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I think he ended up wrestling the perfect match. He pressured, pressured, pressured, wore him down, and kept testing the waters to snipe a low attack all through the last half of the match before finally getting that opening at the death. It was absolutely perfect and he needed every second to pull it off. What a thing of beauty!

Summary of last night's results for our Indiana interests:
 
Baumann, Bates, Willham are out.
 
C-Rooks picks up two wins and makes it to the R24 in the consis. Lemley, G-Rooks, Lee all lose and fall into that round as well. Those 4 guys each need 3 wins to be AAs.
 
Mendez, Allred, Davison are in the quarterfinals.
Mendez beat Hardy, 11-3, during the year and is clearly favored. Allred will be a significant underdog versus #2 Hidlay, who's only gone the distance in 5 of his 26 wins during his undefeated season. Davison lost 5-3 to #2 Bastida this year, and should have a shot at the upset.
 
IU has 5 of 6 still alive in the consolations.
 
Purdue, as noted above, has Ramos in the quarters and Clark in the consis.

Summary of last night's results for our Indiana interests:
 
Baumann, Bates, Willham are out.
 
C-Rooks picks up two wins and makes it to the R24 in the consis. Lemley, G-Rooks, Lee all lose and fall into that round as well. Those 4 guys each need 3 wins to be AAs.
 
Mendez, Allred, Davison are in the quarterfinals.
Mendez beat Hardy, 11-3, during the year and is clearly favored. Allred will be a significant underdog versus #2 Hidlay, who's only gone the distance in 5 of his 26 wins during his undefeated season. Davison lost 5-3 to #2 Bastida this year, and should have a shot at the upset.
 
IU has 5 of 6 still alive in the consolations.
 
Purdue, as noted above, has Ramos in the quarters and Clark in the consis.

More specifically with our Indiana interests in Session 1:
 
C-Rooks and Baumann lost
Bates and Willham won their pigtails before losing in the genuine first round
Mendez, Lemley, G-Rooks, Lee, Allred, Davison all won
 
IU got 3 of 6 into the Round of 16.  
 
Purdue got Ramos through (barely!) but lost their other 4 matches.
 
Session 2 at 7pm ET/6pm CT

Fun first round...a few things I saw:
 
--Nothing comes easy in this tournament! So many high seeds got pushed. 
--The jury's still out on Starocci. He didn't look like Starocci from this season, but he didn't need to. 
--Blake Boarman should have been in this tournament. Both of the other ranked guys from his conference that were in a 3-way results ring-around-the-rosey with him during the duals had very impressive R32 wins. And the 3rd guy that got an automatic bid won the 32/33 match over Cayden Rooks.
--IU has 3 guys with legit shots at being AAs. Lee continues to get it done in tight matches. G-Rooks continues to never show any quit and be a handful for anyone. And #23 Fongaro got a huge upset--coupled with the #26 also getting an upset so that he's now a 50/50 to get to the quarters. 
--Allred also got a big favor with the #26 from VA Tech upsetting #7 Glazier. Glazier crushed Allred during the year--but Silas tends to be about as steady as they come against guys he should beat. If he keeps his nerve and gets to the quarters, he obviously has two shots to win matches that would earn him AA status. 

I couldn't do it...him getting destroyed multiple times this year was too impressed on my brain. But you only have to be healthy and resemble your best once a year for all to be redeemed.

I might have to consider no cash prize punishments also for both of you for tattling, you're right. I try not to get in the middle of these County/Region play fights though.

More specifically with our Indiana interests in Session 1:
 
C-Rooks and Baumann lost
Bates and Willham won their pigtails before losing in the genuine first round
Mendez, Lemley, G-Rooks, Lee, Allred, Davison all won
 
IU got 3 of 6 into the Round of 16.  
 
Purdue got Ramos through (barely!) but lost their other 4 matches.
 
Session 2 at 7pm ET/6pm CT

Fun first round...a few things I saw:
 
--Nothing comes easy in this tournament! So many high seeds got pushed. 
--The jury's still out on Starocci. He didn't look like Starocci from this season, but he didn't need to. 
--Blake Boarman should have been in this tournament. Both of the other ranked guys from his conference that were in a 3-way results ring-around-the-rosey with him during the duals had very impressive R32 wins. And the 3rd guy that got an automatic bid won the 32/33 match over Cayden Rooks.
--IU has 3 guys with legit shots at being AAs. Lee continues to get it done in tight matches. G-Rooks continues to never show any quit and be a handful for anyone. And #23 Fongaro got a huge upset--coupled with the #26 also getting an upset so that he's now a 50/50 to get to the quarters. 
--Allred also got a big favor with the #26 from VA Tech upsetting #7 Glazier. Glazier crushed Allred during the year--but Silas tends to be about as steady as they come against guys he should beat. If he keeps his nerve and gets to the quarters, he obviously has two shots to win matches that would earn him AA status. 

Fun first round...a few things I saw:
 
--Nothing comes easy in this tournament! So many high seeds got pushed. 
--The jury's still out on Starocci. He didn't look like Starocci from this season, but he didn't need to. 
--Blake Boarman should have been in this tournament. Both of the other ranked guys from his conference that were in a 3-way results ring-around-the-rosey with him during the duals had very impressive R32 wins. And the 3rd guy that got an automatic bid won the 32/33 match over Cayden Rooks.
--IU has 3 guys with legit shots at being AAs. Lee continues to get it done in tight matches. G-Rooks continues to never show any quit and be a handful for anyone. And #23 Fongaro got a huge upset--coupled with the #26 also getting an upset so that he's now a 50/50 to get to the quarters. 
--Allred also got a big favor with the #26 from VA Tech upsetting #7 Glazier. Glazier crushed Allred during the year--but Silas tends to be about as steady as they come against guys he should beat. If he keeps his nerve and gets to the quarters, he obviously has two shots to win matches that would earn him AA status. 

Location
T-Mobile Center
Kansas City, Missouri
 
Event Information Page
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Schedule
*All Times Central
Thursday, March 21
11:00am Session 1 (Round of 32)
6:00pm Session 2 (Round of 16 and consolations)
 
Friday, March 22
11:00am Session 3 (Quarter-Finals and consolations)
7:00pm Session 4 (Semi-Finals and consolations)
 
Saturday, March 23
10:00am Session 6 (Consolation finals)
6:00pm Session 7 (Championship matches)
 
Brackets
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Streaming and Viewing
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All sessions and all mats are available on ESPN+
Thursday, March 21
11:00am Session 1 ESPNU 
6:00pm Session 2 ESPN
 
Friday, March 22
11:00am Session 3 ESPNU
7:00pm Session 4 ESPN
 
Saturday, March 23
10:00am Session 6 ESPNU
6:00pm Session 7 ESPN
 
Participating wrestlers from Indiana
Weight Wrestler High School College 133 Cayden Rooks Columbus East Indiana 141 Jesse Mendez Crown Point Ohio State 141 Sergio Lemley Mount Carmel Michigan 149 Graham Rooks Columbus East Indiana 157 Brayton Lee Brownsburg Indiana 174 Brody Baumann Mater Dei Purdue 197 Evan Bates Chesterton Northwestern 197 Silas Allred Shenandoah Nebraska 285 Lucas Davison Chesterton Michigan 285 Nick Willham Greenwood Indiana
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I agree that it's tricky...there are 1 or 2 at every weight that jump out as "value" picks, but it's tough to make the puzzle pieces fit. Fun stuff!

Maybe he just meant "3-4" category. Carr is still a 4 as far as any media and brackets I can find. 

Gotta be one of the first college signees ever from Indiana whose team didn't have a spot for him in the sectional lineup--and he's going to a D1 school. Nuts!! He's a beast. He deserves it.

It was a great day at Mooresville for Indiana Wrestling.  One high light for me was the amount of team members both boys and girls who came up to me and thanked me for having them on the team and how much they appreciated the opportunity to compete one more time.  We really are producing some great wrestlers in our state and more importantly these kids have a lot of class and respect.  
 
Indiana Gold boys battled hard but came up short 37-22.  Winners for the gold team were;
Mason Jones
Luke Rioux
Tony Wood
Chis Bohn
Duke Myers
 
Indiana Blue sealed a victory for our home state 35-27. Winners were:
Gavyn Whitehead
Griffin Sanders
Carson Fettig
Michael Cain
Keegan Martin
Tyler Schott
Brady Byrd
Josiah Dedeaux 
 
The girls beat Iowa 63-12, but came up short against Illinois 21-44
Double Winners for the girls were: 
Tola Aluka
Sophia Buechner
Rose Kaplan
Leila Thomas 
 
Winner vs Iowa were;
Tola Aluka
Sophia Buechner
Rose Kaplan
Leila Thomas 
Kyra Tomlison
Alexes Spaulding
Kaylea Beauchamp
Jaiah O'Neal
Michela Clifford
Portia Weaver
 

Gotta be one of the first college signees ever from Indiana whose team didn't have a spot for him in the sectional lineup--and he's going to a D1 school. Nuts!! He's a beast. He deserves it.

Gotta be one of the first college signees ever from Indiana whose team didn't have a spot for him in the sectional lineup--and he's going to a D1 school. Nuts!! He's a beast. He deserves it.

Gotta be one of the first college signees ever from Indiana whose team didn't have a spot for him in the sectional lineup--and he's going to a D1 school. Nuts!! He's a beast. He deserves it.

Gotta be one of the first college signees ever from Indiana whose team didn't have a spot for him in the sectional lineup--and he's going to a D1 school. Nuts!! He's a beast. He deserves it.

Congratulations to Tyler Schott Congratulations to from Center Grove for signing with Bellarmine. Projected to wrestle 285.
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Congratulations to Dillon Graham Congratulations to from Indianapolis Cathedral for signing with Bellarmine. Projected to wrestle 157.
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In case you missed it on X or the college thread: Christian Mejia from Elkhart Memorial, Derek Blubaugh from Bloomington South, and Shawn Streck from Merrillville all picked up D2 national titles last night.
 
Mejia had finished 5th twice before, was seeded only 3rd, and was in his final year of eligibility. 
 
Blubaugh had twice been national runner-up to his finals opponent, and had lost to him 5-0 two weeks ago, but finally got over the hump.
 
Streck picked up his second consecutive title. 
 
Congrats, guys!!
 
 

In case you missed it on X or the college thread: Christian Mejia from Elkhart Memorial, Derek Blubaugh from Bloomington South, and Shawn Streck from Merrillville all picked up D2 national titles last night.
 
Mejia had finished 5th twice before, was seeded only 3rd, and was in his final year of eligibility. 
 
Blubaugh had twice been national runner-up to his finals opponent, and had lost to him 5-0 two weeks ago, but finally got over the hump.
 
Streck picked up his second consecutive title. 
 
Congrats, guys!!
 
 

In case you missed it on X or the college thread: Christian Mejia from Elkhart Memorial, Derek Blubaugh from Bloomington South, and Shawn Streck from Merrillville all picked up D2 national titles last night.
 
Mejia had finished 5th twice before, was seeded only 3rd, and was in his final year of eligibility. 
 
Blubaugh had twice been national runner-up to his finals opponent, and had lost to him 5-0 two weeks ago, but finally got over the hump.
 
Streck picked up his second consecutive title. 
 
Congrats, guys!!
 
 

Christian Mejia!!! National champion! What a way to cap a career! Congratulations!