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I officiated for 10 years, and I was definitely trained to watch for potential stalling when a guy is not working to improve when both legs are in.  Coaches often are begging for stalling on the bottom guy in this situation, but it's often the responsibility of the top guy to be genuinely working for something once those legs are in (the bottom guy often can't go anywhere).  Every situation is different, so there's no way to make a judgment about situations mentioned in this thread, but the mechanic I was trained for high school situations was to call a stalemate if the top guy was struggling to improve--and then to warn him for stalling if he got back into the same ride and again was not making progress toward a turn other than grimacing with how hard he's grabbing the guy's wrists.

same here. I actually approached the table thinking the ref just made a mistake and meant to call the bottom wrestler, who was not trying to advance, for a stall. Told the ref, "I've never seen that". His reply- "You have now". LOL yeah how very "official".

This whole lil story is offensive. First of all there is no Iraqi language. Britain the US and France made up Iraq. Secondly the language spoken in Iraq is Arabic, or Farsi. Thirdly I love Greco but I hope my Arabic named and some looking somewhere between Bob Marley and an Arab sons never crosses paths with you. He looked like Sadaam Hussien. Just not funny and in poor taste.

That's not a funny punchline. It is a hateful punchline.

Maybe the coach or writer wanted to focus on who was on the team in their article instead of who wasn't on the team.

Maintaining a #1 national ranking for 2 years while regularly attending Super32, Fargo, FloNat and WNO is super impressive. IMO he has a very high ceiling at the next level. I believe his intense movement, willingness to take risk and attack has made the difference for him in big matches. How he transitions to D1 will have a lot to do with coaching and guidance. I really like the choice of Nebraska for that reason. If he were to adopt the heavily risk averse style we see from a number of college teams these days, that ceiling comes way down. 
 
Best ever in high school? He's just as impressive as the other obvious candidates. JT was already wrestling a risk averse tie-heavy style his senior year in HS and was dominant. 
 
Best ever? In the right room he has a great chance to be the best ever. I'd wait until there's a more complete body of work before giving that distinction.  

I hope this works out for him.  Wish him all the best of luck in the next couple of years.  Love that he has a passion for ministry.
 
If I was a college coach, the above quote might raise my eyebrow a little bit.  If the high school season is too much of a grind, how would one make it through a college season?

I could see Gelen eventually quitting to focus on football which would give Kral his senior year to start while Streck redshirts and then he'll be there be the starter for 4 years.

Brian Williams was at Merrilville distributing the state pairing formulas. He said he pushed print.

Did anybody pass the Courvoiser?

I noticed this as well. Last year, when I coached in IPS, the IPSAC tournament had 19 first round matches, whereas there were only 7 this year when I went to watch my old wrestlers compete last Friday (It's an 8-man bracket with 9 teams).  The numbers across the conference were way down though. Tech still fielded a full team, but nobody else had more than 8 registered wrestlers and only 182, 220, and 285 had more than 5 wrestlers. That's probably why they feel there should be 14 teams in this sectional, because there will only be around the same number of wrestlers as an 8-10 team field, maybe even less.
 
I also noticed numbers at the private city schools are down, Ritter, Scecina, and Chatard (not in this sectional, but still relevant) all have seen full teams from just a couple seasons ago turn into much smaller rosters. Ritter went from having just two forfeits two years ago to 7 this year and Scecina went from 3 to 8 in that two year time period. 
 
There's definitely a dip in the participation in the city, across the board. The question is: Why won't more of these kids come out and wrestle. The athletes are there in the schools, I just wonder why they won't wrestle.
 
I believe the problem is 3-fold (probably many more issues, but I want to keep this concise):
 
1. There is a large lack of youth exposure to wrestling in the city. Other than CYO (of which most of the best wrestlers end up at Cathedral), these kids aren't being exposed to our sport at an early age and believe, even when they are only 5'3" that they will go pro in the NBA because of their love of basketball. This, combined with the lack of exposure for the student body due to the fact that hardly any of the matches are at home for any of the teams (in my case, we literally didn't have mats due to the take-over process at Howe) make it a hard sell.
 
2. There's difficulty in finding coaches. Not necessarily Head Coaches, I worked as a Head Coach there for 2 years and have nothing but great things to say about my colleagues in the city. They know their stuff, but now that I work at a school outside of town with a staff of 10 coaches, I see that me and my one paid assistant who showed up every other day and my 2 volunteer coaches who could only make it a few times all season were vastly behind in the amount of knowledge we could give to our wrestlers in a 2.5 hour practice. There was no money in our budget to hire anyone else and despite posting on this site and calling every buddy I have within an hour's drive, I could get no takers to come and help. 
 
3. There seems to be a social stigma among the students I worked with at least that if you wrestled, you liked men. Even more so than with the kids outside the city. Many great athletes at Howe that helped their football team find success wouldn't come near the wrestling room because they were afraid of what their buddies would say about them.
 
I do think that there are many other reasons, but these stuck out to me.

Why did Coach Snyder leave Mishawaka to go to Brownsburg? I remember how dominant those teams were, and there was no sign of them slowing down.