Coach Tonte

Slight change at Franklin. Since FB practice is canceled there will just be the regular RTC session of 6-7:30pm

Brandon Wright Wednesday night at Franklin Community. 6-7:30 pm enter door 21. Head coach of Wright Way Wrestling. 2x Indiana State Champion (Cathedral-Warren Central) Cadet Freestyle National Champion 08’ 4x Collegiate All-American 2x National Champion For Grand View University 3x World Team Trail Qualifier US Open Finalist 2018 National Team Member 61kg

Let’s get some great live in tonight

looking forward to the Pride of the Eastside coming to Franklin and bringing some fellas. Great night to scrap and learn from this young kiddo with a bright future ahead him. bring some teammates wrestling community. Great night ahead.

Derek Blubaugh will run Franklin's RTC this week. Enter door 21. 6-7:30pm. Also, coming with Derek will be All American teammate heavyweight Cale Gray. Cale will be there to roll around with any big kids. Derek Blub2024 National Champion at 197 ... Earned 2024 Outstanding Wrestler at the DII National Championship ... A two-time NCAA Division II National Runner-up at 197 (2021-22, 2022-23) … Back-to-back GLVC Wrestler of the Year honoree in 2022-23 and 2023-24 … Captured his first Midwest Classic title at 197 in 2023-24 ... First Team All-GLVC in 2022, 2023, 2024 and a second team nod in 2021 … Two- time NWCA Scholar All-Academic and three-time Academic All-GLVC honoree … Led the Greyhounds in victories in 22-23 with 33, while capturing 12 falls … helped lead the Greyhounds to their first GLVC Championship in 2022-23 Four-year letterwinner in wrestling for Bloomington South...two-time state placer, 6th as a junior, 4th as a senior...career record of 153-26...four-time sectional and regional champ...Conference champ as a senior...two-time Team MVP...team captain as a senior...84 pins as a prep. Engineering major...National Honor society member...National art Honor Society member...son of Rene and Dana Blubaugh... Grandson of the Olympic Gold Medalist Doug Blubaugh, winner of the 1960 Olympic gold medal ... Doug Blubaugh was also the 1957 NCAA DI National Champion for Oklahoma State at 157lbs.

Wednesday April 3rd. We are excited to pack the house and bring in another stellar clinician. Also if you are wrestling at Mooresville Greco/freestyle this weekend you can weigh in at our RTC. Brandon Wright Head coach of Wright gWay Wrestling. 2x Indiana State Champion (Cathedral-Warren Central) Cadet Freestyle National Champion 08’ 4x Collegiate All-American 2x National Champion For Grand View University 3x World Team Trail Qualifier US Open Finalist 2018 National Team Member 61kg Enter door 21. 6-7:30 pm. April 3rd.

There will be no RTC this upcoming Wednesday, March 27th due to spring break. We will reconvene April 3rd. We are excited to pack the house and bring in another stellar clinician. Brandon Wright Head coach of Wright Way Wrestling. 2x Indiana State Champion (Cathedral-Warren Central) Cadet Freestyle National Champion 08’ 4x Collegiate All-American 2x National Champion For Grand View University 3x World Team Trail Qualifier US Open Finalist 2018 National Team Member 61kg Enter door 21. 6-7:30 pm. April 3rd.

Prayers from the Tonte family and Franklin wrestling.

Packing the house again tonight. RTC HAS AVERAGED OVER 50 KIDS PER WEEK. LOTS OF LIVE FREESTYLE AND GREAT TECHNIQUE TONIGHT.

Clinician: Nick Hull ISWA Olympic Developmental Director USAW National Developmental COY UWW International Freestyle Certified UWW Masters Bronze Medalist US Open Masters Champion Collegiate All-American IHSAA State Champion 3x placer Has developed and trained numerous men's and womens state and national champions at all levels. enter door 21. 6-7:30 pm this Wednesday. lots of great freestyle technique and freestyle live. The rooms been popping. Let’s keep it going.

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Free ISWA Wrestling RTC/Clinic Olympic Gold Medalist Rulon Gardner When: Tues. Mar. 12, 2024, 6-7:30 pm Where: Franklin Community HS Enter Door 21 REQUIRED: Current USAW Card Required. Boys/Girls/All Ages Accepted Join us for a full wrestling clinic with 2000 Olympic Gold Medalist Rulon Gardner who overcame a devastating accident to shock the world and defeat the previously unbeaten Russian, Alexander Karelin, in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Franklin will host a special two day RTC next week to kick off Freestyle/Greco season. March 12th, Tuesday night, 6-7:30 pm Franklin will host Perry Meridian’s RTC and have Greco Olympic Gold medalist Rulon Gardner. Free ISWA Wrestling RTC/Clinic Indiana’s 4 Timer CJ Red & IU Asst Coach When: Wed. Mar. 13, 2024, 6-7:30 pm Where: Franklin Community HS Enter Door 21 REQUIRED: Current USAW Card Required. Boys/Girls/All Ages Accepted Indiana’s very own four timer and assistant IU Coach C.J. Red will be running RTC. THIS IS FREE OF CHARGE FOR BOTH DAYS. What a deal! What a Special two day event hosted by Franklin and Perry Meridian together! Let’s pack the room these two days and kick off Freestyle/Greco season. Coach Tonte, Franklin Community HS & Coach Schoettle, Perry Meridian HS C.J. Red, Assistant IU Coach The 2022-23 season marks C.J. Red's first on the Indiana Wrestling coaching staff. In year one, Red helped Indiana's program make big strides. The Hoosiers' 8-5 record in 2022-23 was the team's best since 2016-17, that included three Big Ten wins and three ranked victories, as well. Red provided valuable experience of wrestling at the highest stage and in recent time, after just finishing his collegiate career in March 2022. He worked closely with Indiana's light and middleweights and helped push Graham Rooks (149 lbs.) to have the best season for an Indiana wrestler since 2017. Rooks went 29-11 and reached the Round of 12 at his third career NCAA Championships. This was the furthest an Indiana Wrestler had gone in the tournament since 2017 when Nate Jackson got eighth place at 184 lbs. Rooks also finished in fifth place at the Big Ten Championships. Red, an Indiana native, returns to his home state after completing his highly successful collegiate wrestling career at Nebraska this past spring. At Nebraska, Red was a standout in the lineup at 141 lbs. throughout his entire career from 2016-2022. Red was a three-time NCAA All-American ––– earning sixth place at the 2021 NCAA Championships, as well as eighth place in 2019 and seventh place in 2018. In total, he was a five-time NCAA Championships qualifier from 2018-2022. Additionally, Red earned multiple podium finishes at the Big Ten Championships over the years. He finished in second place in 2019, third in 2020, fourth in 2021 and seventh place in 2018. For his Cornhusker career, Red had a 98-46 overall record and a 39-20 dual record. He won 22 bouts via fall with five tech falls and nine major decisions to his name. The move to the Indiana coaching staff will be Red’s first coaching role in his professional career. Prior to competing at Nebraska, Red had a legendary high school wrestling career. He attended New Palestine High School where he wrestled for coach Chad Red Sr. Red went 183-0 in his prep days, including being a four-time state champion. He was deemed the top 132-pounder in the country according to the Asics FloRankings in the class of 2016. He won the 2015 FloNationals crown, was the 2014 Super 32 champion and 2014 Fargo Junior Cadet Nationals champion, all at 126-lbs.

It’s going to be a great Wednesday night in the Franklin room. Multiple state place winners last week. Over 70 kids. lots of hard drill and live going into Folkstyle state this week. Be there by 5:45 if you can. Come in door 21. 6-7:30 pm. Breyden Bailey 4X IHSAA State Placer 2017 IHSAA State Champ Top 70 Recruit in Class of 2017 Career record: 182-5 2X NCAA National Qualifier Logan Bailey 2x IHSAA State Placer 2020 IHSAA State Runner up 2x NCAA All American 2022 NCAA D2 National Runner Up

Alex Cottey. 2x state champ who wrestled at D1 UTC will run a great RTC tonight at Franklin Community High School. 6-7:30 pm. Enter door 21.

All good. I just wanted voters to know what the situation is. As several people said being at full strength is a rare occasion in our sport.

I would think Sisson is good at jumping rope. Just my guess. He is a pretty damn good coach I know that. And I would agree that expanding to 12 teams is logical. I mean, 5 of the top 8 teams in the rankings are not in the tournament. That makes it look not as desirable. On the other hand, I’m wondering where TripleB got his info. Cathedrals line up at Calumet would have resulted in the same score as their dual. And does tripleB have info I don’t about our own program, because against Cathedral we didn’t have 2 regional qualifiers in our line up who were 21-9 and 22-11 last year as well as a varsity wrestler who was 15-15 last year. Not sure if they make a difference or not but def not the full strength we had hoped for. I don’t know where we fit in. There are so many good teams but I do hope that people get their stats correct. I have been doing this a long time and very rarely have I had a team at full strength to where I anticipated it to be.

For sure, As I said Joe, the weight class is deep. Lots of respect towards New Pal. I will say as good as Roncalli is, looking at common opponent scores maybe it’s a little more equal than people think. For example Roncalli beat Fishers 43-36. Portage beat Fishers 48-30. We beat portage 42-20. looking at Commons it could translate to us having a similar score with Roncalli that New Pal had. By no means am I saying we are better than Roncalli, New Pal or any of the teams we are discussing. I’m just saying from those scores it’s another reason for tipping in our favor to get voted in. Again, mush respect for all those programs. Pretty cool to be mentioned in with all these great 3A programs. I know most of these coaches personally at the top 3A schools and they do a hell of a job.

I would think Franklin sealed the deal with common opponent victory over Cathedral. Greenfield and Floyd Central both lost to Cathedral. Franklin beat Cathedral. As far back as I can remember common opponents is a number one criteria. And to put icing on the top also beat number three Ranked returning state champs Mishawaka. On a side note Franklin lost to Perry and Columbus East in tough hard fought matches giving up only two falls total in both duals. Columbus East beat Greenfield and Carmel scoring as many points in both of those duals as they did against Franklin. All teams seem to be great competition. What a deep class 3A has this year. You could go about 14 deep and still have some very good comp. Just one coaches insight. But I hope common opponent is still the major factor as well as strength of schedule. We have suffered points the last few years due to the incredible task of trying to slide thru the Mooresville regional with young athletes. Good luck to all the rest of season. We hope we have the opportunity to showcase our mix of upperclassmen and alot of youth.

2x NCJAA 2018 graduate at Warren central and he will be running RTC Wednesday enter door 21 6 pm to 7:15 pm 2x NCJAA national qualifier Aaron Taylor

Did you make a national team? Are you still training for central regionals? Do you want to get better for next year? Come to Franklin‘s RTC tonight from 6 to 730. See UIndys national runner-up Logan Bailey. Come to door 21

This Wednesday we are excited to have Coach Rademacher here for RTC. Practice will be 6-7:30 pm and enter thru door 21. Paul Rademacher is entering his third year with the Indiana Tech Department of Athletics and embarking on his second season of competition (2021-22) as the head women's wrestling coach, of which he was named the inaugural coach of the program on April 8, 2019. During the Warriors first season he navigated the team through the COVID-19 pandemic with a 2-6 mark in dual action while taking fourth at the Mid-South Conference Championships and 14th at the NAIA National Invitational. Tech had two student-athletes, Sam Snow and Tehani Soares, garner NAIA All-American honors with fourth-place results in their respective weight classes while the Warriors finished the year ranked the year ranked 14th in the NAIA Coaches' Top 25 Poll and rose as high as eighth in the rankings (Jan. 28, 2021). Four student-athletes, Alyssa Schuller, Charmayne DeLong, Snow and Soraes, also earned All-Conference honors following the MSC Championships. A former wrestler at Oregon State University, Rademacher comes to Tech following a two-year stint at Southern Oregon University the Associate Head Coach for the women’s wrestling team. During his two years with the Raiders he went 14-14 and led the team to an eighth place finish at the first-ever NAIA National Invitational this past March and a 12th-place performance at the Women’s College Wrestling Association (WCWA) Championships in 2018. He mentored six All-Americans during his time in Ashland. Prior to his time at SOU, Rademacher served as the head coach for the boys and girls wrestling teams at Henley High School (Ore.) for two seasons and was in charge of Mount Vernon High School (Wash.) before that. he had 40 wrestlers place during his time at the prep ranks while four became state champions under his tutelage, while he recorded two top-four finishes in the Oregon State Athletic Association (OSAA) Tournament. A 1999 graduate of Chiloquin High School, Rademacher competed from 1999-2003 at Oregon State, where he named to the Pac-10 All-Academic Second Team as a senior. He continued to compete post-collegiately, and in 2014 placed second in the Veteran’s Greco Roman Division B 76-kilogram class and third in the Veteran’s Freestyle Division B 76-kilogram class. He was a quarterfinalist in the 2014 US Open Freestyles at 74-kilograms and won the 2012 Washington State Tournament Greco-Roman in the 85-kilogram division. Rademacher is a USA Wrestling Bronze Certified Coach and was the head coach of the Oregon Junior National Team from 2015-18. He served as a wildland firefighter from 2000-15 at Baker River IHC was a member of the U.S. Forest Service in Washington. He received his Master’s Degree in Teaching – Science from Western Governors University in 2017 and graduated from OSU with a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Science with a concentration in Fitness Management. Rademacher and his wife, Gretchen, have been married since 2004.

This has probably been posted but I’m to lazy to look. I would love to hear from everyone on how they are running woman’s wrestling. is there a stipend? How many coaches? are you scheduling meets? Referees? practice times? How are you running this program? I know lots of questions but hoping to see and hear some good models THANKS Coach Tonte

Come to Franklin 6 pm Wednesday night door 21 Lots of live before state. Coach Bradley always does an awesome job.

Door 21 6 pm Wednesday. Let’s get after it with Coach Warthon and Uindy wrestlers. Jason Warthan heads into his 13th year at the head of the UIndy wrestling program in 2021-22. Warthan, the 2014 and 2017 NCAA Super Region #2 Coach of the Year and the NWCA's 2017 Bob Bubb Award for Coaching Excellence honoree, mentored the program's first National Champion in 2011, UIndy's second four-time All-American in Nick Crume and in total has coached 21 All-Americans and 49 National Qualifiers during his UIndy tenure.In addition to success on the mat, Warthan has also had three teams earn National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Academic National Championships. The 2016-17 edition of the team posted a 3.497 GPA to earn the program's third title. The 2010-11 Greyhounds posted a GPA of 3.419 to take the honor for the first time, and the 2014-15 Greyhounds came in with a 3.482 to earn their title. In all, Warthan has had 92 NWCA All-Academic honorees in 12 seasons, and has coached all four of the program’s four-time All-Academic selections in Ethan Harris (2009-12), Nick Crume (2014-18), Brody Conner (2017-20) and Matt McKinney (2018-2021).Warthan, an alum of the Greyhound wrestling program, mentored UIndy’s lone National Champion in 2011, with Nick Walpole taking the 149 title. He also coached the second four-time All-American in program history in Nick Crume, who placed 7th as a redshirt freshman at 133 in 2015, 2nd iat 133 in 2016, 3rd at 141 in 2017 and 8th at 141 in 2018. Warthan also mentored just the third four-time National Qualifier in UIndy history in Josh Kieffer, who earned All-American honors three times (2012, 2015, 2016), and has coached 11 of UIndy’s 27 Regional Champions.The Greyhounds also won their only two NCAA Super Regional championships under Warthan, with the 2017 team besting second-place Ashland by just one point behind eight placers and four National Qualifiers. The 2014 team also took a Regional, taking the Super Region 2 championship and sending a tie for program-best seven to Nationals. Four Greyhounds earned All-American status in 2014, also tying a program best, while Warthan’s 2014 team also earned the highest finish ever at a Midwest Classic by host UIndy, tying for second at the 26-team event.Warthan returned to UIndy after a successful coaching career at Columbus North High School. There, Warthan spent five years as the head wrestling coach, leading the team to five straight sectional championships, a regional title, a semi-state title and the school’s first team state appearance. He mentored six all-state grapplers, including the school's first individual state champ, a runner-up and 11 state qualifiers.At UIndy, Warthan was a three-time national qualifier, earning All-America status at 165 in 2000. The two-time Midwest Classic and 2000 Midwest Regional champion racked-up an impressive 88-28 (.759) career record as a Greyhound, and was also a three-time Little State champion, a two-time team captain, two-time team MVP and was named the 2000 Midwest Regional's Most Outstanding Wrestler. Warthan was also a letterwinner for the Greyhound cross country and track and field teams.Warthan was the first of only two Greyhound wrestlers to be named an Academic All-American, earning the honor in his senior season. He earned his undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from UIndy in 2001, and his Master’s in Strategic Leadership and Design from UIndy in 2017..

Good hard drill and live free and Greco tonight. 6 pm door 21.