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Sadly the bromance of Fradam broke up. Fred is our Assistant AD at the High School

Nobody lie to yourselves. It did not matter what Wadkins did regarding running the tournament, Merrillville lost their Semi-State and the IHSAA made a deal with Janis and Amy (that they will get the Sectional and Regional when the IHSAA realigns teams next year). #conspiracytheory The caterer for the event was late delivering the refs and admins their food, though the refs were the real reason especially that Ray Pettit guy (don't ban me for calling out a ref! It was an ongoing joke that he was the reason). That is why we took that 2 hour break. And the funniest of all, Calumet was the only sectional in the state I believe to not live score. While they had the person with the most amount of experience running live scored events (on TW) at the school all day. Now everyone who uses the Stats program gets to put all of that info in post meet.

Monty: If you want to talk about this, you can certainly come talk to me about it. I am probably the least likely person on our staff to want to belittle someone. We have valid reasons (at least by what is happening with rankings and the genius scores in practice) and I apologize if you think I would ever belittle someone. I will be more than happy to explain my decisions on how I enter results if you just ask in person.

There are a few assistant coaches that I know that would happily step in for you GrecoRef, and could! Me being one of them. The issue for me was that advancing to Varsity tournaments was not happening as quickly as I would have liked because people knew who I was and thought I had a bias against teams. Now in reality, I saw a red and a green wrestler. I do not care if I coached a kid for 10 years, knew the family, or it was the first time ever seeing the person. Now the issue is I enjoy coaching the team I have more than I used to enjoy officiating. Though that is not to say if I moved away from NWI/Chicagoland area, that I would not ever want to officiate again.

Rumph v. Black. (Saw each other the entire postseason last year) Poynter v. Triana. (''") Harvest, (could have been) Al Smith, (could have been) Garry Burkhart, then the entire state series it could happen as Portage and Hobart are in the same Sectional.

It is not an IHSAA event. This is being sanctioned through USAW, I believe. Both Littell and Jake Moran would be underclassman. Now the being cleared for IHSAA events, I cannot say.

Lezzzbihonest I pretty much hate all of the DAC coaches anyway. Especially that Davistein fella. I am honestly surprised that no one has put any projections other than team standings. Lots of great wrestling to be had tomorrow. There is a list based on IndianaMat Rankings by the one and only OTR219 State Rank/Semi State Rank 106: Ty Haskins NR/3rd Martin Cruz NR/5th Danny Tolin NR/6th 113: Brock Peele 11/3 Jacob Maldonado NR/5th Sebastian Cortez NR/8th 120: Colin Poynter 5/1 Skyler Gomez NR/7 Kaellin Kelly NR/8 126: Michael DeLaPeña 4/1 (Forgot this guy on the first one. I blame Paul) Ian Dembowski 15/5 132: Jack Tolin 8/2 Miguel Prado 14/4 Ahzsur Ursery NR/5 138: Kris Rumph 3/2 Aaron Griggs NR/8 145: Kasper McIntosh 1/2 Malik Hoover 10/4 Mario Traficanti 14/3 152: Noah Lamore 11/4 Greg Lictenberger NR/5 Quinn Kaurich NR/7 160: Oszkar Kasch 4/1 Diego Lemley 6/2 Drake Guerrero 11/3 Mike Lichtenberger NR/7 170: Ismael Cornejo 11/4 Cade Girgenti NR/8 182: Lucas Davison 3/1 Jeremy Torres 9/2 Joey Szydlo NR/4 Tyjonn Lockett NR/5 Ethan Potosky NR/6 195: Andrew Davison 3/1 Aaron Corralez 14/3 Anthony Maceo NR/7 220: Justin Akers 5/2 Eli Pokorney 7/1 Andrew Vander Woude NR/4 Chester Swopes NR/5 285: Brandon Streck 10/2 Gio Murillo 15/3 Michael Foster NR/6

We moved to a morning of Seeding Meeting for DAC.

This year's event was certainly the best run and most spacious venue we have had. What I can tell you is there are a few things that I know I was hearing as a coach. Mark Durham and TrackGopher were brought in late and had asked to TrackCast the event, but event administrators said no. They cited that the year that we streamed (2 years ago @ Ball State) that we had taken a huge hit to the attendance of the event and they were not interested in streaming again. The rebuttal to this was that two years ago the entire northern part of the state was under emergency conditions for snow and ice, so teams like Penn did not have their typical crowd. They said they might revisit it next year as they did not remember that their was a snow emergency at the time. Trackcast was something that we all have discussed here regarding it not being a money loss, but a moneymaker as the people who were going to come will and those that were not would not and have that opportunity. I know that last year's turning people away at the door certainly did not help attendance this year. And honestly, from where I was sitting it appeared that we had about 1/2 the amount in attendance this year as last year. I know of at least 10 Portage fans that did not make the trip because of last years overcrowding fiasco. While I also know that there were issues with it being so close to Christmas, last year certainly could not have helped an average fan to want to risk driving hours away to risk not being allowed entrance. I thought that TrackCast would actually help the IHSWCA as it would have brought in more money to the event. Maybe I am wrong. Bathroom Situation and Team Lounge! This in my mind was the biggest positive we had. With renting the extra expo center we were able to have more restrooms which last year we all know kind of sucked. So thanks for that! The team lounge was a very nice touch. We had the ability to have food at the event without taking precious floor space (like last year) in the expo center. So that was also a very nice upgrade with renting more room. ISWA's clocks: I know there were a few issues with the clocks not being correct or not starting. Honestly this is more of an interest for me because I feel like renting actual TW clocks would benefit the event as it would then look like a first class event. The TW clocks sync exactly with each TW computer and you do not have to worry about the visual clock (ISWA's in this case) not starting/stopping or displaying incorrect information from the TW computer. The IHSAA rents these clocks for their events and I believe that it has made incorrect data entry (which there were a match or two incorrectly put in as results) almost nonexistent. Again, this clock topic is not something I really think was bad, just that I think renting these clocks would allow for smoother operation of the event. I know that a few Indiana schools have TW Clocks (Elkhart Memorial, Bloomington South, Carmel for sure) and I am sure there are a few that I am not aware of. I thank the IHSWCA for this years event. I believe that every year you are doing better with regards to running this tournament, but there is always room for improvement. We have moved further into the Y2 concept of if you want to make it the Super Bowl, then we have to treat it like the Super Bowl. I think a few things that I mentioned above would continue to push this event further forward.

100% sure that it is done that way. You would know that if you looked at the 120 bracket. The IL guys have a state tournament too, btw.

The IHSWCA has decided to not live stream. Though both people who live stream the individual state finals will be in attendance, in case they were to change their minds.

I would imagine I was the person this was too easy for...jerk.

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The list rarely changes for this. This was last years list. #1 Portage #13 Cathedral #14 Crown Point #19 Lawrence North Franklin South Bend Riley Mishawaka Valpo Lowell Floyd Central Westfield Southmont Calumet Hanover Central Munster Lake Station Edison

Seeding meeting is tonight, so once they are built, they will be up. Thanks.