner. He joins the Purdue staff after eight years as the head coach at his alma mater, Portage High School, in northwest Indiana. During his span as head coach, Vega had 41 Indiana High School Athletic Association state tournament qualifiers, with 10 appearing in the finals and three Portage wrestlers claiming an individual title. In 2015, the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association named Vega its coach of the year.
 
As a prep at Portage, Vega was a two-time state champion in 1996 and 1997. His success translated on the international scene as well. In 1998, Vega placed ninth at 60 kg the UWW Junior Greco-Roman World Championships. The following year, competing at 54 kg in freestyle, he placed seventh at the world championships.
 
Vega wrestled collegiately at Minnesota from 1999 to 2002 and scattered his name throughout the legendary program. Individually, Vega earned All-America honors three times at 125 pounds and captured the Big Ten Conference 125-pound title in 2002. His performances helped the Gophers win three Big Ten team titles and back-to-back NCAA team titles in 2001 and 2002.
 
Vega tallied a career record of 135-26, with his 135 wins ranking fifth all-time at Minnesota and his .839 winning percentage ranking 17th. He owned a career dual record of 65-14, with the 65 wins tied for seventh on the Gophers' individual dual wins list.
 
Prior to his head coaching appointment at Portage, Vega was named the inaugural head coach at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting, Indiana, with the birth of the program in 2008. He was at the helm through the 2009-10 season before returning to his roots in Portage.
 
Vega earned his Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and teaching from Minnesota in 2002. He and his wife, Sarah, have two daughters, LillyAnna and Lilah, and a son, Lydon.

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At 155lbs Brant Whitaker and Lucas WIllis are 85th and 86th on the Flo 2021 Big Board currently.

We have over 500 events added already, check out your team's schedule and update it if needed.

Eastern Hancock is looking for a Varsity Wrestling Coach. Interested applicants should send a letter of interest and resume to Athletic Director, Aaron Spaulding, at aspaulding@easternhancock.org

Eastern Hancock is looking for a Varsity Wrestling Coach. Interested applicants should send a letter of interest and resume to Athletic Director, Aaron Spaulding, at aspaulding@easternhancock.org

29 minutes ago, smitty11 said:

How many coaches does Crown Point have?  

More than Penn

6 hours ago, Indysportsfan said:

I know Franklin and Roncalli will be attending according to the TEAM SCHEDULES tab on the website.

Pretty cool feature...now just need teams to add their schedules.

He didn't even plan on going to the Junior trials until a few weeks out. Turns out to be a nice decision for him.

13 minutes ago, Justin Ratliff said:

So where does this put Indiana in the world standings if Indiana was a country?

We would have dropped to 11th, not too bad of a showing though.

You may now refer to Mason Parris as WORLD CHAMPION Mason Parris. He got a fall in the first period in the finals....just doing Mason Parris things....