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Can someone send Bart’s info? I wanna get my license. Gillespie says I need to reach out to Bart since I moved to Indy
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I am sharing this. Please take a moment and read this.
KoontzDaddy replied to buttler73's topic in Past Discussions
Um I’ll get back to the original point of the post and I think it only needs to be said one more time and then we can move on, but hopefully this gets included in Joni’s email… ticket debacle. 4 tix per wrestler is ridiculous. That doesn’t even cover half of many families. And we don’t even need to rehash the Ticketmaster crash The ticket situation from start to finish was a complete disaster. I can’t imagine that Pacers games, or concerts, are that messed up. That whole thing was terrible. On a positive note, I’m grateful that the IHSAA followed local guidelines, or lack there of, on masks. Many universities are requiring masks at events even if local guidelines don’t require them. It’s all about image. I’m grateful that the IHSAA didn’t feel the need to appease the vocal minority and be the mask nazis that we had last year. -
Best ever. We can talk about excluding outside wrestling, but how do you do that? What he has done as a high school wrestler both in the state and out of state is beyond what any other Indiana wrestler has ever done, or could've done. He almost won U23 Nationals as a freakin' 17-year-old!!! I'm not saying he'll be better than Nick Lee is now, but as a high schooler he is unmatched by any other Indiana high schooler... Ever.
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Lol! He knows what’s up. He also knows that he’d better be prepared for this weekend! Plus Wilson is a good friend. Lots of mutual respect.
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Wilson at 145. He’s tough! He’s given Koontz all he wants this season. I think it’ll be Wilson and Koontz in the finals… for the fifth time this season.
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Yeah he got Estrada with the lefty headlock. He pinned Rust with a defensive cradle off of a shot. That was a fun day!
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So as the tournament approaches, and the topic of this discussion, I got excited and found this video of the most exhilarating 10 seconds of my adult life. I still yell at the screen to LIFT THE HEAD!!! vlc-record-2022-01-11-10h41m57s-10241240132_wtohvpth-10241241132.mp4.crdownload-.mp4
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Oh I know he will!
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That was my favorite part of the day.
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Thank you! It was a good win! Hopefully it was a finals preview.
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Dad is alive and well. Just talked to him. According to the gram, he’s been working out too!
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Having a buddy with a flo account!!!
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Lol! I was going to throw your name out there
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Uhhh Seltzer not being a threepeat wouldn’t surprise you? Ison is great, but c’mon man. Zeke is one of the Indiana goats!
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Every year this gets talked about. People come up with all kinds of goofy answers but it really is as simple as wrestle backs. We can talk about the small school guys and class wrestling separately, but wrestle backs fix the first big problem with our tournament.
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Couldn’t agree more. It’s very difficult to keep the kids at small schools that get beat by academy trained athletes year in and year out. Then heaven forbid you do get a stud... because chances are that kid’s parents will travel to an academy, get better by wrestling other kids from the academy, then get recruited by the big schools, then parents move their whole lives around for 4 years of high school wrestling. Then the small school is back to square one. I’ve seen it first hand over and over again. More kids will give it a shot if they believe they have a chance to be successful without having to give up their whole lives! No one will change my mind on this and I appreciate your stance on this.
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Koontz wrestled Drew Hughes in that QF. Hughes got an early lead and Koontz battled back and almost got two NF to tie in the third. Hughes won 7-5. They were ranked 1 & 2 that year. I think Forte beat Kemper in the finals that year.
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Another class wrestling question - enter at your own risk
KoontzDaddy replied to Galagore's topic in Past Discussions
My kids grew up at Edgewood in Ellettsville. My oldest son saw success there and I was the youth coach at the time. We were really trying to create a culture at the time and we wanted numbers. We wanted the best athletes to wrestle. My middle son is now at Perry. Obviously they have a strong wrestling culture and it’s a big school. I can say that I would still support class wrestling because I have been that guy trying like crazy to get kids to try wrestling. Big schools not only have more numbers in general but they also tend to be in areas with access to academies and competition which makes them just better at the sport overall. It is much easier to convince a football stud to try wrestling when you can show him that he has a shot to make it deep into the state tournament. I LOVE our state finals, but I believe growing the sport is more important than having the best state finals in the country. But that’s just me. And I’m not saying we should always follow other states, but the powerhouse states, other than Jersey, have classes. -
PEOPLE ARE STEALING KIDS' CODES!!! So we have parents not getting tickets because the codes are being stolen. The codes are not very unique and easily cracked. If you purchased tickets for another kid, you are a horrible person and don't deserve to be a part of this great sport.
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I’m willing to entertain the argument against classes... but I support a class system because I believe more kids would wrestle if we had classes. However, I believe the lack of wrestle backs is an absolute travesty! It’s ridiculous. We say we like the single class system because of the finals, but we have some of the state’s best at home this weekend cause of draw situations. It’s dumb and it’s lazy on our part. We are undermining years of effort and commitment that a lot of these kids put in... because we don’t want to put the effort in for three weekends. There is no justification for not having wrestle backs.
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This epitomizes what I love so much about Indiana's state tournament. I love watching the placement matches. The pressure is off at that point and the kids just seem to wrestle loose and get after it. So much fun. The year my oldest son placed 3rd was one of the most fun experiences of my life. He won with a last second takedown that at first was a no call, but after deliberation, he was awarded the two... And the crowd went wild. It was awesome! Of course, last year's headlock from his younger brother was about 7 seconds of absolute pandemonium that I still haven't fully recovered from. If you can't tell, I'm ready for this weekend! Let's get it on!
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Agreed. Absolutely ridiculous that we don’t have wrestlebacks.
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It was a really BAD no call. Two feet, one hand on the mat for like two full seconds. I hate that for Deckard. He’s an amazing kid! Just a really terrible, terrible no call.
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Conway v Rust is a terrible draw!