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Is Carver with Delta going to be an 8th grader this year? He was listed as that at IHPO.

Did we have any notable wrestlers move in to the state this offseason? Saw the Waughtel brothers wrestling for Bloomington this weekend, wasn’t sure if they were on Bloomington South now or were random pickups for the duals.

Jack Taylor from New Castle, he was unreal

Kayla's match sucked with giving up the challenge. It was very unlikely to be overcalled, and that point ended up being the difference. Just an unfortunate match, because this may be the best version of Kayla that I've seen. Mason didn't look right, maybe had some Olympic jitters. He shot himself out of the match, taking bad shot attempts that drained him. The reffing was horrible, but in the end didn't matter. Wouldn't surprise me to see him redeem this match at the next Olympics.

Ugh, New Prairie. All I know is you’re both up north with Prairie in the name lol. Too bad it wasn’t Prairie Heights, would’ve brought a title to the best semi state.

Christian Carroll to Iowa State. Says it's his "final destination" so we'll see how that works out. So far he has committed to Illinois and Penn (forgot about that one) took a redshirt year at Oklahoma State, and now is wrestling for Iowa State. This is on top of stints at Penn, Prairie Heights, and Jimtown in high school. I hope this works out and he becomes an AA/national champ there, but I think the kid still needs to figure stuff out.

At this point I wouldn't be shocked if we only see him wrestle in one national tournament. He's going to need to be able to settle in one place long enough to wrestle a full season. It has always seemed to me just by following him on social media that he likes working out and getting bigger and stronger more than actually wrestling. And making a move to 197 goes against wanting to get bigger, but he doesn't have the frame to get to be a good sized heavyweight.

But why does it matter? It's just an additional label to our state champions and/or placers, which already is the highest distinction we have. All state is just adding words to guys we have already determined are best in the state.

I mean, if you want to get into semantics just call the top 8 placers All State.

It's been confirmed that Nick is still competing in freestyle. Everything I have heard from Penn State guys is they think he's going to be a superstar as a coach. I wouldn't mind him coming back to Indiana and taking over for Ersland someday at Purdue.

GIVE THEM TO ME

Purdue's best shot to not be a mid to bottom tier Big Ten team is to make a hire like Oklahoma State did with David Taylor. Now Purdue isn't OK State, and has nowhere near the resources for wrestling, but they can still go hire an unproven young guy that has had collegiate and international success. I wish Purdue would go after someone like James Green and give him the keys and let him bring in his proven guys.

Last I heard they wanted to bring the Hidlays on board

Not surprising, guess we'll just keep hearing about all the kids moving to Center Grove, Crown Point, Browsnburg etc. Really great for the sport.

I feel for Coleman Scott, but you have to get yourself out of your own rut when you have an opportunity like like this. Another 15 years of classic Cowboy wrestling isn't winning any national titles. Taylor may flame out and suck as a head coach, (I don't think he will) but you have to take a big swing. For coaches, I heard it's Gillman and Jimmy Kennedy coming with him. Didn't know this, but Kennedy is his brother-in-law. He's looking for a heavyweight coach as well, and it'll probably be a big name. Recruiting could be nuts for Taylor. He obviously can't run M2 anymore, but the club will continue to run under someone he hires and he'll instantly have a pipeline to Pennsylvania talent. It'll be interesting if any Penn State guys follow him to OK State. Haines and Kasak were M2 guys. Now they can't just hop in the portal now and be eligible, but they both were looking at redshirt years so it's in the realm of possibility. And OK State can do some major damage this year yet on the national scene. Penn State still looms large as the heavy favorite, but OK State has a very good team put together for next year, and they seem to be the favorites to land Andrew Alirez and Wyatt Hendrickson from the portal. Their lineup could look like this going into the season. 125 - Troy Spratley, blood round finisher now getting Gillman to work with 133 - Cael Hughes, blue chip recruit coming off redshirt wrestling behind Fix 141 - Tagen Jamison/Jordan Williams, not sure if Williams can go down, but if Alirez does transfer in he's going 149. Both Jamison and Williams were national qualifiers 149 - Andrew Alirez, national champ as a possible transfer 157 - Teague Travis, round of 16 165 - Caleb Fish, transfer in round of 16 174 - Dean Hamiti, transfer in multiple time AA and national champion contender 184 - Dustin Plott, national runner-up now getting coached by DT 197 - Christian Carroll, no intro needed on this website 285 - Wyatt Hendrickson, two time third placer as a possible transfer Now two of those transfers have to happen, but if they do that lineup has potential to be awesome.