Dingo Brigade

I agree. 
 
I think goebel is passing the torch to Blake. 

Great informative commentary from one of Indiana’s finest wrestlers and youth coaches.
I agree. It is a nice change of pace from years past.

For the last year nine years I have spent a Sunday morning in February drinking coffee by the pool and watching the State Finals from 12 time zones away here in SE Asia.  Of course I have always enjoyed Coach Goebel's commentary, and with the addition of Blake Mauer, this year's broadcast was the best ever.  It was great to get some "new school" perspective, and I hope they bring him back next year.  
Anyway, thanks to the IHSAA, Coach Goebel, and Coach Mauer for keeping us displaced Hoosiers in the game .  I sure don't miss Indiana weather in February, but I do miss the heck out of that tournament.
Cheers.   

I had
EC. 24
FW 22
NC 35
Ev 31

Mat 1
Nice slide by by Wagner, still trails 8-4, runs out of time. 8-6 win for Boe
Mat 2
Watts back on offense, leading 6-3. Watts in a rhythm . Walendzak on bottom, Watts continuing to punish with a tough ride. No answer thus far from LW. Winner gets Sammy Fair in the finals. Watts just too dominant on top. Very impressive performance, back to the finals for Watts. 6-3 final
 

Well done, Dingo. Thanks!! Watching Track from out of the country. Appreciate the details. Stay hot Irish!!! Title is in sight!! 

Poynter gaving to injury default was a bummer.

Yea... that was a tough one! Proud of my guy had a solid run. Just wrestled a bad match. Mahan did great. Back to the drawing board and practice on Monday! Good luck to all the placers! 
Feel bad for Tiranas too. Great family. 

If Andrew Black reaches the finals at 113, that would make him a back to back finalist from two different schools: Shenandoah and New Castle.
When was the last time this happened and how often has it happened?
 
I know Palmer did it with Muncie Southside and Delta about 3 decades ago.

I am the fifth Beatle

Loved Ed holding down the mobile office. Respect!!

Loved Ed holding down the mobile office. Respect!!

Loved Ed holding down the mobile office. Respect!!

Our final state hangout will be tonight as Ed Pendoski joins us to discuss the latest happenings of Geter and more!
 

Check out my state finals preview this morning at 6:45 on wjob. It will be heavy region but will still give some love to some other areas also. 
 
 

By JEREMY HINES
thehines7@gmail.com
In middle school Harrison Hadley weighed 60 pounds but had to wrestle in the 75 pound weight class because that was the smallest class available. Today, he’s the big man on campus at Lapel High School.
Hadley, a junior 106-pounder for the Bulldogs, became the school’s first wrestler to ever reach the state finals when he defeated South Dearborn’s Eli Otto 13-5 in the ticket round of the New Castle semistate.
“I definitely feel like I’m the big man on campus right now,” Hadley said. “The elementary school made this big banner for me and everyone signed it. People are going up to me in the halls and around town telling me congratulations and wishing me luck. The school recognized me for advancing. It’s pretty cool right now.”
Lapel has been a school since before the 1870s. At first Lapel was a one-room school house, but over time the location has changed and school buildings have come and gone. The school’s history is one of the oldest in the state. To be the very first athlete to accomplish going to state is something first-year coach Jake Stilwell doesn’t believe has fully sunk in for Hadley yet.
“This is huge for Lapel wrestling,” Stilwell said. “There have only been five semistate qualifiers in school history. For our program, this is absolutely huge. The younger kids see that state isn’t something impossible now. They see it can be done.
“It’s never occurred here before and most people didn’t think it could happen. Now they see Harrison has done it, and it gives them hope. I don’t even know if Harrison has grasped what has happened. It will take a little time for this to all settle in.”
After Hadley won the ticket-round match he immediately wanted to watch film on the match to see what he could have done differently. That’s what he does every match, win or lose.
“I like to see what type of positions I exposed myself to,” Hadley said. “I look at how I could have improved. I look for things that will take me to the next level. I always critique myself, even if I tech fall or pin a kid.”
Stilwell wanted Hadley to take a moment to take in the importance of what he had accomplished at semistate.
“He was very excited when he won,” Stilwell said. “But when he came off the mat he likes to dive right into what just happened and look for ways to improve. We had to stop him and remind him about what he just accomplished. He was excited, but wasn’t showing that emotion. He was still just trying to think of what he could have done differently.”
According to Harrison, the person most excited after the ticket round was his mom, Sonya.
“She was crying and everything,” Hadley said. “She was telling me how proud she was of me. I’ve never really seen her like that. It was a great moment.”
Hadley enters the state tournament with a record of 39 wins and only three losses. Two of those losses came last week at semistate. Hadley fell to Perry Meridian’s Alex Cottey in the semifinal round, then lost to Warren Central’s David Pierson in the consolation match.
Hadley, who likes to race 600cc mini sprint cars in his free time, has wrestled 106 pounds his entire high school career. As a freshman he came into the season weighing just 99 pounds. He’s put on about five pounds per year, but is easily able to get down to weight for the wrestling season.
Hadley is hoping his victory could help the team. He says it’s great to go to state, but it would be much sweeter going there with teammates also competing.
“I see some schools take nine or 10 guys to state,” Hadley said. “I think that would be awesome. Just seeing Cathedral’s team and how well they did at semistate and the bond those guys have, it’s fun to watch.
“Our program has struggled. We have never been that strong. But, if we can start advancing more kids it will really help build things up.”
Last year Lapel had just eight wrestlers. This year there are 17 on the Bulldog roster.
“Lapel is a school that has some good athletes,” Stilwell said. “The challenge is to get those kids to go out for wrestling. I really think Harrison’s success is going to help with that.”
Hadley will take on Brownsburg freshman Kysen Montgomery (38-7) in the Friday night match.
“For me, wrestling is an escape from everything,” Hadley said. “It’s something that helps me focus on my goals. It helps me in life situations and helps build my character. Right now my major goal is to be able to wrestle in college.”

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Sorry fellas I doubt any ladies tuned in tonight but great show anyway.

Thank you we love putting them on. Also I appreciate it the rankings are fun and hopefully we are able to recognize these kids who do well all season. 

Love the hangouts guys. Thanks. Also want to throw in there... Mike you do a great job with the rankings and I know its not easy thank you

We'll go through half the weights and discuss everything you need to know to lose at pick'ems
 

Ran some quick stats  and came up with dual results this year against the border states which Indiana high schools wrestled.   Not a large enough sample to make any big conclusions, but we did  have some strong Indiana teams and weaker teams wrestle stronger and weak teams from other states.  Note these were just the duals reported, so probably a few more results out there.  But this is a majority of the results.
 
Overall Indiana was 100 - 94 against the rest of the country in duals.  The rest of country only includes IL, MI, KY, OH, WI.
Indiana vs Illinois        39-42
Indiana  vs Kentucky   24-26     ( Union, KY was 13-0 against IN)
Indiana vs Michigan     8-15      (Niles, MI was 5-0 against IN)
Indiana vs Ohio           25-10
Indiana vs Wisconsin    4-1
Interesting,  Ohio is probably strongest state but we had the best record against them.   Brownsburg did have a superdual in Ohio , so they're partially affecting the results.
          School State   W L Alleman Catholic  il   3 0 Althoff Catholic(IL)  il   1 1 Antioch(IL) il   0 1 Barrington(IL) Broncos  il   1 0 Bismark Henning(IL)  il   4 5 Carbondale(IL)  il   0 2 Clinton(IL)  il   3 0 Deerfield(IL)  il   0 1 Downers Grove North(IL) Trojans  il   1 0 Herrin(IL)  il   3 1 Illinois Valley Central(IL)  il   2 1 Lake Park(IL)  il   1 7 Lakes Community (IL)   il   0 1 Mount Carmel(IL)   il   3 0 Oakwood(IL)   il   4 1 Paxton Buckley Loda (IL) Panthers  il   2 2 Peotone(IL)  il   1 1 Rantoul(IL)  il   0 2 Rich East(IL)  il   0 1 Richland County(IL)  il   2 0 Ridgeview(IL)  il   1 2 Robinson(IL)  il   2 2 Rock Island(IL) Rocks  il   0 1 Rolling Meadows(IL) Mustangs  il   0 1 Saint Thomas More(IL il   1 1 Thornridge(IL)  il   0 2 Unity(IL)  il   2 1 Westville(IL)   il   4 1 Wheaton Warrenville South(IL) Tigers  il   1 0 Carmi-White County(IL) il   0 1 Boyle County(KY)  ky   0 1 Bullet East(KY) ky   0 1 Covington Catholic(KY) ky   0 1 Davies County(KY)   ky   2 2 Fairdale(KY)  ky   0 1 Fern Creek(KY)  ky   2 6 Louisville Trinity(KY) ky   0 1 Moore(KY)  ky   0 1 Oldham County(KY)   ky   6 4 Owensboro(KY)   ky   0 1 St. Xavier(KY)  ky   0 1 Trinity-Whitesville (KY)   ky   2 3 Union County(KY)  ky   13 0 Woodford County(KY)  ky   1 1 Detroit Catholic Central(MI)  mi   4 0 Edwardsburg(MI)  mi   3 1 Holt(MI)  mi   1 3 Lakeshore(MI)  mi   0 1 Niles(MI)  mi   5 0 Reading(MI)  mi   1 0 White Pigeon(MI)  mi   1 3 Aiken(OH)  oh   0 1 Bloom - Carroll(OH)  oh   0 1 Bowling Green(OH)  oh   0 1 Celina(OH) oh   0 1 Centerville(OH) oh   1 1 Cincinnati LaSalle(OH) oh   1 0 Coldwater(OH) oh   1 1 Delphos Jefferson(OH)  oh   0 1 Edgerton(OH)  oh   1 0 Elida(OH) oh   1 0 Fairfield(OH)  oh   1 1 Harrison(OH)  oh   1 1 Hicksville(OH)   oh   0 1 Lebanon (OH)   oh   0 2 Mason(OH)  oh   2 3 Milton-Union(OH)  oh   0 1 Oak Hills(OH)   oh   0 1 Parkway(OH) Panthers  oh   1 1 Patrick Henry(OH)  oh   0 1 Preble Shawnee(OH)   oh   0 1 St. Marys Memorial(OH) oh   0 1 Van Wert(OH)  oh   0 1 Walnut Hills(OH) oh   0 3 Kenosha Indian Trail (WI) Hawks   wi   0 1 Westosha Central(WI) wi   1 3       94 100                                     Border          States IN   IL   42 39   KY   26 24   MI   15 8   OH   10 25   WI   1 4       94 100            

Jacob Sisk and Jackson Pettigrew drew the hardest first-round matches.

And how about Micic almost majoring #2 Pletcher
Amine beat 3x AA and returning national finalist Jordan
What a dual!!

And how about Micic almost majoring #2 Pletcher
Amine beat 3x AA and returning national finalist Jordan
What a dual!!