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At 190 Beau Rose of Gibson Southern over 175 #18 James Hastings of Terre Haute North 7-2

I was only going off what you had said about MD. The rest was going off of what others had said on here and my 2 cents on classifying, i just quoted that one because it was what I saw first. I had always been against classed wrestling up until this season. Natty Light and Slim Jim's however sounds like a hell of a time.

For a school like Mater Dei it isn't as simple as calling a coach and seeing what they are doing different. They are an anomaly for a lower enrollment school that has come from decades of family tradition. Alumni will send their kids there to carry on tradition and that kid will have grown up hearing about the success of MD wrestling and will want to achieve that same level of success. It is very rare that a small school could get that kind of dedication over the course of generations. Now it is to the point if a wrestler from Southern Indiana wants to be successful and their family has the resources they will send that kid to MD and rightfully so. To go off what others have said. If Indiana were classed, small schools like MD should compete in whatever division they are in based off enrollment. All this does is create more opportunity for kids to get to be state qualifiers or hell even regional qualifiers. I have been around wrestlers from states that are classed and none of them feel any less about being a state qualifier/placer/champ. Some states like FL, may not be the case now but used to, have a mini tournament with all the champions after state for bragging rights. There are too many kids that are not seeing the fruit of their work and it is discouraging when they are in a sectional/regional that is a grinder to get out of and watch other kids that they have beaten get to semi-state/state because of the path they have. If it were classed it would just give more opportunities for all.

Brody Klem of Gibson Southern with a win over 18 Brock Higgins from West Vigo

I went through a few random sectionals and after looking at them, there are some sectionals where multiple weight classes have four wrestlers or less. The IHSAA needs to find a new way to advance people because in some weight classes a wrestler could have an 0-15 record and still could be a regional qualifier. And as someone stated above with the Shenandoah 113 bracket a wrestler from the other sectional (if there are only 4 or 5 people) could potentially be a semi state qualifier and only have to win 1 match if any all season. That’s just wild!

Check out 195 tonight, Willman from NP is a lot of fun to watch.

Evansville stream is terrible right now too

I’m confused as to how that example supports your argument? Neither of those kids would have “perfect” technique. Also stating that a kid has been “perfect” this year because they have an undefeated record is a major over exaggeration. If a a high school wrestler has wrestled every single match “perfectly” then they may be the greatest high school wrestler ever. I’ll give credit where it’s due because it is very difficult to make it the the post season without a loss despite strength of schedule, but no one has been perfect this year