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Two 800lb Gorilla's in the room.
 

Davison definitely deserves some love. That was one heck of a tournament run. Unfortunately Kerkvliet stood in the way of a story book ending.
 
But hey he gave us Indiana boys two NCAA D1 finalists & fun ride.
 
Hats off to Mr. Lucas Davison!

Castle Coach Bob Harmon retires after a very long and successful coaching career.  Congratulations Coach. 
 
https://castleknightsathletics.com/Article/23242 

Avon RTC starts this Wednesday, March 6th. Practice is from 6:00-7:30 pm. Please enter Door 20 on the southside of the school. This is a different entrance from the past since we just got a new wrestling room. USAW card required.
 
Our first RTC clinician this spring is Ryan Konz. Coach Konz wrestled at Indiana University and is a Franklin, TN native. He is currently an assistant coach at Avon High School and is an outstanding technician. Come learn from Coach Konz this Wednesday and check out our new wrestling facility!
 
 
Ryan Konz
Indiana University - Class of 2013
Franklin High School (TN) - Class of 2008
 
Prep Career: 241-16
4x TSAA State Medalist (2x Runner-Up, 2x 3rd placer)
TN State Dual Champions (Franklin, TN)
2007 NHSCA Junior Nationals Runner-Up 
4 year letterwinner at Indiana University
4 year Academic All-Big Ten
 

 
 

As stated previously this hall of fame is ran by crooked media folks who don't care. All rules are as valuable as the napkin they were written on.

Congratulations to this year's inductees
 
 

It's different this time...this isn't about class wrestling...it's about divisions.

Greco Ref and The Ancient Elder should be shoo-ins!!!!
 

Tell me you are married to a high school coach without telling me you are married to a high school coach 

What about Happy Pants?

If he goes 132 again I’m still taking Schaefer at #1 over him

Showing my age here....... Early 80's Delta's David Palmer was a beast for a couple of years or maybe even more. He was totally dominant and untouchable. I believe my high school had a very good wrestler that was beaten by him two years in a row in the State finals.

Showing my age here....... Early 80's Delta's David Palmer was a beast for a couple of years or maybe even more. He was totally dominant and untouchable. I believe my high school had a very good wrestler that was beaten by him two years in a row in the State finals.

Stud. To say the least

If you purchased tickets there is an email from Ticketmaster where you can leave a review. Speak your mind Indiana wrestling fans. Please remember to be civil though. 😆

Great weekend of wrestling and extra special for me, as my son was able to coach his 2nd state champ in his hometown tonight! I just don't understand the empty seating mystery at the Ford tonight. I was told by text messages today from two different people that the wrestling was sold out tonight and was curious if I had gotten a ticket. They were unable to purchase tickets online, because of all tickets being sold out. So Ticketmaster must be playing games with the seating or someone is buying a lot of tickets and not coming. Plenty of seats at every session this weekend. What is going on???

Great to see a kid put a Gold on the mantle.
 
In a time where many Avon families have drifted north... happy to see the crew stay put.

My favorite interview of the night was when Dickman mentioned that his opponent in the Finals - Nathan Rioux -  was his first ever practice partner at age 4.
 
I know that BB & Avon are rivals from the same county, so it wasn't exactly mind-shattering to hear, but it was very cool just the same.
 
I don't know the Rioux family. But knowing this sport & the kids they have put forward, I can't imagine anything but great things.

Just wanted to say the Rioux Fam appreciate all the kind words! Unbelievably proud of Luke and Nate for all their hard work and Luke for getting it done... even if he had to call me out in the interview afterwards! 

It was a special weekend at the Ford for me and my family as my son coached his 2nd State champ in 8 years of being a head coach. Congrats to Luke and his family and to all the Oriole wrestling family on his fantastic weekend. It was extra special in front of our hometown for probably the only time our city will host a wresting state championship weekend. It was a pleasant 10 minute drive 😀 The downside was that it had to be against another westside families wrestler that we respect and admire so very much. The ticket debacle was a nightmare! Not sure what happened or if we will ever find out the truth about #ticketgate2024. I do know people from the Ford and I spoke with the ticket office manager who said it was a ticketmaster problem. I feel we as fans of wrestling got totally hosed by ticketmaster again on paying high fees on tickets and then having to go pick them up at the ticket office. I was told there may be refunds issued on our fees. Not holding my breath on that. Did they set a limit on actual ticket sales? Was the unused seats part of the original plan by ticketmaster to not oversell? Which I don't understand. Why couldn't you purchase tickets online Saturday, because it showed it being a "sellout or unavailable" Many people I know in town didn't come because of the unavailable tickets. Event was promoted well in Evansville and I really expected more of a hometown crowd. I think the Ford Center did a fantastic job and I think everyone was mostly happy about our facility and accommodations for the event. There are many casual wrestling fans in southern IN that might not make a trip anymore to Indy every year that I expected to be at the Ford, but the crowd attendance showed differently. I truly believe that the ticketmaster problems, maybe weather a little bit, and maybe just economic reasons (household tight budgets) are all factors in the low attendance.

There are some options, just the biggest obstacle is that there is such a short turn around between getting your qualifiers and then getting tickets for family and teams then for the general public.
 
Some ideas I have had or heard from others.
1. Assigned sections instead of seats. I assume this is possible with enough "service" fees on Ticketmaster, but it would be great for teams and fans to converge on a specific section instead of exact seats. I really miss the pockets of fans from each team that cheer loudly together.
2. Teams get X amount of tickets to sell per qualifier beyond the parent/school tickets. If it was say 10 per qualifier they would get the 4(well should be 4) for family and 4 for school, plus 10. This would mean just over 4000 tickets which is a lot. The unused ones would be given back. The hardest part would be the turnaround time to get them to schools and get them back into the pool if not used.
3. Only all session tickets. 
4. Open All-Session tickets on Wednesday and single session tickets on Thursday.
 
The assigned seating isn't going away, general admission is bad and makes for a tremendously less enjoyable experience. 

It was a special weekend at the Ford for me and my family as my son coached his 2nd State champ in 8 years of being a head coach. Congrats to Luke and his family and to all the Oriole wrestling family on his fantastic weekend. It was extra special in front of our hometown for probably the only time our city will host a wresting state championship weekend. It was a pleasant 10 minute drive 😀 The downside was that it had to be against another westside families wrestler that we respect and admire so very much. The ticket debacle was a nightmare! Not sure what happened or if we will ever find out the truth about #ticketgate2024. I do know people from the Ford and I spoke with the ticket office manager who said it was a ticketmaster problem. I feel we as fans of wrestling got totally hosed by ticketmaster again on paying high fees on tickets and then having to go pick them up at the ticket office. I was told there may be refunds issued on our fees. Not holding my breath on that. Did they set a limit on actual ticket sales? Was the unused seats part of the original plan by ticketmaster to not oversell? Which I don't understand. Why couldn't you purchase tickets online Saturday, because it showed it being a "sellout or unavailable" Many people I know in town didn't come because of the unavailable tickets. Event was promoted well in Evansville and I really expected more of a hometown crowd. I think the Ford Center did a fantastic job and I think everyone was mostly happy about our facility and accommodations for the event. There are many casual wrestling fans in southern IN that might not make a trip anymore to Indy every year that I expected to be at the Ford, but the crowd attendance showed differently. I truly believe that the ticketmaster problems, maybe weather a little bit, and maybe just economic reasons (household tight budgets) are all factors in the low attendance.

Is this better? 
- after each wrestler gets their allotment then the sale to general public happens at 10 AM on Wednesday.   These tickets are ALL SESSION only tickets. It’s crappy that all session tickets were being sold for the top row of the upper deck while the individual session seats were available in the lower bowl.  
- any seats not sold during this time then go to a Friday session and a Saturday session ticket. Each would be good for the whole day.  These go on sale on Wednesday night at 8 PM
- you can still do walk up sales but it’s just what is left for that day. 
- the purpose is the ALL SESSION tickets should have priority seating.  

Great weekend of wrestling and extra special for me, as my son was able to coach his 2nd state champ in his hometown tonight! I just don't understand the empty seating mystery at the Ford tonight. I was told by text messages today from two different people that the wrestling was sold out tonight and was curious if I had gotten a ticket. They were unable to purchase tickets online, because of all tickets being sold out. So Ticketmaster must be playing games with the seating or someone is buying a lot of tickets and not coming. Plenty of seats at every session this weekend. What is going on???

Ok coach, the Finals were just yesterday. You can take one day off from recruiting.😜
 
Congrats on the win yesterday. The Purple Dogs looked awesome as always.