El Lardo

Only if you can avoid the illegal fist to the back. If not, the match would proceed to an automatic square deal with no stalworths awarded to either wrestler.

I bet not, kinda how Iowa St. fans feel about Larry Owings Was that Lincoln's only collegiate loss?

Nevermind, I just looked up on youtube, I'm thinking of the wrong match.

Marienetti(sp?) from Illinois defeating McIlravey(sp?) from Iowa circa 96/97?

why not the metric system?

outdated subject.

3rd at 145 and not even ranked before the tournament. I guess it's good to go unnoticed sometimes... Congratulations to this young man, hopefully you can get Jiggy his first state champion next year!

Appropriate last name for fisher

Team wise yes. Individually no.

I agree and also cannot see a reasonable solution to this problem. Wrestlers abusing injury time has been an issue as long as its been in place. The only thing we can rely on is a wrestlers integrity which MOST who participate in this sport have an abundance of.

I don't know, but I would guess that schools with a higher population would have more chances to have a state championship caliber athlete.

Ayersman from Lake Central, My bad If he attended a small school would he still be a state champ?

Hahaha, I guess I didn't start out too well huh? Actually on the list I'm looking at LN is #6 and LC is #10. The fact still remains that of the 10 largest HS in Indiana there was only 1 state champ. Correct me if I'm wrong but neither Portage, Lake Central, nor Ben Davis had a champion either.

I apologize, I confused the 2

First off, just introduce myself, my name is Jason and I'm a former Indiana high school wrestler who now resides out of state. I have been browsing this site off and on throughout the current wrestling season to keep up with what is going on in the sport love. I now see a subject in which I feel i must voice my opinion. so here goes... Why do you feel there should be a classified tournament in an individual sport such as this? I like the current format for several reasons: 1) Wrestling is an individual sport. One must stand alone against his opponent on the mat. It doesn't matter how many are enrolled in his school 2) A good wrestler deserves to measure his abilities against the best in his weight class regardless of the size of school he attends. 3) Indiana has a team tournament as well as individual. Whether the team tournament should be classified is clearly up for debate and is a subject for another thread but... This fact helps to illustrate that a wrestler from a smaller school has the same opportunity to win a championship as a wrestler from a larger school (see Indian Creek). 4) Statistics previously posted on this forum clearly show that individuals from smaller schools are more than capable of competing with those from larger schools on a one on one basis. ( again, look at Indian Creek) 5) The 5 largest high schools in Indiana; Carmel, Penn, Hamilton Southeastern, Warren Central,and North Central had no state champions. According to those who kept score none of these schools would have placed in the top 10 team scores were kept! The sixth largest hs in Indiana had one in Boston from Lawrence Central. This should be sufficient evidence that individuals from larger schools have no advantage over smaller ones.