Drewsgma

Black beat Bailey the last time they wrestled!

BB=Brendan Black of course right? Lol

Shouldn't the Mr. Gorilla award be classed?
 
My vote is BB. Monkey off his back = Mr. Gorilla award.

Davison. 
 
Of the seniors that won the state tournament - he was the most dominant this year. I don't have access to his complete record but what is listed on Track for the season he had all Falls (1 Tech Fall), except 1 major and 1 Injury default. He had 0 matches without scoring bonus and only 1 major - that is dominant on a whole different level...
 
His matches in the state series: (3 sectional matches) 0:32, 0:35. 1:33; (3 regional matches) 0:22, 0:40, 1:19, (4 SS matches) 1:07, 1:18, 2:55, 1:14; (State 4 matches) 0:54, 1:02, Inj. [time] (This match may have been in the 2nd period), 5:59.  Not only did he finish everyone, on 2 (maybe 3) of the 20 matches went past the first period.
 
I dont know how to define Mr. Gorilla any better than a dominant pinner, he was an absolute beast this year.  
 
Plus he has the best national accolades. 
 
Bailey was dominant this year too, but not as dominant.

Yes Brendan was verbally committed to IU but things changed and his heart landed on Michigan state. He is very excited about this opportunity! He signed his NLI on last Friday for the Spartans.

Congrats! Great kid!

We had to wait a bit longer than projected, but that "Black Out" finally did happen.

Black was phenomenal tonight. Rumph is obviously a stud and Black destroyed him

It appears the loss to Rumph at regionals really motivated Black. Black tech'd Rumph at SS and Major'd him tonight. 

Black flat out worked Rumph over.

I can't attest for Rumphs performance today nor do I have any inside info. But I did witness Black eat an entire Nacho (extra cheese) from the concession stand prior to the match. Only conclusion I can come up with is those are some damn good nachos that the fine folks at E.C.C are whipping up!

Taking nothing away from Black, who wrestled out of his mind today, but was Rumph ill today? I've seen him wrestle 10 or so times and he didn't look like himself today. He struggled through his ticket round match with the Penn kid and then looked like a shell of himself against Black. Not looking for anyone to make excuses for him, he just didn't look right. Congratulations to Black, looked great today and made a big statement in that win. Sometimes a loss is a good thing to get you refocused, especially when it's prior to the 4th weekend of the post season.

you put a great coach with a athlete of rumphs caliber the sky is the limit can't wait to see the next 3 weeks

It wasn't the fact that they were trying to take away two points from black, it was trying to get the exact scoring right. 5 takedowns and 2 escapes for rumph should be 12 points. 6 escapes 2 takesdowns and a 2 near fall count is 12.
Black never lost control after the takedown and the back points, but was called that way and rumph was given an escape and then black took him down. It's a matter of opinions I guess on that sequence

Incredibly exciting matches, not sure how Portage thought they were going to get away with trying to shave 2 points off the board??  

let me hear some predictions for the calumet sectional

black and Cummings are beasts on top

I believe Brendan Black had 29 falls out of 37 wins last year.

Two-time Gorilla, fun kid to be around and his style will transition well into college

Well it took a team made up of 8 different states to beat them but IN HR Black suffered their first and only loss of the tournament. They went on to win their next 2 duals, beating the team that put them out last year, in the match for 5th place. Started the tournament with 168 teams and an 8th seed and finished 5th. The team was complimented all weekend on their talent and the fact that they were an all Indiana team. Great Job Guys!

5th place out of 150+ teams is pretty impressive for an all IN team!   I believe that Team Kong United won the whole thing and that was their only loss.  Congrats to IN High Rollers Black!    Awesome job to all of the other boys that went out and represented IN on the other teams also.   It is a great way to start the Summer.

N. Goofy was another projected finalist. The Highrollers are definitely earning their placement in this one.

Flo is the worst. Ever hear of a screen scoreboard? Think rollers white is in a prelim "play in" dual at 9:30 to advance to champ round tomorrow.

Come on, really?

You can't let every coach and wrestler in Indiana get into the state finals for free.  However, any coaches that had wrestlers compete on Friday should most certainly get in free for the remainder of the event.  That is ludicrous.  I understand that the Field House is in it to make money, but WTH.  That's when IHSAA pays a bit extra for all coaches whether they come back on Saturday or not.  I have heard everything now!  I almost can't believe that this is true.