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Coaches and wrestlers do not have seats without buying a ticket.

Coaches and wrestlers do not have seats without buying a ticket.

I just emailed Faulkins' secretary.

Do we need to rename the ticket round now? The "floor pass (but still need to buy a ticket) round"

I just emailed Faulkins' secretary.

And 0 seats apparently.

Thank you to everyone who has reached out regarding Preston.  Results of a CT scan and other tests have come back.  Nothing is broken and he will make a full recovery.  
 
As far as what happened, the Mater Dei wrestler had been winning the entire match.  An illegal slam was called.  It was not intentional.  Whether it was an illegal slam or not, I don’t really care.  We were never taking a dive.  Brownsburg doesn’t roll like that.  It goes against everything we believe in.  If I thought it was intentional, It would be a different story.  There is no doubt in our mind that it was just a result of two dudes trying to punch their ticket to state. 
 
It was pretty chaotic as all of this was happening as I’m sure you can all imagine.  Given that it was a neck/head injury, I wanted to give medical people access to Preston.  Once they had time to check Preston out, I took that opportunity to talk to Preston.  There was never any talk or consideration of taking a dive. Preston would never do that.  He was in a lot of pain and upset.  He has had a lot of adversity this season. He tore his ACL at IHPO and has been working through that pain and frustration all season.  I just explained to Preston what had happened and that I was going to forfeit the match.  I told him we were losing…and it would not be fair to take the trip to state away from the Mater Dei kid.  Preston agreed and said he would never do that.  There was no reversal of the call or anything.  I just went up to officials and said we are forfeiting the match.  
 
Whoever said Preston was walking around saw someone else.  He was taken out on a stretcher and to the emergency room. 
 
Snyder 

I respect both gentlemen for what you've done to grow girls wrestling. I would encourage y'all to work it out offline. Additional public attention to this topic doesn't help the bigger goal of presenting our girls and the sport in a serious light.

Requiring all teams to use trackwrestling as a scorebook would solve many issues.  Every result would be public for everyone to see.  I don't understand why teams don't use it already.  All your matches are online, you can look back in previous years anytime you want.
 
This would solve the issue of questionable records, asking about commons, etc.

Greenfield vs Decatur Central Jan. 10th

Riley Lefever 

It's worth a shot.

I would want the interest from the years it sits. Because when they go to pay him that $1.00 will be worth less than todays dollar.
 

Apparently, Ohtani is deferring his salary and only taking 2 million a year so the Dodgers can keep spending.  I guess that means he gets the rest at the end of the ten years.  Maybe you could negotiate a contract like that, coach. 🤷‍♂️

Apparently, Ohtani is deferring his salary and only taking 2 million a year so the Dodgers can keep spending.  I guess that means he gets the rest at the end of the ten years.  Maybe you could negotiate a contract like that, coach. 🤷‍♂️

*2nd and 3rd
 
And the second place team was a super late one due to New Haven dropping out.
 
3A has the depth that making it 12 teams total for the rest of time is a good thing. One or two kids can drastically affect a team's outlook on the year and predicting them based off of last year is a daunting task. 
 
The 7th-10th place teams in the spring standings were 7 points from an automatic qualification. 
 
Make it 12 for here on out as this class has proven to be very deep with competitive teams.

Last year in 3A the vote in teams finished 2nd and 3rd overall. There are 6 teams on the outside looking in that could potentially win this tournament. Make it 12 and let’s see what happens. 

Columbus East having a week our young squad battling: 
Columbus East over #11 Carmel 39-29
Columbus East over #16 Greenfield Central 40-23
Columbus East over #18 Franklin 40-19
Columbus East loss to #4 Perry Meridian 32-33 
 
Some great duals against some well coached teams. 

Greenfield-Central vs. Delta
 
132 JJ Harlow (GC) def #15 Sam Mosier (D) 5-2
HWT Brayden Flener (GC) def #17 Isaac Moss (D) 3-0

Greenfield is at 7.

Thanks guys.  I was going to host a tournament that day and call it "The on the Cusp" Invite.  Fill it with as many Varsity, Varsity 2, and JV teams as possible and just match people up the day of the tournament.  No brackets, no championship, just, "Hey, we want to wrestle these teams."  Match up and go.  The problem is, if we got in, someone from our program has to run it and misses out on going to state.  Oh yeah, we also host a dance competition that day.

There's no great answer I know. Some of the bigger schools have the option of fulfilling a contract with a JV lineup not at state.
 
I've been on both ends of it. I've had to drop to get in before and had someone drop out of one of my tournaments to get in. 
 
Every time it has happened the AD's and coaches have understood due to the significance of the Team State tournament. 
 
I've heard people say several times there should be a tournament for those teams hoping to get in that don't. And just find a host from the unpicked teams once the vote-ins have been announced. But it's not something the IHSWCA has the resources for, so it would be up to a willing school.

Rossville is in the same boat.  Really don't want to commit then our team qualifies and we have to send people scrambling to fill a tournament spot.  We considered hosting a tournament for teams that don't qualify on the same weekend.  Might be a good idea to have a few teams ready to commit to hosting a tournament for all those teams in the same boat.  

Hobart's schedule is ideal for this type of decision, as they are in the Lake County individual tournament where the tournament can go on with or without them without much difference. 
 
I'm not sure if there are other tournaments like this, but I'm hoping Wheeler, which is Lake County adjacent, can use the tournament for the same reason sometime if we get a bid. 

All,
 
I want to share a story about the kind of people we have in this sport.  Last Saturday Greenfield had a young lady injured in a match at New Palestine High School.  It was a head and neck injury that required her to be transported to the hospital via ambulance.  She and her parents had never been through something like this before and were justifiably shaken.  
 
On Tuesday of this week I was called down to the athletic office.  We had received a package.  It was a box of flowers addressed to the young lady who was injured.  They were sent from the Columbia City Wrestling Program.  I know it's a little thing and some people may not understand, but it touched me and my program.
 
People think wrestling is about working hard, sweating, bleeding, beating on people, etc..., but it's not.  It's above LOVING each other.  I wan't to thank Columbia City for giving my program an example of how people are supposed to love each other.
 
Thank you!