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I just heard about the Sanchez brother-sister combo from Pike Central that became their school's first pair of that type to qualify for Regional this year. What other families like this happened this year now that the Regional qualifying opportunities were so much more expansive for girls?
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I saw they got 2 through to regionals out of their 4 kids, and all of their kids won at least one genuine, non-forfeit match. Merrillville, Lake Central, and Munster only took a few losses all day outside matches against each other. The West Side 157 beat both LC and Munster and got 3rd place. I track data for the IHSWCA and those participation numbers are about their normal...usually 2 to 5 at sectional.
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Below is a provisional Team State leaderboard post-sectional. We're still in the process of cross-checking all data, so this is still NOT official and might see changes as we update things through regional weekend. Remember: --This leaderboard means almost nothing in 3A and 4A after sectional. As long as you have many guys alive, you can qualify easily no matter where you are on the board right now. This first board is basically just a measure of how many underclassmen you have. --In 2A, contenders are in the upper half to third of the board, but there will still be considerable movement. --In 1A, this board is already very significant. A few of the top scores are almost certainly qualifiers already. Click on the image multiple times to Zoom.
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Below are provisional Classification assignments for Team State for 2025-26. There are 39 schools in 4A, 59 in 3A, 88 in 2A, and 89 in 1A. I'm guessing largely due to most girls not wrestling with the boys any more, 5 less schools met the minimum classification requirement of 7 filled weight classes at sectional. There were 15 that met the requirement last year but did not meet it this year--and 10 new arrivals that met the requirement this year. For whatever reason, most of the schools that newly met the 7-wrestler minimum were 1A-size, while more than half of the ones that had to be removed from our list were in 2A last year. The consequence is that the 1A/2A dividing line moved to a lower enrollment, and 6 schools moved up from 1A to 2A. No other schools moved classes. Lastly, these assignments are PROVISIONAL until next week because we're still in the process of double-checking all data. We always cross-check what we've collected across 2 people, but we haven't finished that process yet. The enrollment numbers, however, are correct. Any school not listed here had at least 8 forfeits on sectional Saturday. Click multiple times on the image to zoom in.
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I have nothing but respect for the Brands' and what they've done for a good long while, but this critique is definitely real. I have a good buddy that was doing his PhD in exercise physiology at Iowa. He was doing some research on physiological markers in some of the wrestlers one year and would see the stuff they would do in the weight room, for example. They'd have them rotate through stations, doing 1-minute "Go's" with different movements, shouting at them to push through each movement like it was a match. But they'd have them doing like barbell curls (curls?!?), where they'd gas out and be like leaning fully backward all awkwardly and crooked trying to bring the bar up for those last reps of the minute. Total insanity if you care about your joints in any way, no matter how fit you are. Anyway, my buddy, who had been a good college wrestler in his own right, could definitely confirm the positives and the negatives of the intense culture that we perceive from the outside. To be fair, this was 15 years ago and I'm sure they've evolved. But it speaks to the culture of pushing through every obstacle, even when it's a clear risk. It will reap its benefits and its punishments.
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maligned replied to maligned's topic in High School Wrestling
The Peru regional as a whole is definitely, without a doubt, weaker than it's been in recent years at the top. I'm guessing the OH sectional championship matches weren't nearly the quality of recent history. But again, that's not what we're measuring. What's missing from this whole discussion, too, is how JC's best teams all qualify for 2A and 1A team state with ease when they're good--because they don't need those 4th place kids at regional to get enough points. It's been a Category 3 multiple times over the years because of these same reasons of limited depth--but the good teams always qualified with ease. -
Team State Qualification Procedures document for 2025
maligned replied to maligned's topic in High School Wrestling
As you can see if you study this, once you get to about a 20 or 25 rating, you're generally going to start getting at least a couple semi-state qualifiers. Peru regional has 15 teams of that level or better. JC has only 10. It makes a huge difference in how complicated it is to navigate advancement--despite JC having the school names at the top that are better. -
Team State Qualification Procedures document for 2025
maligned replied to maligned's topic in High School Wrestling
It means that an average performance from Delta last year, where they obliterated everybody but Bellmont, would beat Delta 2025 by about 20...like 45-25, for example. Similar with AC. Team State last year wasn't AC's best performance and they still took 2nd. They were a beast all year and would have beaten this year's team soundly. Again, these rating levels this year are very similar to most past years. I think you don't realize how strong those 3 teams--Bellmont, Delta, and AC--were last year compared to the state. -
Team State Qualification Procedures document for 2025
maligned replied to maligned's topic in High School Wrestling
Nope. It's the easiest to get at least 4th place. -
Team State Qualification Procedures document for 2025
maligned replied to maligned's topic in High School Wrestling
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Team State Qualification Procedures document for 2025
maligned replied to maligned's topic in High School Wrestling
But this is qualification for Duals event--not an individual event. All the potential state qualifiers from Bellmont or Delta don't mean it's difficult to get out of the regional if you're a first-round semi-state kid. That's the measurement--not the number of state qualifiers. We're measuring how deep it is in terms of preventing advancement. If it were a measure of how hard it is to WIN your regional individually, you're the best of the 4. But that's not what we're measuring. The depth past the first few schools at those other 3 sites is more, and it makes it harder to get through to the next levels.