Justin Ratliff

Nick has established residency for over 20 years in the 260. He even got a 260 tattoo, so he's ours.

Settle down there Roll Tide

Just wanted to say the Rioux Fam appreciate all the kind words! Unbelievably proud of Luke and Nate for all their hard work and Luke for getting it done... even if he had to call me out in the interview afterwards! 

Rochester is at ECSS now with some tough kids who should be on the podium . I think kids wrestling year round helps even things out some more these days training at year round clubs .

Just a grateful post! Are we not blessed as fans, what a weekend! We seen a ton of indiana #1's go down, the 1st girl on the podium and Brownsburg take over as the new chiefs of the state! It is going to be a fun ride! 
 
As the season goes on i don't think we give enough credit to coaches, refs and media for their countless hours of devotion to the sport of wrestling for these kids! Can't thank you all enough! 
 
We do great at getting in an uproar with peoples post about how great their team is etc. Trying to get people worked up and hating. These kids that wrestle are all (typically) incredible athletes and better humans! They are competitive but grow a bond like no other sport. A prime example is crown point and bburg, we all know the history but what alot of people don't see is the bonds. Cp and burg kids love being around each other when not competing! We need to at times get better at not being upset with one side or the other because of ppl's post and just be excited indiana has nationally ranked teams! How great is it having 3 top 30 nationally ranked teams? I'm grateful for it and I'm grateful for how 99% of our athletes behave! Its truly something to be grateful for. 
 
Post on recruiting all the time, I know my 2 cents won't make a bit of difference but recruiting isn't a thing and I truly believe that people want to be a part of something special. When you have team cracking nationally ranked status and schedule kids and parents want to be a part of it and not only that typically these programs have coaches, community support and same goals. We all have heard saying about "if you are around 5 millionaires you will be the 6th" or "you are only as good as the people you surround yourself with"  field of dreams "if you build it, they will come". We have to stop hating on programs like the burg, cg and cp. They have all built it right and they come. Im grateful we can travel outside of the US and have teams competing nationally to be recognized in the country. 
 
Here is to freestyle season, let's get excited for lace season as my son says! Its a beautiful time of the year! Fargo is getting closer. Time for world team and fargo dreams! Grateful for opportunity. Good luck to all our summer athletes! 
 
Thank you to all you coaches, refs, media, Especially indianamat for all the countless hours and effort you put in to these kids to help make indiana wrestling better and the sport to grow! Let's all build! Grateful for you all! 
 
Congrats to all the athletes who competed this past weekend and if you didn't reach your goals time to get back to the drawing board and work, if you are graduating this sport will stick with you for the rest of your life and you are a better person for doing it! College or workforce will love you!
 
Keep your heads held high with pride, wrestling is life for all of us, but there is a bigger purpose for our life! Keep your eyes on the prize and hes got you! 
 
Thank you indiana wrestling 🙏 
 
 

This needs broken down for the 5th semi-state -- ie, Mooresville Regional...

I will say on behalf of the Ford Center, we really did try and I personally worked my tail off for this one. As a wrestling fan I was pumped to see it coming to our place. I’m sorry the lighting wasn’t the greatest for the finals, it was the best we could do with what we had to work with while trying to keep that finals feel. Originally they were just gonna keep the sports lights on, but I didn’t think that felt right. Had a blast all weekend and had the best seat I’ve ever had for a wrestling finals weekend. 

Evansville is not only in the top four semi-states. It is THE top. 
 
Nearly as many medals as East Chicago and the Fort combined.  Not even a contest.  Evansville is "Prelim State".  All the others are semi-states.

Evansville is not only in the top four semi-states. It is THE top. 
 
Nearly as many medals as East Chicago and the Fort combined.  Not even a contest.  Evansville is "Prelim State".  All the others are semi-states.

I think the team race proved you have to show up in numbers, have your head on right, and survive a gauntlet of tough competition if you want to win it.  Crown Points a heck of a team but it just wasn’t the weekend most envisioned they would have.  No knock on Crown Point as they may have had a couple bad beats but are still a crazy good team. This should really be about putting more respect on just how impressive many of or other individual wrestlers are in this state.  Some have been overlooked due to the shine of these “super teams.” There are lots a land mines to run into at state and Crown Point unfortunately hit a few today.  When the competition is good enough to make matches razor thin then you have to be close to perfect on the day or you are done. Also gotta say I’m very impressed that Brownsburg and even Center Grove never lost faith. They kept grinding and let the energy build for them as the tournament progressed.  CP deserves the Team Dual State Championship, but when thrown in an event against all the individual talent our state has they just couldn’t find a smooth path through in this particular weekend.  The state of Indiana wrestling has shown once again that it is growing stronger. 

Whats on my mind you ask? Well...I guess I can tell you. Noah Weaver. Amazing match, amazing season, and an amazing young man.

Fort Wayne East Chicago New Castle Evansville 1st 3 1 4 6 2nd 1 5 1 7 3rd 2 3 3 6 4th 6 2 2 4 5th 1 6 2 5 6th 2 3 5 4 7th 3 0 6 5 8th 2 4 4 4  
 
Im pretty sure I got this right. If anyone sees a mistake I will change it.
 

This was an incredible weekend of wrestling, and the Brownsburg Bulldogs and coaching staff earned it.  Congrats Coach Snyder and team.  Love competing and coaching against you guys, and the purple dogs deserve all the praise and celebration.  
 
Brownsburg and Center Grove showed up and competed hard.  Congrats to both of those great teams and coaching staffs.
 
Coach Lorek
Crown Point High School Wr.
 
 
 

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.✌️✌️✌️

Watching this Iowa vs Wisc dual and Rathjen takes injury time as he’s getting taken down.  Official gives the injury time, Rathjen continues after a short break and doesn’t give the 3 pt td.
 
Reminds me of one of my biggest issues watching wrestling this weekend.  Coaches allowing their kids to take a time out when the going gets tough.  Weak.  One of the countless things that separates wrestling from the stupid sports like basketball, no timeouts when it’s getting real, you have to deal with it.  
 
Dissapointing the programs that are ok with taking a breather for that mental break when adversity has set in.

Brewer PBJ?

German food and country cookin'! Ya'll going to the South!
 
@Christopher Bohn should totally do a state finals hot dog review though.  

One of the best articles I have read not only on our great sport but in high school athletics overall. We tend to look at the sport in black and white. Win or lose and we forgot how much is going on in people’s lives 
 
take 5 minutes to read an amazing article 
 
https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2024/02/15/shark-catching-brownsburg-sophomore-chases-ihsaa-state-wrestling-title/72578001007/

There will be a state finals hot dog review.  

I'm going with Y2CJ41 vs General Heavy

And….. Watermelon 🍉 😍

I'm pretty sure it's been stated that all tickets purchased will be converted to e-tickets and sent to the email you provided when you purchased tickets
 

Brewer PBJ?

Brewer PBJ?

Brewer PBJ?