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Are people that bent out of shape? The Gorillas weren't even the best team from Indiana.  Could the Gold team have been better with a few other guys....sure? But who cares. Give as many kids as possible a chance to wrestle. If they want to wrestle with their friends, let them.  Isn't this sport supposed to be fun?

Are people that bent out of shape? The Gorillas weren't even the best team from Indiana.  Could the Gold team have been better with a few other guys....sure? But who cares. Give as many kids as possible a chance to wrestle. If they want to wrestle with their friends, let them.  Isn't this sport supposed to be fun?

I disagree.  How would we know someone like Alex Dieringer wasn't ready? What if he showed up and blitzed Burroughs twice? Obviously that didn't happen, but he deserved an opportunity. 
 
So based on this criteria of people getting elected, J'Den Cox doesn't make the team because he wouldn't have enough points? This all seems so silly.  

Would he have reached his full potential at IU?

Would he have reached his full potential at IU?

Men's Freestyle
 
57kg Ramos (wont be shocked if an NCAA guy like Nashon or Megeludis makes a run)
65kg Oliver
74kg Burroughs
86kg Taylor (finally beats Dake)
97kg Snyder
125kg Tervel

Men's Freestyle
 
57kg Ramos (wont be shocked if an NCAA guy like Nashon or Megeludis makes a run)
65kg Oliver
74kg Burroughs
86kg Taylor (finally beats Dake)
97kg Snyder
125kg Tervel

Men's Freestyle
 
57kg Tony Ramos
65kg James Green
74kg Jordan Burroughs
86kg Kyle Dake
97kg Kyle Snyder
125kg Tervel Dlagnev
 
Greco
 
59kg Spenser Mango
66kg Bryce Saddoris
75kg Andy Bisek (brutal we
85kg Jon Anderson
98kg Caylor Williams
130kg Robby Smith
 
Women's Freestyle
 
48kg Alyssa Lampe
53kg Helen Maroulis
58kg Leigh Jaynes-Provisor
63kg Erin Clodgo
68kg Elena Pirozhkova
75kg Adeline Gray
 
Gonna be some very interesting weights in all divisions. A lot of room for upsets, the only locks I see are Burroughs, Snyder, Mango, Smith, Lampe, Maroulis, Pirozhkova, and Gray.

We definitely needed another topic on class wrestling.  

We definitely needed another topic on class wrestling.  

We definitely needed another topic on class wrestling.  

http://www.flowrestling.org/article/39806-flowrestler-of-the-week-chad-red-new-palestine
 

You need to be more than a one sport athlete to get recognition as the best athlete from Indiana ever. Look at a guy like Gelen Robinson

Biggest darkhorse this year? Or lowest ranked wrestler with a shot to win it all?
 
106-- Garcia ranked at #8
145--Bethel ranked at #10
 
Had a hard time coming up with anyone else ranked lower than those two with a realistic chance.  

Harper-Carr

Do you believe in socialism?

A coach who didn't have a wrestler make it to state and a coach who has no wrestlers beyond Friday night are the same in my eyes. Neither have a wrestler competing on Saturday. Every head coach should receive a complimentary ticket. When was the last time Bankers Life was sold out for any session?

This is awesome and I'm glad this event has been such a huge success, especially for schools in 1A and 2A. Hopefully the IHSAA will take it over in the next couple of years so it can be a real state championship again. 

We still have people in our wrestling community that considers the top scoring team at Bankers Life as the Team State Champions. The division isn't helping.

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I hope this works out for him.  Wish him all the best of luck in the next couple of years.  Love that he has a passion for ministry.
 
If I was a college coach, the above quote might raise my eyebrow a little bit.  If the high school season is too much of a grind, how would one make it through a college season?

Almost all international sports have their sad stories to tell in terms of international governing bodies or dealing with Olympic committees or other sporting oversight. On a global level, dealing with cross-cultural political issues and the fallout is almost unavoidable. Also, many less mainstream sports like ours have been forced to make significant rules changes to fit Olympic packaging. None of that is the point, in my opinion. 
 
In my opinion, the point for those of us that grew up loving folkstyle, but that would like to see a change is this: we're only about 40 years into the "modern" era of folkstyle wrestling where it's genuinely been accessible and known in all areas of our country. If we made a change to freestyle now, by a mere 20 years from now, freestyle would already be a third of our modern wrestling history. We'd have 10 more Olympic champions to show for it, meanwhile putting the sport and its stars much more in the public conscience (and potentially launching many more of them into lucrative post-amateur careers that even further the sport's notoriety all the more). Even college kids would become much bigger stars during that life period because they'd already be wrestling at the top level internationally at 20 or 21 in some cases like other nations' top guys.
 
And again about the rules concerns: high school and college wrestling would never be required to copy the myriad rules changes of UWW/FILA. (For example, high school could switch to freestyle rules and keep 15-point tech falls to extend mat time a bit. Then, if freestyle globally changed back to 1-point takedowns, for example, we wouldn't have to change with them). But by having the same core techniques and scrambles practiced for takedowns, exposure, turns, and pins for all kids from a young age, we would build ourselves into the best wrestling nation in the world.

If you were insulted by this article, you are too sensitive.  Remember to sugar-coat everything.  Everyone is a winner.  Participation ribbons for all.