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@ Evansville
106 - Alec Freeman, Mater dei 3-0 over Blaze Garcia, Avon
106 - Logan Miller, Brownsburg 4-2 over Chris Newman, Mt. Vernon (Posey)
113 - KT Nelson, Brownsburg 6-1 over Cole Ross, Mater Dei
113 - Ben Dalton, Monrovia 3-0 over Gavin Alstott, Floyd Central
120 - Brayden Littell, Center Grove 6-2 over Blake Boarman, Mater Dei
120 - Kysen Montgomery, Brownsburg 2-1 TB1 over Tyler Conley, Avon
126 - Ray Rioux, Avon by fall over Cade Meier, Bloomington South
126 - J Conway, Floyd Central 10-9 over Kane Egli, Mater Dei
132 - Asa Garcia, Avon 7-2 over Clay Egli, Mater Dei
132 - Drake Campbell, Brownsburg 3-1 over Logan Boe, Plainfield
138 - Cayden Rooks, Columbus East 17-4 Major over Jaden Reynolds, Avon
138 - Trey Mucker, Tell City by MFF over Drew Kreitzer, Brownsburg
145 - Matt Lee, Mater Dei by fall over Jonathan Kervin, Floyd Central 
145 - LJ Burdon, Plainfield 4-2 SV1 over Kade Law, Columbus East
152 - Eli Dickens, Mater Dei 19-8 Major over Ellisston Ross, Bloomington South 
152 - Jake Schoenegge, Columbus East 3-2 over Nathan Conley, Avon
160 - Peyton Pruett, Center Grove 10-0 Major over Gabe Sollars, Mater Dei
160 - Peyton Asbury, Brownsburg 3-2 over Robert Deters, Castle
170 - Macartney Parkinson, Mater Dei 6-2 over Thierry Jean-Baptiste, Brownsburg
170 - Nick South, Columbus East 6-5 over Derek Blubaugh, Bloomington South
182 - Carson Brewer, Avon by fall over Zachary Flynn, Jasper
182 - Levon Bellemy, Edgewood  Inj Def Trizton Carson, Danville (With 5 seconds left in the match)
195 - Dakari Kenny, Pike 9-3 over Griffin Stine, Martinsville
195 - Will Nunn, Castle 3-2 over Nick Willham, Greenwood
220 - Jacob Bolte, Columbus East 1-0 over Will Stewart, South Spencer
220 - Lawson Aiken, Brownsburg by fall over Josh Howell, Terre Haute South
285 - Muhammad Sidibe, Ben Davis by fall over Matthew Munoz, Jeffersonville
285 - Dorian Keys Jr, Brownsburg by fall over Aidan Rea, Heritage Hills
That's it for this round.  I think Brownsburg came to wrestle boys and girls!

Good thing is he has one more year and I look for him to use this as motivation.

Madison Grant gets their first ever qualifier at Heavyweight 

Congrats to FCC Fighter (sp?) Been cheering for Carson to punch his ticket. Long time coming. 

You seriously doubted my Excel skills? This ain't my first bracket rodeo.

What a great article on Warsaw's Jacob Bass who qualified for semi-state this weekend.
http://www.inkfreenews.com/2019/02/08/once-a-slave-warsaws-jacob-bass-celebrates-freedom-through-wrestling/

Just another added pressure on kids that means nothing. I just want 4 straight wins at State. Never had the pleasure to see my kids go unbeaten in Season (yet) . Came close but got beat by a better wrestler that year it happens. Got beat by National Ranked kid that he beat at Super 32, hmmm... the other kid must of did something I’m about to tell you guys . 
I’d rather see a loss now than get it at State Finals . Take a loss now to a good wrestler, learn from it . Keeps you hungry like a Wolf. If your unbeaten you gotta learn from those wins . If your not learning from those wins, your going to taught a painful lesson from someone who has. Hey... stole one from the great Coach Sanderson , twisted it a bit . #evolve  
 
The Notorious 
 

regardless the thread was about undefeated kids not an adult cutting a great young man down... And let's say he is undefeated afterwards are you gonna apologize?  oh that's right I wouldn't expect somebody that hates on a kid to actually have tact.

but on the mat he's running the bar series taking arms home with him🤣🤣
 
 

He is one of the nicest kids in wrestling.....Off the Mat.
 

Congratulations Silas!!! I know you must be one proud papa Eric. Continue on your mission and best of luck in your future endeavors.

I know I’m essentially echoing everyone else’s thoughts here, but having a family member on his team for the past 6 years I have had the pleasure to watch this young man wrestle on a regular basis. I just want to say I have been around a lot of high school athletes over the past 20 years. It’s easy for a kid as talented as Silas to develop an ego. I have never met a more humble, polite, appreciative young man that takes nothing for granted. While he is obviously a great athlete, he isn’t a kid that was just born with ability, he has truly worked for everything he has accomplished. It has been a pleasure to see his development and it will be fun to watch him continue his journey towards his ultimate goal. 

First coached against this kid at the team state in 2016. Silas was a freshman and won a big match of two highly ranked 170lbers. No celebration, no non sense, strictly business. Shook hands walked off of the mat. He will be a great role model for Indiana Wrestling going forward. Congrats! 

Great kid and great wrestler.  Best wishes on a speedy recovery from the Beech Grove wrestling family.  Hope to see you on the mat next weekend! 

From IndyStar article:
It wasn’t until the 132-pound bout where Warren Central’s perfect start was put in jeopardy. Greenfield-Central senior Gavin Rose led Warren Central’s Aundre Beatty 3-2 in the final period.
But as Beatty knotted up the match with an escape late, Rose went down. For more than 10 minutes, trainers, coaches and support staff surrounded the senior wrestler as they stabilized his left ankle and helped get him off the mat in a wheelchair.
Rose, who finished seventh in the state at 113 last season, came into the sectional finals match with a career-best 32-2 record. As he was wheeled out of Warren Central’s gym, the senior received a standing ovation.
“He’s got the biggest heart of any kid I coached. It’s disappointing, but we’ve got to wait and see what the doctor says,” Greenfield-Central head coach Josh Holden said. “I know he was in pain but that doesn’t always mean you’re done. I think that was his fear and that’s why he was so emotional, he was just worried about next week.
“He’s probably telling the doctors right now, ‘How do I wrestle next week?’”

I guess that depends on how you are defining “best”.  If “best” means the semi-state with the most state champions predicted by the rankings guy, then perhaps.  If “best” means the one with the most hype, then definitely.  (The Region seems to be falling down in that area a bit this year.  Where is Da Rat and his cohorts been this year?)
But if you are defining “best” as “most crowded” with high quality wrestlers (as I think Maligned calls it), then not so much.
 
 

New Castle has 20% more wrestlers ranked in the Top 5 & 40% more teams ranked in the Top 20.  Personally I would call them damn near a draw in toughness to advance, but I guess using #'s for factual reasoning is an error of mine. 

Individuals:
One semi-state has 82 ranked kids
The other has 78 ranked kids
 
One semi-state has 20 Top 5 kids
The other has 24 Top 5 kids
 
One semi-state has 21 wrestlers ranked between #6 - #10
The other has 20 wrestlers ranked between #6 - #10
 
One semi-state has 20 wrestlers ranked between #11 - #15
The other has 21 wrestlers ranked between #11 - #15
 
Team Power Poll:
One semi-state has -- #1, #3, #4, #11, #12
The other has -- #2, #5, #7, #9, #16, #19, #20
Team State Finish:
One semi-state has -- #1, #4, #5, #10
The other has -- #2, #3, #6, #7, #8
 
Is it really that easy to identify the best semi-state?

195 at Fort Wayne is pretty brutal.

But I hate the south 😉 Evansville is nasty top to bottom.

and to think we get to witness this for a measly $10. Best of luck to your young man and here’s to hoping he’s 100% come next week. 

It’s so nasty at EVV SS that it’s hard to pick which is the toughest. Go take at look at the post by TeamGarcia for his breakdown of EVV SS. Every single class is LOADED. 

Hands down 152 at new castle the toughest.

Well, I sure hope the parents who were taking pictures and laughing were laughing about something else and not AT the kid.  😟

The ticket round alone is responsible for more broken hearts than females are...myself included a few times over... it's the most awesome/ sad 2 hours in HS sports.