Justin Ratliff

It sounds like the Cyclones are getting a really solid crop of recruits. He would be a strong addition to that team; not sure who they have at his weight. I think Jackson can help him focus on his attack game too.

I really like Penn State's program but his style wouldn't really be a fit there. Defense and riding time or escape for the win.

Surely we could get sponsors for our teams to knock the price down. When I wrestled in Mexico on a Team Indiana trip in the 90's I got some local sponsors to help pay part of the trip. I also helped seal some driveways, helped do some roofing, etc. to pay for my trip. I plan on taking some of our youth to USA Folkstyle Nationals this year and I will get some local sponsorships to help fund the trip to encourage parents to get their wrestler involved. If I can do that with a small club surely we can do that with our state team for nationals, right?

...make this list. They listed quite a few fringe sports. He is more dominant than many of these athletes listed in my opinion. http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/the-50-most-dominant-athletes-alive/ar-BBtEcCn?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCDHP#page=51

Season will be over on January 29th. You mean June 29th, right?

I would think that if the offensive wrestler keeps trapping the arm and lifting in order to stall the match, then it could result in stalling calls and eventually a point for repeated attempts.

It looked contingent on the lift. I wonder if a PD will be called if they have the arm trapped but pick the heel to take their opponent to the mat? The head could still hit the mat from that position as well.

I think the league MVP should get a trained fighting pit bull, wolverine, or honey badger. Just a suggestion. In all seriousness though, I'm excited about what I have heard so far!

Big Dan is a bible salesman, with ulterior motives, residing in Mississippi. He is a member of a certain, secret organization. I don't believe I gotta mention it's name. He also likes fricassee. And prefers to take a conversational hiatus during gustation.

So this would be kind of like a conference league? You would wrestle a dual at different schools on a Wednesday for 6 weeks or until every team wrestled each other, then have the championship after that? If you just did one dual through the week it would allow the JV kids to get some matches at the Wednesday dual as well. Good idea!

Even if they do not respond to you, maybe they could take a look at why they missed those kids?

If you know of the kids that got in then send them those names. Then however it was missed can be addressed.

Sorry, that number was from last year. I'm not sure how many they kicked out but they definitely made phone calls to people informing them that they didn't have the qualifiers so they were checking. There were also 36 Greco only wrestlers that didn't wrestle Freestyle so those were probably kids that didn't get the qualifiers in. I'm don't think there was a grand conspiracy on this. If some kids got in it was because it was missed. Not because they were not checking. They did not let kids wrestle because they were worried about numbers. With Mother's Day and some schools having prom I'm sure the numbers were going to be lower than usual anyway. I'm not sure what the big answer is for boosting Freestyle (I think Greco actually increased?). I have my son in Freestyle and Greco. He likes it better than playing baseball or soccer in the spring. We make it work but our situation is different than others. Kids are still going to wrestle at big Folkstyle tournaments out of state during Freestyle/Greco season. I'm not sure you can change that now. Pandora's box has been opened. It would take a unified effort nationally with coaches, states, and organizations to change that. Another thing I have thought of is that in Folkstyle there is a small percentage of wrestlers who even make it into a D1 program and actually wrestles for the team, not just a room guy. There is even a smaller percentage of those wrestlers who make it internationally. Maybe people are just playing the percentage and putting their effort into Folkstyle for that reason? Obviously, America's preoccupation with Folkstyle affects us as a nation when it comes to the international styles in some respects. Now with the prospects of MMA careers there is another blow to Freestyle/Greco in our country. The situation is definitely something unique to our wrestling culture.

I believe there were about 10 that were turned away because they didn't have the qualifiers. So they were looking. I guess some took a chance on getting through and lucked out.

I do not believe so. Last year they had some kids who did not have the qualifiers (but said they did) and did not have a waiver. Those kids did not get to wrestle. At least the ones my wife checked didn't.

They will be checking for that tonight.

The elementary duals early in the year don't go by the USA age divisions. Just K-6th grade. My 2nd grader wrestled some 6th graders who are Novices or Schoolboys but I knew he could handle it. Surely the parents and coaches involved will do the same. It's hard to get a bunch of matches in Freestyle or even in the average practice room right now for some kids.

The Russians apparently don't stick to a head to head criteria and they spank us. Of course they have developed their program to such an extent where they could throw 2-3 different guys in the Olympics that would all do well. So they may play more of a strategy of who would be the best match up with the other top contender at that weight? It's kind of interesting to hear of different strategies from other countries. Do any other countries pick their team like the Russians? Iranians? Mongolians? the stans?

How do other countries pick their top guys? Do they have a tournament like ours or do they look at other countries' line-ups and put who they think will match up the best?

The people that registered for CG will get a refund for that tournament since it was cancelled. From the ISWA website: "Due to the low numbers registered for the Center Grove Dominator Series, the Center Grove Wrestling Club has decided to cancel this weekend’s tournament. The registration list is being sent to Perry Meridian Wrestling Club. They will add you to their tournament."

For the elementary dual format you could just do weights and age groups of K-6th. If you had some extra kids at certain weights you could just work them in as alternates. Not a bad idea. It might be hard to fill teams. I guess you could post on here asking to fill weights.

I think the comparison between ISWA Folkstyle State vs. IHSAA State injuries is not an apples to apples comparison. Maybe compare another state tournament (of similar size) that runs their tournament by first mat to the ISWA tournament?

ISWA doesn't put the schedule together. Tournaments dates are set by each school/club.

^what he said.

Will this be on for Friday the 19th?