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State is always wild, and the perfect state bracket is more impossible than a perfect March madness bracket. So I decided to do a coin flip pickem along with my usual pickem. I followed a few rules, because straight up coin flip was way too chaotic. First, I put Seltzer, Mendez, and Carroll into the finals. Those aren't changing. So heads is the top man, tails the bottom man on the bracket. True tossups were a straight one shot coin flip. If I deemed someone as a favorite, than the underdog had to win two coin flips in a row. So say, I get tails for Jackson Ingenito vs Gabe Sollars. The next flip would have to be tails for me to pick Ingenito. Heads would auto put Sollars moving on. And in that specific scenario, I did have Ingenito pulling the upset, and to appease the coin flips rulers, I flipped several more times and continued getting tails. So here are my picks, and honestly feels like a standard chaotic state bracket. Definitely some longshots, but I'm still interested to see how much better this bracket plays out than my actual pickems. Thoughts? 106 1st Jake Hockaday Brownsburg 2nd Gavin Jendreas Crown Point 3rd Luke Rioux Avon 4th E'Shawn Tolbert Portage 5th Jeffrey Bailey River Forest 6th Oliver Wilson North Central 7th Jalen May Peru 8th Nathan Smith Southport 113 1st Preston Haines Brownsburg 2nd Ashton Jackson LaPorte 3rd Tanner Tishner Western 4th Wyatt Davis Rochester 5th Evan Dickey Cathedral 6th Gavin Thompson Carmel 7th Evan Seng Evansville Mater Dei 8th Trevor Schammert Hobart 120 1st Isaac Ruble Bellmont 2nd Noah Lykins Columbus East 3rd Hayden Brady Garrett 4th Lane Gilbert Sullivan 5th Hayden DeMarco Chesterton 6th Christopher Bohn Munster 7th Kyrell Leavell Warren Central 8th Toby Billerman Perry Meridian 126 1st KT Nelson Castle 2nd Isaac Ward Carmel 3rd Matteo Vargo Penn 4th Keaton Morton Perry Meridian 5th Joey Buttler Whiteland 6th Braden Haines Brownsburg 7th Aidan Sprague East Noble 8th Blake Wolf East Central 132 1st Zeke Seltzer Cathedral 2nd Dylan Stroud Manchester 3rd Anthony Bahl Crown Point 4th Cheaney Schoeff Avon 5th Landon Bertsch Bluffton 6th Wyatt Krejsa Center Grove 7th Elijah Anthony Frankfort 8th Bryce Denton Penn 138 1st Jesse Mendez Crown Point 2nd Cole Solomey Kankakkee Valley 3rd Gavin Garcia Brownsburg 4th Ashton Hayhurst Castle 5th Bryce Lowery Roncalli 6th Dillon Tuttle Delta 7th Cameron Clark Jay County 8th Julius Gerencser Daleville 145 1st Matthew Koontz Perry Meridian 2nd Aidan Torres Chesterton 3rd Toby Abbott Cowan 4th Hayden Watson Center Grove 5th Ben Miller Lakeland 6th Blaze Garcia Brownsburg 7th Nick Tattini Crown Point 8th Rider Searcy East Central 152 1st Delaney Ruhlman Bloomington South 2nd Sam Goin Crown Point 3rd Hunter May Evansville Mater Dei 4th Tyce DuPont Tell City 5th Aidan Costello Hobart 6th Kenneth Bisping Lowell 7th Nick Cicciarelli Brownsburg 8th Tyler Jones Warren Central 160 1st Kade Law Columbus East 2nd Duke Myers Bellmont 3rd Landon Boe Avon 4th Jared Landez Carroll 5th Logan Farnell Maconaquah 6th Chris Newman Mt Vernon Posey 7th Kaden Lone Northwood 8th Bradley Pittman Plymouth 170 1st Conner Svantner Valparaiso 2nd Ryan Cast Hamilton Southeastern 3rd Brody Baumann Evansville Mater Dei 4th Codei Khawaja Floyd Central 5th Landon Buchanan Jimtown 6th Aiden Farmer Evansville Memorial 7th Isaac Valdez Mishawaka 8th Brodie Porter Eastern Greentown 182 1st Orlando Cruz Crown Point 2nd Drake Buchanan Center Grove 3rd Luke Hansen Roncalli 4th De'Alcapon Veazy Snider 5th Reid Schroeder Southridge 6th Jake Simpson Hobart 7th Kooper Kinsler Delphi 8th Gunner Henry Brownsburg 195 1st Connor Barket West Lafayette 2nd Max Broom Hamilton Southeastern 3rd Aataveon Jordan Franklin Central 4th Will Clark Crown Point 5th Jacob Behm Fremont 6th Jackson Ingenito Daleville 7th Wyatt Willman North Posey 8th Samuel Saunders Terre Haute North 220 1st Christian Carroll New Prairie 2nd Jackson Weingart Cathedral 3rd Nathan Critchfield Evansville Mater Dei 4th Blake Heyerly Adams Central 5th Paul Clark Crown Point 6th Devin Kendrex Mt Vernon Fortville 7th Brady Beck Rochester 8th Kelton Farmer Evansville Memorial 285 1st Leighton Jones Brownsburg 2nd Jacob Johnson Franklin Community 3rd Ashton Hartwell Columbus East 4th Ian Clifford Columbia City 5th Hunter Whitenack New Prairie 6th Hunter Brahnam Frankton 7th Brayden Jellison Elkhart 8th Josh Clark New Haven

Wow, can’t believe he took the cowards way out. Real men go through the rigors of qualifying out of Fort Wayne.

Wait, we lost out on Seltzer?

Definitely a hike, but if your hotel is close to the area, then it’s perfect. My favorite breakfast place.

I wonder how many football coaches on the sideline had to pay their way in?

So did any other coaches also have to pay their way in to sectional or regional? How is this even close to appropriate for our sport? Just a complete joke.

Looking at the detail, it should be the same thing. But with our luck, one of them is invalid and those tickets won’t work

With two different events setup for two different times, both on Friday morning

It’s cause they don’t….

Sounds about the correct response from the IHSAA. Does anyone in the organization care even a tiny bit?

And that’s not just the presale for wrestlers?

Stop. You’re saying that Rochester seriously has the same opportunities as Crown Point and Brownsburg. Most of those small kids came out of Fort Wayne wrestling other small schools.

Is it just me, or are all of the best matchups happening in the semis vs finals?

Brackets are on Track now.

Did you see what Jared Dunn did yesterday? AJ has a headlock like too. A lot can happen in 30 seconds. Good chance he still loses, but he was still robbed of the opportunity. And amazing how he was too hurt to continue, but not so hurt to blow big kisses and have big high fives with the same injured arm. Congrats to your kid on DQing his way to state, hopes he’s healthy enough to wrestle Friday morning.

4 pm bracket show on IHSAA tv

That has to be the most boring big rivalry that I’ve ever seen. Has either of them scored more than 4-5 points against the other? They’re both studs, wish they would let it rip. But then, this is all from a selfish fan aspect. For those guys and programs, just win baby.

Glad to be the champ of the best, most challenging and difficult to predict semi state.

Joel Kennedy Monroe Central was similar at 220. Great running back and stud athlete. Came out as a senior and ended up ranked and lost in a last second barn burner to the guy who got third. Agree, it’s really only a thing at upper weights where strength and athleticism goes farther than lower weights.

Just got home from semi state and I’m ready to rewatch matches from across the semi state. I know there’s a thread of big results/upsets, but I want to know what were the best matches I need to go rewatch tonight.

He definitely should’ve been ranked. He looked really good at Al Smith.

I’d say Clark, because he was getting pinned twice when he rolled through. Dunn had the bigger win though.

Talk about a kid blowing up. Freshman year was like 18-9, lost first round of regional to the guy that got fourth at that regional. Now he’s an undefeated, dominant semi state champ.

No, now’s the time to pony up for Flo.

Those were completely inadvertent. He was trying to block off the sides so Currie couldn’t slide the legs in.