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Congratulations to your son! That is a great accomplishment, in my opinion!
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That was awesome! He wrestled his match, and is a National Championship as a Freshman!
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I thought he beat Hernandez in the semis and lost to Hector Mendez in the finals?
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Thomas Hammock - Bishop Luers. 3rd as both a JR and a SR.
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Best Wrestler To Never Qualify for State?
hammer replied to GenHeavyHandz's topic in Past Discussions
I think I have seen it posted that Jade McCammon lost in the ticket round at SS all 4 years. -
I believe that it is stretching it to say that Reece would have won State at 112, if not for Angel. More likely, he would have won it if not for his own teammate at 103.
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Galka looked very young as a Freshman.
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184 makes the most sense, but I have no inside knowledge.
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If their line up closely resembles this, it could get ugly!
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Better in state competition, here, likely. But I am guessing that KY doesn't share IN's stupid travel rules.
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Was that the one that Garner spent 5:30 minutes attacking, while Myers did no attacking, and then Myers scored right at the end to win? If so, that match should be under the "losing with class" topic. Garner never complained, and he had every right to. He just shook hands in the middle and walked off.
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I guess I have a difference in opinion, because of the size difference. Sliga taking 3rd as a freshman, at that weight class, in my opinion, is as impressive of any freshman performance that I have seen. He was a 14/15 y/o kid wrestling mostly 17/18 y/o kids. I don't knock him for losing the few matches that he did. Does anyone have any knowledge of Howe defeating opponents as much larger that Sliga is as a senior, when Howe was a senior?
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Senior Duckworth vs. Freshman Sliga is not a good thing to go on, in my opinion. You have to compare wrestlers when they are the same age, to have a fair comparison. Senior Howe vs. Senior Sliga would be a good match. I would expect low scoring, because Howe would be giving up a lot of size. Howe is one of the greatest, but Sliga is in that discussion, too.
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Do you know how hard it it is to place at 189# as a Freshman in IN? I would guess that over the past 30 years, that has happened less often than a true freshman to place in the NCAAs at 165.
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He won on DQ.
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Does your touch screen have no (.) or (,)? Both would help in making your posts make more sense.
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Not arguing against wrestle backs at all, but someone said that wrestle backs are the way to ensure the best 8 are the state placers. I would like to counter that with as long as we take 4, and only 4 from each Semistate, that we will rarely, if ever, see the 8 best wrestlers placer. Honestly, the only way to ensure that, would be if we took 8 from each Semistate. I know that I have seen years where you could make a strong argument that a couple kids from a given Semistate, in the same class, got left behind, and not just because of draws. They were just the 5th and 6th best kids in that weight class at that Semistate. They also might have been the 6th and 7th kids in that State in that weight class.
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If they wrestled multiple times, I think there could be some close matches, but I would imagine they would have to wrestle a lot more than 10 times before Robinson could win.
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Milius
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I am sure Donte is honored to be nominated, considering he has yet to win a state title. The hwt. chosen for the team is a 3X Prep Champ from Blair. His resume is quite impressive.
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I enjoy watching the guys who are pinners.
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While I agree that stalling is often called questionably, one thing that every one needs to remember, is that even within the rules, the same match will often be officiated differently, depending on who is officiating. Look at stalemate calls, and stalemate non-calls. If a ref makes a stalemate call, early, the wrestler who was in better position at the time is going to be upset. If the ref doesn't call a stalemate when he should, and it eventually leads to a take down, the wrestler who gives up the take down is going to be upset, and for good reason. You just have to adjust to how the match is reffed. As long as the ref is consistent......if not, then there are plenty of reasons to complain.
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Why is wrestling the best sport in the world?
hammer replied to aoberlin's topic in Past Discussions
Because you are in the match until the final whistle blows. No other sport that I know of has anything comparable to the great equalizer, the pin fall! -
I think his point is that wrestling in a stupid manner can cost your team, and can cause injuries to kids that are otherwise highly avoidable.
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As someone who once coached a team loaded with first year wrestlers, I will attempt to give ChargerDad some perspective, although I have my doubts as to it being well received. I took over a program that was in the bottom of our conference. The enthusiasm of a coaching change, though, helped this team go from less than 10 wrestlers, to around 30. We opened our season with a dual against the best team in our conference, by far. We got hammered! I lost 10 of those kids by our next meet. Some of them had some pretty good potential, but were just really inexperienced, and not prepared to get thrown to the wolves. The next year, when the same situation came up, I chose to wrestler my experienced wrestlers varsity, and the new kids in jv matches. That meant that we wrestled some kids jv in weights that we forfeited varsity. The opposing coach didn't like that, and voiced his opinion about it, but not to me, directly, but to the referee. The referee, and a former coach both told me the same thing,"always remember that it's the other coach's job to coach his team, and your job to coach your team. You have to do what's best for your team."