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1 minute ago, TeamGarcia said:

As I stated before I’ll give up my votes to allow both these legends of the board to get in . I’ll wait till next year to get in . I’ll feel bad, if either one is left out this year. Respect is what they earn .

Garcia has a heart? I'm checking the IP address to make sure he wasn't hacked.

Calhoun and Kervin into the semi-finals and guaranteed podium spots

54 minutes ago, Kyle Ayersman said:

Bacon is never served. Just some nice Brownsburg water!

I want Jake and Revin to dress up like this and chase you through the school

Will bacon be served at any of these events?

Mike and Joe hand out our annual awards, announce the messageboard hall of fame candidates, and go over Frosh/Soph state.

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57 minutes ago, Beamaker said:

I’m wondering if there is a “Pete Rose”  type situation going to happen here? Not for gambling per se, but perhaps for some history of offense or grievance with Indianamat.

100% chance of that happening

Mr. Gorilla: Wyatt Krejsa- Center Grove
1st Runner-up: Will Clark- Crown Point
2nd Runner-up: Kyrel Leavell- Warren Central

Miss Gorilla: Rose Kaplan- West Lafayette
1st Runner-up: Varzidy Batchelor- Northview
2nd Runner-up: Elly Janovsky- Lake Central

Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year: Brownsburg
4A Coach of the Year: Darrick Snyder- Brownsburg
3A Coach of the Year: Brandon Sisson- Floyd Central
2A Coach of the Year: Cody LeCount- Delta
1A Coach of the Year: Tony Abbott- Cown
Girls Coach of the Year: James Linn- New Haven

4A Wrestler of the Year: Jake Hockaday- Brownsburg
3A Wrestler of the Year: Easton Doster- New Haven
2A Wrestler of the Year: Mitchell Betz- Western
1A Wrestler of the Year: Noah Weaver- Rossville

Past Award Winners
1A Coach
2015- Tony Currie- Adams Central
2016- Brett Smith- Prairie Heights
2017- Gary Black- Shenandoah
2018- Chuck Fleshman- Central Noble
2019- Tony Currie- Adams Central
2020- Cody Moll- North Posey
2021- Neal Stahly- Tell City
2022- Clint Gard- Rochester

2023- Joe Litherland- Tell City

1A Wrestler
2015- Sawyer Miller- South Adams
2016- Evan Ellis- Eastern
2017- Eli Stock- Monrovia
2018- Noah Cressell- Wabash
2019- Silas Allred- Shenandoah
2020- Isiah Levitz- Prairie Heights
2021- Hayden Filipovich- Indianapolis Lutheran
2022- Marshall Fishback- Rochester
2023- Tyce DuPont- Tell City

2A Coach
2015- Trent McCormick- Yorktown
2016- Mark Kerrn- Jimtown
2017- Trent McCormick- Yorktown
2018- Frank Bumgardner- Wawasee
2019- Chad Shepherd- Western
2020- Paul Gunsett- Bellmont
2021- Nick Kraus- Garrett
2022- Tim Myers- Bellmont
2023- Chad Shepherd- Western

2A Wrestler
2015- Brock Hudkins- Danville
2016- Brock Hudkins- Danville
2017- Mason Parris- Lawrenceburg
2018- Brayden Curtis- Yorktown
2019- AJ Fowler- Calumet
2020- Clayton Fielden- Garrett
2021- Isaac Ruble- Bellmont
2022- Christian Carroll- New Prairie

2023- Tylin Thrine- New Castle

3A Coach
2015- Brad Harper- Penn
2016- Darrick Snyder- Brownsburg
2017- Chris Johl- Chesterton
2018- Matt Schoettle- Perry Meridian
2019- Sean McGinley- Cathedral
2020- Sean McGinley- Cathedral
2021- Adam Wolf- East Central
2022- Chris Cooper- Columbus East

2023- Steve Sandefer- Mishawaka

3A Wrestler
2015- Chad Red- New Palestine
2016- Blake Rypel- Cathedral
2017- Joe Lee- Mater Dei
2018- Asa Garcia- Avon
2019- Jordan Slivka- Cathedral
2020- Eli Dickens- Mater Dei
2021- J Conway- Floyd Central
2022- J Conway- Floyd Central
2023- Cole Solomey- Kankakee Valley

4A Coach
2021- Greg Schaefer- Mater Dei
2022- Brandon Lorek- Crown Point

2023- Maurice Swain- Center Grove

4A Wrestler
2021- Jesse Mendez- Crown Point
2022- Gabe Sollars- Mater Dei

2023- Joey Buttler- Whiteland

Girls Coach of the Year
2021- Jeremy Goodlett- Lebanon
2022- Brad Harper- Penn
2023- Nick Skinner- Southport

Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year

2022- Crown Point

2023- Center Grove

Mr. Gorilla
2015- Tommy Forte- Mishawaka
2016- Chad Red- New Palestine
2017- Andrew Davison- Chesteron 
2018- Brayton Lee- Brownsburg and Mason Parris- Lawrenceburg
2019- Asa Garcia- Avon
2020- Silas Allred- Shenandoah
2021- Alex Cottey- Perry Meridian
2022- Jesse Mendez- Crown Point

2023- Sam Goin- Crown Point

Miss Gorilla
2021- Sarah Huse- Lebanon
2022- Catie Campbell- North Montgomery
2023- Aulani Davis- Kokomo

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44 minutes ago, Beamaker said:

Will there be a limit for how many inductees per year? I believe that would add to the pomp and circumstance!

10 nominees this year with 5 going in.

After that a limit of 3 per year. You can only be on the ballot five times before you are kicked off forever!

Location

Hartman Arena
Park City, Kansas

Schedule
https://www.naia.org/sports/mwrest/2023-24/Releases/Schedule
Thursday February 29th

11:00 am    Session I 
     1st Round (Championship)
     1st Round (Consolation)
6:00 pm    Session II
     2nd Round (Championship)
     2nd Round (Consolation)
 

Friday March 1st 

11:00 am    Session III
     3rd Round (Championship Quarterfinals)
     3rd Round (Consolation)
6:00 pm    Session IV
     4th Round (Championship Semifinals)
     4th Round (Consolation All-America Round)
     5th Round (Consolation Quarterfinals)
 

March 2nd

11:00 am    Session V
     6th Round (Consolation Finals)
     Placement Round (3rd, 5th and 7th place)
7:00 pm    Session IV

     Championship Finals
 

Brackets
Brackets on TrackWrestling

Participating wrestlers from Indiana

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Tune into Gorilla Radio tonight for the nominees!

We will have a special vote on here for which of the nominees are the first ballot hall of famers! Unlike the baseball HOF, we encourage steroid use and controversy! BUT, similar to the baseball HOF, it is ran by a bunch of crooked media members with an agenda.

2 hours ago, aoberlin said:

If we go by percentages for days won and upvotes here are your rankings. I would appreciate some upvotes for my effort here.

 

Upvote Percentage Per Post:

 

Days Won Percentage Per Post:

Technically I only have around 20,000 posts. The other "posts" are results, wrestlers, and other information I have added to the website.

Location
Mid-America Center

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Schedule
https://www.njcaa.org/sports/wrest/2023-24/national_championship/schedule
Friday March 1st
9am Preliminaries championship and consolations
5:45pm Quarter-Finals and consolations

Saturday March 2nd
9:30am Semi-Finals and consolations
6:00pm Championship finals

Brackets
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Participating wrestlers from Indiana

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2 minutes ago, rookie78 said:

Didn't Newkirk coach at Prairie Heights fairly recently?

I heard he's still there as the head coach, just a rumor though.

Just now, BIGCATSontheMAT said:

Definitely not DawgPoundRed or whatever his name was

He's on the ballot for Rookie of the Year

3 minutes ago, UncleJimmy said:

If you, sir @TeamGarcia aren't first ballot...there should be no HOF! I bow to the master....but consider myself the keeper of all things BS....of which you post(ed) many! 

The problem with putting him in the HOF too early is that he might become complacent and not post as much since his lifetime goal has been achieved. We don't need the content to suffer if he gets into the Hall.

17 minutes ago, Coach Brobst said:

Still haven't received the survey, but some interesting topics here:

 

1) Do we really need 2,3, and 4 point nearfall? It's not that hard to turn at our level. I get why NCAA did it, but our athletes aren't quite as difficult. I wouldn't hate it and it fits with how we coach, but not sure it's necessary.

2) Mat side weigh-ins: I had a discussion with other coaches about this earlier this year. I'm not sure it's ever gonna be possible. In theory, it would be good and Would help curve athletes that want to cut a ton and force them into wrestling closer to natural weight HOWEVER, I don't think it gets passed because it would only take one kid to think dehydrating and getting down to weight to help the team is a good idea or gets pressured by a coach and then they pass out or have a serious health issue on the mat due to sucking weight for our sport to be cancelled forever.

Great idea in theory. Would be extremely challenging to ensure kids/coaches are being smart and could possibly damage the sports reputation in a very harmful way.

I love the idea of mat-side weigh-ins, but have never seen any implementation strategies that make it feasible. I can't imagine running around all day making sure 20 kids are on weight for five rounds. That would be utterly insane to have a kid weigh-in five times in one day and keep that close of tabs on his weight for 10+ hours.

8 minutes ago, TeamGarcia said:

Nominee #5 

 

@Y2CJ41

Not sure nobody has brought up Thee Creator, Poster Influencers, Poster Enforcer, Poster Icon, Founder, wouldn’t be no Indianamat, nothing to talk about wrestling yet, has more content on here than white river has fish and… first and foremost has dealt with our poster shenanigans on here since the beginnings Good or Bad ! 
 

 
Legend ! 

3 minutes ago, piscis1956 said:

If you include Dingo Brigade, I think Captain Obvious would have to go in.

Captain Obvious never made the transition, he must have been afraid of me.

3 minutes ago, piscis1956 said:

What about Happy Pants?

He never came along sadly, neither did a forum favorite Robby Newkirk.

1 minute ago, ONeillt said:

GoldMedal-Dude was hilarious and could have fun with any topic.

Unfortunately he never transitioned to IndianaMat. 

@J-Biceps was an original and was always fun to banter with. Usually he makes a customary one post every year, but he probably forgot which email he used to register.

Here some of my choices

@FCFIGHTER170- New Castle historian and will defend the Trojans at all costs
@Dingo Brigade- Former arch nemesis, but now friend. Great articles and always positive about the Indiana guys
@Galagore- Defender of equality and class wrestling
@clive2246- An original crazy wrestling mom from CP

@grecoref- RIP, always had wit, humor, sarcasm, but also provided great insight and information at the same time.

Garrett

Joe Caprino- created a cool website to talk about wrestling.

23 hours ago, Adam_glass said:

Lake Central: Undoubtedly Kyle Ayersman. Three time state champ (2010, 2011, 2012) and took third in 2009. 193-2 overall career record and I believe a four time Al Smith finalist with three titles. 

He doesn't eat bacon, he is disqualified.