At HSE I’d say the line-up would look like this:
106- Jacob Simone- 2018, 8th at 113 in 2019, but was a stud at 106 as a Sophomore and go pinned by eventual 4th placer David Pierson when leading 4-1 and in on another deep single when headlocked in the ticket round. Another option would be Klayton Anderson who qualified in 2015 as just a freshman, then moved to Missouri.
113- Austin Holmes, 2 time 4th placer at 113 and qualified as a Senior at 126. One of our all-time best!
120- Edreece Stansberry. Qualifier in 2014.
126- Thomas Pompei. 6th place in ‘06 and has gone on to an outstanding collegiate coaching career at INDIANA Tech!
132- Possibly the greatest Royal-Jack Chastain. 5th at 132 in 2015, succumbing to a terrible draw but scoring the only offensive points of the tourney against Nick Lee on Saturday morning. Also 5th in 2014 at 126 and qualified as a Sophomore at 113. Only 2 Royals have qualified 3 times, Chastain and Austin Holmes.
138- Mitch Snyder. With respect to One time qualifier Keegan Stansberry, Snyder was a 132 that placed 6th in 2013 and qualified at 112 as a Sophomore. We’ll bump him one weight.
145- Pat Robinson. 3rd as a Senior, NCAA qualifier at Purdue, so far HSE’s only one ever. He’s also on our staff here helping with the building of our program!
152- Jackson Bennett. 5th place in 2013 and current Head JV coach in our program. Corbin Gregg as a 6th placer is a close second.
160- Matt Irick. Cheating a bit here as he never wrestled 160, but finished 5th at 170 as a Senior and a was a qualifier at 140 as a Sophomore. He likely would have been 160 his Junior year, which was lost due to injury. He went on to be our second DI starter at IU.
170- Austin Neibarger. Really close one here as Irick was a 170 pounder and Patrick Turner finished 4th in 2004, but Neibarger was a two time placer, 8th as a Freshman at 152 and then 5th as a Senior at 170.
182- Spencer Irick. One of the biggest upsets ever on Friday night was his win over Andrew Davidson. He went on to take 3rd that year and was a qualifier at 170 his Junior year as well.
195- Brent Farrell. Our first ever two time qualifier and first ever placer. He was the runner up in 1996 at 189 and was our head coach for a couple years and is now a principal in the district (and father of Fishers’ 3rd placer this year, JD Farrell). They have another Farrell coming in next year that will be a very good wrestler as well.
220- Crae Kunkleman. Our highest 220 placer is Andrew Irick, but he will be our HWT starter leaving only qualifiers at 220. Kunkleman was actually a HWT qualifier in 2019 but would have likely placed at 220 (he only weighed 205), but was behind Irick. Only one other 220 ever qualified in Georges Brantley, and heck I’ll be biased with the kid I coached.
285- Andrew Irick. The third and final Irick Brother. He’s our highest ever placer as runner up this season and finished 4th as a Junior at 220, joining Austin Holmes as our only 2 time semi-finalists. Andrew is likely the most accomplished Royal and will try to win the starting spot and be our first ever All-American at the Division I level.
We have many more talented athletes that could have been in the team, but that’s who I think would be our top 14. It seems like a recency bias, but we actually never had a placer until 1996 as little old Fishers used to be a tiny town and HSE wasn’t what we now know until the early 2000’s.
Awesome to look at where a program has been. Gives motivation to our incoming Freshman and current HS kids to try to emulate and better themselves as we search for that first state champ.