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* Gelen Robinson, sophmore, Lake Central 

3rd in state, discus

7th in state, shot put

* Tyler Kral, senior, Crown Point

8th in state, shot put

Beautiful facility!

Michigan City Head Coach Tom Vasbinder resigned and they are looking for a head coach.

Congrats Joe!

Congrats Aaron, Coach Mikesell, and the Northview wrestling community. 

Good luck Andrew!

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Does the Y and C in your user name stand for Yellow Card?  ??? :

Nice!

They haven't started yet, but I was just informed that Illinois' 132 (sorry for the incorrect info earlier, I have confirmed it was 4th place finisher Michael Sepke) was hit by a car last night outside the venue and is in Indianapolis today for surgery to repair an injury to his pelvis. Obviously, everyone's thoughts are with the wrestler and his family. Hope everything goes well for him today.

 

I spoke to an Illinois parent this afternoon and he advised that Michael's pelvis was completely shattered, and was surgically repaired with a plate, pins, screws, and lots of stitches. He is wrestling "comfortably" at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, where he will remain another 4-5 days. The driver of the mini van was not found to be at fault, and the front of his vehicle looked as if he had hit a deer according to the witnesses.

Michael was crossing US Hwy 231 near I-74, as he was returning to the hotel from the Burger King across the street. Both Michael and the driver were in shock at the scene, and the driver was also transported to the hospital where he was later released. The doctor's allegedly stated that Michael was extremely lucky to have survived the accident. This information, of course, is all second hand from the parent of another Illinois team member. Good luck to Michael!

Tre Blackwelll from Kentucky pins B. James.  Wonder what the score was before the pin? 

 

Blackwell did win Mater Dei I believe

Blackwell did not wrestle at Mater Dei in 2011, as he was injured. He was there, however, in 2010 and I believe wrestled Wyatt Seng, MD, in the finals.

I was fortunate enough to watch the Tsirtsis brothers today at the UNIDOME. I have to say that I am so proud to be a part of their organization, leadership, and vision. Both brothers are wonderful examples to my son and they have helped him tremendously. Thanks Alex and Jason! You guys are class acts!!!

 

On another note, it was the WHO'S WHO of wrestling in Cedar Falls at the USAW Folkstyle Nationals. I was standing there matside watching Jason Tsirtsis defeat Darion Caldwell all the while Cael Sanderson was standing adjacent to me talking to Kevin Jackson. Next to them was Barry Davis. The list goes on and on...it was like wrestling heaven for a person like me! LOL-----good stuff!

I, too, had the opportunity to watch Jason and Alex wrestle this weekend, as I was in Cedar Falls to officiate the National Folkstyle championships. Lots of great wrestling on both the Folkstyle and Freestyle side of things. Jason looked great, and Alex was very impressive after being away from competition for about three years. There were indeed lots of great wrestlers and coaches present, including Dan Gable himself!

Also, when we left around noon today Daniel Bedoy was still alive in the Greco tournament, having gone 2-1 when I last spoke to him. The most famous person I saw, however, was probably the one and only J-U-L-I-O 

132 McGuire v Richards  Dec

152 Copeland v Realbuto  Dec

170 Riddick v Crutchmer OT Dec

285 Robinson v Vollaro OT Dec

182 Phipps v Rogers Fall

195 Hills v Harrah Dec

220 Rizzo v Marchok Dec

138 Spearman v Meeks OT Dec Ultimate Tiebreaker

145 Beitz v Tsirtsis Maj Dec

160 Brill v Brunson Dec

113 Rappo v Brooks Dec

120 Roberts v DiCamillo Dec

126 Gulibon v Clark Dec

I saw Coach Sacksteder at ISWA State today sporting the Beech Grove T shirt and coaching future wrestling stars. Good luck Coach!

Nice!

Congrats!

So far the announcer has mispronounced almost every Indiana wrestler's name. The most impressive, however, was Durrel Peepers from Maryville HS, and his coach, Davis Maldonado  ;D

I can't get Mat 1, but Mat 2 is working fine.

Congrats Coach Seltzer!

Did you get a 4th?

Coach... I have emailed this request to over 100 IHSAA officials. Hopefully you will get several responses before the end of the day 

When he says he will "buy" them from you, he really means that he will give you a pineapple and some strawberries dipped in chocolate and cut in the shape of wrestlers.

Southern Indiana Athletic Conference (Mater Dei, Castle, Reitz, Central, Memorial, North, Harrison, Bosse) had 9 placers of the 112 medal winners... or 8%

Mater Dei: Goebel-120, Lannert-138, Brandenstein-182, Maurer-195, Wright-285

Castle: Brown-106, Welch-120

Reitz: Moody-132

Central: Kelley-138

Harrison, North, Memorial and Bosse: None

I believe that the Duneland Conference (Crown Point, Merrillville, Lake Central, Portage, Chesterton, Valparaiso, Laporte and Michigan City) had 10 placers of the 112 medal winners... or 9%

Crown Point: Schurg-113  Tsirtsis-145 Kral-220

Merrillville: Garcia-120 Stevenson-160 Peppers-170 Berry-195

Portage: Torres-126

Lace Central: Ayersman-126  Robinson-220

Valparaiso, Laporte, Chesterton and Michigan City: None

jeff harp

Duh  ??? :

How did I forget about Harp???? 

Sam Lamb, John Jeske, Bobby Claybrooks, Alan Grammer, Roger Reis, Darren Grimwood, Steve Noriega, Anthony Williams, Marlon Flemming, Darren Happe, Levi Grant, Bobby Stone, Sam Lahonis, Matt Powless... just to name a few non MD guys