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145

Winner Jay County over Waugh Ron

Humbert Franklin County over Vanallen East Noble

Fletcher Greenfield Central over Sauder Carmel

Gosnell Connersville over Wills Eastern Hancock

138

Moore Beech Grove over Trietsch Indian Creek

Surguy Shen over Green East Central

Humberto Franklin County over Jones Leb

Noehre Greenfield Central over Pyrrha Hag

132

Smiley Beech Grove over Lohrey Shen

Bowling Leb over Phillips Centerville

Hiatt Ron over Mullins Greenfield Central

Deal Batesville over Sharp Carmel

126

Mosconi Indian Creek over Jerde Carmel

Dembowski Valpo over Miller Ron

Pugsley Shen over Ledesma East Noble

Evans Greenfield Central over Strueder Fishers

106 Results

Mattingly Carmel over Black Shen

Coon Benton Central over Slivka Ron

Matthew-Spaw East Noble over Mcconnaha Levis

Ester Ft. Wayne Snider over Vredeveld Centerville

113

Viduya Ron over Rose Greenfield Central

Conaway Beech Grove over Stapleton East Central

Rose Greensburg over Hadley Centerville

Refers East Noble over Walton Avalon

120

Noehre Greenfield Central over Freije Ron

Pecoraro Carmel over Humphrey Ft.Wayne Snider

Greene Leb over Tighe Daleville

Dickey Eastern over Hunter Rushville

I am trying to get in touch with one of the coaches from Shenandoah. Please PM any information.

Thanks.

Mark Mathews

Rushville

You can still design your fight shorts and compression shirt in a different way for State. I see a ton of positives for switching. Most teams have fight shorts nowadays anyways so you would really only add the compression shirt. I have had seniors who have the same fight shorts from freshman year. Obviously they are not competing in them all year long, but two to three times a week in practice and all of our meets during warmups, plus some of the kids where them around school or wherever. The durability of the fight shorts are going to be what you pay for them. We pay $30 and they seem to hold up just fine.

I am looking to get in contact with Coach Mark Mendoza. If anybody has any contact info I would appreciate it. Thanks.

I heard the assistant principal at the high school is amazing and knows a little about the sport. See if she can help!

I've also heard her husband knows a little bit about wrestling as well? Maybe she can talk him inot helping out as well!

If worst comes to worst I'd say just send them one county south to wrestle there though

I actually did have one of mine a few years back move to Greensburg. He was a senior and coach Cochran had him for one year.

Thank you everyone for the great ideas. I will definitely try implementing some of them and hopefully things will get started in the right direction!

It all starts with building numbers at the lower levels. What type of club program do you have in place for kids at the elementary level, do you run elementary camps or an entire club program? What involvement do you have with the middle school development? Do you have coaches in the building? What is your relationship with the football coach, this can be huge in working as a team to get kids out for your program.

We have a pretty solid elementary group. We have around 50 kids participating. Our MS team has around 20-25 kids. I know I will lose some of those to basketball when they get in high school. I teach at one of our elementarys. I don't have anyone at the high school and that's very tough. Our football coach has a "football or nothing" mentality, which is depressing since we are not very strong in football.

I'm curious how some schools who maybe haven't had the most success in recent years and haven't had the numbers get kids to come out and wrestle. At Rushville we have around 800 kids. We wrestled at Sectionals with 7 with 10 on the team. I've been coaching at Rushville for four years now and we have never had more than 20 kids. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

Long distance running and wrestling have nothing to do with each other

I wrestled with several guys that ran Cross Country, and they had amazing gas tanks. For most CC athletes, coming into the season is probably an easier transition than football or tennis because they have been blowing their lungs out for an entire season. I do agree that wrestling is a different type of conditioning, but coming in from CC sure helps.

CJ just became a 4x undefeated state champion. Acting as if it were another match is plain ludicrous. None of you on here have ever come close to accomplishing that, therefore, you do not understand how it feels. Another problem is that a lot of you believe that your OPINIONS are facts, which is not true. The "proper behavior" after winning is a matter of OPINION. So for some of you to get on here and bash a 17 year old kid who just won his 183rd consecutive match and 4th state title because he celebrated really bugs me. Just because CJ's behavior is not in correlation with your OPINION on how to win, does not give you the right to say it is wrong. Someone can just as easily say doing nothing after a win of that magnitude is wrong. That is the beauty of life, you can live how you feel is correct. Congratulations to CJ. You earned it.

First off, let me say that I was rooting for Red and I am glad he won. Those types of kids come along once in a lifetime, and his wrestling ability has been a pleasure to watch. Now I was a little surprised at how he reacted. I was hoping for some break dancing or something. I did not expect him to run off the mat like that. As far as his dad acted, that is another story. The article in the Star quoted Sr. saying " I don’t want to say it’s done, but we’ve put in the work to prepare for this – he says it almost sympathetically." To me Sr. knew it was going to happen already, so why act like he did? I for one would have gone crazy if my son just won his 4th state title and finished undefeated, but the way he talked about it happening before hand, made my wonder why he acted like he did. Anyways congrats to Chad and I can't wait to see what he does at Nebraska!

I played tennis in the fall and baseball in the spring. I think both really helped with my footwork on the mat. I was in the weight room on my own most of the time so even thought I didn't play football, I was still lifting and getting stronger.

Can we get them in pants? I would totally wear them while coaching!

Not sure, but I would love to see a parris-samuels(hwt) match. Not sure what the weight difference is right now.

Nothing against Samuels, as I really was impressed with him at Semi-State and State, but Parris has been on another level all year. The only reason the finals were as close as they were, 13-4, is because Larson was wrestling to keep it close and not get pinned or teched. Parris is a freak.

106 Black, Murphy, Walendzak, Strueder

113 White, Schaefer, Nier, Lohrey

120 Smiley, Culp, Bocock, Jerde

126 Bailey, Loos, Holmes, McGhee

132 Red, Phillips, Melloh, Flood

138 Eldred, McKinney, Flood, Lane

145 Vaughn, Timberman, Negangard, Boggs

152 Johnson, Pruitt, Berkebile, Michaels

160 Bane, Ruberg, Frazee, Wilson

170 Hill, Stambaugh, Samuels, Goddard

182 Rypel, Worm, Irick, Hoots

195 Stewart, Tonte, Fox, Ferris

220 Parris Guhl, Hipple, Fuller

285 Minges, Brogan, Phifer, Dollens

These results could go so many different ways. This semi-state is absolutely brutal and there are multiple state placers that will not get a chance to wrestle at state. Such a shame. Good luck to everyone!

Tucker Coffman beat Eiteljorge 13-7 at Connersville but in my opinion there is no way he will beat Timberman unless Timberman chokes big time. 

Also I saw that Timberman injury defaulted in the finals. Will he be able to wrestle with his injury? And if he isn't 100%, that could close the gap.

Tucker Coffman beat Eiteljorge 13-7 at Connersville but in my opinion there is no way he will beat Timberman unless Timberman chokes big time.

Maybe but those are all three solid wrestlers and one tough four man bracket.

Here are a few from New Castle that jumped out at me :

106 Black Shenandoah vs Fair PM

113 Slivka Cathedral vs Nier PM

Schaefer SD vs Turner WC

120 Ragle NC vs Culp WC

132 Welliever SM vs Flood PH

138 McKinney WC vs Moore SM

Eldred W vs Ellis Roncalli

145 Coffman UC/ Timberman NP vs Eiteljorge Carmel

Motley North Central vs Boggs SD

152 Waterman EH vs Berkebile Frankton

Johnson PM vs O'Neal HH

160 Warren PM vs Ruberg Lawrenceburg

182 Blount WC vs Worm SM

Hoots New Castle Jones LN

285 Brogan WC vs Samuels LN

Minges UC vs Ridle PM

Ruberg from Lawrenceburg dropped a sudden victory match to Bane this year....he could be a dark horse at 160....

106: Black

113: Schaefer in a good one with Lohrey

120: Pugsley just because Walton is undersized...should be a great match

126: Loos

132: Browning in a good match with Phillips

138: Lane gets revenge over Gosnell

145: Boggs, Nenangard, Coffman.....flip a coin

152: Waterman

160: Ruberg in a dog fight with Bane....best finals match

170: Hill

182: Rolfes with a tight one over Hoots

195: Cavins

220: Parris

285: Minges

my champs:

106 Stapleton

113 Schaefer

120 Walton

126 Loos

132 Browning

138 Lane

145 Coffman (Negangard has looked great the past few weekends, but Coffman won the Spartan Classic and wrestled well with Vaughn and Timberman. Should be a great finals match.)

152 Oswald

160 Ruberg

170 Hill

182 Rolfes

195 Cavins

220 Parris (Worst weight class outside of Parris)

285 Minges

Here are my picks for the top 6 in each weight class.

106: Lazo SD, Stapleton EC, Rose GB, Condo FC, Phillips RU, Angeles CO

113: Schaefer SD, Beard FC, Wells GB, Jacobs CO, Fetters BA, Eliason LA

120: Walton SD, Negangard EC, Ribeiro LA, Parker CO, Grote RU, Slagle FC

126: Loos FC, Butz GB, Green EC, Boggs SD, Redd CO, Wooldridge BA

132: Deal BA, Browning FC, Otto SD, Gauck GB, Roberts LA, Klem EC

138: Lane EC, Gosnell CO, Humbert FC, Moody BA, Michalski GB, Reed SD

145: Boggs SD, Negangard EC, Sembach CO, Suding FC, Rabius LA, Deiwert GB

152: Humbert FC, Doherty CO, Draper SD, Hall GB, Hawkins LA, Cooper EC

160: Ruberg LA, Babcock SD, Suding FC, Lunsford EC, Gossett CO, Supler GB

170: Hill LA, Mitts EC, Grubb FC, Deiwert GB, Utterback SD, Fowler RU

182: Bohman FC, Tibbetts LA, Disbro SD, Snipes EC, Martinez CO, Hayes GB

195: Rolfes LA, Turner SD, Mitts EC, Ripperger FC, Hunter GB, Massey CO

220: Parris LA, Cain GB, Pence FC, Dick SD, Kurtz BA, Rosfeld EC

285: Selm FC, Cain GB, Plunkett LA, Carpenter SD, Stampler Co

Based on placement points only, I have the team race being:

Franklin County 148

South Dearborn 144

Lawrenceburg 112

East Central 105

Greensburg 94

Connersville 73

Batesville 33

Rushville 13

Obviously it is going to come down to who can earn extra points for their team. Should be a good day of wrestling. Good luck to all.

The seed meeting is tonight. Should give everybody a better idea of placements.