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125: Drake Ayala 3 133: Vito Arajau 6 141: Wyatt Henson 12 149: Austin Gomez 6 157: Jared Franek 10 165: David Carr 4 174: Carter Starrocci 9 (Wildcard) 184: Chris Foca 14 197: Aaron Brooks 1 285: Greg Kerkvilet 1

Good luck to all the wrestlers attempting to represent their school at Evansville this season! Hope everyone stays healthy and we have a great day of wrestling. Post any updates from semi state here. Expecting to see many "upsets" like every year at semi state

Jay County finals 144: #23 Colt Bollenbacher over #20 Wyatt Hoppes 3-1. Takedown with 3 seconds left

Jay County Semis: 138: #9 Justin Boone 6-5 over #18 Maverick Dubach 144: #23 Colt Bollenbacher 5-3 over #21 Kolten Rhonemus 144: #20 Wyatt Hoppes 4-0 over Sam Wolpert 165: #5 Duke Myers 7-4 over #10 Levi Abbott

Jay County Semis: 126: Cody Rowles won by fall (2:21) over Neal Mosier 120: Henry Faurote over Kaid Jackson 2-1

At Jay County: 215 Ethan Mitchel won by dec 14-9 over #8 semi state ranked Luke Powers

Post all notable wins and upsets here! We all know there will be some results that surprise people. Good luck to all the wrestlers today

Not a surprise at all. West central should have never been a 2 seed.....I called this "upset" during the seed announcement

I'm not sure about semi finals but IHSAATV has a future broadcast listed for Al Smith Finals at 2pm

Will West Central have a full lineup for team state? I wonder what impact the 3 current forfeits will have on the seeds. I'm just curious after looking at each teams lineups since Tell city had an insane team last year and got seeded 4th only because of forfeits. If west central does still have 3 forfeits, I'm not sure how high they will end up but they deserve to be a top 8 seed with the big win over Rochester.

Rochester does have a stronger schedule and did have a better overall record than West Central....but lost a head to head dual to West Central. We can't invalidate WC with good win and need to give them credit. The "what if" thought process leads to a fallacy which then hurts the team state event in my opinion. Do you really think the 138 forfeit changes the match? West Central 138 is ranked 5th in the EC semi state with 2 pins and a tech fall as significant wins. I don't think the 138 is the difference you think it is but the total forfeits West Central had 3 forfeits and Rochester had 2 so Rochester had a 6-0 lead with only 9 matches to wrestle. I'm only giving these point because I think WC should be rewarded for a big head to head win. They finished 11th last year at team state and weren't ranked top 10 in the last team rankings. They are peaking at the right time which is awesome for the depth of 1A. It's exciting to see 1A improve each year and regardless of the seeds, 1A is going to fun to watch this year.

When it comes to seeding 1A, historically it has been hard to seed and predict correct the 1-8 standings. I think most years we know the favorites but there isn't a lot of data to support who will finish 1-8 due to a lot of factors. There is some data to use like how lineups that are shown in the season before team state match up with other teams and common opponents through transitive relation. That is subjective data and a guess at best when trying to see how a dual will be predicted. The only true objective data to use is a head to head dual between teams and as Joe said, they should be weighed very heavily. SA was 1 match away from beating AC with one of the top guys not wrestling for SA that day and that doesn't matter. AC won the head to head dual and should 100% be seeded above SA. The answer for seeding should be to seed with objective data for as many as possible and use subjective data and opinions whenever you run out of objective data to use. Every year there is limited objective data which is why a committee is needed to seed team state in all 4 classes. Just my opinion on seeding for all classes and I'm excited for Team State for all 4 classes this year. We should have a lot of great matches in 2 weeks.

I might be an a**hole for saying this but I don't care what the reasoning is. Surplus or shortage, there should always be a standard for any job. If you are not able to do your job at the bare minimum then you need to find something else to do that day until you're capable. It sounds like this ref needs to be a second ref and assist as needed. There is no excuse for a ref not getting down to mat level and calling nearfall, pins, locking hands, etc.....There is a major difference to being slower than others because of health problems vs inability to do it (either by choice or physically incapable). Every coach has seen refs that are top tier and others that have areas to work on but I think every coach and wrestler would agree that there are certain bare minimums that are expected every match. We should be able to critique in a way that is respectful and meant for learning.

Did anyone catch the conversation between the refs after Nauman Blue finally forfeited the rest of the match? The younger ref was talking how there was a 5 pound allowance and he could be 137. He said "You're talking about 0.2. He could have wrestled at 137. He's 137.2, so you're worried about .2 pounds". I guess we should just change weight classes to a suggestion and if you think you're close, you're good to go.

There is a major problem with a shortage of good refs and a handful of refs have ego problems as discussed earlier. I had a ref last year at sectional, call stalling multiple times on a guy that was in neutral position and in on a single leg. The other wrestler defended the shot and forced what should have been a stalemate. This all occurred in the 3rd period with less than a minute left. He then told the wrestler after the match that he was lucky he didn't stall him out. I was 100% he was in the wrong and confronted him about his view on stalling and how he was in the wrong. The ref had a lengthy conversation with me between rounds and stood by his decision. His ending point of why he called stalling is one of the most insane things I've heard a ref say. This ref stated "sometimes you have to consider the school or the situation". This is a ref who has been at state many times. The fact he admitted that he considers the situation and the school is very alarming. Wrestling rules have subjectivity to them but it never says to call something different in the first period compared to the third period. I also think I'm missing the page where it says which schools the ref should consider giving better calls to. I guess like the NFL, it's just part of the script!