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Notable Matchups From Plymouth Super Duals...

120- Drew Hughes- Lowell fall Trent Ballentine- Mish

126- Drew Hughes- Lowell fall Kegan Kern- Peru

138- Tommy Forte- Mish dec. Evan Loe- Peru

145- Tristan Macri- Mish dec. Mitch Roadruck- Lowell 4-3

152- Alex Mavros- Lowell dec. Braxton Simpson- Peru

160- Kenny Hughes- Lowell maj dec. Chase Hack- SB Riley 13-2

195- Ryan Patterson- Lowell dec. Braxton Eby- Mish 5-4

195- Dominique Avila- SB Riley fall Ryan Patterson- Lowell

The college coaches as well as the tougher competition will be at FLO. They use college out of bounds rules and I'm fairly certain riding time as well, so it's a good barometer for college coaches.  It's becoming the premiere high school folkstyle national tournament.

As I've watched the Indiana HS State Tourney each year since 1996, and the NCAA's each year since 2007, I've noticed an inordinate amount of left-handed finalists and champions.  The population of lefty's is only like one in every ten, but when you watch high level wrestling, that proportion becomes much much higher, much closer to 50% of the finalists at both of these tourneys some years.  Probably no way of gathering this data, but interesting observation nonetheless.

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The New Rankings will have a couple new #1 wrestlers and we need their Pictures for the Rankings Page. We need Pictures Of Conner Mullins 152, Kirk Johnson 160, Mitch Sliga 195 and Kaden Suter 285 if you v=can email the to y2 @  joe@indianamat.com Thanks for the Help

Merrillville bias at its finest

really it was a toss up with Hall losing in OT last year to meyer friday night and having wins over Harvey(State Champ) He got the 1 spot I'm sure both guys will be in Indy in Feb

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Anyone with any insight on this would be appreciated, it seems as of there was some funny business in the scoring of freestyle state..

He has Lynde #1 at 182 and Sliga #1 at 195, where do you see Hurford?  Someone is starting his mancrush on Hurford quite early this year.

Y2 is correct, not sure where u got that from DemoGuy

Can you give us a sneak peek.And are you ranking the new weight class or the old weights?

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Last I checked, Illinois is doing pretty well in freestyle.. Winning Junior Duals all these years in a row plus all the titles in Fargo..

I've heard that Vega's first move as Head Coach of Portage HS was to hire Hobart's 2x State Champ Eric Galka.. Nice staff shaping up at Portage..

I never go on other states h.s. wrestling websites (i know illinois has one) but are they as childish as ours? 

Illinois is much more lenient on the amount of bashing they allow on their site.  And they don't have nearly as many people that take offense to comments about coaches and wrestlers that aren't 100% positive

It is beating a dead horse at this point, but Jennings County over Columbus East still makes no sense to everyone involved.  Respect goes to JC, but East beat them three times in the year.  You say you look at the updates on a weekly basis, but for some reason you go back to the first weekend where the East squad is still not at full line ups and loses a few.  I thank you for the job that you do, but yes there seems to be something wrong in this situation.  The year is over and now we will have to come out again and do what we do. 

Have a great summer.

Since I have nothing to do with any of the team rankings, and only concentrate on the individual weight classes, this argument could not concern me any less.

I wish we did!

Z, I always put disagreements with certain posters aside when constructing the rankings, and I think my work reflects that.. What is the scenario which you believe that you did not receive a fair shake?

It's too bad Howe didn't move out of Cedar Lake - he might have become something.

Howe had access to top flight coaches and training partners at the Overtime School of Wrestling in Naperville, IL.. He is a product of that environment, and is the exception to the typical rural Indiana outcome.

That post started out nice.  Could have done without the cheap shot though Ivy Leaguer.

C'mon man, you know I'm always gonna tell it like it is.. How much D1 talent has Madison, Indiana ever produced in wrestling?  Would Bubba J have developed the way he did had he stayed in Madison?  Can you honestly say that my statement is not accurate?

I personally have no problem with the celebration.. You could tell there was a lot of built up hatred between Bubba and Cael and it was awesome to see it end the way it did as a Bubba fan.. It's good for the sport to have a character who is celebrating, hitting cement mixers and superducks, and posting celebratory YouTube videos sipping Hennessy out of his "National Champ Cup"...  As a Bubba J fan, I'm just glad that he got the hell out of Madison, Indiana, because I have a hard time believing that with an average high school coach at a rural Indiana High School, he goes on to have one fraction of the career that he has had.

Really would have liked to see the Roach vs. Edwin Cooper matchup at 145... Unfortunate that Roach is choosing not to attend.

I'm personally expecting Northwestern to be the choice for him when the time comes...

I believe that Judy of Danville was a senior this season.

Judy was a junior.. He'll be back for one more go-around.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but he's wrestling for the Irish next year...