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9 hours ago, Ironbear said:

 I just by placement for the most part.

Gary, can we get the Ft Wayne(Rochester) brackets released?

Cowan is trying to produce hammers with a student body of 229!

On 12/22/2023 at 3:08 PM, nkraus said:

read into this however you want, but i took the last 5 years of data from the state tournament ...here is our list of teams with 3 or more placers in the last 5 years

1. Western with 8

2. Bellmont with 7

3. Jimtown and Oak Hill with 6

5. AC, Carroll, Wawassee*, and Delta with 5

8. Garrett and Jay County with 4

Tied for 9th with 3: Leo, Elkhart, New Haven, Snider, East Noble, Norwell, Northwood

 

 

 

Teams with TOP 4 placers over the last 5 years:

Garrett, Bellmont, Wawassee*, and Jimtown with 3 in the top 4

 

Delta and Snider with 2

Carroll, Leo, Northwood, Western, New Haven with 1

 

ENROLLMENT OF SOME OF THE ABOVE SCHOOLS :

GARRETT 604

BELLMONT 641

WAWASSEE 948

JIMTOWN 582

OAK HILL 535

WESTERN 840

AC 368

CARROLL 2472

JAY COUNTY 879

DELTA 783

SNIDER 1872

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Less than 3 placers over the last 5 years, but appearances in the top 4

 

Yorktown, Prairie Heights, Peru, Eastern, Maconaquah, and Kokomo

Cowan is trying to bring some hammers with 229!

And only because I have not met Makenzie Smith, at least three of these girls are great people! I’m sure if I ever get a chance to interact with Ms Smith my statement would change to all these girls. I am looking forward to some fireworks on Friday. 

XCard, I completely agree that every school running a tournament is doing so to improve women’s wrestling. The benefit for wrestlers competing in a tournament is that the final match they wrestle should be against someone of similar wrestling ability. When #1 and #2 meet in the first or second round the girls in the consolations are not getting matches that will improve their wrestling.

The growth of girls wrestling over the past decade has been amazing and I believe it has grown exponentially this year, but not having tournaments seeded is ridiculous. Numerous times this year I have seen state ranked girls meet in the first or second round, resulting in a wrestler only being able to achieve a finish of 5th place. 
     This weekend in a weight class of 35 wrestlers, the #2 and #8 wrestled in a first round match in one of three 16 man brackets. This match up was brought to the attention of the tournament director and he said “This is the last bracket we are building and we are doing our best.” 
     If a tournament is seeded properly then the placement rounds should be the most competitive and beneficial matches for the girls. 
 

This has to improve!

At sectionals my son had to wrap the hinges of his acl brace with pre wrap and did not have to add additional padding at regionals. 

57 minutes ago, Pg_rated said:

May I ask which starters you had out? 

2021 106 semi state qualifier Raef Kieth

120 Crosley Morey solid freshman

138 Kyler Coffey 3-2 at MS State

On 12/8/2021 at 7:14 AM, Peopleschamp said:

Cowan is already in for the tournament so they don’t need to get voted in. They also looked very good last year for a 1A state title but does anyone know why they had so many forfeits for their first dual this year? 

Covid!

Thanks for the kind words about little old Cowan, Coach Humble. We love the atmosphere our old school gymnasium creates. 
We are also disappointed as we had three starters out as well. 
 

We have a kid wishing to wrestle the Indy Nationals to qualify for the Fresh-Soph State Tournament that weighs 94lbs. My question is, does he have to wrestle 106 to qualify or can he register at 94?

10 hours ago, maligned said:

Stevens and Smith at 220 and 285 were entered as seniors by the Cowan staff. Is that an error?

Smith is a junior, the error would fall on my shoulders as I entered the wrestlers...I feel shame. 

Not sure if it matters or not, but Cowan is returning 13 sectional starters. 

On 1/16/2020 at 5:42 AM, FCFIGHTER170 said:

At HHC @120

potential semis match up 

#7 white vs #9 Robinson

And the winner could face 30-0 stud freshman Brevan Thrine in the finals if the seeds play out accordingly.. Best of luck to everybody this weekend. 

Does the conference not use sectional seeding criteria?  Seems to me it should be White vs Thrine in the semi’s 

45 minutes ago, blueandgold said:

I understand the whole concept of ONE state champion, but in the best states (IA, IL, MN, OH, PA) you see three in all of these minus PA. Having more than one state champion doesn’t make you any less of a state champion. If that’s the case, put every college in one division and see how they fare.

I am pretty sure if you have more than one state champion, by the laws of mathematics it makes you less of a state champion. 

Congrats to Champion Alara Boyd, double AA Torieonna Buchanan and AAs Kiersten O’Neill and Riley Dempewolf on their Fargo results! 

Toby Abbott

t_abbott@frontier.com

cowan high school 

Amazing!

They missed my sons name in the AA list and all of the 2016 girls that placed at Girls Folkstyle State by publishing the 2014 results.

To take some of the subjectivity out of this debate..

 

Who has beaten the most State Champions in their high school career but did not win state?

 

I see a lot of guys mentioned above who were very good high school wrestlers with multiple state medals, but never beat anyone who won it all.  I think to be on the list you had to have beaten several guys who were good enough to win it all.  

 

I'll throw Aaron Sessa's name in the hat.  Wins over State Champions Brennan Cosgrove, Fernando Martinez, and Javier Salas in his career.

 

Who else?

I believe Jeff Pease has five stop signs.

Yorktown Middle School  40

Cowan Middle School      30

Cowan Wrestling is interested in the second mat. We are a second year club with too many grapplers for one mat.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could email your contact info to cowanwrestlingclub@gmail.com.

Thanks,

Rick Jones