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You all lost and I won 

Hopefully tonight, but there is a lot to do such as get the state ones ready.

Looks like tomorrow we'll have ole Karl Hungus and on Wednesday Coach Pendoski...unfortunately the Major is not returning my phone calls(or maybe I have the wrong number).

At least 15 champs from East Chicago

We updated the brackets, missed Kolby Ferris' ranking

By STEVE KRAH

stvkrh905@gmail.com

Confidence and conviction can take you a long way.

Kokomo High School wrestlers like junior 113-pounder Jabin Wright (45-5) and senior 145-pounder Szhantrayl Roberson (42-10) have taken that and landed in the IHSAA State Finals — Wright for the second time and Roberson for the first.

These two Wildkats are the 14th and 15th state qualifiers in Ryan Wells’ eight season as head coach.

“My coach said I can be the best in the state if I continue to attack and continue to put pressure and I did that today,” Wright said after winning at the Fort Wayne Semistate. “He told me I can beat anybody if I keep working hard. I can’t thank him enough for that.”

Wright said he “turned it up a notch” as the 2015-16 postseason has approached.

“I want to get better and better and I want to be on top of the podium on Saturday,” Wright said. “Coached told me, ‘Now’s your time. Now is when it really matters.’”

Wells, a former Kokomo wrestler who graduated in 2001, asks his Kats to keep it simple and to stay aggressive and in good position. He has seen Wright stick to that plan and it has him back at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

“He is really peaking at the right time,” Wells said of Wright. “He’s just wrestling so well with his takedowns. He’s really confident.

“He’s getting deep on shots, finishing and staying in great position all the time. He’s really, really wrestling well.”

Wright placed third at semistate and lost in the first round in 2015. As a returnee, he will have familiarity with the situation this time.

But not only that.

Wright’s first-round draw on Friday night (Feb. 19) is Logansport junior Donovan Johnson, a fourth-place finisher at the East Chicago Semistate. It will be the fourth meeting between the two during the 2015-16 season.

After losing 7-2 and 17-6 to Logansport’s Donovan Johnson during the season, Wright topped the Berries grappler 8-2 in the finals of the Jan. 24 North Central Conference tournament.

Like many wrestlers, Wright listens to music before his matches. He was scene doing dance moves prior to wrestling moves at Fort Wayne’s Memorial Coliseum.

“It calms me,” Wright said. “The music kind of just takes me. I don’t want to stress out about my matches and go out there and not stick to my gameplan.”

And Wright’s pre-match tunes of choice?

“Music you can dab to,” Wright said.

Besides former successful Kokomo wrestlers coming into the practice room to give athletes like Wright and Roberson a different look, there are current Kats like Rafael Lopez (126) and T.T. Allen (138) to help make them better.

“Since he’s a little guy, he’s real quick,” Roberson said of Wright. “His quickness makes my reaction time better. My strength and my length makes him better because he sometimes has to face tall, lanky guys who are strong. We help each other throughout the season.”

Roberson lost to Yorktown’s Brad Laughlin in the “ticket” round at semistate last year and now he’s going to the Big Show where he will face Evansville Mater Dei sophomore Joe Lee, a champion at the Evansville Semistate, in the first round.

What has gotten this Kat to Indy?

“I’m pretty good on my feet,” Roberson said. That’s my strength. “I like to use a Russian into a sweep single on the right side. A duck-under into a high crotch. I finish a lot with that, too.”

Roberson also has a pre-match routine. After a talk with his coaches, he puts on his headphones for “hype-up” rap and R&B songs.

“I turn the music up real loud and get in my zone,” Roberson said. “I get my adrenaline going for the match. It usually helps.”

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I think Indiana wrestling fans are intelligent enough to realize a kid is going for his 4th title and on top of that having an undefeated career. Don't sell Indiana wrestling fans short on intelligence. 

Hate to play Debbie Downer, but I'll point out again that I believe the Rule Books allowed for tournaments to start at a different weight class, but it is suppose to be a "blind draw." Plus, if I recall correctly the entire day must be set up follow that weight class order not just the finals. That's some decent arranging of thing a, and we will see just how "blind" they actually make it.

Rules are made to be bent, the IHSAA can change that.

I think this is a slap in the face to all the other wrestlers competing Red and Lee aren't anymore special than any of the other wrestlers who have worked so hard to get there!!!!!

A kid going for 4 state titles while being undefeated is pretty special to most.

Vote away

Here you are people!

http://indianamat.com/brackets/2016/State2016.pdf

Here it is 12:06 P.M. on The Feast Day of St. Valentine, but the IHSAA has yet to provide the Track Wrestling 'Gold Members' anything. By the way the forums internal clock isn't based on local time from the Eastern Time Zone, but rather some other place in the world. 

Ohh some "gold members" know how to see their match-ups.

Where is the Iowa mullet guy who gives us the inside scoop on the draw????

He is at Great Clips today...must be a long line.

Here is the link

http://www.trackwrestling.com/predefinedtournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=220556009

If the ihsaa were to send the 3 Mishawaka schools of Penn, Marian and Mishawaka to FW, that would be a start at balance. I think Lawrence North is another school that is just outside the FW SS that could add balance.

Didn't see the match but two stall calls in 8 secs sounds ridiculous.

Lawrence North isn't even CLOSE to being in the Fort Wayne "district"

Get over it people

If the biggest complaint is they didn't turn off the lights then it was a good event. I still am baffled by how fascinated we are with lights being turned off.

The site has been really slow so hard to post

That's what you call click bait

Just for the sake of argument, would it be beneficial for chad in the long run to get beat at an event like this? Just to light an extra bit of competitive fire under his butt?

Indiana is undefeated at the PWC, so we aren't even going to acknowledge that question.  We plan on winning 15 more matches on March 26th

Are going to be in the main event at the 2016 Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic! They will join 13 other Indiana seniors at the event.

What would the odds be if Warren went to the Fort Wayne SS? Like 1 in 4 maybe even 50%

Participants by grade
09th 79 9%
10th 184 21%
11th 288 32%
12th 345 39%

By Weight and grade
Wgt 9 10 11 12
106 29 18 9 8
113 11 17 26 10
120 11 21 18 14
126 8 15 18 23
132 2 14 19 29
138 5 13 17 29
145 4 12 20 28
152 1 8 23 32
160 1 13 23 27
170 2 12 26 24
182 3 12 20 29
195 1 8 22 33
220 1 13 21 29
285 0 8 26 30

Most Wins 50 by Trey McCartney of Harrison(WL)
Most Losses 30 by Kyle Simpkins of LaPorte
Average wins 29.9
Average Losses 7.6

Undefeated wrestlers 29
106 Andrew Black of Shenandoah
113 Colton Cummings of Lowell
113 Baxter Annakin of Castle
120 Blake Mulkey of Brownsburg
126 Brock Hudkins of Danville
132 Elliott Molloy of Danville
132 Chad Red of New Palestine
132 Fernando Luevano of West Noble
132 Nick Lee of Evansville Mater Dei
138 Kyle Hatch of Warsaw
138 Sage Coy of Delta
138 Brayton Lee of Brownsburg
145 Isaac Eicher of Leo
152 Cael McCormick of Yorktown
160 Alston Bane of Richmond
160 Laine Frazee of Fountain Central
160 Jacob Covaciu of Merrillville
160 Mitchell Mundy of Southridge
170 Drew Hughes of Lowell
170 Nathan Walton of Brownsburg
182 Blake Rypel of Indianapolis Cathedral
182 Andrew Davison of Chesterton
195 Jacob Cavins of Milan
195 Ben Stewart of Indianapolis Cathedral
220 Mason Parris of Lawrenceburg
220 Evan Ellis of Eastern (Greentown)
220 Gunnar Larson of Avon
220 Kobe Woods of Penn
285 Shawn Streck of Merrillville

 

Money can do wondrous things....

I would pay to see Major Ursula make an appearance

How much? Money talks!

All the candidates can state their platforms on this topic, TripleB has already stated his.

You got to see quite a few different people, any of them your favorites?

Feel free to add in a write-in vote

That's good stuff. I always liked the region and never agreed with the coaches who wanted out We will have to agree to disagree

So you refuse to accept FACTS, might be time for the troll to be let out to pasture.