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Oh, how I would love to see this gym floor covered with wrestling mats !!! From INC Now Multi-Sport Athletic Facility Opens in Fort Wayne http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/sports/Latest-Multi-Sport-Athletic-Facility-Opens-in-Fort-Wayne-184328201.html Fort Wayne, Ind. (www.incnow.tv) ? Fort Wayne welcomes its latest sports training and athletic facility with a grand ribbon cutting at the new SportONE/Parkview Fieldhouse. The 57,000 square-foot indoor/outdoor multi-sport facility is located at 3469 Ice Way, just north of the Fernhill Ave- Lima Road intersection.

Don't think that is true. Otherwise, wrestling officials in Indiana would be wearing gray shirts, instead of the old black and white, like every other state. Indiana has just flat out rejected that rule that changed a few years ago.

That is interesting. I applaud them for it.

I agree with you aoberlin. I'm also of the opinion that if they weren't using flawed statistical methods, they might have come to a different conclusion. When they use just wrestler data, they are introducing a bias, which I suspect was not properly accounted for. In particular, it ignores all those who aren't wrestling because they weigh 90 lbs. Yes, there are more forfeits at 103 than 285, but how many of those 285 pounders are 215 pounders (or even real 189 pounders) wrestling up to fill the spot? See that all the time. Shifting guys up is standard procedure, which is another bias which may not have been adjusted for in the data.

The point I was attempting to make is that one should not be looking at just wrestler data, but the population from which the wrestlers are taken, i.e. the entire student body. If, for sake of example, the lowest weight class is 100, you would have some small percentage of wrestlers around 100. If on the other hand, the lowest weight class is 125, and you then study the percentage of wrestlers around 100 lbs, you are going to find a lot less of them (because they don't wrestle if they are that small). Looking at a cohort of 200,000 wrestlers is wrong because it is ignoring all the non-wrestlers that otherwise might wrestle if the weight classes were different. I haven't completed my analysis of the CDC data yet, but suspect that the weights of high school age boys (sorry girls) is normally distributed with more boys in the middle range of weights than at the extremes. Which would argue for more weight classes in the middle weights and less on the extremes. This happens to be exactly the opposite direction these new weight classes are moving.

I sure would like to see the data they are using to come up with these weight classes, because.. according to CDC data these new weight classes result in have no weight classes below the 5th percentile while having 3 weight classes above the 95th percentile. This hardly seems equitable to the small guys. I suspect what is happening is that they are using data relative to participants in wrestling and not broader population statistics. So, it is no wonder that we don't have many participants under 103... since there are no weigh classes below 103. In a decade or so, they will look at it and say, "gee, we don't have many participants below 106, lets move it up." Well, duh! If the lowest weigh class was 150, you would probably not find a lot of wrestler below 150 either.

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Wrestler proves to be a survivor http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110127/SPORTS0303/301279991

I called the Conner Lefever pin. I blew the whistle, Lefever took his opponent straight to his back, as soon as I hit the mat and started my nearfall count he was flat on his back. one-two pin If the clock was slow to start it wasn't by more than a second because it happened as fast as I could get down and get a two count. I'll never forget the look on coach Paul Voigt's face, who missed the match. He was just sitting down in his chair as the wrestlers were walking off the mat. He looked at me like "wuh wuh ha-happened?"

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Y2's relaxed coaching style

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Great day of wrestling... thanks wrestlers, coaches, tournament workers, and fans. Any update on the young man hurt in the fourth round? (Called the school... good news... just a sprain, nothing broken.)

I'd like to give a shout-out to the great table help that hung in there all day. A special thanks to my tables (#3 and #4) who made the day particularly fun...

The rule states "situations due to school policy" which is broader than "weather". While the requirement for advance notice is not in the rule, I would hope that the schools and the tournament directors would communicate as best they can so that everyone is targeting the same weight and avoid the issue of a wrestler being underweight at Sectional because of an additional pound (or two) allowance they didn't know about.

There is only a 1 lb. allowance if one team is unable to practice the DAY BEFORE a competition. And the Coach or AD must notify the host school's AD or Coach to let them know that they were unable to practice and that the 1 lb. allowance is in effect. It does not matter if the whole week is cancelled, just the day before the competition. So therefore this week the only practice that matters to the rule is Friday's practice. Actually, this is not completely accurate. The allowance can be as much as two pounds if two consecutive days of practice are not able to be held before the competition. Also, the 48 hour advance notice is not required. See the posting in Ask the Official section to see the "official" IHSAA interpretation of this rule as it applies to Sectionals.

Here is what the National Weather Service has to say about that: INZ008-009-012-014-016>018-OHZ001-002-004-005-015-181800- /O.UPG.KIWX.WS.A.0010.081219T0000Z-081219T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KIWX.IS.W.0001.081219T0000Z-081219T1700Z/ NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-MARSHALL-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WILLIAMS- FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN... GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...WARSAW... WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE... BRYAN...MONTPELIER...WAUSEON...ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON... PAULDING...ANTWERP 451 AM EST THU DEC 18 2008 /351 AM CST THU DEC 18 2008/ ...ICE STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING TO 12 PM EST /11 AM CST/ FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED AN ICE STORM WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING TO 12 PM EST /11 AM CST/ FRIDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A MIXTURE OF SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA TONIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY MORNING. THE PRECIPITATION WILL LIKELY BE HEAVY AT TIMES. ICE ACCUMULATIONS BETWEEN ONE QUARTER AND ONE HALF INCH REMAIN POSSIBLE. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 6 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER SNOW EXPECTED NORTH OF US 30. Even if Wells county doesn't get hit, things could be very bad for the teams heading back north, eg. Garrett and Woodlan, when the Quad finishes. Most likely well after 10PM. Southern Wells is in the middle of no where... just getting to the nearest State Road, which might be plowed, could be a challenge. Just too risky to have those teams on the road then with this kind of forecast. Good decision to postpone, IMNSHO.

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