Coach Brobst

It was a great day at Mooresville for Indiana Wrestling.  One high light for me was the amount of team members both boys and girls who came up to me and thanked me for having them on the team and how much they appreciated the opportunity to compete one more time.  We really are producing some great wrestlers in our state and more importantly these kids have a lot of class and respect.  
 
Indiana Gold boys battled hard but came up short 37-22.  Winners for the gold team were;
Mason Jones
Luke Rioux
Tony Wood
Chis Bohn
Duke Myers
 
Indiana Blue sealed a victory for our home state 35-27. Winners were:
Gavyn Whitehead
Griffin Sanders
Carson Fettig
Michael Cain
Keegan Martin
Tyler Schott
Brady Byrd
Josiah Dedeaux 
 
The girls beat Iowa 63-12, but came up short against Illinois 21-44
Double Winners for the girls were: 
Tola Aluka
Sophia Buechner
Rose Kaplan
Leila Thomas 
 
Winner vs Iowa were;
Tola Aluka
Sophia Buechner
Rose Kaplan
Leila Thomas 
Kyra Tomlison
Alexes Spaulding
Kaylea Beauchamp
Jaiah O'Neal
Michela Clifford
Portia Weaver
 

Last year:
Tourney entries for Club teams: $600
Tourney Entries for my own kid: $1200
Shoes: $400
Headgear: $50
Singlets: $150
Hotel Costs: $500 (we don't do many out of town tourneys)
Tourney Gate Fees as parent: $200
Tourney Gate Fees as a coach: $200
Medical supplies for athletes: $100
Gas: ?? At least $200
Food at tourneys: ??? At least $300
Club Dues: $1200
Coaching Card and Clinics: $300
 
I'm sure I'm forgetting other costs, but just with that we're at $5400 and my kid is only 10 and doesn't do a tourney every weekend yet even, let alone national tournaments. So I could see easily spending 10 grand year at minimum if your kid does national level events even 2-3 times/year. 
 
Also, is there a way to ensure this post is unable to be viewed by wives? Asking for a friend...
 

Last year:
Tourney entries for Club teams: $600
Tourney Entries for my own kid: $1200
Shoes: $400
Headgear: $50
Singlets: $150
Hotel Costs: $500 (we don't do many out of town tourneys)
Tourney Gate Fees as parent: $200
Tourney Gate Fees as a coach: $200
Medical supplies for athletes: $100
Gas: ?? At least $200
Food at tourneys: ??? At least $300
Club Dues: $1200
Coaching Card and Clinics: $300
 
I'm sure I'm forgetting other costs, but just with that we're at $5400 and my kid is only 10 and doesn't do a tourney every weekend yet even, let alone national tournaments. So I could see easily spending 10 grand year at minimum if your kid does national level events even 2-3 times/year. 
 
Also, is there a way to ensure this post is unable to be viewed by wives? Asking for a friend...
 

Last year:
Tourney entries for Club teams: $600
Tourney Entries for my own kid: $1200
Shoes: $400
Headgear: $50
Singlets: $150
Hotel Costs: $500 (we don't do many out of town tourneys)
Tourney Gate Fees as parent: $200
Tourney Gate Fees as a coach: $200
Medical supplies for athletes: $100
Gas: ?? At least $200
Food at tourneys: ??? At least $300
Club Dues: $1200
Coaching Card and Clinics: $300
 
I'm sure I'm forgetting other costs, but just with that we're at $5400 and my kid is only 10 and doesn't do a tourney every weekend yet even, let alone national tournaments. So I could see easily spending 10 grand year at minimum if your kid does national level events even 2-3 times/year. 
 
Also, is there a way to ensure this post is unable to be viewed by wives? Asking for a friend...
 

Last year:
Tourney entries for Club teams: $600
Tourney Entries for my own kid: $1200
Shoes: $400
Headgear: $50
Singlets: $150
Hotel Costs: $500 (we don't do many out of town tourneys)
Tourney Gate Fees as parent: $200
Tourney Gate Fees as a coach: $200
Medical supplies for athletes: $100
Gas: ?? At least $200
Food at tourneys: ??? At least $300
Club Dues: $1200
Coaching Card and Clinics: $300
 
I'm sure I'm forgetting other costs, but just with that we're at $5400 and my kid is only 10 and doesn't do a tourney every weekend yet even, let alone national tournaments. So I could see easily spending 10 grand year at minimum if your kid does national level events even 2-3 times/year. 
 
Also, is there a way to ensure this post is unable to be viewed by wives? Asking for a friend...
 

Last year:
Tourney entries for Club teams: $600
Tourney Entries for my own kid: $1200
Shoes: $400
Headgear: $50
Singlets: $150
Hotel Costs: $500 (we don't do many out of town tourneys)
Tourney Gate Fees as parent: $200
Tourney Gate Fees as a coach: $200
Medical supplies for athletes: $100
Gas: ?? At least $200
Food at tourneys: ??? At least $300
Club Dues: $1200
Coaching Card and Clinics: $300
 
I'm sure I'm forgetting other costs, but just with that we're at $5400 and my kid is only 10 and doesn't do a tourney every weekend yet even, let alone national tournaments. So I could see easily spending 10 grand year at minimum if your kid does national level events even 2-3 times/year. 
 
Also, is there a way to ensure this post is unable to be viewed by wives? Asking for a friend...
 

Some great Royals for sure. I was narrowing it down to 2 time qualifiers at minimum for "most accomplished", though all of these guys have an argument for "best" wrestler in HSE history. Spencer with only 1 medal, but that huge upset definitely crossed my mind.
 
Hadn't realized Farrell qualified his Junior year, he'd be up there for sure. His kids were no slouches either (JD took 3rd for the Tigers and then Crew was a 4 time Regional Champion at Frankton).
 
P-Rob is one of my favorite dudes in the sport, NCAA Qualifier at Purdue after his late blooming Senior year for the Royals.
 
Neibarger was awesome. Really fun, but as you mentioned only won one medal at HSE.
 
Pompei may qualify as most accomplished Royal in wrestling for career totality for sure when you add in his collegiate time and his coaching as well.
 
I wasn't here for it, but according to Coach Rypel here who got teched by him his freshman year, John Tatom was the best 160 pounder in the state his senior year before tearing up his knee. As it is, he also placed 6th once for HSE prior to his career ending injury.
 
Long story short, HSE has been way too good for way too long without having a champion. Gotta get that monkey off our back in the next 5 years.

HSE has a few options:
 
Jack Chastain is the career wins leader and Qualified as a Sophomore, took 5th twice
 
Austin Holmes qualified 3 times and won 2 4th place medals his Sophomore and Junior year. He’s second all time in wins.
 
Matt Irick likely would have been the guy had he not been hurt his Junior year. 2 time qualifier, 5th placer.
 
Jake Simone was a headlock and a bad draw away from maybe being the guy: Sophomore year he’s ranked top 4 in state, Regional Champ, up 6-2 on David Pierson in ticket round, in on another single, the patented DP headlock takes him out. Junior year, wins 8th place medal, Senior year, ranked 4th, loses to Eldred of Westfield 2-1 in Regionals, Eldred takes 2nd that year to Seltzer, who you guessed it, was Simone’s ticket round match that year. Awful.
 
As it lays: Andrew Irick is likely the guy. 2 time medalist in his 3 years as a starter taking 4th as a Junior, runner-up his Senior year in 2020 after a Semi-state title.
 
Only 2 time qualifier since then has been Max Broom, who never medaled but is the career leader in falls and won more matches with only one move (cradle) than anyone I’ve ever seen.
 
Got a crop of 7th/8th graders that have as much if not more credentials coming in than any of those guys. Hoping for that first champ in the next few seasons

Chastain was fun to watch!

HSE has a few options:
 
Jack Chastain is the career wins leader and Qualified as a Sophomore, took 5th twice
 
Austin Holmes qualified 3 times and won 2 4th place medals his Sophomore and Junior year. He’s second all time in wins.
 
Matt Irick likely would have been the guy had he not been hurt his Junior year. 2 time qualifier, 5th placer.
 
Jake Simone was a headlock and a bad draw away from maybe being the guy: Sophomore year he’s ranked top 4 in state, Regional Champ, up 6-2 on David Pierson in ticket round, in on another single, the patented DP headlock takes him out. Junior year, wins 8th place medal, Senior year, ranked 4th, loses to Eldred of Westfield 2-1 in Regionals, Eldred takes 2nd that year to Seltzer, who you guessed it, was Simone’s ticket round match that year. Awful.
 
As it lays: Andrew Irick is likely the guy. 2 time medalist in his 3 years as a starter taking 4th as a Junior, runner-up his Senior year in 2020 after a Semi-state title.
 
Only 2 time qualifier since then has been Max Broom, who never medaled but is the career leader in falls and won more matches with only one move (cradle) than anyone I’ve ever seen.
 
Got a crop of 7th/8th graders that have as much if not more credentials coming in than any of those guys. Hoping for that first champ in the next few seasons

Watching Noah all off-season train at CIA, I wasn’t surprised by this one.
 
At CP in December after our 190, who is no slouch, faced him the finals (and got pinned), he came off the mat and said “I hit the deepest nicest reattack single on that kid and when he wanted to take his leg away, there was nothing I could do. He just took it!” So for sure the weight room has been a factor as well!
 
It was easy to see the improvement all year. Congrats to him and a great wrestling family!
 

So, I sit here at 4:40 am CST and I'm dead tired, but I can't sleep.  I've already made the drive back to NWI, so that drive from hell is behind me.  The hot dogs.  Pretty damn good.  The concession stand I used to buy my dogs made them to order, so, they were fresh.  They grilled them on something, they had a nice char, nice buns even without yoga pants, a good overall product.  Just one small gripe.  They were expensive.  $7 a pop for these bad boys.  Oh well.  7 slices of pizza outta 8.  Kinda a side note, I mentioned this in a reply, but I was told Hanover Central are looking into changing their hot dogs because of my review.  One day my friends, we will have the hot dogs we deserve at all wrestling meets across the great state of Indiana!  And, as always, thank you for reading.✌️✌️✌️

Congratulations to Luke Penola for winning the mental attitude award at the state finals. Luke didn’t reach his goal of winning a state title but he walked out of the arena with his head held high. He is one of the best leaders, wrestlers, and people we’ve ever been around. We are forever grateful to of coached you and to have you in our Zionsville wrestling family. 

Watching Noah all off-season train at CIA, I wasn’t surprised by this one.
 
At CP in December after our 190, who is no slouch, faced him the finals (and got pinned), he came off the mat and said “I hit the deepest nicest reattack single on that kid and when he wanted to take his leg away, there was nothing I could do. He just took it!” So for sure the weight room has been a factor as well!
 
It was easy to see the improvement all year. Congrats to him and a great wrestling family!
 

Just measures for crowdedness or how hard it is to get to semi-state in the first place. Can't determine how deep a regional is based on how many kids they qualify for state, especially not when one program is very good (Cathedral took 7 by themselves). That being said, this year, I don't see much of a discernable difference between the two regionals. They probably belong on the same line, but due to the math of it all, NM must have been closer to 4 and Pendleton closer to 3.

After having wrestled both Kincaide and Foster earlier in the season, I was firmly under the impression that Foster would not have trouble with him.  Foster in the postseason pinned me in the first period and teched me in the second at sectional and regionals respectively.  Meanwhile Kincaide only beat me by major early in the season, and I did not expect too much improvement from him being in the Noblesville room.  I made it into the ticket round against Kincaide, and I was expecting to wrestle him to the final whistle again, hoping to just give a regular decision or maybe even pull off the upset.  Instead, he pinned me in 30 seconds this time.  Then he pinned Foster in the 2nd period.  Then he took Cashman to overtime.  Honestly I thought he was going to win it by the end.  Point is, that kid is going to be a multi-time state placer and maybe champion if he keeps going like this.

Something tells me that each coach and parent believes their wrestlers are being slept on and will therefore make some noise. Just a hunch. 
 
 
 
 
Unrelated note, I believe that all 3 Rossville wrestlers are being slept on and will make some noise! 
 
 

Elias Cressell from Wabash

Also not fair for a wrestler to prepare all week for one opponent and then find out Saturday morning they have someone different.

Keep current setionals then go to 8 regionals
 
32 man brackets at state
 
Full wrestlebacks from Regionals on
 
LFG!!!!!

I'll take a stab at these. Footnote: I know the least about this semi-state aside from the teams we've seen, which is only Yorktown, Cowan, and Delta during the season and a little North Miami, Oak Hill, Maconaquoh and Prairie Heights during the off-season, so obviously I'll be dead wrong on like all of these, but I like making predictions and can't separate my head from my  heart in New Castle so here goes nothing:
 
In predicted order:
106- Boyd, Moore, Ocampo, Fleshman
113- Bollinger, Salazar, Johns, Fuller
120- Tishner, Jackson, Raber, Douglas
126- Mosier, Rowles, Waldon, Love (don't sleep on my guy Tripp Haisley, he's legit,but Rowles as Senior, probalby too tough)
132- Bradley, Linser, Fielden, Stuffel
138- Wood, Boone, Carter, Dews
144- Doster, Hagewood, Bollenbacher, Liscano
150- Jett, Hagewood, Teusch, Elkins
157- Betz, Russell, Davis, Clouse
165- Stebbins, Myers, Abbott, Trevino
175- Leech, Russell, Detwiler, Farnell (this one could fall a lot of ways, it seems)
190- Cressell, Currie, Ringeison, Caudell (calling a couple "upsets" here)
215- Hinton, Evans, Martin, Bluhm
285- Hartleroad, Coolman, Dodson, Cruz (decently confident in my 4 (not the order so  much) minus unsure on Hartleroad and Wurm, Saw Hartleroad at a bunch of off-season stuff and always looked solid, so going with who I know better)
 
Good luck Ft. Wayne coaches and athletes. Hoping to see many of you in Evansville if I can push a Royal or 4-9 through New Castle.

I'll take a stab at these. Footnote: I know the least about this semi-state aside from the teams we've seen, which is only Yorktown, Cowan, and Delta during the season and a little North Miami, Oak Hill, Maconaquoh and Prairie Heights during the off-season, so obviously I'll be dead wrong on like all of these, but I like making predictions and can't separate my head from my  heart in New Castle so here goes nothing:
 
In predicted order:
106- Boyd, Moore, Ocampo, Fleshman
113- Bollinger, Salazar, Johns, Fuller
120- Tishner, Jackson, Raber, Douglas
126- Mosier, Rowles, Waldon, Love (don't sleep on my guy Tripp Haisley, he's legit,but Rowles as Senior, probalby too tough)
132- Bradley, Linser, Fielden, Stuffel
138- Wood, Boone, Carter, Dews
144- Doster, Hagewood, Bollenbacher, Liscano
150- Jett, Hagewood, Teusch, Elkins
157- Betz, Russell, Davis, Clouse
165- Stebbins, Myers, Abbott, Trevino
175- Leech, Russell, Detwiler, Farnell (this one could fall a lot of ways, it seems)
190- Cressell, Currie, Ringeison, Caudell (calling a couple "upsets" here)
215- Hinton, Evans, Martin, Bluhm
285- Hartleroad, Coolman, Dodson, Cruz (decently confident in my 4 (not the order so  much) minus unsure on Hartleroad and Wurm, Saw Hartleroad at a bunch of off-season stuff and always looked solid, so going with who I know better)
 
Good luck Ft. Wayne coaches and athletes. Hoping to see many of you in Evansville if I can push a Royal or 4-9 through New Castle.

Madison had their their first 2 MS State champs in their program’s history 
 
Brendan Bentz - seeded 4th - won 138
Garrett Deuser - seeded 3rd - won 175. G had a crazy semi-final match, was down 7-0 and won 14-10
 
Madison had a solid day w 2 more top 4 finishers in Segar Ralston finishing 4th at 132 and Grayson Hughes also 4th at 150. 

 

My Brain be buzzing from typing.... so took a break and came up w/ this gem
 
Is it Saturday yet?!?!?!
 
We got winners
We got losers
Dippers and boozers
We got WildCats
We got Bulldogs
We got angry fathers
And the moms all dressed up in their glitter
Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, I love the FORD
We got Trojans
We got Olympians
Broken-hearted wrestlers and seniors
And we got state placers
We got fighters
Early-pinners and over-timers
And the old timers in letter jackets talk about their battle scars
Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, I love the FORD
I love THE FORD
It's my kind of place
Just walkin' through the front door
Puts a big smile on my face
It’s actually pretty far
Come as you are
Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, I love the FORD