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Just curious as to what surprises you see in store for Fort Wayne Wayne this year? They have been improving every year since coach Johnson has been there, and are already one of the better teams in the regional. Seeing that they are already a pretty good team, if they finish in say the top five of the regional, or even top two I don't see that as a surprise at all. Do you have them winning the SAC, sectional, regional? The only one of those that would be a "surprise" would be them winning the regional IMO. Do you see them pulling off a number of state qualifiers? I could easily see one or two, anything more would be a surprise I guess. Just curious to what surprises you see in store. Again they have been pretty good the last couple of years, I really don't think anyone would be too shocked if they even got second in the Ft. Wayne regional, so just curious to what the big surprise will be.

Cody Zink from Woodlan always impressed me. I always thought he woulda made it.

Thats an awesome page, great addition to the site.

Anyone else see the follow up to the story that ran on Sports Center tonight? Very moving story. The original story was about two wrestlers from Cleavland. One lost his legs in an accident, the other was born legally blind. Tonight they updated the story, ill look for a link tomorrow if i can find one. Its amazing how things turned out for them.

I may be wrong on this, but did he wrestle 215 while at South Side? I remember they had a 215 with at least a similar name who was pretty good a few years back.

For sure. I've been watching every game, they are extremely entertaining (I would argue that they have been for at least the last three years as well). It’s exciting to see a good young team progress like they have for sure. The fact that we are playing the Heat doesn't hurt things either.

I know this is a wrestling board, but I am a big Pacers fan, so I am just curious to see if any of the other wrestling fans in the state have been following this series. It's been great competition thus far. Plus we need to keep attendance up next year so that the state finals are not the only tenants at Banker’s Life someday.

How many of those three will get back in? Also what effect do you think that the World Baseball Classic has on baseball's inclusion? It seems as though they really didn't mind getting dropped originally. I would say that softball would have a lot more concern about being involved in the Olympics. Does anyone know anything about squash? Where is it played, how popular is it, things like that? I have a basic idea about what squash is, but really don’t know much other than it is kind of similar to racquetball, and I may be wrong on that too.

I agree, I also think that it is important that the wrestling team works with the football team as well. We get a lot of our top guys from the football team, and we get a lot of encouragement from our football coaches. On our end we do the following things to work with the football team: 1. Lift the football weight program. Our school does BFS and we also do BFS. We do not do a lot of wrestling specific (low weight, high rep stuff). Our weights coach is a football coach and he has went as far as putting together a program of wrestling specific auxiliary lifts to go along with the BFS system, but we lift BFS core lifts with all of our guys. 2. We don’t cut a lot of weight. Our coaches have never said anything to us about cutting weight, but we don’t push it, I imagine that helps us out. Our top running back was a wrestler here the last few years. His JR. year he cut from about 190 to 170 and the coaches had no problem with it, but cutting weight is something we don’t generally push. This season same kid weighted 190, wrestled 220 and went to state. I think you can have success in both sports by working together. Our football team has been very good for a number of years now, they have they just happen to be in the same sectional as Luers. Our wrestling team has been competitive, last year we finished second in class A, our sectional, and our regional. We have a very good track team and competitive baseball as well. We also push all of our kids to run track or play baseball in the spring. Which hurts our numbers a lot as far as offseason wrestling goes, but our guys are being competitive and becoming better athletes all year long. You could argue that our wrestling team would be better if we lifted more wrestling specific weights, made our kids cut weight, and discouraged them from running track. If we did that though we wouldn’t have the athletes out for our wrestling team to be competitive, I would rather have them out for the team myself. It’s important for wrestling to be willing to work with other sports for the betterment of the other teams in the school. A lot of times it seems like wrestling coaches get angry that they do not get other athletes out for their team, but they get stuck in their ways and won’t work with other coaches, or won’t push their athletes to do other sports either.

Busco 12 out 27. I will say that we have great support from our football team. Every player is encouraged to do three sports, some just choose not to. Our winter sports had a call out meeting for all football players, and each of our football coaches attended the meeting and talked about the importance of wrestling for football players.

I just saw on the DOE website that Daleville was open.

Well I dont know what difference the 6 match limit would make then. Would the forfiet situation work for our current sectionals, with 9 or 10 teams participating on a 16 man bracket instead of all 16 spots being filled?

I’m pretty sure this will allow for kids who loose in the opening round of tournaments to be able to wrestle back. So the kids who would lose in rattails at conference and sectionals could wrestle on. I’m not sure exactly how it works, but I was discussing the way in which rattails are drawn with our conference official, and he said something along these lines.

Rumor around here is that Garrett is leaning toward the NECC.

http://deadspin.com/wrestler-comes-in-second-place-at-big-10-tournament-th-452883712 Pretty crazy.

I know that I am in the minority here, but I think that an athlete can be fine participating in multiple sports. I would like to see the numbers on this year’s state champs. I know that a lot of the upper weights at least play football, and that doesn't seem to hurt them too much. Athletes who participate in three sports are conditioning and becoming better athletes year round. Focusing on one sport is nice in theory, but how often does an athlete really put 100% into their offseason? I have found that they generally may go to a practice or two a week, and a camp or two. They can do that while participating in track or baseball in the spring. I find that more often than not athletes who want to focus on "one sport” use that as an excuse, not to do the other sports, more so than using that time to truly become better at just wrestling. I mean if they are just focusing on wrestling, I see that as at least an hour 5 days a week, in the room. Im sure there are some who keep on going year round, but most I have seen use their offseason, going to a couple of practices a week, and a tournament on the weekend. They could do this and still play another sport in my opinion. I would also say that three sport athletes have much less burn out, which is a major problem in wrestling

Shoot, I just realized that I did not check for placers, just looked for qualifiers. Ill check it tomorrow night and let you know if I was off or not.

I just looked this up in "Echos of the Elder". It ends at 2002, so if there was a year that one of them didn't have a placer between 2002 and 2013, then these numbers are off. I'm almost positive that they both have had at least one in each of those years, but let me know if I'm wrong. Also the numbers came from me just looking through the years and finding a qualifier and moving on, again sorry if I missed one. So... Last time Belmont didn't have a placer prior to this year 1990. They also had a streak from 1974 to 1989 prior to 1990. Last time EVMD didn't have one was 1975. Last time that neither had one was 1973. Pretty amazing if you think about it. This year broke a streak that was 40 years long. Two great programs, it will be cool to see them rebound in the coming years.

Two that stood out for me where Evansville Central, and I believe Northeastern. I could see what either had, looked like some sort of plaid though. Any info that could clear it up would be appreciated.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/put-pressure-ioc-overturn-their-decision-drop-wrestling-olympics-2020/ClDPYshl Here's a little better whitehouse.gov petition than the one I posted earlier. Jay Mohr tweeted it today, after having Rulon And Cael on his show (I didn't hear it, but I guess he was pretty fired up about the IOC decision). Anyhow its got over 11,000 signatures, and simply asks the U.S. to pressure the IOC into keeping wrestling, not boycotting the Olympics. With over 11,000 signatures and some big names getting out there I would assume this is the "official" petition. It takes just a few minutes to sign-up. It would be cool if we could get to the 100,000 mark. If anyone runs across another petition put it up here, I'm sure it will get a few more signings from the fans on here.

EDIT: That petition sends the wrong message...we cant participate so the rest of the country's athletes shouldnt either? Im not gonna tell the swim team they shouldnt get to compete. Thats just selfish and we as a sport are better than that. I dont disagree, and don't really think that the petition will go anywhere. It would be cool to see if the 100,000 threshold could be reached by the wrestling community. I don't know if this particular petition is the right route, but something related to it seems worthwhile.

http://deadspin.com/5983637/the-ioc-eliminates-wrestling-from-the-2020-olympics-for-some-reason https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pressure-united-states-olympic-committee-boycott-2020-olympics-if-wrestling-isnt-included-sport/ymlfs0vJ Here is a link to one of the white house petitions. This one seems to be in its infancy, and is pretty harsh, but feel free to sign up and sign it. I did.

I'm not going to pretend to know much about the IOC and FILA, but it seems to me that some of the blame here should be placed on wrestlings governing body. Does anyone think that recent rule changes have damaged the sport? I find freestyle and greco to confusing, but I really only coach folkstyle so can someone with more information weigh-in. Not just to rule changes, but on FILA in general. Also does anyone know if greco and freestyle are a package, or if one could stay and the other go. Freestyle seems much more popular, but that may just be here in the U.S., greco may be more popular in other areas.

speaking of fashion my dad said he saw an article that this will be the last year we will see the spurs over at New Haven. Anyone else see or hear that?

Long hair and sweater vests.