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Indianamat currently has a live stream for the finals on Facebook.

Norwell over Garrett 34-33 via a HWT pin in the last match with 7 seconds left.

What tournaments this week have at least the finals broadcasted? If yours does, please post it here.

Is there going to be an Indiana Mat Team State Pickems contest again like we do for the individual state tournament?

For what it is worth, I agree with your sentiment about wanting to give more teams more opportunities. I believe the addition of this version Team State, run by the IHSWCA, has been an amazing addition and has done just that, to give teams more opportunities. I personally do not mind that it is not IHSAA sponsored and think I think that it is run more effectively with the IHSWCA than it would with the IHSAA anyways. If the venue allows for 12, then I suppose I agree this could be beneficial but just wanted to give you some stats. 4a - 38 total schools (21% of schools qualify for team state) 3a - 56 total schools (14% of schools qualify for team state) 2a - 85 total schools (14% of schools qualify for team state) 1a - 85 total schools (14% of schools qualify for team state) *Numbers may be slightly off as I just counted the qualification sheet on the Team State leaderboard page. EMD and Cathedral are counted in that 4a total above. To your point they "take" 2 spots every year. If you remove them, and only consider that 6 schools make it out of the 36, then that is 17% of schools that qualify for Team state. I agree that if they can do 12 schools, then why not. However, you do have to remember that 3a + 4a is basically just one class split into 2. When you look at it that way, that class gets 16 qualifiers for Team State. It is very unfortunate when you have potentially your best team in school history and you are being bumped to 4a when you could potentially qualify for 3a but they do have to draw the line somewhere. Again, I agree with your sentiment but just wanted to throw some numbers out there. I think this event is great and I am sure the powers that be appreciate any input for this event as well. Each year they seem very open to changes and constructive criticism to make this event even better.

I know that a handful of states allow 7th/8th graders to compete for their HS team. 1. Do you know how common this is? 2. What is the rationale for this? 3. Is this something Indiana would ever look into adopting?

Any notable results from Freshman / Sophomore State?

I have seen posts in the past about the pro’s and con’s of a class state tournament. I thought of an idea that could potentially be a “compromise” for both sides and wondered if it had been brought up in the past. What if we just replaced the Semi-State round with a class state tournament. The tournament would go Sectional, Regional, Class State, and then “Regular” State. Obviously the sectional alignment would change to fit the classes but this would allow recognition for the smaller classes and we would still get the same State Tournament at the end. Any thoughts on this?

Who wins / what is the score? 103/106 - Bittner (SQ) MD v Jendreas (2nd) CP 112/113 - Williams (6th) MD v Nowaczyk (SSQ) CP 119/120 - Hillenbrand (SSQ) MD v Cruz (SSQ) CP 125/126 - Macke MD (3rd) v Frazier (1st) CP 130/132 - Coughlin MD (2nd) v Bahl (2nd) CP 135/138 - Scott MD (3rd) v Mendez (1st) CP 140/145 - Lehman MD (SSQ) v Tattini (SQ) CP 145/152 - Weinzapfel MD (1st) v Goin (1st) CP 152/160 - Nosko MD (1st) v Goodwin (4th) CP 160/170 - Wildeman MD (1st) v White (SSQ) CP 171/182 - Maurer MD (1st) v Cruz (2nd) CP 189/195 - Coughlin MD (SSQ) v Clark (5th) CP 215/220 - Unfried MD (SQ) v Clark (4th) CP 275/285 - Schwartz MD v Begley (SQ) CP

How does the pickems scoring work again?

...... lost all of their Friday night "50/50" matches? (Goodwin, Clark, and Clark) ...... They still score 138 team points and beat the field by 33. Unbelievable!

Crown Point going undefeated on Friday morning (Except for 285) is huge. They won all the 50/50 matches.

Clark (Crown Point) over Hammond (Perry). Excited match with a few throws. Definitely worth a re-watch and huge win for Crown Point.

Cathedral does what Cathedral does.

Any Changes?

I would highly recommend a Flo account. Well worth the money. With Flo you can watch 4 mats on the same screen. They will cut the screen in 1/4ths for you. Great for state if you cannot make it.

What are you all taking on the props below? O/U 24.5 state placers O/U 9.5 state top 4 O/U 0.5 state champs O/U 0.5 state top 10 teams What place would the "FW All Star Team" get at state?

Last year there were 3 "true" 4 over 1's on Friday night (I am not including Cottey as a 4 since he injury defaulted at Semi State). Who is on upset alert this year?

I would agree but I do not think many weight classes have a clear top 2. The only weight I wanted them separated was Critchfield and Carroll at 220 (which we didn’t get). Every other weight I do not see a clear #2 wrestler. I’m not even sure if Critchfield is the clear #2 at 220 but we’ve already seen Grange and Carroll.

If you could have 1 wish, to use on how the state bracket is setup, what would you use it on? For instance the Red-Lee year, my 1 wish would be to separate them so they meet in the finals. Or last year I would’ve used it to make sure Alstott (2) and Alexander (3) were separated so they don’t meet Friday night and both could medal. How would you use your 1 bracket wish?

What is the most ever under the lights in one season?

Today at Evansville, Bray Emerine was out at 182. This bumped McBee up to the 2 spot and Rose to the 3 spot. McBee went from a Clay Martin ticket round match to a Gunnar Henry ticket round match. Subsequently McBee loses in the ticket round, Rose qualifies for state beating Martin, and McBee has beaten Rose in back to back weekends. I am not saying that McBee would have 100% beaten Martin and qualified for state but... he beat Rose the past 2 weekends and had earned that better opportunity. Could there not be a rule in place, where when a guy is out... McBee can choose to go to the 2 spot or stay put? Then Rose can choose to go to the 2 spot or stay put. Then if both guys decide to stay put, they could just put the alternate in the 2 spot. I just hate to see someone have their opportunity basically taken away by something that was out of their control. Any thoughts?

Headlock v Fatmans Roll Who had the better day?? Both came out of no where and took out the #1 in their semi state.

Heading into the semi state championship Carroll has been on the mat for 40 seconds combined in his 3 matches.

Glithero (Roncalli) over Rinehart (Zionsville) at 152 at NC 6-4 in TB