He is at the OTC and is competing under the Elite Athlete Program.  He is still planning on heading to IU next year as they are sponsoring him at the OTC.

Other guy was Derek (sp) Donelson who coincidentally went to Plainfield.

14 hours ago, doctorWrestling said:

The American Wrestling League will have their first event tomorrow evening on trackwrestling.  It is $15 to watch the event if you don't have a gold membership I believe ( correct me if I am wrong please ).  As much as I would love to see a pro league of some sort in the US, I am concerned people won't pay to watch it and it will die like the others.  I will do it just to try to support the cause but I really wish it were on flowrestling with the subscription instead.  I think I heard 4-6 events a year which will add up at $15 each.  I am not sure what the gold membership costs on trackwrestling so maybe that would make it worth purchasing the gold level.  With all the stupid "sports" that make it on TV now ( I can watch spikeball on demand ), I would have hoped that a TV contract could have been made to pay the athletes.

There is no season pass. Gold memberships are entirely different from streaming.

1 hour ago, loggcabin11 said:

What coaches are heading out to Super 32? Anyone(s) interested in cornering Brock Ellis?

The Portage coaching staff will be there.  Ask Leroy!

Adidas High School Wrestler of the Week – September 10th, 2018

https://news.theopenmat.com/high-school-wrestling/high-school-wrestler-of-the-week/adidas-high-school-wrestler-of-the-week-september-10th-2018/69344

43 minutes ago, Mattyb said:

I get that... trust me I have seen the Harvey twisters for years. I have a lot of respect for them and D Washington. I just thought that it was mandatory to wrestle for the state that you live in. Really did not mean to be directed at him (which it was and I apologize for that). I was meant a general question, I guess. I know that have had kids that go to school in Illinois, but wrestle for Indiana. Do those kids have a choice? 

DJ bought his card in August when he still lived in Illinois, moved to Portage in October. USA Wrestling is forcing him to wrestle for Illinois since that’s where his card was from.

Hanover Central is looking for a new Head Coach.

Hanover Central (Cedar Lake, IN) is a school that is growing considerably (https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/south-lake-county-porter-county-growing-fast/article_a7a47396-7030-5bf2-8b0d-0d15400d8a3a.html).

Hanover Central has a pretty good pedigree of wrestling.  People like Andrew Howe, Stevan Micic, the Petrovs, and most recently Alex Bautista.

Hanover Central also just hired Portage's ex-AD, Kelly Bermes, whom truly enjoys and supports the sport of wrestling.  She is looking to get as quality of coaches in her program as possible as she just left a pretty good program at Portage.  If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Kelly @ kbermes@hanover.k12.in.us

To apply:

https://www.applitrack.com/hanover/onlineapp/default.aspx?all=1

Portage's Senior Jacob Bondon is competing in Pole Vault.

1 minute ago, Mattyb said:

Now I finally know how you all feel when we hijack your threads with all TheCounty talk!!! 

Btw... I think this thing needs to be classed! How do you all feel about class wrestling????

Finally you understand.

Just now, Eagle2 said:

Watched it. All the coach can go off of is what the kid told him & the trainer. Spasms don’t always start the second something happens. AGAIN IF IT WASNT AN ILLEGAL MOVE WE WOULDNT BE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION. PERIOD

Again, look at the rule. If the ‘back bow’ does not go toward the head it is not illegal. The head official of the tournament agreed that it was not illegal.

The kid was fine. Walked to the center. Turned and looked at his coach, then all of a sudden grabbed his back. Reminder, this is a match he was losing 5-1 with a minute to go in the semis of what could be described as the toughest tournament in the country.

If he wrestles in the finals, it proves that his back was good enough to wrestle.

5 minutes ago, Eagle2 said:

I can tell you the coaches have never told any of their kids to fake anything. If the coach did tell him to take the dive then shame on him. But you sir are putting words in the coaches mouth without knowing what was said. His job as a coach is to protect their kid is it not. They had a kid that wrestled with an injured back all year and they pushed him through it and people on THIS sight were calling him soft or a kid that quits so I know they would never tell Bryant to take a dive I’ll fight that all day!! 

Watch the match. Period. 

Have you ever had a back injury? 

You definitely wouldn’t be adjusting your knee pad if you had a back injury bad enough to no longer continue.

So based on all information that I have at my disposal. Rumph did not take the ankle to the head. He took it over Bryant’s hip. That is the rule book below.

Now here is the issue. As a coach and obviously a prior wrestler it is an unwritten rule not to take a DQ win if you are losing that bad and you know the kid did not try to hurt you. But the worse part here is it is quite obvious that Bryant was coming back to wrestle. He jumped off the mat, walked to the middle of the mat just fine and adjusted his knee pad. He then looks to his coach in the corner, his coach says something and then Bryant starts holding his back. That is beyond unethical for a coach to allow an athlete to take that win. This was the National Semi-Finals. Not just some random wrestling match. 

I can tell you that if Behling is a team leader for Indiana-Illinois duals, Portage will not have a representative. We will not have a kid wrestling under someone who would do something like that.

19 hours ago, FCFIGHTER170 said:

The way it was worded confused me .. wasn't "trying" anything 

I was trying to thank for trying to correct me and make me seem less dumb. No malice in my statement. I get that it was worded a bit weird, and I apologize for confusing you.

On 3/14/2018 at 4:07 AM, FCFIGHTER170 said:

You mean Chesterton.. they have Bates too he's tough

No, I truly mean Portage’s lineup. I was saying the Portage lineup with those wrestlers put in would give any County a run. Thanks for trying though.

106- Moran

113- Hegedus

120- Peele

126- Poynter

132- Luna

138- Rumph

145- McIntosh

152- Washington Jr

160- Lemley

170- Guerrero

182- Girgenti

195- Davison

220- Swopes

285- Pokorney

On 3/11/2018 at 8:45 PM, buscowrestling said:

 

Finally a county faceoff

Marion vs Lake

Porter County (Chesterton and Portage) may be the better choice for NWI dual strength. 4 Individual State Champs from Porter County. 

Honestly Portage’s lineup with Lemley, Girgenti, Pokorney, and Davison would be pretty tough to beat.

I just want to point out to anyone who might want to see the awards podium that they can go to the event and choose the podium brackets (below the Frosh/Soph brackets) and you can watch those awards ceremonies as well!  Thought this was pretty cool and figured someone would have some interest in it!

All of the matches from Sunday were also archived and also free to view!

Live Streams are up!!! And FREE!!!!

The firewall at Southport would not allow for any stream capabilities today.  We are hoping the IT guys will allow for us to have a clean line to run the streams for free tomorrow.

6 minutes ago, brickfor6 said:

Black had the flu... 

As did Rumph the last two weeks of the season!

I wouldn't be so sure that Rumph doesn't win his match.  He beat Black once last year, but the last 6 weeks he has been on a roll!  I am also fully biased, and I am not afraid to say that.  But I still think Senior Black vs. Senior Rumph would be a real fun one to watch and think Rumph takes the match.  Again, a Portage coach and obviously this is theoretical at this point.

Correct, granted they are a freshman or sophomore.

16 minutes ago, rhayes said:

I have the same question. I have 2 wrestlers that qualified from the north qualifier and 1 that qualified from being a non placing state qualifier. Is there anything we need to do to register for this Saturday?  It is not on the flyer and don't know where else to look for info. 

You will pay onsite. The entries have been input into the event. If you do not see your kid as entered on TW, contact  markdurham@mac.com

Any participant that was in the blood round (the round before placement) will automatically qualify.  This round is called the round of 12.

http://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/uploads/O-275411009-Indiana_Frosh_Soph_State_2018.pdf

WEIGH ins for both is 8-930 CST with wrestling starting at 10. You will be able to move up matside.