Fabio Jr.

Wait Johnson does that? I know who gets my vote

Typical Big network tactic...lie to people to make them think they have power so you get the website hits

Nate Walton has always impressed me on the field...and Slick Rick can do some damage on the line...round that core up with Issac McCormick. I look forward to what Coach Hart does for the Bulldogs dudes an animal and a Stellar guy

Hatch is bad at wrestling and a bad kid I'm pretty sure he just fights people

This site sucks...I wish someone would make a better one

That kid is Garbo

Who is this guy does he even have credentials did he beat anyone good?!?!?!?!?! http://www.flowrestling.org/video/250486-125-alex-johns-wbd-62-nick-wiesjahn-findlay-pi oh wait the answer is no he didn't at least in that video!!!! Congrats Big AL look forward to seeing you do big things!

No one is taking away from any tournament...the "powers that be" which i guess I am apart of would just like people to understand that its not 1992 anymore and there are multiple avenues for kids to take which keeps them wrestling year round which is something college coaches look at as cited in the article. Other tournaments are being hailed as "not important as Duals or Fargo" and that simply just is not the case any more there are a ton of events which get eyes on kids and there are 2 fathers of extremely successful wrestlers currently in this process backing that claim up. You can agree or disagree if you want but its quite easy to see the "It is how we always done it" mentality and that is the most dangerous phrase when it comes to growing and evolving the sport. As to your second point, your post will not be deleted...post that get deleted are ones that are personal attacks or spam. Perpetuating this sort of "Dictatorship" belief insinuates we (who volunteered our time and effort to the site) have power which we clearly don't as you can see by how some recent situations have been handled. The power is in the hands of board members who for better or worse have the future of the state on their shoulders.

Its been about that much since I made the trip back in the day..at least for both styles. I think it was around 7-800 for just one.

Move the selection process to after freestyle state. Longer Season. Mend the bridges with our studs, some listening, apologizing, and comprimising could get us better teams. It saddens me when I am told that I am not attempting to help because I am not a board member. The solutions and concerns have been expressed. Use them to make better decisions.

Flo Nats does a good job...

Very admirable indeed. Hopefully this works out then if we are not going to try and fix things. Constituents have stated their issues, they will either be addressed or they will not. Time will tell.

So we as high school coaches shouldn't focus on improving our regional level kids and giving them tangible goals such as Semi-State or State and instead have them spend April-July working on gut wrenches and leg laces? Will that kill them? No, of course not but I would posit that there will be a greater increase in ability focusing on the one style. I know I sound like I am "making the state terrible" with that but I also make sure our kids who are capable of actually competing well in Freestyle do. Brayton Lee was one of what 3 Cadet AA's and also placed 3rd at UWW Cadets this year. That's great and he is a killer. But I will not have kids like Drew Krietzer and Evan Lawhead focusing on freestyle when they can barely compete at the high school level. As I stated before we have our studs wrestling freestyle. Why weren't they on the Duals team? I can only go by what I am told. Price is a factor, I have heard from two parents that they were told of wrestlers that were "commited" in attempts to get them to wrestle for the team but said wrestlers did not commit or even soft commit. We had 2 teams at disney and everyone got there butts kicked at least once and had 4-5 close matches. We didn't have Brayton (Nebraska Camp) or Ty( in Germany). Mulkey and Walton were our two hammers that went. Mulkey looked lights out and Walton got stuck in the finals.So the competition is there. I think there needs to be a step back and a closer look taken to try and see and understand how this sport has evolved over the past 2 decades and see how we can incorporate freestyle in to everyones training. I like the idea of a big weekly clinic ran by killers hosted at different schools in the state. 5-6 hours of freestyle training by one of the best good matches and technique for every one and you eliminate the "im driving x miles away spending $y and only getting 3-4 matches in the same time frame. I agree it does start with the coaches on this one. I can name a handful of coaches around the state that actually put the time in to develop their kids. I know in #thecounty there are really only 2 programs who put ample off season time in and the rest just kind of fizzle out early or do nothing. It's lazy. The rivalries I have had with Avon and Penn are only possible because coaches on both side sacrificed so much to get there programs to where they are now and not enough coaches are willing to do that. Coach Hull you def put the time in this is not a rib at you. Freestyle, folkstyle, greco, beach, sambo whatever. We need those kind of coaches so our depth (which is our actual issue) can be corrected.

Mulkey went undefeated as did Issac McCorrmick. David Eli and Tonte had a helluva match as well with Tonte pulling the W. Noah Warren had a good come from behind win over Damler. That kid is gonna be fun to watch next year and Aiden Warren man in not looking forward to dealing with him for 4 years. Kids a stud. I'm biased but Mulkey is just on another level kid has improved by leaps and bounds over the past year.

Is there a big group of coaches and nationally ranked wrestlers wrestling in/following the red and blue pools? As benign as your request is it seems to insinuate in someway a comparison between tournaments. Truly if we want to push Indiana forward we need more Coaches coaching in the off season. This petty argument is fine and all, but the real issue here are the coaches who lack an off season and don't volunteer their time away from family to better their kids. Instead we are saying a tournament or rise of tournaments giving kids more options to improve is what's declining the State in general. I know we have been approached by Newberry's recruiter here and we have a few other kids who are getting college looks as well. Are they Big D1 programs no bit these kids are not at that level.

Well we were too busy wrestling 13 times to scour the stands for recruiters. I know the team we had in the finals had a few nationally ranked kids and the all star division was full of em even from IN. While we are asking questions Mr. Hull can you tell me what ever came of the list of kids who possibly didn't fulfil the two qualifier rule? Thanks!

#thecounty #younggunz and #paintrain dropping bombs like hiroshima

2 pickups and a couple seniors it's been a fun trip and a hell of a tournament. It's shocking Kyle didn't make it to state last year kid is talented

only if you own a cat vest....

That looks like Blue won....unless im crazy

brayton only wears red and blue clothes so a match can pop off at any time....in class when he disagrees with an answer he throws a cube at the teachers head

Ill be honest losing walton was hard but me and Joe came to an Agreement I am now the sole owner of the IndianaMat Website...over the next coupole of months we will transition away from dumb high school wrestling to the professional level...

too late already better than us....and they cant even run a tournament without firearms being drawn....

Folkstyle is killing freestyle....