decbell1

I only looked at schedules that had been posted on this website. I am trying to look for matches that I know will be close, or involving ranked teams. I do have one southern matchup in there.

Check out the standings on the first post in this topic: Here are this week's matchups: 12/3 Franklin (0-0) vs. Columbus North (0-0) Garrett (4-2) vs. South Adams (5-1) 12/5 New Castle (7-0) vs. Bellmont (5-1) Cathedral (0-0) vs. Warren Central (0-0) Franklin (0-0) vs. Pike (6-0) e-mail, post, or message me your picks before Thursday

I've spent a lot of time in the LT school system, and I agree that it is very good. My biggest worry is how the elementary schools are going to handle the extra grade as far as capacity goes.

I did hear some mention of a proposal in the Indy star to send the 9th and 10th graders to LC and the 11th and 12th graders to LN. If that were to happen, it would make for a remarkable change in the sports scene in the Indy area. I would assume that if that were to happen that the two schools would combine sports programs, making them unstoppable in most of the mainstream sports. LN-LC have a combined enrollment of 5,121. I am not sure how such a combination would work logistically, but it's a very interesting concept. Pretty sad that they want to close Craig Middle School.

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20091113/SPORTS05/311139946/1008/SPORTS Whitko wrestlers hoping to join eliteGreg Jones High school sports editor Whitko wrestling coach Matt Koontz still considers the team as returning six semistate qualifiers. There are the five ? Austin and Dylan LeTourneau, Jordan Gilbert, Daniel Rothgeb and Drake Brainard. The sixth, Jarrod Lewis, won?t be on the mat for the Wildcats, but he will be in his teammates? hearts. As a sophomore, Lewis came within one win of advancing to the state finals at 160 pounds. As a junior this year, he became an All-TRC middle linebacker for the Whitko football team. But with three weeks left in the football season, Lewis was injured in an car crash and spent three weeks in a coma. Until this week, Lewis was still at Parkview Hospital and hasn?t been responsive but does open his eyes. ?It is more of heavy heartedness because he has been a big part of our program,? Koontz said. ?It is that he is still with us, but he is just not wrestling with us. It is in the backdrop, and we use sports more to get away from it a little bit. It?s not a rallying cry.? Despite not having Lewis, the Wildcats still have high hopes after returning 10 other individual regional qualifiers from a team that fell 42-15 in the team regional to Bellmont. ?We are real excited about our team,? Koontz said. ?We feel like the ones who scored points for us last year are still going to be there. We want to be one of the better programs in the area, and we think we are making steps to do that. ?The goal has to be getting to team state, which means we have to win one more match than we did last year. Obviously it is a high goal, going through Bellmont, which is there every year, and Yorktown and solid teams in Carroll.? Last season, Whitko won its first sectional title in the current team postseason format, and first in 19 years, and beat New Haven 39-21 in the regional semifinals. ?We are still pretty young, but we feel like there are a lot of other guys who are going to step up and really improve our team from 103 to heavyweight,? Koontz said. ?We have done a better job of competing with all the best programs. We have won our conference the last seven years, so there are certain programs we feel real confident against, but when we go against the Bellmonts, the Yorktowns, the Mishawakas, the best programs in the state, we kind of felt inferior. ?The last couple of years, we have started believing in ourselves. We haven?t taken that step yet, but they feel like they can. Mentally we are ready to start challenging at a higher level.? Koontz said the team?s strength is in the lower weights, especially with Austin LeTourneau at 103, Gilbert at 112, Dylan LeTourneau at 119 and Rothgeb at 125. Brainard will wrestle at heavyweight.

There is always room for you to volunteer your spare time to help build this website. We need plenty of help researching results. Let us know........

Wabash wins at 103 and 125.

Matches for Saturday 11/21 New Castle vs. Westfield McCutcheon vs. Delphi Matches for the week of 11/27 11/24-Lawrence North vs. Warren Central Bluffton vs. Norwell 11/28-Yorktown vs. Bellmont -Homestead vs. South Adams -Brownsburg vs. Martinsville Post your picks for these 7 matches or e-mail and we will see how this plays out.

After talking with a few other people on this board, I thought it would be interesting to see how many of us could make it in Vegas as oddsmakers. ESPN and MLB have something like this on their websites called Beat the Streak. Here is the proposition: -I will post several dual meets through the week and a couple for each Saturday. -You can either a) post on this thread or e-mail me your picks for the winner of each dual -I will keep track of who has the longest running streak of matches picked correctly -We may even be able to get Y2CJ41 to toss in a t-shirt or a prize at the end of the year. STANDINGS THROUGH WEEK 2 record Current Streak T-1. littlevito 16-5 T-1. throwforfive 16-5 T-1. decbell1 16-5 T-1. ontherise219 15-6 5. GS171 14-7 T-6. rdrodd1 13-8 T-6. WrestlingFan 13-8 T-6. jwkwrestler12 13-8 T-6. Boot 13-8 T-6. SouthRebel 13-8 T-11. tyandky 12-9 T-11. Old171 12-9 T-13. NCGRAD00 11-10 T-13. GrecoCoach 11-10 New High Streak rdrodd1: 8 Due to the high number of entries, I will only be posting the top 15 in total wins, but still keeping track of everyone's at home.

Knox 44 - Culver 15 103 pounds Kyle Cummins (K) won by FF (CC); 112 Double FF; 119 Double FF; 125 Dalton Overmyer (CC) def. Kevin Land (K), pin 5:14; 130 Kyle Hernandez (K) def. Ian Randolph (CC) pin 2:59; 135 Danny Bradley (K) def. Keith Back (CC) pin 3:34; 140 Devann Biddle (K) def. Ryan Thorne (CC) TF 15-0; 145 Kyle Peterson (CC) won by FF (K); 152 Tyler Potthoff (K) won by FF (CC); 160 Garrett Majchrzak (K) def. Seth Schaeffer (CC) pin 1:37; 171 Jimmy Krause (K) won by FF (CC); 189 Matt Clark (K) def. Skyler Fisher (CC) 8-2; 215 Double FF; 285 Tommy James (CC) def. Logan Short (K) 6-4.

ya, it's Evansville Central, I think I put it in already

Actually, there is.......................... ;D

Just a reminder, If your team is involved in a Super Dual, and you know some or all of the teams involved that day, please convey that information to us, it will help when that tournament rolls around to just enter the score, rather than having to go through creating the entire dual meet. If you can, please distinguish between individual and dual meet tournaments, it helps out a lot. If you have already submitted your team's schedule, go out and find just one more from your area, or send us their link from highschoolsports.net and...... Don't forget to post all of your results once the season starts.

It will be really helpful if you can include any information about teams involved in Saturday Super Duals in your schedule. (if they are known)

and how in the world would you propose that freshman should be ranked without ever wrestling a high school match?

I think you summed it up right there.... If you wrestle differently somehow, because someone's name is on an internet page, how does that make any sense? Other reasons TO post info: -to help grow and support the sport of wrestling in Indiana -we all love the sport and want to be informed on the rest of the state -giving kids recognition for a job well done has never been a bad thing -most of the information is obtainable anyways, asking for it from the coaches just streamlines things. (maybe the best reason) In all honesty, I don't think rankings are going to change anyone's opinions too drastically. If someone is overconfident because they think they are good, they would probably be overconfident and cocky if there were no rankings.

If anyone from Perry Meridian would be kind enough to send me a copy of their schedule this year, I would appreciate it. decbell1@hotmail.com

But there is still no good reason for your argument, oldman. If they CAN, then they SHOULD, what other argument is there to give? The idea that somehow a boy is in a no-win situation makes no sense. It's a sporting event....

I am not sure that I am understanding your argument.... What your saying is that it is acceptable, away from the wrestling mat, for one male to place his hands or do a move to another male? I am not sure what kind of work environment you are in, but most things that happen on a wrestling mat are only "acceptable" ON A wrestling mat, and not away from it. I am not sure how this argument is supposed to apply to girls wrestling. All I know is that I would not want to open myself up to a lawsuit just because of some personal notion that girls and guys shouldn't be touching. It's a sport, not a Friday night...

Thanks for the info, I will try to get that changed.

Don't worry about the rankings Travis, just beat Eastbrook on Friday....

Here is the http://www.indianamat.com/09-10-preseason-team-rankings/2009/10/ for a more detailed look at the top 20 teams including tournament history and top returning wrestlers TOP 20: 1-Mishawaka 2-Crown Point 3-Perry Meridian 4-Castle 5-Ev. Mater Dei 6-Merrillville 7-Yorktown 8-Cathedral 9-Bellmont 10-Lawrence North 11-Roncalli 12-Bloomington South 13-New Castle 14-Evansville Reitz 15-Portage 16-Elkhart Memorial 17-Warren Central 18-Penn 19-Columbus North 20-Avon

Any idea on who the additional two teams are? Bellmont Yorktown Peru Garrett Huntington North Laporte (used to be them, not sure if they still go) ??? ???

Unbelievably, there was a second murder in two days in rural Wells County last night. A former wrestler from Norwell was killed. Just wanted to say that I will be keeping his family in my prayers, and I urge others to do the same.

Cathedral is losing a lot, while LN returns a lot. It might be a close sectional this year, but that could change depending on how well the new Irish fit in.