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The fan attendance was the biggest upset 

My predictions in order (Gut reaction)

106: Jones, Chantea, Newell, Cantu

113: Lewis, Orueta, Harper, Doughty

120: Jendreas, Dallinger, Aubin, Schmidtendorff

126: Hawkins, Maldonado, Horn, Bennett

132: Demarco, Rivera, Fritz, Robson

138: Shepherd, Reid, Smith, England

144: Huyvaert, Walker, Stanley, Kirksy

150: Bohn, Harper, Smith, Rice

155: Barbender, Pellot, Van Tichelt, Frost

165: Rinehart, Beck, Mavros, Sinks

175: Costello, Crisp, White, Popp

190: Freeman, Tatum, Bisping, Reading

215: Clark, Deming, Chicoine, Bartoszek

285: Clark, McNutt, Beck, Popi

My sleeper pick will be the scale

It is going to be an exciting day of wrestling.  I am looking forward to watching 120, 126, and 285.  

I think Portage is going to win the regional

Now that the brackets are back up, will we get an explanation as to why some of the draws changed from this morning even though none of the girls changed?  Why were they moved around?  I am looking at Penn and the following weights changed 100, 110, 115, & 235.  What was the reason for rearranging the wrestlers?  I guess I should contact IHSGW

You are truly the Dave Portnoy of Hotdogs. 

My EC observations. 

1. Not enough upsets, but the wrastlin was great

2. The "trainers" were not prepared.  Next time hire actual athletic trainers because they will actually have nose plugs.

Says in the rule book that the new weight classes are effective July 1, 2023

I thought this forum was about tough semi state match ups like Ashton Jackson v Daniel Mata, not some mathematical ted talk

Did time expire? Illegal hold? Out of bounds? Any explanation as to why the pin was called off?

On 1/5/2023 at 11:52 AM, littlevito said:

Because they aren't 3rd or 4th overall throughout the whole weight class in that regional. It's basically taking a 32 man bracket and breaking it into two brackets cause of how daily match limitations.

This still did not work.  At the NW regional at 113, a team refused to wrestle for the alternate spot because that would have been their 7th match of the night.  This system does not work and is not really fair.  I think we need to either have true wrestle backs and make this a 2 day tournament or have a sectional and a regional.  A third idea would be to rearrange the regionals and not base the regionals on semi-state.

Girls NW and SW regionals had 6 double brackets.  NE regional had 2 double brackets, while the SE only had 1.   

Track link on ihsgw.net says the weight you register for is the weight that you will wrestle.  You are not allowed to change.

Are these legit match ups or are you just assuming these death draws?

On 1/23/2018 at 2:14 PM, Bigd1459 said:

5:48pm

You were really close. The tournament ended at 5:46pm

25 minutes ago, ontherise219 said:

#14 Chester swopes portage avoids a first rd upset to Ethan”show stopper” Anderson lake station. 11-9 

It was the headlock heard around Da Region from the "Show Stopper"

14 minutes ago, throw45 said:

Assuming there are no additional forfeits, there are a total of 157 matches...86 championship matches and 71 consolation matches.  78.5 matches per mat.  I'm gonna say it's over at 5:30pm.

Can we start placing bets on when we believe the sectional tournament will be over?  Closest to the time without going over wins

8:45 PM

I just heard that the Griffith Admins are only allowing 2 mats for the sectional. Going to be a long day of wrestling. 

Do they get 3lbs or 2lbs for the weight allowance?

Can you give an example of what officials would not understand about position and control?  To me, and I saw a lot of this kind of thing this weekend, much of it was called correctly.  No control was given in one instance that "funk" was happening and wrestler a was behind wrestler be but his leg was elevated to the other's chest (or something of that nature, situation for my point doesn't necessarily matter).  Anyhow no control was awarded and people were yelling but before you know it the wrestler "who should have been taken down" was now facing the other in a no control situation.  My rational for some of these situation is that if a wrestler is in control he can improve his position. I have a problem most of the time when I see a takedown call and then a stalemate without things changing.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv78Z5kaA0Q

Here is a link to a move that Jordan Oliver has made famous.  I have seen this move done and some officials see it has a takedown and a tilt, while I have also seen multiple officials just stare and say nothing is happening.  When I explain the move, I get responses like "that is spaghetti wrestling" or "this isn't college".  

I see positives and negatives for this in wrestling today.  I am a big fan of the high school wrestlers integrating college style wrestling into their everyday wrestling.  I believe that this makes the kids better at wrestling.  The downside is that the officials are not up to date on the evolution of new moves and therefore are not rewarding points to kids because they do not understand what is going on in the match.  It will just take a little while for change to become effective.

Free

Going back to the slam.  From where I was sitting on the floor it looked like a few slams.  The last "slam" did not look hard at all and looked perfectly fine to me.  Saying that,  Bautista did have the arm trapped and returned him on the side DeMien was unable to protect himself.  I do recall 4 years ago that Gaige Torres was given a DQ for doing the same exact return on a SB Clay kid.  

Bautista did return DeMien the same way three times after he was already called for 2 slams.  Bautista should have looked for a different way to return and secure his two points to move the match to overtime.

A lot of missed/bad calls altogether at the EC semistate. Stall calls, fleeing, takedown, and backs. Quite a few rookie mistakes for this level of competition.

I believe DLP will beat Cummings in the Semi-final match at 126