Tom Riddle

They are both on the team.  MD had several undefeated B or JV wrestlers.  Noah Schweitzer at 126, Caleb Hinderliter at 106, Joe Happe at 113, Wyatt Montgomery at 120, Mitch Lehman at 132, Kurtis Wilderman at 170, Chase Anslinger at 182, and several other wrestlers with only 1 loss this season, Kyle Embry being one of those.

Embry's loss is to Lehman

I stole this from themat.com written by DF.  Seems pretty legit.

 

I was watching a documentary about baseball and they discussed some of its unwritten rules (things that aren't in the rule book but players do/don't do out of tradition). Things like if one of your batters gets beaned then your pitcher will bean one of their batters the next inning, never talking about a no-hitter while it's happening, etc).

 

So I got to thinking about some of the unwritten rules of wrestling. These are some I abided by during my competitive days in no particular order:

 

1. You only get once pass at celebrating a victory in an overly emotional way, usually when you win a big tournament (like state) for the first time. After that you have to act like you've been there/done that before. Don't be the Roger Federer of wrestling. For those of you who don't know who Roger Federer is, he's arguably the greatest tennis player in history who's won every major tournament a bunch of times. But every time he wins the same tournament again, he flops down on the court, cries, or gets hysterical in some other way like he's a rookie winning the tournament for the first time.

 

2. You should, as a matter of respect, shake your opponent's coach's hand after the match. The only time you don't have to do this is if your opponent's coach makes a negative remark about you during the match ("He's tired!", "He's doing nothing, ref!" "He's just resting on bottom!", etc). He disrespected you, so there's no need to show him respect by shaking his hand.

 

3. If you're a nobody (unranked) wrestler who makes it to the state finals against a superior wrestler, don't get overly emotional if you lose. You haven't achieved squat during your wrestling career (which is why you're unranked) and only got to the finals through some fluke. So don't act all angry/devastated when you lose as if you were expected to win.

 

4. If you're a nobody wrestler, chances are you're going to be spending a lot of time in the consolation bracket. If the #1 or even #2 ranked wrestler gets beat at some point in the tournament and chooses the indignity of joining you and the rest of the yabos in the consolation bracket, don't act all high and mighty and wrestle to defeat him. He's already lowered himself to try to get a meaningless 3rd place. He doesn't need the additional insult of some scrub wrestling hard to defeat him. The rule is you wrestle a solid match but the #1/#2 ranked wrestler gets to win.

 

5. When a weight class gets called at a tournament and all the wrestlers come down from the bleachers to get their bout sheets, it's the lower ranked wrestler who takes the bout sheet and brings it to the assigned mat for the match.

 

6. Rules for wrestling against the #1 ranked wrestler/returning champion:

*Don't step on to the mat for the match before he does.

*You wait until he offers his hand for the handshake before the match starts, never disrespect his higher position by offering your hand first.

*You never take the first shot of the match against the #1 guy/returning champion.

 

7. Your headgear should be relatively clean and presentable. Don't tape it all up, put stickers on it, have it all torn up. It's pretentious and screams that you're trying way too hard to look tough/cool.

 

8. Tape up visible tattoos. This used to be the sport of kings. Don't denigrate that ideal by your trashy tats. Nobody cares how "meaningful" they are to you or how they make you "unique" (unique like every other jackwagon with tats).

 

9. Win or lose, go to center mat and get your hand raised or stay there while your opponent gets his hand raised. You don't look extra cool/defiant by running off the mat before your opponent gets his hand raised.

 

10. If you get screwed over in the finals there are several ways of handling the screw job. The ultimate option is to not show up to the awards ceremony so the 2nd place podium is awkwardly empty, which lets everybody know a screw job took place. The other more discrete option is to show up to the awards ceremony and stand on the 2nd place platform. But when the guy comes around to drape the silver medal around your neck, don't bow down and let him do so. Instead reach out and take the medal from his hand and hold it to the side during the ceremony. This is a subtle way of letting everyone know that you'll take the medal but you don't really accept it. If you want to really go all out, you can stand on the 2nd place platform but refuse to take the medal as he presents it to you.

4.  I don't care who you are if you go out on the mat you wrestle to win.  Don't take it easy on a guy just because he's having a bad day. Nobody "gets" to win.  You earn it.

6.  Don't be a coward.  If a guy has a #1 mark on him you have the chance of taking it away.  If the so-called #1 is dumb enough to leave a shot open, you take it.  Don't sit there and wait just because he's supposedly better.

I have some problem with a few of these other rules too, but mostly 4 and 6.  As you can see I do not really post on here, but these "rules" are so stupid that had to log in.

what?

I'm pretty sure this thread says best HIGH SCHOOL wrestler, so what they went on to do in college shouldn't mean anything.  I also wouldnt mention guys that are still in school and still have a chance to win. Because if they do win then they can't be on the list...and shouldn't be mentioned...

yes

but i actually think micic will win this match, and merriville wins 27-21

that's funny

there isn't anythig bigger or better that we could move on to..team state is where it's at