Clan Campbell

After that shellacking, I'm thinking the rockville corridor of #TheCounty will go quiet for a while.. so says da field mouse as one avonian callsa's me.. Next up #county challenge in 9 days

06 got dat roo (rest of us know as rio) boy from da county, 13 ah dats da county or nord east width dose durn muncy suburbs located nord of dat road 70 and east of da road 69; 20 dat maybe da region unless dat burg or national ranked county kid go 20, 26 oh my two da county kids battle for da gold, 32 some more good sudern boys der too, dirty eight and fordy five have more county and sudern boyz, 52 why ders anoder county hammer. those county and sudern boyz just don't stop commin. oh ders anoder couple more county boys up high, and anoda national ranked sudern big boy... maybe double digit da county golds dis year led by da burg, width the rest going to da south and maybe a couple along da nord east, looks like a possible shut out for da region in 2017.....

Red Cobra typically has a group of kids go and compete. Handful of Brownsburg kids planning on competing this year. Not truly a Freestyle tournament, and not a folkstyle tournament either. More like a take-down tournament. Typically very tough competition, particularly at MS level.

The freshman class appeared to have a good showing tonight in the first round. by my count and I came up with 12 out of 18 advancing, with only five of those coming from the lightweights 106/113.

A little off topic, but I personally like the history of the MS 95 state champion future accolades. Only hope my boy can continue a tradition some day: 2016: Drake Campbell 2015: Asa Garcia 2014: Mason Miranda 2013: Colten Commings 2012: CJ Red 2011: Tommy Cash 2010: seems to be missing from track 2009: Tommy Forte track doesn't seem to have any history further back

Today was Brownsburg 5th running of our youth ISWA tournament. This has grown far more than we ever thought when we took the initial plunge to host our first youth tournament 5years ago. We've taken some risks over the years but hope it has helped bring strength to local Indiana wrestling opportunities and competition. We'd like to express a couple thanks to those that have helped us build this tournament. First, thank you Red Cobra wrestling for sponsoring our tournament these past three years, its been a blessing having your support and influence. Secondly thank you contenders wrestling for your annual support in sending a large contingent of wrestlers, very impressive talent and numbers every year. Special thanks to Jim LittleJohn in assembling an excellent officiating crew every year, these guys have a long day on Saturday at sectionals then make the trek up to Bburg on Sunday, you guys are awesome. Finally, I'd like to express thanks to Mark Durham for volunteering his time to mentor and coach me every year in the ways of trackwrestling, Indiana wrestling is fortunate to have his skills. Thank you parents and teams that have travelled from all over the state today to compete here at the burg; especially great seeing representation from the far north and south corners of the state with the Region, Evansville, Madison, and some ft wayne kids; also Terra Haute looks to have a good thing going, was impressed with the talent I saw out of the Terra Haute teams today, that area may field some tough high school teams in the future. Thank you all Doug Campbell - Brownsburg Wrestling Club

Lane Gilbert from Sullivan look good today from Sullivan at SB 98, win over Baumann in the finals. I think he's a 7th grader

Sig, I'm pretty sure Alstott is still a Floyd Central kid, probably their 106 next year. Comes up to RC every Tuesday; last I saw him was just after the new year and he was still driving up from Louisville.

My pick would be Winchester. Great seeing the Knights field a team at elementary dual state and finishing 3rd this year. Hope they're rebuilding a program there that'll rival the days of coach Emory & Lower.

Logan Boe,106, out of Danville; possible ticket round shocker at EV SS? I think so.

Seen them both many times over the years, I lean toward TheCounty on this match up. Guess we'll find out should they choose to make the "if" become a when

106 may have matchups involving the following: Curtis, Campbell, Casebolt, Bailey, Overton. Tough semi-final match-ups.

Ah, thanks for the update, sad to see him move. He and my boy battled three years in a row in ISWA/MS state finals. Hope he does well.

Colton Drousias. Solid, talented kid from the Region, Thought I'd see him show up in the rankings at 106

Littell is an absolute beast on the mat, watched him dominate many a wrestler across the country these past several years during our MS travels with Bailey and the outlaws. Good to see him making noise in the HS ranks.

Silas Allred has looked really impressive out in Danville and several other tournaments I've seen him in this past season. I believe he's an 8th grader and a Shenandoah wrestler.

Brownsburg had to make it through quarters and semi-finals without their 106 pounder as well.

This makes me think of all the political debates that we've been watching the past months. Lets avoid the questions by deflecting and yelling "squirrel"; while we're at it, lets do character attacks as well to discredit those asking the questions. Don't know if anyone intentionally cheated the rules, but clearly there has been collusion and boasting about said actions within the ISWA organization, not very constructive guys.

You hit all the points that sold me on Red Sr several years ago. That energy goes non-stop, four days a week, even through the brutal hot months of July/August, at his academy in Avon. One of the best moves I made was placing my boys under Red's training and tutelage 2.5 years ago when their academy moved to Avon. Non-stop interaction, encouragement, and pushing of the envelop. I'm very thankful we have him available to train under.

mattyb, Agreed, weekday pseudo tournaments might just be a way to spark more life into IN freestyle, and I like the approach to having each section sanction several of these a year within their section. But I think its wrong to legitimize them as a qualifier at this late juncture, I think you made a similar comment earlier in this thread. Personally my stance is that all the best should be at the state tournament, heck my own son was knocked out of schoolboy duals last year by a "waiver" kid, but it was the right thing to have that kid at the tournament. How the ISWA went about getting him and all the other best back into the tournament certainly compromised their image, but those wrestlers belonged on that stage; as they do this year as well. Now we have a couple clubs claiming altruistic motives, yet placing the ISWA in yet another difficult predicament that compromises their image. Should those with the facilities and strategic connections be given the special benefit to secretly qualify their kids on a weekday and compete elsewhere on the weekend, isn't that kinda what this is implying? Perhaps we lose our vision and are spoiled when we have facilities and resources like Avon&Brownsburg, but I grew up in a farm community in basketball country and try to keep things like this in perspective. The appearance of contrived tournaments, exclusivity, and collusion isn't a good approach to improving and strengthening the situation when trying to hold all to a set standard. Seems they, ISWA, would be better served just to lift the two tournament rule than this stuff. I'm sure you'll be weighing my boys in for the Franklin tournament over at Avon's satellite weigh-ins in a couple days, would welcome a face to face talk on this topic further, I'm sure the county can come up with some good creative, fair solutions to pose.

Seems we've heard now that mostly no wrestler in attendance to the mystery tournament actually needed it for qualification. Considering how much heartburn that said tournament seems to have caused across the state, I'd think that the directors for those clubs would then consider not treating the tournament as a qualifier. For the sake of strengthening the continuity and integrity of the sport and ISWA, I would think said directors would take the high road, recognize the heartburn they've created, and "waive" the consideration of this mystery tournament as a qualifier. So, along coach Hull's line of discussion, its in the hands of the three clubs to do the right thing. Seems like nothing to lose, so why take a stand on having the mystery tournament count as a qualifier? problem solved, at least regarding the perceived foul play many of us have. Kudos for pulling together so many kids on a weeknight and having what sounds like a great night of wrestling, sounds like it made the kids better, which seems to be your real intent here, not skirting the rules.

My wife and son went to the entry doors get some fresh air between his semi-final and final match. They returned 5 minutes later, when asked whats up, she said they couldn't make it past the cloud of smoke and he didn't feel much like taking his wrestling shoes off to walk out into rain past all the smoke. When we left and walked past all the butts, I literally commented to my wife "wow, I thought this was a tobacco free campus, this is embarrassing." It'll be a shame if ISWA has to hire additional security just to enforce a no smoking policy, but that may be what it'll have to come down too. So when entry fees need to be raised to offset this additional security, a lot of us will understand why and support it.

Plainfield breaks the recent Avon/Brownsburg strangle hold on MS county dominance by taking 1st in county on Thursday, with Brownsburg East and Brownsburg west at a distant 2nd and 3rd place. Congratulations for a very strong showing from the Plainfield team. ​Recent MS history from the county: 2013: Brownsburg East champions 2014: Brownsburg East Champions 2015: Avon North champions 2016: Plainfield champions If history holds, expect to see a lot of talent at the HS ranks from plainfield in the coming years. Congrats to the following champs: 70:Miller BWMS, 75:Nuetzman Plai, 80:Allen Plai, 85:Boe Dan, 90:Webb Plai, 95:Boe Dan, 100:Campbell BWMS, 105:Roberts ANMS, 110:Holt Plai, 115:Sheets Plai, 120:Duke Plai, 125:Lawson Dan, 130:Glover BEMS, 135:Taylor BEMS, 140:Hardin Plai, 145:Marcus BWMS, 155:Cookerly BWMS, 165:Alsum Plai, 180:Jackson BWMS, 210:Peters ANMS, 240:Rasmussen ANMS, 275:Brill ANMS

I remember coming into the wrestling room after cross country season and puking for the first week. I always found it very hard to transition from CC to wrestling condition, just my own personal experience. Now I found leaving the wrestling room and going out and running down a runway with a pole during track season came very easy. Reverse of the question posed, wrestling seemed to help tremendously with pole vaulting. It got me a college scholarship with very little actual work on the track; I even hated it all through college, would much rather have been wrestling back then, but it helped pay the bills.

Last I saw Conley doesn't look like a 90, I suspect 95 at lowest, more like a 102. Diesel Duncan looking good in the cobra room, another 95er, Looks like a pile up at 95, not 90. Where's Goodwin Sig? i'm out of the loop, would expect to see him show up somewhere around the mid 90s this year. side note, tournament wasn't seeded/separated based on track profile last year, it was random draw. actually in the absence of seeding criteria I'd rather rely on track profile than nothing, like what was done in 2014. Of course there'll be those circumventing the system but it'll sort itself out in the end. With a track profile seed you'd avoid 1st/2nd round match ups like we saw last year; but putting that aside, I agree the seeding criteria would be nice as proposed.