MatChick76

170 was Logan Weinzapfel, not Schneider....overall a great night. Weinzapfel also held Oser to a 3-point decision ~ he did a wonderful job tonight. It was a great night of wrestling - great atmosphere, great fans, great wrestling - Jasper & Heritage Hills made the 1st round very exciting. I would like to thank Southridge for hosting yet another great Team Regional ~ I will miss this!!!!

Exactly - they should have taken care of this immediately, just like they did at Castle that day. I do feel sorry for him, but his Coach should have demanded that he get to be reweighed as soon as it became apparent that there was an issue with the scale.

Schneider (Not Parkinson - who was Champ today!!) injury defaulted....and it was hard to lose him. Overall, a great day of wrestling - saw some very exciting matches today!!

That's always the hardest part of the day...watching Seniors end their high school careers. Good luck to all of the wrestlers around the State ~ this is panning out to be one heck of a wrestling season!!!

It's after 11pm and I can't get to sleep - visions of takedowns, reversals, and pins keep dancing in my head. I have looked over the brackets for the last time and have tried to make my picks, but I just can't seem to decide. So, here it is, this is the one pick I feel completely confident in: 152 Rueger Good luck to all the boys takin' the mats in the morning...I am so, so ready for this State Tourney series to begin!!!

One correction....Nathan Wright is a St. Philip boy (so quit trying to claim him for St. Joe - Coach King can't claim all the best ones...lol!!!)....and let's not forget that although St. James is an MD feeder school, we've spent years watching great kids come up through our feeder program only to go to Gibson Southern when it comes time for high school... It is absolutely amazing to see the kind of support MD gets for the feeder program, the MD Kids Club, and the Jr. Wildcats....and lets not forget...the Maurer Coughlin Wrestling school was held at MD this summer and there were kids from ALL OVER there...not just MD feeder/high school....I'll be watching several of those "non-MD" wrestlers at Sectionals tomorrow....and more than one will likely be in the finals....so maybe those kids can provide a bit of insight into how those two former MD standouts helped them in their drive for the title (and...*gasp*....not one of them was recruited to wrestle for MD!!!)

Very nice! Thank you Broadcast Sports!

I like some aspects of the old weights and some aspects of the new...I know...you can't make everyone happy...lol! I do wish they hadn't eliminated a middle weight, it feels like we have 10 kids btwn 132-160 and not nearly enough big guys. Although I like the few pounds added at the lower weights. I was recently talking to a 120 lb wrestler from another school and he said, "Man, I'm so glad it's 120 this year...that one pound (119) might have killed me." So, for those lightweight guys, I'm happy. I think 98 (which is from way back), is way to small anymore.

106 = Brown - he was good last year...but it's like watching a different kid - much improved. If he's not a lock @ 106, then there is some kid I haven't seen yet this year waiting in the wings. He's been impressive this year. 120 = Welch other than that, I have no idea...this Sectional is all over the place for me.

When talking to a former coach from a Catholic school from up north, he was explaining to me how the school he coached at was able to recruit and why a school like MD is not. Where he coached, his school was not part of the Diocese and did not have a formal feeder system, in fact, according to him, his Parochial school was formed more like a corporation and was run more like a private academy. His explanation to me was that because of their set-up, they weren't bound to the same rules and regulations that govern other Catholic schools such as MD and Memorial, schools who do have a distinct system of schools that feed directly into them. I'm still not exactly sure how this all works out, but when he was explaining it to me, the distinction did make some sense, however, I was still unclear on if those schools without feeder systems were allowed to openly recruit, or if they had boundaries in which they had to operate within. But honestly, with all of the new programs: voucher, school choice, and recently there was a meeting at Central H.S. (I didn't attend - so if anyone did and knows what came out of it, let me know) about home-schooled students and those attending a charter school (like Signature School here in Evansville) being allowed to participate in athletics at the public schools, I think you're going to see a lot of changes. In fact, I think it's fair to say, that you could eventually be seeing Public schools becoming "magnets" for certain sports/activities, (i.e. Reitz = Football School, Harrison = Baseball School)...these are JUST EXAMPLES...but if you had a kid who was an awesome football player, and with the school choice program you were able to send him to a football powerhouse (for free - no additional cost or tuition), why wouldn't you? I don't think there is one of us out there that wouldn't want to do the best we could for our child whether it be for football, baseball, band, academics, etc. As the ghosts of baseball past whispered to Kevin Costner..."If you build it, they will come....."

Both of the Reitz wrestlers in question went to MD and switched to Reitz for their own personal reasons. Both attended MD feeder schools.

I have no idea where this came from, but this is a bald-faced lie - a person pretending to be an MD Alum to stir the pot. My family has gone to MD back to my grandparents (and, I suspect even before that had MD been around) - and several of my family members excelled in athletics at MD - including boasting the first ever state champion - and not a one of them got any kind of financial incentive to attend MD. I have never even heard of one single kid who has been given any type of incentive to attend MD -I'm not even sure who they would have been. Aside from Blake Maurer, who had a family connection to MD from long ago, I can't even think of a single kid who "dominated" enough to even be thought of as a recruit. The current Varsity Team: Seng (he's part Macke too), Johnson, Goebel, Pierre, Schroeder, Lannert, Bassemier, Folz, Parkinson, Schneider (Mom's a Dezember), Brandenstein (Momma's a Weinzapfel), Maurer, Collins, Wright (Boots!!!).... I am so sick of the recruiting talk - nothing but sour grapes. If Schapker was healthy, Reitz's Wrestling Team would have two former MD wrestlers in their lineup this year, but you don't hear us screaming Recruiting or any foul play. So sick and tired of all the made up drama and b.s.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/jan/18/ev_19wrestlingcol/ Nice article on Powless.

Got a text that MD won 43-22 over Merriville....prepcasts broadcast says 44-22. Sounds like a great day of wrestling!

MD won against CBHS...only lost two matches, 126 Adam Weinzapfel lost 4-3 (he wrestled in place of Pierre). Collins lost 4-3. No update yet on round 2.

Hope he gets well soon....can't wait to see the next iteration of the book!!

Round 1: Mater Dei v. CBHS - this is the 2nd CBHS team (not the varsity team). Just got word from St. Louis.

This was a great tournament. Great wrestling, great atmosphere, and very well run. Some of the results that weren't posted in 3onthemat's post: 126: 5/6 Jamison (NA) over Helm (Avon), Fall 3:51 132: 3/4 Marler (FC) dec Bouchie (ME) 5-3 5/6 Wilderman (MD) dec Whoberry (MV) 7-0

I heard it was a frontside cradle...

The 2003 Mater Dei team was a special team - great kids, great attitudes...that being said...Perry looks to have a great team this year, and I am looking forward to seeing what they do throughout the season...but the title of this thread "Hypothetically" is just that...there is still a LOT of wrestling to do, and as we all know, anything can happen during the course of a season. I'd much rather know if Perry can put up better numbers this year with their team than MD did in 2003...if it all plays out the way it can, should be one hell of a state tourney series.

Yes...Good Luck to all teams this season - can't wait for another exciting year!!!

Congrats to Perry on finally bringing home that Team State title...it's been a long time coming. Although I was pulling for another team today, it is great to see PM nabbing the win...had no idea it had been so long since they'd had any title?!? Congrats on the win...enjoy the title...it might have been the last Team State title :'(

LMAO!! Of course the LN coach knows the rules...he's from Evansville

And as many have already said, although I wanted MD to get the win, my heart broke for Roach, a senior who didn't get to compete in his last high school match. What a tremendous talent he is, and it has been fun watching him over the last 4 years...I'm sure he's going to make the Hoosiers proud!

That part is interesting too. Matt Rattay wrestled 140 last week in Indy, he wrestled Jake Lannert in the match for 3rd/4th...but I'm pretty sure he wrestled 135 today when MD wrestled LN...does that mean he was officially on the roster at 135 or else he wouldn't have been able to move from 140 last week to 135 today? Does anyone know if the weight classes listed in the State Program handed out today are the official weights (as listed on the Sectional entry list)? Does it also have to do with a certain # of certified weigh-ins? Because if it's strictly based on this rule, then how would Flamme be able to go down to wrestle 145 either?