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This is an interesting topic. At this time last year who would have picked Goldman or Boston? It will all come down to who puts in the time this summer.

My bad, I meant to say #3. Griffith had 3, but I know there were also years where Mater Dei had multiples.

#2 was asked last week and the answer was no. That also answers #4

Ayersman's fantastic comeback would make him cover worthy as well. This is getting harder and harder to decide.

One of the Indian Creek kids, or even all 3 finalists.

Blanton over Binion and Delaney over Ehr first round of semi state are my picks. Snider winning sectional was also huge.

Ok so here is the real question which is more impressive pinning your way to a state titlelike Reese did or tech falling your way to a state title like Howe did a few years ago?

Pinning, no question. There's a reason it's worth the most points, it's the most difficult. Tech falling typically, not always, occurs when you can't turn a guy and keep him on his back so you keep taking them down.

My mom said she met an 84 year old lady in the front of the line yesterday that said she has been coming fort 40 years, wow!! Great fan, she said she just loves it. She was from the Ft. Wayne area.

I would be willing to bet she was from Bellmont.

I work 7:30-2 tomorrow, so I'm not going until tomorrow so I don't die in a crash on the way home tonight.

This will be the 6th year of the club.

How big is it? With Fort Wayne being as big as it is I would imagine it could be a very large club.

It definitely feels like something similar to this on the Jumbotron would not be that hard to pull off nowadays:

 

Mat 1: 103 Boomsma 5  Davis 1      2nd 0:27

Mat 2: 103 Fuqua 3        Lykins 0  2nd 0:58

Mat 3: 103 Marciano 0  Kuhn 0    1st  1:34

Mat 4: 103 Hamm 5      Perez 4    3rd  2:00

Even if it just had the names that would be a big improvement. But then they couldn't run ads the whole time unless they were banners along the top or bottom, so they might not be open to that one.

There were 13 state qualifiers that have been regulars at the Roadrunner wrestling club.

 

Danny Hamm, Zach Krumlauf, Kyle Jolas, Tommy Poynter, Travis Barroquillo, Brayden Moreau, Kevin Marsh, Isaac Steury, Reece Lefever, Conner Lefever, Jeff Enrietto, Alex Jakacki and Spencer Raypole

How long has that been around? Has it been in existence for a while and I never heard of it until I moved to this area or is it pretty new?

Sorry, man, Ayersman has special pricing for being ranked #1 in the state.  Look back at the original post for pricing on top-ranked guys.  He's $5.  You need to cut $1 somewhere.

Whoops, missed his name on the list. Correction made.

That's a lot of solid wrestlers from the central part of the state. I wonder how many placers have never gone to a program like this, or CIA, or the Region Academy (I can't remember the actual name)?

Wow, if that doesn't convince parents to send their kids there I don't know what would.

103- Micic $3

112- Petrov $3

119- Campbell $4

125- Kieffer $3

130- Moreau $2

135- Fuqua $2

140- Wartman $3

145- Lunford $3

152- Mullins $2

160- Sims $2

171- Hankenson $3

189- Neff $4

215- Kral $3

HWT- Stevenson $1

Total- $38

Fantastic article!

I can't entirely tell if you're being sarcastic or just over the top...

The lack of education and motivation has definitely contributed to jobs moving overseas, why pay someone more here if you can get someone with a better education who will work cheaper in India and China.

Holding a kid back for athletic reasons and especially wrestling is not going to help a kid in the long run.  Do you really think winning a state title or two is going to help junior get a job when he's 30?  Invest in a good academic instructor and that will pay off more in the long run.

Bingo. Exactly why the US has fallen so far in the world in terms of education, parents go out of their way for athletics but don't support their kids academically. Being a smart, hard working kid gets you more money for college too, which gets you out with less debt and helps you in many more ways than being able to beat younger kids when you were in high school.

How is Berry's endurance though? He's a big guy, can he hang with these guys for 3 hard periods or will he get gassed? I've never seen him, just heard about him.

Are point scored for placement only or for dec/mdec/tech/fall as well?

There are several out there I can't find the ones my wife and I looked at when we lived in a subpar school district. Below is a link and some excerpts from a CBS report.

 

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3955/is_200410/ai_n9443747/pg_4/?tag=content;col1

 

Many studies have been completed during the past 20 years that examine the academic achievement of the homeeducated (Ray, 2004b). Dozens of researchers have executed these studies. Examples of these studies ranged from a multiyear study in Washington state, three nationwide studies across the United States, and a nationwide study in Canada (Ray, 1994, 1997, 2001c; Rudner, 1999; Wartes, 1991). In study after study, the homeschooled scored, on average, at the 65th to 80th percentile on standardized academic achievement tests in the United States and Canada, compared to the public school average of the 50th percentile.

 

how home-schooled students at their institution compared to their general student population in terms of academic success. About nine percent said "far more academically successful," 22 percent reported "somewhat more academically successful," 38 percent said "academically about average," zero percent reported "somewhat less academically successful," zero percent said "far less academically successful," and 31 percent said "don't know."

Thanks, I'll have to read those tonight, very interesting so far.

I didn't write what I wanted I meant GPA's in college is where they are doing far better on average that public schools.

Interesting, where is that report, I would like to read that.

Have they ever met up in the offseason?

I would challenge you to read reports of the average GPA's of homeschooled kids oppossed to public school. I hate to tell you that they are doing far better than public school kids.

 

Other States already have this law and seems to work well. I was in Florida and several kids where we lived did this and the rules of transfering applied to them. The yhad to play in the area they lived...and actually it was better regulated than what the IHSAA is presently doing.

Of course the GPA's were higher, a less biased indicator would be standardized test scores and eventual college graduation rates.