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4 minutes ago, purdue02 said:

I know I know.  Im going to regret this.  One of my bold predictions is Cathedral goes 3/7 on Friday night.  Bringing Cathedrals Friday Night % down to a “measly” 74.6%.

Under 75% and McGinley might be on the hot seat!

Our latest edition of this annual article will always garner lots of responses from everyone. The simple fact is, we have coaches that have a lot of success of Friday night. Winning on Friday gets the kid to the award stand and they get to take home a nice souvenir. This year's list has the usual suspects at the top in Sean McGinley, Darrick Snyder, Branden Lorek, and the pride of Osceola Jerimiah Maggart. Obviously these guys do not do it alone and are surrounded by great assistants, but the bottom line is when these guys are the leaders good things happen on Friday night.

Over the course of Indiana history only two coaches have reached 100 state placers during their career. Sean McGinley heads into the state finals with 97 state placers and he has seven chances to get three to the podium. Not too far behind is Brownsburg's Darrick Snyder who is at 87 and will have a shot to hit 100 next year with a good Friday evening.

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Ticketmaster has a stranglehold on venues, their fees are not set by event promoters. They do what they want unfortunately. 

Organizations such as the IHSAA are beholden to the venue, but should be able to get around it.

The IHSAA just wants you there early to listen to the High School Wrestling Weekly with Dane and Rex while you wait.

12 minutes ago, Tcarter said:

Great work!  I think I can read through this twice on the way to Evansville!

Maybe I should make an audio version.

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Updated with a lot of significant matches that were missing

This might be the single most important article to help you in the pick'ems... or more likely confuse you more! We have amassed as many of the losses as possible for all the 224 state qualifiers. This year's qualifiers have 978 losses with 623 or 63.7% to other state qualifiers. With some of the teams traveling out of state we also have 162 losses to out of state wrestlers. We have 11 wrestlers enter the fray on Friday with an unblemished record that will be pushed to the limit. 

As always if you can help with the missing data it is greatly appreciated.

Random Stats
Most losses to state qualifiers

Joseph Hamilton and Griffin Van Tichelt- 9

Dillon Graham, Zach Huckaby, Silas Frye, and Trey Dunning- 8

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Jayden Bartoszek- Hanover Central- Bar-Toe-Zak
Alonzo Chantea- Plymouth- Shan-Tee-a
Cole Chicione- McCutcheon- Chi-coin
Jeffrey Huyvaert- New Prairie- Hi-vert
Chase Kasprzak- Lake Central- Kass-per-zak
Wyatt Krejsa- Center Grove- Cree-ja
Kaptur Nowaczyk- Crown Point- No-va-check
Adrian Origel- North Newton- Or-a-gel
Oluwagbenga Orisadare- Avon- Big Joe or Oh-la-wa-beng-a(I think)
Mario Orueta- Lake Central- Or-oo-ta
Anthony Popi- Plymouth- Pope-E
Evan Roudebush- Bloomington South- Rowdy-Bush
Luke Teusch- Huntington North- Toy-sh
William Vander Luitgaren- Center Grove- Vander Loot-garren
Griffin VanTichelt- Crown Point- Van Titch-elt
 

17 minutes ago, rookie78 said:

144 Brody Hagewood.......HAY-GWOOD

150 Brock Hagewood.......HAY-GWOOD

FIFY

11 minutes ago, brickfor6 said:

@maligned I am getting anxious about this weeks release. When will it be?

It will coincide with when that shipment of Brickie gear arrives.

15 hours ago, Johnpsulions said:

Please BE CAREFUL critiquing inappropriate gestures… my post was dismantled for reporting the NEWS

I can make sure none of your posts are ever seen if you would like. One person has already been given a little vacation and I am not afraid to give him friends.

We need to remember these are teenage kids and they will unfortunately do dumb things and things they will eventually regret. They don't need anonymous people on the internet trashing them, at least it won't happen on this website. If there are disciplinary actions that need to be taken that will be handled by coaches, schools, and the IHSAA, not here on IndianaMat.

Mike and Joe are joined by the honorary mayor of Evansville Dustin Bentz to go over the semi-states and preview 8 weight classes. They hit the randomizer and talk about 157, 132, 175, 165, 144, 138, 126, and 150.

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On 2/11/2024 at 9:28 PM, GenHeavyHandz said:

Didn’t think it was such an egregious thing to not reveal my picks.  From now on I will.  106. Boyd 113. Dickman. 120. Jendreas. 126. Shaefer. 132. Thrine. 138 Leavell. 144. Arberry 150 Kresja. 157 Pellot 165. Backpack Rhinehart 175. Leech 190. Weaver 215. Clark 285. Clark.   

No Snider guys? I hope Tun doesn't see this.

Fixed a few small errors, try the new download.

I'll have an update either tonight or in the morning, found a couple mistakes thanks to @TeamGarcia

6 minutes ago, rookie78 said:

Not good to drive and read Joe, but I will read it now, rather than while driving to Evansville.

You guys should fly, I'm sure you can use the school's crop duster.

It's 192 pages, so it will entertain you while you drive to Evansville.

By STEVE KRAH

stvkrh905@gmail.com

Bradin Daniels became the first Union City Junior/City wrestler to qualify for the IHSAA State Finals in a dozen years when the junior won the 126-pound title at the 2024 Fort Wayne Semi-State.

Before the Feb. 10 accomplishment, the last Indian to punch his ticket to the state tournament’s last stage was Kyle Walters at 160 in 2011-12, a season in which he want 40-4.

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9 minutes ago, indygirl said:

lol I wasn't saying make a change now, it was more of "why didn't the powers that be think of this?"

Probably because the girl's basketball state finals are next weekend.

28 minutes ago, indygirl said:

anyone know attendance for last years finals.  Ford Center has capacity of 11,000.  I would be curious to know how close to the attendance for '23 vs capacity.

Could we not have pushed a week to keep it at Gainbridge given the All Star game?  What a mess

If only the IHSAA had your suggestion a year ago. Maybe they can make a change this week and get it fixed. 

No

3 minutes ago, awill0352 said:

Do you think the "fun" event portion is ran by the same people who decided 2 tickets per wrestler was the best idea?  I think the Evansville Sports Corporation came up with all of the events/shuttles outside of the actual wrestling.  I have no clue.   Just wondering if anyone has any insight. 

It makes for a fun complaining point, so who cares about any real facts or truth.

26 minutes ago, Stebn8r said:

I would like to ask for your support. In my opinion most can live with and understand several challenges with ticketing; fees, assigned seating, etc.

What is not acceptable is the chance that any wrestler making a state finals appearance  may not have a ticket for someone special. 448 (2 per kid) tickets is not enough. The IHSAA is standing firm that everyone has the same chance to get a ticket, that sounds fair but we all know there will be someone special or supportive of a wrestler that will not be able to purchase before selling out. If ten tickets were given per kid that is 2240 tickets. There may be a kid needing 12, 15, or even 20+ but I am sure we can agree that two is not enough. The IHSAA has told me that there are about 4000 tickets needed for this event for all the folks involved. This number includes the 448 participant "family" tickets as well as 196 tickets for the 98 (2 per) participating schools. If the venue has a capacity of roughly 9600, that would leave 4600 tickets for general public to fight over. As the wrestling community would be very disappointed if the number of general tickets was 4000, it would not be half as disappointing than if a wrestler who has trained and dreamed for years of his or her participation and to find out their special person may not be able to attend. 

Think of all the examples: A few come to mind, grandparents, we all know a kid that has multiple parents, step parents, maybe an important aunt uncle sibling training partner club coach etc. At two the kid has to choose at 6,8 or 10 the kid's support group will not be left to chance. 

I was told tonight that the IHSAA has a 19 member board and that the IHSAA oranization would change this rule if this group agreed. 

My suggestion:

We need support from 98 schools or more. Possible Indiana Mat could help with the administration of a polite list of supporters. Please do not add other arguments, this is only about allowing a family (whomever that might mean to a kid) to have the ability to support their wrestler.

Remember waiting in a cue to select tickets last year and being at 350 on the list. Not fair to that special person.These special people do not need the stress and anxiety. I dont think this would crush overall attendance. How would it hurt.

Please understand the IHSAA has a tall task on this and all events. In my opinion they are missing a priority with this decision. Currently, they do not agree. This argument should be shared now by the mass not after the weekend by a few folks that were unable to attend. They will just be told that it will not be a problem next year back at gainsbridge.

Thanks for your time in reading this lengthy post.

The best way to address this is through your school administration. They are the ones that have a direct line and usually better success with getting changes made.

Well not here, but our info center. 

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