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1. Laughlin (loss was to one loss Whitaker at 160!)  Q as freshman and 5^th place as sophomore

2. Lee (redeemed himself with pin over BAM) 2^nd as a freshman

3. Timberman (Has beaten several top wrestlers this year, Bethel, Lee, Vaughn, Negangard) tough draws at semi state

Why would Lee be above Timberman if Timberman beat him?

Heath ault lost one match at the Warsaw invite early in the year and lost last week in the finals at east noble invite

To whom?

http://indianamat.com/index.php/page/tournament_results.html/_/2016/concordia-wild-bill-invitational-r160

HEATH Ault of Northrop

Dakota has also lost to the mighty duck hunter from Carroll via a pinfall.

D.Berkebile 7-1 G.DeLong
D.Berkebile pin B.Hardcastle
J.Morgan 3-1 G.DeLong
B.Hardcastle 4-2 J.Morgan
B. Hardcastle 11-2 G.DeLong
T.Burns 5-2 N.King

Who is J Morgan???

Northrop Junior Heath Ault (22-2) should be ranked, won Garrett invite today

Who has he beaten? Who has he lost to?

Who has Ault lost to and who has he beaten

Congratulations to Andrew Davison from Chesterton for signing with Michigan. He is projected to wrestle 184, 197.

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What color is Long's hair?

What's the point of seeding someone 5th if they aren't wrestling the 4th seed first match? You don't blind draw a seed into a bracket.

In case one of the seeded wrestlers doesn't show up. That way a forfeit or really bad JV kid doesn't make a seeded spot.

The WILD BILL brackets are HERE!!!

http://indianamat.com/index.php/page/brackets.html/_/2016/regular-season/concordia-wild-bill-invitational-r170

Starts at 9:00?

It starts when you show up. 

After losing to Woods 3-2, it is hard not to consider Paz #1 for FW SS.

Woods had about 5 takedowns that were waved off. 

I don't think my shoulder injuries are from actually wrestling, more from the ref raising my hand so much.

Here are the brackets. I don't have 126

Here are the prestigious Woodlan Invite brackets

http://indianamat.com/brackets/2016/WoodlanInvite.pdf

Due to this year’s IHSAA State Championship being determined at the individual state finals, we have developed a power poll based off of the IndianaMat individual rankings. This poll will simply give point values to each ranking spot and totals them up for each team.

I'd suggest being more specific as to what you consider a shoulder "injury." Something to the effect of missing practice or competition would be a good gauge. 

Ranking Date: 01/13/2016

Ranking Entity: IndianaMat

Ranking Type: Power Poll

Class: All

1. Warren Central

2. Brownsburg

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By JEREMY HINES

Thehines7@gmail.com

Matthew McKinney approaches academics with the same ferociousness he has when he steps on the mat for a wrestling match.

“Academics is just another competition for me,” McKinney said. “Whether it’s in the classroom or on the mat, I want to be the best at everything I do.”

McKinney is currently ranked No. 15 out of his class of 791 seniors at Warren Central High School. His grade point average is 3.97.

“I really take a lot of pride in my academics,” McKinney said.

He also takes pride in his wrestling. He is currently ranked fourth in the state at 138 pounds. He is a two-time state qualifier. He advanced to state his freshman year at 106 pounds and again the next season at 120 pounds.

McKinney believes he outworks anyone he steps across the mat against. He religiously goes into school early three times a week and either runs or swims. He also stays late after practices and puts in extra conditioning. That hard work has paid off when it comes to the long, three period matches.

“I really pride myself on being able to go six minutes as hard as possible and wearing on my opponent with heavy hand fighting,” McKinney said.

The practice room at Warren Central is full of practice partners for McKinney. If he wants to work on speed and agility, he faces Warren’s 126 pounder Joel McGhee (ranked No. 6). If he needs to work against stronger opponents, he goes up against Trent Pruitt (ranked No. 4 at 152 pounds). If he’s looking to get as much work in as possible, he has a host of partners he can go against.

“We have around 70 guys at practice and we have three mats going on,” McKinney said. “That gives me a lot of partners to push me. For sure that’s an advantage because you never run out of guys to wrestle. When you’re wrestling live, there is always a fresh guy to come in and keep pushing you.”

The Warrior team is absolutely loaded this season. Warren Central has ranked wrestlers in 10 of the 14 weight classes. Jim Tonte took over the program this season, after having a very successful career at the helm of Perry Meridian’s program.

One thing McKinney noticed right away about Tonte’s coaching style, is that he wanted the team to have a good chemistry.

“The biggest difference between last year and this year is that we are a lot closer as a team,” McKinney said. “We hang out outside of wrestling. We have more of a team atmosphere. Coach Tonte stresses team bonding. We’ve gone to the movies together, had hang out sessions. And, a lot of us have been together for four years now so we are naturally close.”

Brownsburg defeated Warren Central in the team state championship this year. That doesn’t sit well with the senior Warriors.

“We have to give props to Brownsburg,” McKinney said. “They really brought it to us. It was very humbling for our team, but we’re excited for our second chance. Our goal is to win the state championship. I want to win it with my team and individually. We feel we are good enough, and that goal is always on our mind. We break every practice with a ‘Blue Rings’ chant for the blue medal you get when you win state.”

McKinney did not qualify for state last season. He was beaten in the ticket round of semistate. But this year he feels he can see a lot of improvement.

“I’ve faced seven ranked guys and lost just one,” he said. “I’m right there with the top guys. It gives me confidence to know I can go out and beat anyone in front of me. Last year Nick Lee beat me. He took me down, cut me, took me down, cut me and then pinned me real quick. This year I went the distance with him. The score still wasn’t what I wanted, but I can tell I’ve improved.”

Coach Tonte said at the beginning of the season some people wanted McKinney to wrestle at 132 pounds this year.

“Matthew spent so much time in the weight room every day that he eventually filled out and made it to be a true 138,” Tonte said.

Tonte said it was probably a difficult transition for McKinney to have a new coach for his senior year.

“I’ll be honest,” Tonte said. “It was probably somewhat tough for him. He had a competitive match with one of the kids I coached last year and I know it was probably really tough on him to know I was coming in to be his coach. But he has responded very well and he realizes we care about him. He’ll run through a wall for us. He’s responded to everything we are doing.”

McKinney is a two-sport athlete at Warren Central. He is the kicker and backup punter for the Warrior football team. He says football is a sport he does for fun, but he really enjoys being part of the program.

After high school McKinney would like to wrestle collegiately. He is not sure what he wants to study or where he wants to attend.

“Matthew is just one of those kids that you don’t ever have to worry about his future,” Tonte said. “His future is open for whatever he wants to do. He has a great drive, a great family and you can tell he has really been raised well. He will succeed at whatever it is he sets out to do.”

For now, he is setting out to win the 138 pound weight class in Banker’s Life Fieldhouse.

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Zadylak beat Mosser from AC 2-0 this weekend. He will have to be on his game to beat guys like Miller and Curtis just in his regional. Right now he's probably the 3rd best in his regional. That means he will draw into Demien, Streeter/Shearer, or possibly Herring. None of those are easy matches.

By STEVE KRAH

stvkrh905@gmail.com

Plenty of practice and coaching reminders gave Jimtown High School wrestlers to succeed during a recent grueling stretch.

The Jimmies placed 11th out of 32 teams in the 37th annual Al Smith Classic, held Dec. 29-30 at Mishawaka. Jimtown junior Kenny Kerrn took top honors at 145 pounds.

On Saturday, Jan. 2, the Jimmies finished second out of 12 squads in the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association State Duals at Fort Wayne’s Memorial Coliseum. Jimtown edged Yorktown 31-30 in the semifinals before bowing 46-23 to Bellmont in the Class 3A finals.

Jimtown head coach Mark Kerrn and his staff got the Jimmies ready for the tough week with quality mat time the week after Christmas and through visualization and confidence-building drills.

Repetition in practice and time spent in the high school off-season at tournaments, camps and Indiana State Wrestling Association Regional Training Center sessions at Jimtown, Penn and Mishawaka continues to get the Jimmies ready for whatever they face during a match.

“We work a lot in practice on situations,” Mark Kerrn said. “It’s about knowing what the score is and (getting an extra point or avoiding giving one up). We’ve been making good decisions.”

Kerrn constantly talks about the effort it takes to be a Jimmie wrestler and the family bond that is being built though the shared hard work.

“A lot of kids sacrificed (in the State Duals, especially against Yorktown),” Mark Kerrn said. “They were getting thrown in against better wrestlers, but they were unselfish.”

In giving Yorktown its first-ever loss in State Duals competition in an event began in 2012-13, Jimtown got pin victories from sophomore Hunter Whitman (113), Kenny Kerrn (145) and senior Ben Davis (182), a major decision victory from junior Dalton Heintzberger (170) and decision triumphs from freshman Matt Gimson (120), senior Jarod Hayes (195) and junior Nick Mammolenti (heavyweight).

The Jimmies yielded two pins to the Tigers, but no other “bonus” points (four for a major decision, five of a technical fall or six for a pin or forfeit).

Mammolenti won 4-3 in overtime and freshman Hunter Watts (106) took the final match to overtime before losing 9-6 while giving up no extra points and helping Jimtown to a narrow win.

“Going in I knew I had to win to give us (a chance to win) the match,” Mammolenti.

After he was penalized for a fleeing — a call he disagreed with — the Jimmie heavyweight got fired up even more.

“That really made me motivated to take (Yorktown’s Jacob Rhoades) down,” Mammolenti said. “I got up and turned around and shot at him and I don’t think he expected it. Then he was hurt. I just had to ride him out for another three seconds and it was over.”

Mammolenti credits his progression in the sport to all the coaches who train with him in practice. Among those are Paul Bachtel, a state champion for Concord in 197x and a longtime Jimtown assistant.

“If I can do anything on him, I can do anything on anybody,” Mammolenti said.

Also contributing to Jimtown’s 2A runner-up finish were freshman Connor Gimson (126), senior Greden Kelley (132), senior Cole Watson (138), senior John Windowmaker (152), freshman Tyler Norment (160), freshman Aaron Martinez (also at 170) and junior Caleb Fowler (220).

Jimtown followed up the performance in Fort Wayne with a practice filled with a little fun as well as work. With a day off of classes, the Jimmies wore “crazy” singlets and had a dodgeball tournament before being put through drills by assistant coach Anthony Lewis.

“We try to break up the monotony as much as possible,” Lewis said. “We had just had a tough week — mental and physically.”

Lewis, who wrestled for uncle Darrick Snyder at Mishawaka and joined the Jimtown staff in 2012-13 to help the Jimmies place fifth at State Duals and get Nick Crume an individual state championship, said the season is a progression.

In early practices, coaches show wrestlers a large number of moves. As the season goes on, those moves are refined and a wrestler finds the combinations that works best for them. Practices become shorter, but more intense.

The constant is the attack mode.

“We try to push the pace and control the tempo in the match,” Lewis said. “Get the first takedown and then keep lighting the scoreboard up after that.”

Mark Kerrn asks his youth athletes to give it their all during workouts, but he knows that there’s more to life.

“We ask them everyday to touch the sign, just think about wrestling for two hours and then they go back to being a kid,” Mark Kerrn said. “It’s not wrestling 24/7.”

But the dedication needs to be there as Mark’s son will attest.

“You’ve got to love the sport of wrestling,” Kenny Kerrn said. “It’s an intense sport. You can’t dread it.”

After a 3-1 day at the West Noble Super Dual (the loss came against 2015-16 IHSWCA State Duals 1A winner Prairie Heights) on Saturday, Jan. 9, the Jimmies look forward to the Northern Indiana Conference tournament Saturday, Jan. 16 at Mishawaka (the first NIC meet since Jimtown, Bremen, Glenn and New Prairie joined the conference in 2015-16) and then the IHSAA state tournament series.

“The (Elkhart Sectional) is wide open,” Mark Kerrn said of the eight-team field. “There’s about five teams who could win. It just depends who is on that day.”

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I'll pay for the Seymour banner, call me first. 812-867-5309

Hmm tried calling you, but I only got Jenny.

Are there results or brackets anywhere???

Probably in Kendalville.

I have a nice Carroll one I'll sell you.

That they do...

False a wrestler from Warren Central has 4.24 times the likelihood of qualifying for state in a 2 class breakdown and 6.71 times more likelihood of qualifying in a 3 class breakdown.

We just wrestled Culver Community this past weekend, and yes a person from a small team (2 kids) can make it to State. TR is one tough hombre!

No one has ever stated it CANNOT happen.