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Winning solves everything and theoretically that would happen more often on a level playing field.

Prime example, when someone in another thread told you New Prairie was small. The school has been around 950-975 for the past 7 years. Which firmly puts it in the upper 2A range for wrestling.

Crown Point 152 had all 4 through at semi state. They were also a 4-3 loss away from having all 4 through at 182 as well.

New Prairie 2013-2014 season had 11 seniors in the starting lineup. I believe we had about 25 seniors on the team in total.

EC 152 could have all 4 from the Crown Point regional go through if the rankings hold true.

The brackets have already been updated to reflect the changes at 126

My predictions 106: I've got Jackson winning it all so of course he wins this. 1st A. Jackson Laporte 2nd J. Cortez Lake Central 3rd E Cruz Crown Point 4th M. Walden New Prairie 113: Take your pick in the finals, start of a lot of Crown Point and Chesterton. 1st A. Bahl Crown Point 2nd H. Demarco Chesterton 3rd G. Rivera Lake Central 4th J Kranz Boone Grove 120: Ditto 1st S. Lemley Chesterton 2nd L. Frazier Crown Point 3rd B Whitmer John Gleen 4th J Abbot New Prairie 126: I think this weight class is very volatile and any of these 4 could go in any order. 1st S. Vitello Valparaiso 2nd S. Goin Crown Point 3rd J. Daniels Chesterton 4th C. Solomey Kankakee Valley 132: Likewise as the prior weight, expect anything to happen between the top 3 here. 1st A. Torres Chesterton 2nd S. Roberson Crown Point 3rd C. Solomey Kankakee Valley 4th N. Durall Wheeler 138: Jesse Mendez show. Next. 1st J. Mendez Crown Point 2nd E. Contreras Chesterton 3rd A. Glass Lake Central 4th D. Ruoff Wheeler 145: More Crown Point and Chesterton. Are you bored yet? 1st C. Goodwin Crown Point 2nd E. Kaiser Chesterton 3rd K. Bisping Lowell 4th G. Krause Knox 152: 1st B. Ellis Chesterton 2nd J. Estrada Crown Point 3rd A. Pollitt Valparaiso 4th T. Anderson LaPorte 160: 1st. O. Cruz Crown Point 2nd J. Salary LaPorte 3rd B. Bolin Chesterton 4th J. Serafin Wheeler 170: Sneed avenges his loss to Johnson in the semifinals and takes the title 1st A. Sneed Kankakee Valley 2nd N. Tattini Crown Point 3rd C. Johnson Chesterton 4th D. Kwiatkowski Valparaiso 182: Layman cruises to the championship 1st G. Layman Chesterton 2nd C. Kwiatkowski Valparaiso 3rd J. Browder LaPorte 4th J. Sues Lake Central 195: 1st G. DeMarco Chesterton 2nd C. Antrim Valparaiso 3rd T. Hoffman Hebron 4th W. Clark Crown Point 220: Evan Bates easily 1st E. Bates Chesterton 2nd M. Degrado Lake Central 3rd P. Clark Crown Point 4th D. Csomos Hebron 285: Whitenack has pinned everyone this year that will continue here. 1st. H. Whitenack New Prairie 2nd J. Mollencup Wheeler 3rd. J. Ruess Crown Point 4th S. Garcia Lake Central A lot of toss ups between Crown Point and Chesterton but I think Crown Point pulls it off.

I should also mention that 9 years ago a student transferred from this same school to Penn and did not have his transfer blocked

He certainly didn't transfer for a better opportunity because he'd wrestle anywhere. I don't know why he transferred but his personal coach runs a RTC in an old radio shack ten minutes from his new school. Whereas it was a 40 minute drive from his old school.

Heck with that RTC in town I'd expect this to happen more often. Maybe they just don't want the extra competition in conference now that Mishawaka is gone.

Glad this tournament is even taking place. Feel like you're missing some heavy weights though