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  1. grappleapple
    I have a friend who moved here from out of state and he's sort of considering doing a little bit of wrestling. He is a veteran. Do veterans also have the two meet minimum to be able to participate in freestyle state? Most of the local tourneys only go up to junior, so I wasn't sure what to tell him. I looked on the freestyle state flyer, and it appears they would also need two meets, but I'm not positive. Does anyone know?
  2. grappleapple
    Awesome award. Congrats. I know I check this site more than I do my bank account or my kids grades. Thanks for screwing up my priorities.
  3. grappleapple
    I agree, Yorktown was ran very well. Everyone was so friendly and accommodating. There weren't great numbers, but kids were able to get a few extra matches if they wanted. And, I found out, if ever in Yorktown stop by The Wedge for the greatest grilled cheese sandwiches you'll ever eat.
  4. grappleapple
    Perry's numbers were not that good the last time I looked. On Wednesday there were 18 total in the junior division. Now there are 45. There are 2 at 120, 2 at 132, 2 at 145, 1 at 152, 3 at 195 and 2 at heavy. The other classes (nothing below 120 at all), has 5 or 6. I was hoping Yorktown would pick up, but it doesn't look like that has happened. I'm not complaining about the tourneys in general, I just wish more kids were going to them. It would be great to get several matches in.
  5. grappleapple
    I'm glad this will be ran, despite the numbers. It was one of only two that we can make due to our hectic schedule right now. Thanks for not cancelling and hopefully the numbers improve.
  6. grappleapple
    I see Center Grove cancelled its tourney this weekend due to low numbers. What happens in a situation like that if a wrestler was signed up and a tourney is cancelled. I would assume it wouldn't go toward their two tourney minimum to be able to wrestle freestyle state. That's not really fair to the ones who did sign up and were willing to wrestle.
  7. grappleapple
    Am I just getting paranoid or are numbers down for freestyle tourneys? I know it's early Thursday with two days still to register, so I might just be a little anxious. I am looking at just the number of junior division wrestlers for this weekend. Center Grove: Folkstyle 4, Greco 1, Freestyle 1 Perry Meridian: Greco 14, Freestyle 18 Boonville: Folkstyle 1, Greco 2, Freestyle 2 Yorktown: Folkstyle 3, Greco 3, Freestyle 6 Obviously right now there are hardly any divisions with two kids in the same weight class. Is there typically a huge amount of people that sign up on the last day or two?
  8. grappleapple
    The IHSAA winter sports meeting took place Thursday at Primo's in Indianapolis. Wrestling was a hot topic of conversation. Here are the results. 1) Proposal to offer three classes was presented by Bobby Cox. The proposal involved reintroducing the team state series as well. No decision was made, but it is planned to be voted on at the May 23rd meeting. 2) A consideration was brought up about weight cutting, with Alan Jackson proposing no wrestler be allowed to move more than one weight class above or below their weight on November 15th. 3) The topic of singlets came up, and research will be done on the cost of switching to a more "basketball-like" uniform. 4) Spladles, headlocks and jumping on the opponents back when he is getting up from the down position, trying to get a potentially dangerous call, have been outlawed effective immediately. 5) Mater Dei wrestlers have to wrestle up one weight class automatically. 6) The terms "get up", "be aggressive" and "don't reach back" have been banned for coaches and fans. If those phrases are audible, a team point will be deducted. 7) Wrestlers requesting injury time will now be required to jump rope, or run in place while the trainer looks at them. This will prevent the injury timeouts used for catching one's breath. 8) Fans who clap and yell just because a top wrestler throws the bottom guy back to the mat, resulting in no points at all, will be banned. 9) Wrestling season will begin August 3rd and end August 2nd. 10) Obviously I am bored and it's April Fool's Day. Of course none of this jibberish is true.
  9. grappleapple
    What mat?
  10. grappleapple
    I'm going to be the first to predict - Shenandoah will take top honors in the 1A division. I know Prairie Heights is tough as nails. But so are those young Raiders. They have Andrew Black who was one win from going to state (great match with Fair from Perry Meridian in the ticket round), Hayden Lohrey (state qualifier 113), Dallas Pugsley (lost in ticket round of semistate, I believe), Josh Gee (was awesome at ISWA state this weekend, placing 2nd), a real good freshman at 182 - and some pretty solid guys at 138, 145. Add to that next year they should be adding a good heavyweight. I think they will compete with anyone. They should be fun to watch for a few years.
  11. grappleapple
    I couldn't agree more. I think Warren is a great venue. I never felt crowded, even with the huge number of wrestlers. I couldn't agree more about the smoking/littering. Be respectful. Signs everywhere say it's a non-smoking facility. Those signs don't mean it's non smoking for everyone but you.
  12. grappleapple
    My son wrestled Junior 145, which was a pretty big class with 45 wrestlers. They wrestled on two mats and it seemed to go pretty quickly. He did hit a stretch of wins that had him wrestling about every 20 minutes, and he was definitely gassed (he was upset that his cardio was so bad). But I think he'd rather wrestle with 15-20 minutes rest instead of waiting all day for a match. His friend wrestled 160. We had wrestled five matches by the time his friend's second match came up.
  13. grappleapple
    I noticed that about Walton - and Konrath going 126. THat 126 class looks pretty brutal with several returning state placers in the mix.
  14. grappleapple
    Brenden isn't wrestling at Navy now. He did fairly well there, but the Naval Academy is difficult academically and Brenden chose to focus on the academics. I still hold out hope he may wrestle one more year.
  15. grappleapple
    Brendan Campbell beat Jared McKinley, Brian Harvey and Mason Todd (some multiple times), and I think he may have beaten DeAndre Wilson as well.
  16. grappleapple
    I'm not sure what #TheCounty is. Region fans are entertaining to me - but I'm not sure the greatest athletes to ever walk the earth did in fact come from their part of the state. Mater Dei fans are OK, but they were annoying during Lee/Red when they were yelling for stalling the entire match. I'm pretty sure one MD fan even yelled at the National Anthem singers for stalling, before they even got to the mic. The most annoying fan I've witnessed this year was at the Tri sectional. This mom was, ummm....very, very into the match. She was screaming and yelling at other people in the stands. But in the process she tripped on the bleachers. So it was pretty high-quality entertainment. My favorite things I've heard from fans this year include: A Muncie Central mom's son was winning a match and she started yelling "FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM". I was waiting for her son to rip out the other kid's heart, Mortal Combat style, but that never happened. I love when fans scream for their kid to get up. As if it's that easy. I heard a dad scream at his kid to throw the half, as the two were both on their feet in a tie. I'm sure I've said stupid things in the past, or got a little overzealous at times too - so I'm not exempt. Luckily nobody has film of this though.
  17. grappleapple
    Would you have to remove Warren then? Since they were an outlier as well and not indicative of all 3A schools?
  18. grappleapple
    I could support that.
  19. grappleapple
    I've always been on the one-class side of the argument. But in the discussion thread someone mentioned going to a camp with other states and they were matching up state-qualifying kids, and such with the Indiana kids looking downed on for being semistate participants, etc. That is the first thing that has actually made a little bit of sense to me. I assume, if other states see our kids as being second-tier wrestlers, somewhat, if they didn't make state - college coaches might as well. Classing the tournament would certainly get some smaller school kids more college exposure - which is great. But would the kids at the bigger schools lose exposure in that case? So you have a kid from a bigger school qualify for semistate, and he, hypothetically, is far better than a kid at a smaller school that makes it to state. That kid from the smaller school gets to wrestle and get the college exposure, but the larger school semistate only qualifier would not. I don't see any good answer for the argument. Both sides have valid arguments.
  20. grappleapple
    Who would win in a rematch, Lee or Red? What was the coolest singlet in the finals? Where did you eat at state? Which Tsirtsis is better? Could Y2 cut to 195 and fill in for Rypel at Pennsylvania if he had to? Should the spladle be banned? Should the singlet be changed? All of these I ask solely for the purpose of not having another class wrestling discussion.
  21. grappleapple
    Bubba died before his senior wrestling season.
  22. grappleapple
    Doesn't really fit the "never had a champ", but New Castle has a pretty rich wrestling history - but only two champs. One in 1963 and one in 1995.
  23. grappleapple
    I'm not sure I'd call Campbell the underdog. I think they were both pretty darn equal.
  24. grappleapple
    I've seen great wrestlers, average wrestlers and bad wrestlers stall out in the final seconds. There is no since risking a loss to keep being overly aggressive until the whistle. That being said - I watched the Lee/Red match yesterday that someone has posted (I was there, but didn't notice this as bad as the video), but fans were screaming for stalling calls as early as the first five seconds of the match. The guy I could hear on the video was relentless in screaming for the stalling. From the very beginning of the match until the very end. Wrestlers have to have a mix - a good engine, good takedown offense, defense, be good from the top and the bottom and be smart. Sometimes, being smart is not doing anything. My son was up on a guy once by two points in the closing seconds of a match. He didn't have any stalling calls against him (he has never been called for a stalling). Upon a restart he took a shot and ended up getting put in the spladle and losing. I asked him afterward why he took that shot, and he thought he could take a shot...even a bad shot, and not be in any harms way. I was fine that he actually tried to think of a strategy in the match, albeit probably the wrong one. But If he would have just backed away he would have won.
  25. grappleapple
    Agreed. But why put all this effort into trying to get small school individual kids to be able to say they advanced to state? Isn't the idea behind it to promote the sport and to give them an opportunity to know what it was like to go to state? But shouldn't all those JV kids get that same feeling? Should there be a JV state? I am not trying to come across snarky at all. I just know that there are many very good wrestlers at larger schools that can't even compete in the state tournament because they are behind better wrestlers. The smaller schools generally don't have that problem. They can have a very subpar wrestler who would get the opportunity some of those JV guys would love to have. There have been pretty good JV guys that eventually quit because they can't break into the varsity lineup. I would guess this is pretty common, and just as big of a problem as smaller schools not getting enough wrestlers out?
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