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So much for the notion that Christian Carroll is undersized at 285. He takes 2nd place this weekend at arguably the toughest D1 in-season individual tournament in Las Vegas. He techs fellow Indiana HS grad, Purdue's #28 Filipovich; majors Michigan's #5 Ghadiali; and beats #10 from Navy--before dropping a 5-3 final to #1 Bastida of Iowa St (far and away Bastida's most difficult match this season). He's lost to #1, #2, and #15 on the season. He'll definitely be ranked top 10 now--possibly top 5 after the beatdown he put on the red hot Ghadiali, followed up by another top 10 win to silence any "fluke" talk.

I hadn't been paying attention either, but I see now that MatScouts had him de-committed from VA Tech almost a month ago. Always a lot of reasons that go into these decisions--connections, academics, current & future lineup developments at your weight, all of it. If he wants the public to know his reasons, I'm sure he or his family will share at some point. Whatever the case, Little Rock is one of the most exciting programs in the country with how quickly they've developed and are churning out All-Americans and ranked guys. Can't wait to see him develop.

@Y2CJ41 Topic title obviously intended to be "Top 10 - 1A"

We once had a freshman kid shockingly put a ranked kid to his back. Our guy suddenly started screaming inexplicably. Thankfully, the referee noticed what was happening and disqualified the favored kid who was getting pinned. In his desperation, as a stunning photo later revealed clearly, he had resorted to the ol' 5-on-2 maneuver. The screaming made a lot more sense.

Flo put out its first Class of '28 Big Board, ranking the top 100 pound for pound college prospects in the country. All signs continue to point toward this being one of Indiana's best classes ever. Two Top 10s (#5 Staples, #9 Hazelett) and seven total (Bell, Maddox, Salas twice??, Verduzco, Ducking also there).

Holy crap. I might have to cancel my Saturday plans. 113...WHAT?!?!

This was his list from last year.

@bwoodjc89 has posted an exhaustive list the last couple years. Guessing he's getting excel fired up soon. Here's last year:

Regional also. Because it's only 2 sectionals and kids come into regionals with a genuinely earned bracket slot, top 4 level kids can all get out of regional without needing an upset. (Top 4 guys not getting through at regionals are because of upsets, which isn't our concern here. We care when there's no path for the best guys to get through.)

Class of '92. Got hurt before the tournament that year when he was headed for his second undefeated season.

I always like crazy suggestions, so I'm into it. Sadly, I think doing repechage matches and no real 3rd place match wouldn't feel so intuitive to high school wrestling people, most of whom probably aren't familiar with Olympic tournament structure. I still think there are two angles the IHSAA would consider with the right arguments, because they involve attendance and money, not standard wrestling procedure: 1) Push the money idea of having twice as many parents hang around for extra sessions and extra concessions later into semi-state. Demonstrate that wrestle backs from the final 8 only adds 1 hour of time. (Quarterfinal losers wrestle the same time as semi's, adding no time. Consi semis are only 2 matches per weight on 4 mats--a quick one-hour session between semis and finals.) OR 2) Push the financial and opportunities benefit of expanding the state finals to 24 kids--6 per weight per semi-state. State finals already involve 2 full days for families since covid anyway. Just go all the way and expand. At semi-state, no wrestle backs needed--just wrestle quarters losers against each other at the same time as semis. Wrestle those winners in a 5/6 match during the finals. At state, 50% more parents and fans show up. You can charge more for an all-session pass, plus add another a la carte ticketed session. The added session would be a prelim round starting late Friday morning that would last the same length as our traditional Round 1 and put semi-state 3s vs 6s and 4s vs 5s. Winners advance to the main bracket that would commence as normal on Friday afternoon.

Gotcha.."viewer (classic)" does the trick. Thanks!

That switches you to the "Events Classic" search; but once you click on a tournament, it sends you to the new Flo archived version instead of the Track archive.

The Flo archives of all the old track events are horrible. So much missing information. Is there a way to access the old Track versions so you can actually see things like team scores, round results that don't exclude certain rounds, readable team result pages, grades of kids, etc?

It's neither here nor there, but there is actually a 50% chance that all 4 qualify in this scenario. Think of it this way: A1 and A2 are placed somewhere first, always on opposite sides of the bracket. Now, when B1 gets placed, there is a 33% chance it's on the same side as A1 and automatically in a different quarter--putting B2 therefore on the same side as A2, and again automatically in a different quarter. Also, there's the 33% chance that B1 gets placed on the same side as A2, but not in A2's quarter. It follows then that there is a 50% chance that B2 gets put in the quarter on the opposite side that is not occupied by A1 (so 33% x 50% = 16.7% for this second scenario of all four in separate quarters). Add those 2 scenarios' probabilities together (33.3% + 16.7%) and you have a 50% chance of landing on one of them.