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faurote96

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  1. I have seen far too much of this over the past 2 weeks. At New Castle today and at Peru last week, I watched wrestlers ready to wrestle who were sent back to the bench while the coach sent no one out to compete. Injuries happen and leave teams without someone to fill a spot. Teams make strategic shifts to match up better with the other team. That is part of the sport. What I am witnessing is coaches forfeiting when they have wrestlers entered in the competition who are ready and able to wrestle. It seems to be done to avoid certain match ups or pad records for seeding. I am also seeing it simply to stop the other teams from allowing their better wrestlers to compete and stem momentum. It makes me sick. We have had dozens of pages of discussion on this site about improving Indiana wrestling and getting the IHSAA to take our coaches and our sport seriously. Then we have coaches pulling this over and over. I have trouble taking us seriously. Junk like this kills our sport. At some point wrestling needs to be about WRESTLING. If a coach decides that NOT wrestling is the better strategy to win a dual meet, he shouldn't be leading young men who are putting their blood, sweat and tears into wrestling.
  2. Sadly, I believe that you are right about how the IHSAA thinks. As wrestling fans we know that we have a very unique situation. We are talking about the individual tournament - not a team sport. Our team tournament has no wrestle-backs or "do overs". Other IHSAA individual tournaments seem to have remedies to bad draws built in. For example, in track or swimming, you may have the top individuals in a given event in the same regional. Only a certain number of place winners will qualify for state, but they have state qualifying times/distances so that the best athletes are still represented at the state tournament.
  3. 1. Go back to taking the top 3 from regional. The 3rd/4th match at regional used to be much more intense and a wrestler had to win more than 1 match at regional to qualify for semi-state. I have not heard of too many people in the wrestling community who wanted to take 4 from regional in the first place. I would be interested to see how many 4th placers qualified for state. 2. Add Wrestle-backs at semi-state after the first round. Round 1 ? 2nd v. 3rd (loser eliminated from tournament) (56 matches) Round 2 ? 1st v. winner round 1 (loser goes into wrestle-backs) (56 matches) Round 3 ? Championship semifinals (28 matches)/ round 2 loser wrestle-backs (28 matches) Round 4 ? semifinal losers v. wrestle-back winners (28 matches) Round 5 ? championship (14 matches)/ 3rd & 4th matches (14 matches) Total matches = 224 (Current format total matches = 224) Would the wrestling community or IHSAA be willing to trade 56 semi-state qualifiers per site for a better tournament that rewards the "better" wrestlers and would take no more time, effort, or money?
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