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106 #6 Monrovia - Royce Malone, under ranked . Way he’s been wrestling past few weeks . Look out ! 

Many of them are anomalies. I liken it to football there is only one Peyton Manning and Tom Brady each of them are 1 of 1, it is foolish for NFL teams to try and replicate it. The likelihood is your team will not have the same path to success since you do not have those same transcendent quarterbacks. 
 
Christian Carroll and Nick Lee were head and shoulders above the rest. Wrestling in Indiana their senior year wasn't going to improve their skill level. Without question they were going to find success on the next level. 
 
Mason Parris, Andrew Howe, Chad Red, J. Tsirtsis, Escebedo, and Micic are a few others who I am fairly confident could have skipped their senior year and still found success based on their D1 placement history. If Indiana is claiming Gable Stevenson, he too would fit that bill. 
 
Bottomline, for a vast majority of athletes, enjoy high school. Chase your state title and go to college not with wrestling, olympics, or MMA as a goal but as a means of receiving a strong education at a subsidized cost (or if you are fortunate free). Then leverage your experience wrestling and the determination, grit, and mental toughness it forms to be a rockstar in the professional world. Not all can be world class winners on the mat, but everyone has the opportunity to be a winner at life.

Martinsville at Edgewood Dual 1/4/24 can be removed please. The dual was cancelled. 

Today at the Mooresville Holiday Classic, following the 190 lbs Championship Bout, the parents of the 2nd Place wrestler from Cascade HS, Braxton Lewis, approached the father of Collin Casad, the champion. After a brief introduction of themselves, Lewis's father told Eric Casad that they had learned of the passing of Eric's son Nick, a former Terre Haute South wrestler and older brother to Collin - in a car accident earlier this year. They offered their condolences, and then informed Eric Casad (standing next to me) that they too had lost a son in an accident. Eric Casad and the Lewis parents seemed to experience a profound bond as Lewis's parents congratulated Eric Casad on Collin's victory, and expressed that they were happy for fhe Casad family - and happy to go away with 2nd. The Lewis parents related, "It's bigger than this (the wrestling)". Braxton had left last year's Holiday Classic with a broken leg, they explained. The Lewises wished the Casads well and expressed that they hoped to see them again - and that they'd keep them in their thoughts and prayers. 
This year both young men wrestled their hearts out while wearing the singlets of their older brothers who were not physically present at today's meet, but whose imprints of brotherly love surely remain in the hearts of these two young men today, of their families, and those who knew them.
This was the most moving expression of supreme sportsmanship - and beyond - that I've seen in my years attending wrestling events. 
Very best wishes to both families! 
 
Photo 1: 2021 Fargo all-Americans (Greco) Joshua Howell (asst coach of Terre Haute South) and Nick Casad, brother of Collin.
Photo 2: Nick Casad and other former THS wrestlers attending last year's 2022 Mooresville Holiday Classic 
 

The Lewis Family is a stand up family!
 
Going through loss is never easy, I cannot imagine losing a brother, these 2 boys have gone through so much as just HS kids.
 
Resect to them both for a great weekend for wrestling and hoping continued success for both of them!

Biggest surprise for me was just how good Floyd Central is as a team.
 
I was shocked to see that they have 3 dual losses on the season. But all are to high quality teams - Avon, Cathedral & Warren Central.
 
Look for them to be tough at Team State.

A banged up Floyd team lost to a full power Cathedral team
 
A banged up Cathedral team lost to a full power Franklin team. 
 
So when the voters look most will just see Franklin over Cathedral and Cathedral over Floyd
 
Also the power poll is based on individual rankings, not forecasting potential dual finishes. 
 
All of that being said #LetFloydIn
 

Floyd is being underestimated. I believe, if I were a 3a coach, I would be on here saying anything I could to have them not added. 

Congratulations to Bray Emerine Congratulations to from Floyd Central for signing with Southeastern. Projected to wrestle 184.
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Bloomington Duals - Unranked 3A Martinsville over 3A #9 Bloomington South 48-31.

Congratulations to Justin Boone Congratulations to from Yorktown for signing with Manchester. Projected to wrestle 141.
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A little confused on the 3A. 
 
Franklin Community is sitting pretty high with 6 Regional Qualifiers (all underclassmen). None advanced to Semi-State. 
 
However, Martinsville sends 8 to Regionals with 5 underclassmen. Then 4 to semi-state with 2 underclassmen. 
 
I believe the Mooresville sectional would have the "Crowdedness" factor. 31 of the 56 Semi-state Qualifiers come from the Mooresville sectional compared to the Avon sectional. 
 
Just a little confused. Not complaining at all. And thank you for all your work and all you do. 
 
Coming through the Mooresville sectional, Regional, and EV Semi is absolutely brutal. 

Those predictions were pretty solid! Some guys were able to place the weren’t predicted. Solid wrestling this past week.

Braedon Spears had himself a DAY at Mooresville!! 

#TripleBTrained
 

You guys do a great job with the rankings.  It is so hard to do rankings when some of these kids don't wrestle each other until the State series.  The rankings are what they are and make for good reading material sometimes.  It motivates some kids to rise above and gives them something to reach for.  Pumps them up to see a kid they get to wrestle that is ranked.  Some kids shake in their boots and some of the good ones rise to the occasion to beat that ranked kid.  To all the ranking guys, keep it up and I would not want that job.  I am sure you get bombarded with emails when some parent's kid did not get put in the rankings or you missed a match where someone got beat and you might have missed it.

By JEREMY HINES
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The story seems familiar. Big city guy, through fate, ends up in a small town and falls in love with the community. Although Christmas is fast approaching, this isn’t a Hallmark movie script. It’s the real-life journey of Quinn Harris and his Cascade wrestling team.
 
Harris is a 2015 graduate of Avon High School. Avon’s enrollment is close to 3,000 students. After high school he helped coach at Avon, then coached at Ben Davis, which also has close to 3,000 students. Last year he took the head coaching job at Cascade, a tiny high school in Clayton, IN with an enrollment of under 500.
 
“There isn’t a whole lot to do here,” Harris said. “It’s a small farm town. 4H and agriculture are huge around here. A lot of kids live and work on the farm. They own pigs. They show pigs. The kids go hunting and fishing. It’s a much different culture than what I’m used to.”

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All,
 
I want to share a story about the kind of people we have in this sport.  Last Saturday Greenfield had a young lady injured in a match at New Palestine High School.  It was a head and neck injury that required her to be transported to the hospital via ambulance.  She and her parents had never been through something like this before and were justifiably shaken.  
 
On Tuesday of this week I was called down to the athletic office.  We had received a package.  It was a box of flowers addressed to the young lady who was injured.  They were sent from the Columbia City Wrestling Program.  I know it's a little thing and some people may not understand, but it touched me and my program.
 
People think wrestling is about working hard, sweating, bleeding, beating on people, etc..., but it's not.  It's above LOVING each other.  I wan't to thank Columbia City for giving my program an example of how people are supposed to love each other.
 
Thank you!