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Breaking News: With the announcement of Escobedo becoming the new head coach at IU, Brayton Lee and Mason Parris have decommitted from Minnesota and Michigan and have signed with Indiana University. Micic and both Lee’s will be coming home as well! 

Just recieved this.  Thought it sounded pretty cool.
http://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/ihsaa/documents/news media/2017-18/020518.pdf

Mason parris vs gable steveson @brownsburg high school

The same stuff happened 25 years ago. The whole, "we were tougher back when" gets tiresome. Maybe this is one of the reasons kids quit, they get told how soft they are constantly by these glory dayers.

There is quality wrestling at every weight. If you fail to understand or see that you do not understand the sport very well. Heavyweight and 220 are two of the hardest weights to wrestle when you look at the body type and style difference amongst the athletes competing. Look at Robert Samuels and Rickie Clark, and try to prepare to wrestle those two and every other style and body type in between. 

No we are putting the final touches on it and planning on Thursday or Friday for the release.
 

K-8th graders should be playing other sports.

Nope lol just a programmer with a lot of free time and tools...and luckily joe has a database of every school, their sectionals, and address so it was an easy process only took about 90 min.

Steve Bradley. Head coach at Marion University will be the clinician Wednesday night from 6-7:30 at Warren Central.
 
Bradley brings a wealth of experience within the wrestling world. In his 10 seasons as a collegiate coach, he has helped guide 33 all-americans, 73 national qualifiers and three national champions.
 
Steve will be covering freestyle techniques and will
Also discus how good character will make you a better person and wrestler.
 
This is a great opportunity to come and learn from one of Indianas best! Come train hard and get better!

I'd rather have college out of bounds rules.

Congratulations to Thomas Dull from Terre Haute North for signing with Campbell. He is projected to wrestle 174.
 
Click here to view the signing

It usually happens every year right?  There will be shocking upsets tonight and some bracket busters!  I think we will see AT LEAST five 4 over 1's tonight! Whats the record?
 
106
Herring 36-3 over Lowery 44-2
Stephenson 32-10 over Hickman 42-4 (strong senior over freshman)
Mattingly 27-5 over Curtis 39-0 (Curtis is the fav to win 106 but he has to beat a tough Greyhound first)
 
113
Egli 29-9 over Viduya 43-2 (just because it's Mater Dei)
 
120
Stehpenson 37-7 over Triana 39-3
DeMien 27-7 over Mejia 39-2
Sullivan 29-9 over Freije 37-7 (Freijie had a remarkable semi state but he shouldnt overlook Sullivan)
 
126
Lee 26-5 over Gimson 47-2  (Lee didn't impress me at Eville but he is a Lee and I have a feeling MD is going to bring it tonight!)
Dembowsku 26-8 over Slivka 37-3
 
132
Franklin 40-4 over Hunt 39-2 (tough senior wants to go out as a medalist)
 
138
?
 
145
Wathen 43-7 over Welliever 40-0 (reaching here but Wathen is no slouch)
Traficanti 23-5 over Winner 36-2 
 
152
?
 
160
Miller 35-13 over Lemley 24-2 (Miller is no stranger to upsets)
Adkins 28-8 over Laughlin 42-1 (Adkins wrestles hard and goes after it..impressed me at EVille)
 
170
Hays 29-11 over Swank 33-3 (never doubt Center Grove and Jonah Hayes!)
 
182
Hendrich 33-7 over Davison 38-0 (Hendrich beat Sonner who was 42-0 at semi state...depends on which Hendrich hsows up)
Nix 39-5 over Jessop 24-2 (lots of talk about Jessop but Nix is no one to overlook)
 
195
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220
Scroggs 41-4 over Parris 49-0 (very slim  .05% chance this would happen but Scroggs is one of two 220lbers who could possible have a decent match with PArris)
 
285
?

Colin Reagan is Frontier's first state qualifier.

We have yet to update with the full information we have. This is a part of our spring project.

Decatur Central late 80s mid 90s...but I'm gonna say the best cross-face cradle either goes to Nick Walpole or Sampson Cook...Cook wasn't very good on his feet, but the kid could cradle anyone...I remember seeing him down in alot of matches by 8-10 points, & he would choose top in the 3rd lock up his cradle & win by fall...

Do those kids realize they aren't supposed to lose to others like that? It totally screws up the rankings!

Maybe instead of poking fun at these excuses on a public forum, coaches could make wrestling more fun for the kids, while still working hard and improving.
 
As an outsider not associated with any team, it's very easy to see which teams and coaches are having fun, and which ones are not.  Maybe its on the coaches to figure out creative ways to keep the fringe kids involved and having a good time, instead of just saying "kids these days don't want to work hard."

Looks like their state organization is making a move to allow fight shorts and compression shirts.
 
http://khsaa.org/110316-wrestling-will-experiment-with-new-rule/

uuugh Mickey Mouse took to much of my time!  LOL

Defeating the legendary Yoshida of Japan 4-1, who had not lost in 5the past 4 years of competition until today. If you don't know Yoshida look her accomplishments up, she basically has won everything for the last 14 years with only two (now three) career international loses. This win ranks up there with Rulan toppling the great Karelin.
 
Hopefully we will have a bronze in a few more minutes with Elena Pirozhkova. Then men's freestyle adding some medals into the weekend.

Rugby and Lacrosse are going through this process right now.  They developed well organized state associations for school club teams that sponsor state tournaments.  After several years of development, they are getting closer to the 50% requirement.  Some schools are starting to recognize them as "varsity" sports, even though they aren't IHSAA sanctioned yet.
 
When either or both hit that 50% mark, then the IHSAA has to sanction them.  The IHSAA will probably want to balance boys/girls sports, and if women's wrestling was at or near the gymnastics number, they might have a chance.  Unfortunately, there's a whole lot of work to do to get to that point.

We will be adding state qualifiers

Best 1x champ ever.  Still in the discussion with Indiana's best wrestlers of all time.  

An awesome man.  Did not hear he had passed away.  Very sad.  Had Bob been ill?