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Thank you all very much.

My bad. Thanks for the correction

Pretty sure Nando used up his eligibility. He had a nice career.

Blake Maurer vs. Alex Dolly for the 171 State Championship in 2003 is still the most exciting high school match I have ever seen. Many of Maurer's matched were won by a point... how is that not exciting?!!? I agree. That match was definitely one of the best HS matches I've seen as well.

Actually, yes, we were going to try to do the same for the various divisions. It's obviously more difficult to assemble an accurate list for non-D1 wrestlers. Of course we are proud of our non-D1 wrestlers. However, right now, we are working on D1.

1. Anthony Wright, Cath--hard to top his combo of HS career and the summer he just had. Other than the loss in FS to Tsirtsis, he's been pretty untouchable for about a year. 2. Christopher Quiroga, LN--Last year's state champ at 119 and a runner-up to Harper the year before. Cashe had a masterful summer, beating Iowa stud Joe Colon and many others en route to placing 7th at Junior Nat's and a very successful performance at National Duals, where he went undefeated and beat NJ state champ Biscaha. 3. Josh Harper, Mishawaka--3X state champ and counting. Has just missed placing at numerous national events the past couple of years. One match away from placement at Junior Nat's. Seems to have Quiroga's number, but Cashe gets the slight nod based on superior national results. 4. Camden Eppert, AH--he's been in the trenches of the big tourneys for what seems like an eternity, and he's always good for a placement or near placement. Had an outstanding Super32 tourney this year, beating Cox of WY and placing. 5. Sean McMurray, Portage--A huge postseason last year led to a state title and seemed to propel him into a great summer on the Indiana Gold team and at Soph. Nat's. (7th place, lost to 1st and 3rd place finishers) 6. Marcus Shrewsbury, CP--Has had a lot of national success, including a runner-up finish at Jr. Nat's and will be favored to win a state title this year 7. Eric Roach, CP--An outstanding debut as a freshman led to a state runner-up award. He followed it up with a Freshman Nationals title, outscoring his opponents 61-11. 8. Michael Duckworth, Union County--Made a great run to the finals last year at State, also had a very nice summer as runner-up at Soph. Nationals 9. Adam Chalfant, Winchester--getting a lot of national attention. Odds on favorite to win at HWT and a phenomenal athlete 10. Frankie Porras, Hobart--One of many Indiana kids who had a great summer, Porras finished a strong second in last year's state finals and followed it up with a 5th place finish at Soph Nat's. 11. Ethan Raley-Indian Creek--State champ last year at 103. 12. Taylor March, East Noble--A perennial contender, he has been the Hard-Luck Kid during his HS career, finishing 2nd twice and third once 13. Brandon Nelson--2X high placer at state finals, 4th place at Soph. Nat's. Has had many successful national outcomes, including going 6-0 at Junior National Duals Greco Tourney. 14. Anthony Hawkins-4th place in-state, losing to Brandon Nelson in 3rd place match, finished 3rd at Soph Nat's, beating Nelson. 15. Justin Brooks, Warsaw--3X placer, some substantial national results as well. Nationally ranked by some organizations. Just missed: Jason Tsirtsis, Steve Sandefer

Eppert also placed at the prestigious Super32 this summer. Sandefer did wrestle at Scholastic Duals this summer. He did pretty well, but was not one of the top guys on Indiana Gold.

Hernandez loses to Ciasuli 4-3. Kinser beats Dragon. Very nice win. Now he gets defending champ Leen. Young loses to Andy Rendos 5-0. Powless lost his first match, won his first wrestleback. Kasten loses his first match. Walpole wins by fall in consis.

Howe wins his first match 8-3 over Crozier of Air Force. Paul Young beats Deberry of ASU, who beat Howe this past summer, 5-2

Including our very own Hump

Corpe loses his 1st match 6-4 to French of Air Force

Walpole got pinned very quickly. Hernandez wins a tight first match. Kinser wins comfortably. Young by TF.

Yeah, I thought about Winel, but I'm not sure...

I would like to echo the thanks and appreciation to Joe. He does a ton for Indiana wrestling, and this is just another example. Also, following up on his comments about articles and items of interest, we will be posting original material related to Indiana high school wrestling and collegiate wrestling. We are still tinkering with format, but we will do our best to create some good stuff. Once it's up to speed, we hope to have new articles each week. We would like to have a Spotlight feature on an Indiana high school wrestler each week, ideally from different parts of the state each week. We will need help from all of you to have the best material possible. We're looking forward to becoming THE site for Indiana wrestling because we all share a love for the sport and we all support our state's athletes. Feel free to offer any suggestions or requests. See you all at Dingo's Den.

I'm trying to compile a list of all the Indiana guys currently on D1 rosters. I appreciate any help you can give. Here's what I have so far: Alex Tsirtsis-Iowa Alex Dolly-Northern Iowa Jamal Lawrence-Northern Iowa Casey Caldwell-Navy Eric McGill-Cornell Travis Dale-Cornell Ian Hinton-MSU Andrew Howe-Wisconsin Eric Galka-Northwestern Reece Humphrey-Ohio St. Garrett James-Northern Illinois Brian Deutsch-Northern Illinois Peter Deutsch-George Mason Andrew Szymborski-VMI Chandler Coffey-IU Matt Coughlin-IU Angel Escobedo-IU Wesley Fike-IU Andrae Hernandez-IU Scott Kelly-IU Kurt Kinser-IU Justin Kuhn-IU George Malone-IU Seth Parker-IU Matt Powless-IU Cooper Samuels-IU Kyle Samuels-IU Christopher Tanner-IU Nick Viterisi-IU Nick Walpole-IU Alex Warren-IU Paul Young-IU Tommy Churchard-PU Nick Corpe-PU Brennan Cosgrove-PU Matt Fields-PU Jake Fleckenstein-PU David Goodman-PU Matt Hemry-PU Chris Kasten-PU Orrin Kleinhenz-PU Jason Martin-PU Sam Patacsil-PU George Petrov-PU Roger Vukobratovich-PU I know I'm forgetting some....Thanks for the help

Warren-Danny Williams Perry-Nate Moore Cathedral-Lance Ellis Chatard-Steve Dum

isnt peru ranked? Yeah, they were #17 when Garrett beat them. A huge win and they kept it respectable against a very strong Yorktown team.

Nice win by Garrett over Peru

I gotta say, Y2...WELL DONE. Look forward to helping make this site a big success. I'm stoked.