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I am not taking anything away from this kid, but his draw had a little bit to do with why he took 2nd on Saturday. I think the Surma-Sandefur match was actually the final of that weight class.

I was thinking the same thing......Da rat has been pretty quiet lately. Maybe he got caught in some rat trap some where. Would like to hear from him also.

i think he woulda beaten Brooks if he was stronger cuz Brooks just threw in that crossface and put him on his back but idk how Bradley will hold up the other 7 STUDS at this weight I am not sure how much stronger he can get because he looked pretty strong to me. Match was closer than I anticipated. I really did think Brooks would bring out the whipping stick against him. Bradley is a tough kid but will not hold up to the other 7 STUDS. Hands down I think Berry-Hudson ticket round was the most exciting all day start to finish. Roach-Dillon's final 30 seconds and OT were exciting.

mr. macdaddy, Have you personally seen these coolers? I can not argue the fact of the hospitality room. I think Dave would disapporve of any of his wrestlers bringing in a cooler knowing no one else can bring one in.

Was not trying to argue Fabio, just had some time to kill this morning. 8)

I see where you are coming from Fabio, but how many sporting events can you go to where you are allowed to bring in your own cooler with your own food. It is one thing to complain about coolers for the wrestlers but another to complain about coolers for non-participants. I am sure that strong Cavemen following in the northwest bleachers would be willing to save mom and pops a seat to go and eat.

Fabio, Last time I checked there is this thing called free will. You do not HAVE to buy anything from their concession stand. Yes is it more convienant to buy from the concession stand so we do not have to leave, but ah come on Fabio, the Cavemen feed into this semi-state, I am sure you guys found ways to get your drinks and healthy food in the venue to avoid those "inflated" prices, which by the way do not seem to be as inflated as Ft Wayne SS according to another post I recently read,

FYI Wrestling Fans: 1. Ticket prices are set by the IHSAA NOT MERRILLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. Merrillville High School does not keep the proceeds from this tournament. After expenses, all profit is sent to the IHSAA. IAMNOWHERE Fabio, I guess everyone can interpret things differently. I assumed they were talking about the ticket profits only. How did you interpret the above line? I AM NOWHERE or I AM NOW HERE?

Lucas Oil would probably not be an option. I actually read an article in The Times about how the IHSAA may have to move the football finals because of the hefty price tag on Lucas Stadium. If they will not pay for the football finals, I highly doubt they would do it for wrestling.

"If you ain't first, your last." - Reese Bobby

103 Aurelio Medina (Munster)

y2, Is deadline Saturday morning before the Regionals start or sometime Friday night?

All I have to say is my hats off to both wrestlers for even stepping out onto the mat. The meet was well in Portage's hands at this point of the dual, and neither had to risk injury or giving scouting material to one another. Entertaining match and looking forward to a coulple of more!

Congrats CP and Good Luck at Center Grove. Also a congrats to the other THREE teams that were in attendance yesterday on nice seasons...... Munster, Merrillville, and Portage.

I totally agree that you have to fight for your wrestler as a coach. natlchamp2005, I did not think you deserved to be dinged last week. You are allowed as a coach to question a call made by an official. If you are wrong in your questioning you are supposed to be given a warning. The next one being the deduction of a team point. I do no think anyone is saying that any coaching staff should not fight for their wrestler. However, last night I thought the CP staff was definitely deserving of at least a warning from the officials. I am not 100% sure about this,but I thought one of them actually used the officials name in a rant. It is one thing to walk the edge of the mat, but on more than one occasion they were actually in the cirlce. I agree with macdaddy, I do not blame the Cp staff, because they are going to bend without breaking. If the officials continue to allow this to be acceptable, you will continue to see it done.

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I think a hospitality room is always a plus for any tournament. I just don't think they should be bashed for not having one. It is not mandatory for them to have one. I look at this discussion about the hospitality room like the discussion we have about whether or not a wrestler should shake a coaches hand after a match. Kind of an option, but will probably be bashed more for not doing it.

Gonna try the quote thing too. royboy, You failed to mention that basically 2 of the mats are not even fully visible even if you do have a seat. Come on royboy, I thought that was understood based on the picture bigfan posted ;D Ummm OK. Look at the other semi-state venues. Only one of the other semi-states, New Castle, is held at a high school and it has the LARGEST HS fieldhouse in the WORLD. I have never been there for a semi-state, but I have been there for middle school duals qualifiers, and I can tell you that it is HUGE and you can see all of the mats clearly from every seat. The remaining 2 semi-states are at Roberts Stadium and Allen County Coliseum. Never been to either of these places, but based on feedback from other people on this board it sounds pretty nice to me. Probably because there isn't a high school with enough space to adequately support these events. I highly doubt that anyone would need to rope off a section at the other venues. Can someone help us out with this one? Neither of us have been to the other Semi-States so we are both kinda of guessing here about the whole host school having their own section discussion. OK... so your solution is to not eat. Take the questionable prices from the other concession stands you have seen and double them at Merrillville. Come on royboy, are you telling me that based on that quote from me you got that my solution was not to eat? :-\ Sad but true fact of life... people are pigs. They still leave a giant mess from their concession stand items, but somehow that is tolerable. I think the reasoning for this is 1) Boost concession stand revenue. 2) There isn't room for the coolers because the venue is too small. So the elite athletes I guess should fill up with pizza and hotdogs and the other concession stand crap. 1) Not a bad idea. 2) Correct does take away from seats, but coolers were allowed in certain areas in the past but again, sad but true fact of life.....people are pigs. I would imagine those elite athletes have already come up with a way to sneak in their elite food. ;D I think the amount of money made that day should more than justify the "hassle" of having to run a hospitality room. Many of these are ex wrestlers who realistically you have to count them as 1 1/2. So you would actually be feeding......270 people. 8) The tournament is run efficiently in terms of time. You failed to mention that there is pretty much no place for the wrestlers to warm up because the venue is TOO SMALL! You know what I forgot to mention that there is pretty much no place for wrestlers to warm up. I'll take my chances at a BIGGER VENUE! This is not intended to be a knock on the Merrillville wrestling program at all. I just want to be able to get a seat and watch ALL of the matches and let the kids have enough room to do their thing (warm up and bring coolers). I gotcha royboy, BIGGER VENUE. I did say I was not against a different venue. Just saying that I think the Merrilville Semi-State venue takes a beating this time a year and I was just try to generate some discussion on the topic rather than completely bashing it.

I am probably going to lose all my cool points but here we go. I figured I would take some time to add my opinion on some of the grumblings about the Merrillville Semi-State. 1a. NO WHERE TO SIT! I really can not argue the fact that it is pretty tight during the first two rounds of wrestling, but once the bleachers come out for the Semi's & Finals, it really is not that bad. I have payed attention to this over the last few years and actually have noticed quite of bit of room toward the top of the bleachers. There is really no way to solve this beside competly rebuilding the Merrillville gym and adding more seats. 1b. MERRILVILLE HAS THERE OWN SECTION! They are the host school of the tournament and I believe they should have their own section. I think it would be hard to find any school that would not have a section for their own school if they were hosting a tournament. Take a look up there next Saturday & you may be suprised to see that they are just as packed as everyone else is in the gym. Besides, no one compains about Mishawaka claiming their annual spot right there on the northwest bleachers year in and year out, or how about Portage which I believe is usually at the southwest corner, or how about the Hobart section that gets the lower end of the southeast pirates cove, or how about CP.....I could go on but I think everyone gets the point on this one. 2. OVERPRICED CONCESSIONS! Well I really have yet to attend a tournament where some items prices are a little questionable. This concession stand is a big source of revenue for them during this tournament. If it's that high to you, you can simply elect not to patronize their concession stand. 3. NO COOLERS IN THE BUILDING! This was actually not always the case, but unfortunately sometimes everyone does not know how to clean up after themselves and a rule such as this has to be implemented to prevent this from happening. 4. HOSPITALITY ROOM NOT AVAILABLE! This tournament has the potential to have 74 teams represented, and with the addition of the 4th place qualifier, quite possibly will be pretty close. Let's say only 60 teams are represented. So let's say each team gets 3 passes ( Head Coach + 2 Assts.) which people will complain that more should be handed out. That is 180 people they have to prepare for, this is not including Officials and Tournament staff. I think that is pretty hefty price tag to accomadate that many people. 5. ACTUAL RUNNING OF THE TOURNAMENT I do not think there should be any gripes about this. The Merrillville staff has always done an excellent job at running the tournament and keeping it moving along. When those bleachers actually do come out for the final two sessions, you are right there on top of the action. Heck, I think guys have actually landed in the front row at times. The feel of the spotlight matches for the final session is similar to that of the finals. As da rat would say " sum tuff region wrasslin!" I am usually not this long winded but since the "something has to be done about the sectional scoring" thread is gone, I figured I give this one a shot. I am not saying that I am against a different venue for the Semi-State. There have been some very good locales mentioned in previous posts. We have to remember though that it takes a lot of time, effort, volunteers, and responsability to pull off this tourney. I am not saying that no on eelse could do it, and maybe they deserve a shot, but as the old saying goes, The grass is not always greenier on the other side.

103 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Kyle Ayersman Lake Central 9 Runner up: Aurelio Medina Munster 10 Third: Tevin Joiner-Tatro Hammond Morton 10 Fourth: Tommy Tolle Hammond Gavit 9 Fifth: Steven Taylor Whiting 9 Sixth: John Ortiz Hammond Bishop Noll 9 112 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Bryan Smith Lake Central 11 Runner up: Danny Rodriguez Highland 10 Third: Connor Cecil Munster 9 Fourth: Victor Camarena Hammond Clark 10 Fifth: Pete Blood Whiting 10 Sixth: Forfeit Hammond Gavit 0 119 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Marc Escobedo Lake Central 11 Runner up: Luke Smith Munster 10 Third: Sergio Ortega Hammond Gavit 11 Fourth: Josh Kempke Whiting 9 Fifth: Forfeit Hammond Morton 0 Sixth: Forfeit Hammond Clark 0 125 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Bradley Wartman Lake Central 10 Runner up: Bret Roberts Hammond Gavit 12 Third: Jeremy Camacho Highland 9 Fourth: Jordan Cooper Munster 10 Fifth: Luis Quinonez East Chicago Central 9 Sixth: Forfeit Hammond Clark 0 130 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Chris Pajdzik Hammond Gavit 10 Runner up: Alex Leddesma Whiting 12 Third: Davelle Reed Hammond 10 Fourth: Dominic Cicchirillo Lake Central 9 Fifth: Carlos Rodriguez Hammond Clark 9 Sixth: Forfeit East Chicago Central 0 135 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Keith Britton Hammond Clark 12 Runner up: Justin Slosser Munster 11 Third: Jose Perez Lake Central 11 Fourth: Alex Martinez East Chicago Central 11 Fifth: Anthony McNeal Hammond 12 Sixth: Joey Guevara Hammond Gavit 9 140 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Alex Surma Munster 11 Runner up: Victor Rodriguez East Chicago Central 11 Third: Neko Durant Hammond Morton 10 Fourth: Tony Defillipo Hammond Bishop Noll 11 Fifth: Misael Gudino Hammond Clark 9 Sixth: Matt Aponte Whiting 10 145 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Chris Almaraz Highland 12 Runner up: Emerik Quiroz Whiting 10 Third: Erik Martinez Hammond Clark 12 Fourth: Michael Adams Munster 12 Fifth: Dalton Tussey Lake Central 11 Sixth: Mike Feleciano Hammond Bishop Noll 10 152 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Aaron Estrada Munster 12 Runner up: Brandon Cole East Chicago Central 11 Third: Joshua Green Hammond Morton 10 Fourth: Anthony Castro Hammond Clark 10 Fifth: Deparis Williams Hammond 11 Sixth: Matt Holloway Highland 10 160 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Rob Keough Lake Central 12 Runner up: Johnny Tyler Highland 12 Third: Thomas Lopez Hammond 12 Fourth: Alejandro Garcia East Chicago Central 12 Fifth: Alec Garcia Hammond Morton 12 Sixth: Danny Johnson Munster 11 171 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Mitch Vis Highland 12 Runner up: Joe Kalemba Lake Central 12 Third: Adrian Gutierrez Munster 11 Fourth: Brandon Mihalic Hammond Morton 11 Fifth: Cameron Copeland Hammond Clark 10 Sixth: Dan Fishel Whiting 12 189 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Willie Lott East Chicago Central 12 Runner up: Jimmy McNair Highland 12 Third: Jack Seaman Munster 10 Fourth: Julian Nevarez Whiting 12 Fifth: Seth Basler Lake Central 11 Sixth: Joey Humphrey Hammond Clark 12 215 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Vlade Nacovski Lake Central 11 Runner up: Nate Nunez Highland 12 Third: John Anderson Hammond Morton 11 Fourth: Andy Lucas Munster 11 Fifth: Gabe Mota Hammond Bishop Noll 11 Sixth: Josh Flores Whiting 10 285 POUND NAME SCHOOL GRADE Champion: Coty Anderson Highland 12 Runner up: Felix Denton Hammond Gavit 12 Third: Breyon Moore East Chicago Central 12 Fourth: Patrick Biancardi Lake Central 10 Fifth: Tyler Kerrick Munster 10 Sixth: Justin Fenes Hammond Morton 11 1 Munster 256.5 2 Lake Central 246 3 Highland 190 4 East Chicago Central 131 5 Hammond Morton 124 6 Hammond Clark 120 7 Whiting 116 8 Hammond Gavit 104.5 9 Hammond 48 10 Bishop Noll 40

True that 3rd-4th place match is gonna have less meaning. I think it will still be a hot contested match, seeing that there could be a huge difference in wrestling the Champ from certain Regionals as opposed to the runner-up.

It is great that they are adding 4 matches to each weight. The only problem is they added them in the wrong place. Adding wrestlebacks at least from the quarters on adds a total of 4 more matches.

East Chicago Sectional (10 Team) 103 - 1 112 - 4 119 - 6 125 - 4 130 - 3 135 - 1 140 - 1 145 - 1 152 - 3 160 - 1 171 - 0 189 - 0 215 - 1 285 - 0 Total = 26 Will get brackets to y2 later tonight.

I find it pretty admirable that he does not let his emotions get in the way when he is doing the rankings!

I am not sure, it is kinda of a day to day injury, as of yesterday I believe he was gonna be a "no go". Obviously he has no choice but to go next Saturday.