Justin Ratliff

Mallory Winner

Gibbs May is easily the nasty pull of all.

Don't know a Mike Resier, might be a distant cousin of @ontherise219

I heard they are going to have an open challenge mat next to the beer garden!  

FINALLY! We can settle a lot of differences there! Should we get a sign-up sheet started now/
 
Hopefully they can do something similar in Indy at the new plaza area next to the arena.

Garcia just trying to relive those memories, come on IHSAAtv....
 

 

As long as it isn't the school spaghetti they served one year. Give me some square pizza or an oddly shaped burger, anything but the spaghetti again. 

I predict everyone who gets a hotdog will be very happy with their purchase.

2023 933 kids in qualifiers (I believe this may have included the kids that were Tulsa kids that were allowed in last year)
 
2024 903 kids in first week of qualifiers (4 more qualifiers to go)
 
I think that there may be less kids in the qualifiers this week due to MS State Duals and Kid's Folkstyle Nationals.  However, even if they have 150 kids per qualifier, that would put the number at around 1500 kids.  That would be a 60% increase participation from last year?  I will give you a little less than that for the kids that may try to qualify again this week.  But the increase can't be denied.
 
What is Indiana's weakest link for wrestling?  Is it youth?  No way, we have all kinds of training and events for these kids.  Is it HS?  No way.  We have 3 teams this year represented among the top of the nation.  It's middle school.  The red headed step child.  Middle School is where many start their career.  So they end up way behind our wrestlers who have grown up on the mat.  Then you have the all of the different weights, different starts/ends to the season throughout the state.  MS is just weird.
 
Now you have more of these middle school wrestlers getting USAW cards and competing against better competition.  We all saw kids that have never been and wouldn't think about competing at MS state.  Now they may have set a goal for themselves to get more training or train after the MS season ends.  They might just want to get more involved in going to USAW tournaments since they have a card now.
 
Let's continue to watch how this plays out.

Lots of people will be upset with their semi-state draws, hundreds, if not thousands of people.

If they don't have ice cream and chicken at Goshen Saturday, many people will be upset.

As far as not getting looked at for the rankings, the south is not known for having much information.  It's like the old Soviet iron curtain.  Lots of tournaments but hardly any on trackwrestling.  And not many results put into indianamat.  Most of my info has to come from people I know from down there or the few tournaments that are available online.

We need @TripleB the voice of the South to weigh in on this!

2023 933 kids in qualifiers (I believe this may have included the kids that were Tulsa kids that were allowed in last year)
 
2024 903 kids in first week of qualifiers (4 more qualifiers to go)
 
I think that there may be less kids in the qualifiers this week due to MS State Duals and Kid's Folkstyle Nationals.  However, even if they have 150 kids per qualifier, that would put the number at around 1500 kids.  That would be a 60% increase participation from last year?  I will give you a little less than that for the kids that may try to qualify again this week.  But the increase can't be denied.
 
What is Indiana's weakest link for wrestling?  Is it youth?  No way, we have all kinds of training and events for these kids.  Is it HS?  No way.  We have 3 teams this year represented among the top of the nation.  It's middle school.  The red headed step child.  Middle School is where many start their career.  So they end up way behind our wrestlers who have grown up on the mat.  Then you have the all of the different weights, different starts/ends to the season throughout the state.  MS is just weird.
 
Now you have more of these middle school wrestlers getting USAW cards and competing against better competition.  We all saw kids that have never been and wouldn't think about competing at MS state.  Now they may have set a goal for themselves to get more training or train after the MS season ends.  They might just want to get more involved in going to USAW tournaments since they have a card now.
 
Let's continue to watch how this plays out.

106
1. Julianna Ocampo- New Haven
2. Ian Berry- Columbia City
3. Kai Vaughn- Fort Wayne Snider
4. Jiler Gould- Leo
113
1. Abrum Swathwood- Garrett High School
2. Karrington Cooper- New Haven
3. Tyler Tun- Fort Wayne Snider
4. Brayden Juday- Leo
120
1. Lane Snyder- Eastside
2. Sean Harris- Leo
3. Timmy Rocha- New Haven
4. Kameron Baker- Garrett High School
126
1. Ryan Kochendorfer- Garrett High School
2. Carter Krouse- Fort Wayne Snider
3. Nolan Butcher- Leo
4. Kaeden Benedict- Homestead
132
1. Carter Fielden- Garrett High School
2. Ethan Khanhphane- Homestead
3. Brayden Clauser- New Haven
4. Zane Maple- Fort Wayne Snider
138
1. Linkin Carter- Eastside
2. Andrew Mirelez- Heritage
3. Kendi Quoi- Fort Wayne Snider
4. Brian Barrett- Garrett High School
144
1. Easton Doster- New Haven
2. Ethan Fike- Eastside
3. Thomas Sidel- Homestead
4. Thomas Szczepanski- Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger
150
1. Aidan Elkins- New Haven
2. Grant Hilger- Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger
3. Ben Hartzell- Homestead
4. Connor Prochaska- Fort Wayne Snider
157
1. Kévon Russell- Fort Wayne Snider
2. Jake Heisler- Homestead
3. Jonas Richman- Eastside
4. Ian Amstutz- New Haven
165
1. Ethan Smith- Fort Wayne Snider
2. Carson Godinez- Homestead
3. Paul Woods- Leo
4. August Adams- Carroll (Fort Wayne)
175
1. Chase Leech- Garrett High School
2. Jack Culler- Woodlan
3. Jake Thrash- Homestead
4. A.J. Shefferly- Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger
190
1. Eli Coolman- Leo
2. Mickey Daring- Fort Wayne Bishop Luers
3. Chris Newby- Garrett High School
4. Ryan Schoff- Homestead
215
1. Julante Hinton- Fort Wayne Northrop
2. Caleb Evans- Homestead
3. Matt Poiry- New Haven
4. Aiden Hunt- Garrett High School
285
1. Isaiah Coolman- Leo
2. Ethan Dodson- Fort Wayne Snider
3. Vincent Parke- Columbia City
4. Charles McGrant- New Haven
 
More importantly the team scores
School- - Total
New Haven- 118
Fort Wayne Snider- 114
Garrett High School- 108
Homestead- 106
Leo- 88
Eastside- 66
Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger- 28
Columbia City- 26
Fort Wayne Northrop- 20
Heritage- 16
Woodlan- 16
Fort Wayne Bishop Luers- 16
Carroll (Fort Wayne)- 6
Churubusco- 0
Fort Wayne Wayne- 0
Fort Wayne Concordia Lutheran- 0
Fort Wayne South Side- 0
Whitko- 0
 
Now we don't need to even wrestle Saturday.

This past Saturday, the Munster wrestling team, and therefore I, went to East Chicago for the first leg of the state series.  Now, the past three years, the East Chicago hot dogs were phenomenal.  A couple of times, I might've gone out the night before sectionals or semi state and consumed a few beverages.  And the perfect cure for condition I was in were these hot dogs.  So, with great anticipation, I headed to concessions, saw the hot dogs were still being cooked in the quality 7/11 rollers, handed my money to the worker, and went to enjoy this hot dog.  But... They changed the dogs.  These new ones were big and plump, but the taste just wasn't there.  I was massively disappointed.  I was so disappointed that if Chris Jr. were only a junior, I would petition to get Munster moved to the Mooresville sectional and regional.  I'm not saying these hot dogs were bad, just, I wanted more.  4.5 slices of pizza outta 8.  I'm heading to Hobart this Saturday for regionals and will conduct a retaste of their weiners.  Thank you for reading.

Not bad for a sophomore.  He must have mainly won on reversals.  Otherwise he would have beaten Jeffrey Huyvaert's takedown record.

Not bad for a sophomore.  He must have mainly won on reversals.  Otherwise he would have beaten Jeffrey Huyvaert's takedown record.

Jeffersonville Regional
Jennings County Sectional -41 qualifiers
Jeffersonville Sectional - 15 qualifiers
 
Team Race- Columbus East puts 6 in the finals and comes out with 4 champs to secure the team title.
 
State Hopefuls
106 Talon Jessup Columbus East
120 Jayden Owsley Corydon Central
126 Peyton Richards Switzerland County
138 Justice Thornton Columbus North
157 Asher Ratliff Columbus North
165 Oliver Hallet Indian Creek
285 Ben Land Jeffersonville
 
 
 
106- Jennings County clean sweep
Talon Jessup Columbus East
Ethan Rose Switzerland County
Aiden Woods Franklin Community
Nolan Riley Columbus North
 
Best first round matchup-
Nolan Riley Columbus North v Sebastian Berry Jeffersonville
The newly crowned sectional champion should be on upset alert.
 
 
113- Young gun Pittman continues his run by adding a regional title to his resume
Ethan Pittman Madison Consolidated
Carson Collier Charlestown
Ethan Poling Columbus East
Wyatt Schreck Corydon Central
 
Best first round matchup-
Ethan Poling Columbus East v Christian Bergstrom Silver Creek
Freshman v Senior with a trip to Evansville on the line.
 
 
120- Owsley rolls to a regional crown
Jayden Owsley Corydon Central
Luke Kirchner Jennings County
AJ Franklin New Washington
Eli Stewart Madison Consolidated
 
Best first round matchup-
AJ Franklin New Washington v Dakota Fields Switzerland County
The last time these two met it was a 7-6 match in favor of Fields.
 
 
126- Richards rolls to a regional crown
Peyton Richards Switzerland County
Gage Rutan Columbus East
John Stivers Jeffersonville
Christian Grayson Charlestown
 
Best first round matchup-
Christian Grayson Charlestown v Ryan Million Franklin Community
Another freshman v senior matchup
 
132- Carter rolls to a regional crown
Kellan Carter Scottsburg
Cohen Long Columbus North
Eli Theobald Providence
Kegan Jochim Franklin Community
 
Best first round matchup-
Eli Theobald Providence v Harley Schocke Salem
Providence is the favorite but the scrappy Schocke has home run ability
 
 
138- Thornton had a tight 2-0 match last week with Kirchner and will look to come out on top again
Justice Thornton Columbus North
Lane Kirchner Jennings County
Caleb Kirkpatrick Columbus East
Ethan Jones Switzerland County
 
Best first round matchup-
Ethan Jones Switzerland County v Dawson Slaughter Jeffersonville
A deep weight class at Jennings County could spell doom for the champ from Jeffersonville.
 
 
144- Cooper and the rest of the Jennings County class make it a clean sweep
Caleb Cooper Columbus East
Gabe Rose Switzerland County
Owen Trimpe Franklin Community
Josiah Green Columbus North
 
Best first round matchup-
Josiah Green Columbus North v Isa Santos-Moore Jeffersonville
Green will look to pull off the upset at Jeffersonville.
 
 
150- Anderson adds a regional title to his resume.
Nate Anderson Columbus East
Cameron Sommers Franklin Community
Trey Ozier Charlestown
Luke Spurgeon Columbus North
 
Best first round matchup-
Trey Ozier Charlestown v Zane Skinner Madison Consolidated
Ozier holds off the upset minded Skinner in this sophomore scrap.
 
 
157- Ratliff got the job done with a tight 6-4 decision last week. Look for more of the same
Asher Ratliff Columbus North
Elijah Guyer Indian Creek
Lincoln Cooper Columbus East
Boomer Hester Charlestown
 
Best first round matchup-
Corinthian Tonte Franklin Community v Boomer Hester Charlestown
I have had this weight class circled for some time. Two very talented young grapplers will face off for the first time in high school with a semi state trip on the line.
 
 
165- Hallet rolls to a regional title
Oliver Hallet Indian Creek
Clay McClelland Charlestown
Evan Saevre Columbus North
Clayton Miller Columbus East
 
Best first round matchup-
Clay McClelland Charlestown v Cory Fuller Franklin Community
The Pirate signal caller will need his head on a swivel in this first round matchup.
 
 
175- DeSpain looks to keep rolling
Keller DeSpain Columbus North
Tyler Lake Columbus East
Sean McAfee Charlestown
Noah Kendall North Harrison
 
Best first round matchup-
Ayden Waggoner Madison Consolidated v Noah Kendall North Harrison
Two wrestlers with 5 and 6 losses respectively meeting in the opening round of regional does draw the eye.
 
 
190- This will be the 3rd meeting between McMahon and Shewmaker this year. Both have been close, expect fireworks.
Colin McMahon Columbus East
Cody Shewmaker Jeffersonville
Jose Ramirez Columbus North
Lance Jones Franklin Community
 
Best first round matchup-
Lance Jones Franklin Community v Jordan Guerrero Charlestown
The senior Grizzly Cub will look to punch his ticket against the Jeffersonville Sectional Runner Up.
 
 
215- The freshman will keep rolling this weekend.
Kellen Fellure Franklin Community
Jesus Aguilar Seymour
Noah Daulton Salem
Xavior Gindhart Jennings County
 
Best first round matchup-
Preston Schoen Providence v Noah Daulton Salem
After being upset last weekend, Schoen’s season could come to an end a little earlier than expected.
 
 
285- Land won’t be challenged
Ben Land Jeffersonville
Brody Stephens Franklin Community
Brayden Jones Eastern Pekin
Andrew Holzknecht North Harrison
 
Best first round matchup-
Both of the 2v3 matchups in the bracket have the potential to go either way.
 

This could be the year that you figure out the semi-state algorithm.  I believe Garcia!

This could be the year that you figure out the semi-state algorithm.  I believe Garcia!

This could be the year that you figure out the semi-state algorithm.  I believe Garcia!

Now what you really mean is those pesky Semi State with them 
 
we been trying to crack for well over 66 years I think. People DM me the secret formula every year and I still can’t get them right . Wait till next week around 9-10pm eastern time . Everyone complaining on here.
WHERE SEMI STATE BRACKETS AT ? 
 

The sectional Quarter finals where all of that hard work coaches put in the seeding meeting gets lost. Lost of 5’s and 6’s in the semis 

If they included Crownpoint, we could just have the state finals a week ahead of time lol