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Mendez has Yanni next
 
Carroll over Cassioppi.... has Cox next
 
 

Mendez over Green 6-3
Lee over Plantaleo 9-2

Mendez over McKenna 8-2

You doing robes for triple crown winners again, Kev?  Those were slick. 
Fun couple of days of wrestling in all 3 styles, would recommend!

I don't know why it is so hard, the point of contact is the guy with the whistle and sometimes the other guy with the whistle that helps the first guy second guess himself.

I do think the 3 is coming for takedown . Huge success in College . 

Anyone see or hear about this?
 

Add Mark Durham, Amber Hyde (though not living in Indiana anymore, she’s a native) as well working the tournament. 

Kyle Keith, Joe Caprino, Eric McGill all in action working the tournament, while many more representatives from IN on the mat, Mendez, Davidson, Lee, etc. Indiana was well represented! 

Kyle Keith, Joe Caprino, Eric McGill all in action working the tournament, while many more representatives from IN on the mat, Mendez, Davidson, Lee, etc. Indiana was well represented! 

This past weekend I attended the ISWA event at Warren Central.  I wasn't gonna do a review, but I had more than a few denizens of the Indiana wrestling scene ask me to do one.  So, here I am.  First, I'm not sure if these are the hot dogs that Warren usually sells, or if these are from an ISWA contracted vendor.  Anyways, at first glance, the hot dog did not look appealing.  It looked plucked right out of the movie "Nothing but Trouble" that starred Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, and the late, great John Candy(who pulled double duty).  I was ready to put buying this hot dog into my worst decisions of my life category, which includes getting married, accepting the Clockwork Orange therapy to avoid a curfew ticket, and eating a hot dog from Hanover Central.  Fortunately, it wasn't that bad.  It wasn't good, but, it was at least two steps above Alpo.  3 slices of pizza outta 8
Next weekend I'm going to Iowa, and on St Patrick's day, I'll be at Mooresville highschool.  Hopefully the luck o' Irish will strike and the hot dog gods will gift me another outstanding experience at the home of the Pioneers.  Thank you for reading.

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Contenders is killing it. Based off of state where their wrestlers win the first 5 weights and middle school state some of the best wrestlers in the state are in that room. 
 
In the region you have a couple NCAA champs running practices 
 
Howe- Andrew Howe, Jon Morrison and Bobby Joe Maldonado that is a a great group of coach’s 
 
RWA- Jason and Alex Tsirtsis, Kique Escobedo and Paul Petrov who are all great coaches congratulations to Mt Carmel on winning Illinois state
 
Bulldog Premier and Elite Athletic club do a great job also 
 
further east 
Midwest Training Center has All American Chris Fleeger 
 
towards Fort Wayne 
The Fort had 3 guys who won state championship training there 

warrior rtc at Indiana tech is doing a great job! 

Goss and DeMarco getting nose to nose at the Al Smith this year!

Coaches and wrestlers do not have seats without buying a ticket.

I have an email into the ihsaa with no definitive answer yet.

Man, what a difference two weeks make.  No, I'm not talking about the hot dogs, I'm talking about security.  At Sectionals, the EC security are pretty friendly and accommodating, come semi state, it's as if they are the last line of defense before all of humanity falls.  I was careful not to look at security at all, less they decide to handcuff and taser me(in my opinion handcuffs and tasers only belong in the bedroom).  I will say this, since I'm typing this review three days after the event, they obviously saved civilization.  So, good job?  Oh yeah, the hot dogs.  Still not good, and still disappointing since they were amazing the three years previous.  I guess they had to cut the hot dog budget to keep our asses from slipping back into the dark ages.  3.5 slices of pizza outta 8.  Next week I drive my happy ass to Evansville and the Ford center.  5 hour drive (I think I can make it in 4.25) and I'm a Chevy guy.  At least Evansville in is the correct time zone.  Thank you for reading.
Quick edit, Thank you Joe for the t shirt.  The material and fit are top notch.  The shirt gets 8 slices of pizza outta 8, and I will be wearing it this weekend.

Verduzco was my standout. Winning a bracket that has three pound for pound ranked kids in it is incredibly impressive. More so than walking through a bracket of unranked kids. Going through very talented Zuranski, Dowty, Rosenbarger, and Malone...winning that bracket is an accomplishment. Was a fun bracket to watch. Will be fun to watch those athletes at the high school level. 

Thank you to everyone who has reached out regarding Preston.  Results of a CT scan and other tests have come back.  Nothing is broken and he will make a full recovery.  
 
As far as what happened, the Mater Dei wrestler had been winning the entire match.  An illegal slam was called.  It was not intentional.  Whether it was an illegal slam or not, I don’t really care.  We were never taking a dive.  Brownsburg doesn’t roll like that.  It goes against everything we believe in.  If I thought it was intentional, It would be a different story.  There is no doubt in our mind that it was just a result of two dudes trying to punch their ticket to state. 
 
It was pretty chaotic as all of this was happening as I’m sure you can all imagine.  Given that it was a neck/head injury, I wanted to give medical people access to Preston.  Once they had time to check Preston out, I took that opportunity to talk to Preston.  There was never any talk or consideration of taking a dive. Preston would never do that.  He was in a lot of pain and upset.  He has had a lot of adversity this season. He tore his ACL at IHPO and has been working through that pain and frustration all season.  I just explained to Preston what had happened and that I was going to forfeit the match.  I told him we were losing…and it would not be fair to take the trip to state away from the Mater Dei kid.  Preston agreed and said he would never do that.  There was no reversal of the call or anything.  I just went up to officials and said we are forfeiting the match.  
 
Whoever said Preston was walking around saw someone else.  He was taken out on a stretcher and to the emergency room. 
 
Snyder 

i should really make some predictions

I see a lot of posts complaining and asking why Indiana doesnt' have wrestle backs.  And since this is the time of the year we need them the most, I thought id construct the list of reasons/theories/hypotheses or plain conspiracies as why the great wrestlers of Indiana dont have the essential tool granted to every other state in their state series.  Here's my list In David Letterman style!!!!!!
 
10.We cant be like Illinois theory: In Indiana's continuous competition with Illinois and the resulting inferiority complex, Indiana had to do something different and in the name of conservative stubborness, we found a great avenue to differentiate from the Land of Lincoln,  "We wont have wrestlebacks like those woke liberal dudes to the west".
 
9. The Hunger Games theory:  In the the modern action novel where each district's humble heroes travel to the capitol and are placed in an arena to fight each other to die or move on for the ultimate reward solely for the purpose of the audience's bloody lust for entertainment.  Just like the Hunger games, we in Indiana travel to the capitol and are entertained by the Friday night circus called the ticket round where we love to see our humble wrestlers reach immediate state placing glory.  But also, we love the sudden agony of defeat and seeing ranked wrestler's dreams and hope of destroyed abruptly.  Wrestlers, "May the odds ever be in your favor".
 
8.  Save the IHSAA beautiful mats:  The IHSAA has great mats.   Buy eliminating wrestle backs, were cutting out 29% of wrestling from the tournament thus saving our mats for future years.
 
7.  Let's hang out at Tilted Kilt more theory:   Not that I've ever been there, but by eliminating wrestle backs this opens up more time for the great wrestling fans of the Hoosier state to patronize the abundant downtown dining places like the Tilted Kilt (come on, you guys tipped big).  We love places like "Dicks last resort, St Elmo's (love the Shrimp cocktail) or Fog De Chao for those with big appetite.  Even though I was disappointed when the kid i was cheering for lost and didn't have a wrestle back match, I did have extra time and the consolation to sincerely enjoy some tasty pasta at Buca.  The East Chicago equivalents are Portillo's or El Gran Taco.  But Ive heard Region Rat recommend PoleKatz for their excellent bar food and service.  In Evansville, the wrestling community and guys like TripleB  utilizes the extra time to spend at "Taco Bell, Panda Express and Pizza King".
 
6. Indiana Loves Quality over Quantity hypothesis:  We just want to see good matches and not be distracted by a plethora of matches created by "wrestlebacks".    If it has the word consolation in it, then you're going to have to console us from watching it. The winner's bracket is just so much more watchable and cool. Why stymie the tournament with consolation matches.  Is anybody watching the Ravens vs the Lions this weekend?      Come on everybody likes to see perennial winners and champions like Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs and i guess that other team from California.  But they ain't watching the consolation bowl.
 
 
5.  The biased IHSAA board makeup theory:   The IHSAA board, which has the overarching power to decide wrestling competition rules, is made up of former basketball, baseball and football coaches.  We have very little wrestling representation on the board.  Remember Indiana is a basketball state and those guys get power.   When asked to include wrestle backs, they say we don't have baseball backs, basketball backs, tennis backs or football backs, why should wrestlers get wrestle backs?  Its only a matter of fairness they say.   We did have some hope when the swimming coach on the board did show some interest in the idea, and curiously asked are wrestling backs like the backstroke?
 
4. Sinister Y2CJ41 conspiracy theory:  While Joe Caprino was thinking of ways to improve Indianamat participation and patronization, he conspired this idea in his lair at Victory Bay (yes it exists).  With his capacity to pull strings in Indiana wrestling, and his overreaching influence on the gatekeepers of the wrestling community he, came up with the idea to create controversy and blowup discussion on the Indianamat forum by secretly eliminating wrestle backs in the state tournament.  You notice "wrestle backs" is a common controversial topic????? You ever wonder why we don't have class wrestling????? Just saying i heard something on Qanon. I swear.
 
3. I didnt have wrestle backs when i wrestled:  How many grizzled veterans of the Indiana state tournament post they love the format, and that we have the best tournament in the country.  Even though many were scarred by their bad draws and robbed of placing or their lots were thrown wheel of luck. Its really just a psychological perception to block progress because they didn't have the same advantage.   Old stuck in its ways says: "Why should these young cocky, "soft" spoiled wrestlers have an advantage we didn't.   It's just not fair".    Thus were continually stuck in this circular state of no progress.   These are the same dudes that walked to school 6 miles in the snow and loved it.
 
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2.  We just arent trying or working hard enough theory!!  Under the current format, we will get bad draws and the better wrestlers wont advance.  But this could be overcome if everybody worked more or tried harder.   If every Indiana wrestler tried harder, we would never have a bad draw regardless of no wrestlebacks.  This is also the same reason we haven't found Sasquatch yet.
 
1. The Ricky Bobby Impact:  "If you aren't first, you're last".   That's the message we're getting.  Anyway, it's all about finding the one champion. That's what counts.  If you lose to the champion, then it doesn't really matter when you lost to him.  You're not important because you're not the champion. See #6 on consolation.   Yes, those silly non- first place medals are just over glorified system of participation trophies.  Why should we spend more time on silly consolation wrestle backs that's only irrelevant purpose is to separate the losers.
 
 
 

its crazy when a school that is known for accepting transfers, starts contesting kids that wanna leave ...and actually block a kid who was gonna be a senior.
 and make him miss his senior year. 

Now that MS State is completed, were there any surprise finishes or did any soon to be high schoolers have standout performances? How well did the pin system predict the top kids?

This past Saturday, the Munster wrestling team, and therefore I, went to East Chicago for the first leg of the state series.  Now, the past three years, the East Chicago hot dogs were phenomenal.  A couple of times, I might've gone out the night before sectionals or semi state and consumed a few beverages.  And the perfect cure for condition I was in were these hot dogs.  So, with great anticipation, I headed to concessions, saw the hot dogs were still being cooked in the quality 7/11 rollers, handed my money to the worker, and went to enjoy this hot dog.  But... They changed the dogs.  These new ones were big and plump, but the taste just wasn't there.  I was massively disappointed.  I was so disappointed that if Chris Jr. were only a junior, I would petition to get Munster moved to the Mooresville sectional and regional.  I'm not saying these hot dogs were bad, just, I wanted more.  4.5 slices of pizza outta 8.  I'm heading to Hobart this Saturday for regionals and will conduct a retaste of their weiners.  Thank you for reading.

So, after we all died when the storm hit last weekend, wait a second, ok after checking my notes it looks like the vast majority of us lived, I attended the NCC conference tournament, albeit two hours after it was originally scheduled.  First a note on the tournament, I was extremely pleased it went back to being a straight line tournament instead of basically having five separate dual meets.  I thought the round robin idea was over thought.  Thank you Hanover Central for joining the conference(though I'm still mad at your hot dogs).  So, as far as the hot dogs, well, there were pretty good.  They weren't up to Mooresville standards, but they didn't have me writing my will like the dogs at Hanover did the week before.  When I walked up to the counter, I was a bit concerned because I didn't see any hot dogs in the back, but the nice worker pulled out the hot dogs from a hidden drawer.  She should've said "TA DA" or something to that effect.  As far as the taste, if these were the hot dogs I was guaranteed to have on a weekly basis, I'd be a happy rasslin' dad.  6.25 slices of pizza outta 8.  Next stop is sectionals at East Chicago, and if memory serves me correct, they have had pretty tasty hot dogs in the past, so I'm looking forward to it.  Until next time, thank you for reading.