TrojanPinchyGuy

Glad you brought this up. Makes qualifying or AA’ing at D3, D2, or D1 all that more impressive for those that graduated high school in 2021 or after. They have had to deal with this extra Covid year their entire college careers if they were not red-shirted.

Looks like a total of six (6) D3 wrestlers from Indiana high schools punched their tickets to Roanoke, VA for next week/end’s D3 National Championships. Here they are with some extra details: Evan Burge 141# SR Wabash McCutcheon High School Central Regionals - 3rd Place Jake Burford 149# SR UW - Whitewater Crown Point High School Upper Midwest Regional - 2nd Place Kristian Rumph 149# SR Wartburg Portage High School Lower Midwest Regional - 1st Place Cole Cervantes 165# SR North Central Griffith High School Lower Midwest Regional - 2nd Place Gavin Layman 184# SO Ohio Northern University Chesterton High School Central Regional - 2nd Place Jack Heldt 285# SR Wabash Carmel High School Central Regional - 1st Place Congrats & Good luck!!!

This past weekend @ Pete Willson Invite (Wheaton, IL): 32 - D3 Teams 149 # SR Jake Burford (Crown Point) - Wisconsin-Whitewater - 1st place 184 # SO Gavin Layman (Chesterton) - Ohio Northern - 3rd place

11/19 - Lindenwood Open Evan Bates 197# Northwestern went 3-2 took 4th 11/19 - Olivet Comet Duals - Olivet Michigan Gavin Layman 184# Ohio Northern went 4-0 (currently 11-1 on the year) Both Chesterton graduates

Very sorry to hear this news a few days ago. Seemed like Will was part of the Chesterton Team during the offseason - hanging with our group of Seniors that graduated this year @ many tournaments. He was a pleasure to be around and will definitely be remembered. Chesterton Wrestling sends Prayers to his family.

Same problem happened to me. I had 4 tickets que’d up in my cart, then they disappeared, tried adding more tickets and it said I exceeded my limit, so I could only buy 2. Went in later to buy 2 more and it looked like it was going to do the transaction and then said limit exceeded - transaction cancelled....

Chesterton just had a very impressive 7 SS Champs. Could this be a record? Just curious......

Great write-up Tyson! Appreciate your thoughts and well written reviews. Just make sure your gettin’ that homework completed on time.

With 2 of the state’s top teams in the mix here, there should be quite a few exciting CP and Chesterton match-ups both in the semi’s and the finals. There are also quite a few other very good wrestlers in the mix here. Let’s hear some thoughts/predictions on how things might play out...

LaPorte Sectional - 182 Layman 27-0 (CHESTERTON) - #4 State / #1 East Chicago SS Kwiatkowski 5-1 (VALPARAISO) # 8 State / #4 East Chicago SS Browder 22-1 (LAPORTE) - #17 State / # 3 East Chicago SS

182 #6 Gavin Layman (Chesterton) over 182 #5 Johnny Parker Jr. (Indianapolis Cathedral) 5-0 Decision

Bolin was down 4-3 with about 45 seconds to go. Neutral position. Bolin got in on a single lifted him up and reversed around to his back for the Fall. It was a great moment.

At Hobart Super Duals Today. Chesterton’s 160 # un-ranked Brandon Bolin knocks off #1 State-Ranked Tyler Turley via Fall in late third period.

God forbid if something happens that forces this event to be cancelled - will refunds be given thru Trackwrestling?

Chesterton’s #9 Gavin Layman versus Cathedral’s #10 Tyler Wagner was a great OT match with Layman winning 4-2 at Al Smith 170#.

Obviously you took exception and must not have liked my post from last night. I didn’t start the topic of discussion here, I simply replied to something that someone else had already brought up. Your post above is silly - of course these kids weren’t thinking less special because they didn’t win a State Title for their original hometown. They worked hard to get to where they were on that podium and should be damn proud of what they accomplished. My post last night was twofold: (1) about programs that have built something special starting at the youth level. It’s great to see a bunch of elementary kids busting their butts together at that level and now years later having success together at the HS level. In my opinion, it makes the journey they are on more special not only for them but the families and coaches who are involved in that development. (2) Letting people know (who had asked in the post) that a very large majority of the Freshman class that is coming next year are not truly freshman. I am not faulting people for moving into a new town, do what you want to do by all means. I do have a slight problem with parents holding their kids back (homeschooling them) when they are in 6th or 7th or 8th grade purely for one purpose. Let your kid be what they were supposed to be. The journey they are on should not be about being undefeated your HS career or a 2,3,4 X state champion. Now, when you combine these two topics it gets really interesting. When you have parents who have all held their wrestlers back (not when they were getting ready to start kindergarten) and all of these same families just so happen to move to the same location in the state (Hell, some of the kids moving to this area aren’t even from IN - and just so happen to have an elite wrestler in their family). In my humble opinion it’s a bit fishy and it takes away some of the “special” things I originally posted about.