MattM

Sorry for the late notice but I just saw that as part of the yearly Heartland Film Festival a showing of the movie Helen|Believe will be occuring on Sunday in the Indianapolis area. 

Sun, Oct 8th, 7:30 PM @ Glendale Landmark Theater 10

https://hiff2023.eventive.org/schedule/64ecb05903c8af007176004c

"HELEN|BELIEVE" tracks Helen Maroulis, America's first female Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling (Rio '16), from being the best wrestler in the world into a series of concussions, forced retirement and institutionalization, through her PTSD struggles and eventually into her comeback at the Tokyo Olympics and World Championships in Oslo.

Obviously Y2 has the official word but it’s almost always came out the last week of Oct. or the very start of Nov.  

6 hours ago, 4U2NV said:

This was from 2018 I'm sure some names on the list have changed. 

You are correct.  I beleive Kasten tends to go by just Chris now. 

2 hours ago, SIACfan said:

Unfortunately Kayla Miracle lost in the round of 16.

 

I believe this eliminates her from medal contention. Is this correct maligned?

I'm not in a spot to look over the brackets at the moment, but if the wrestlers that eliminated her make it to the finals she is still in and will have to wrestle back through the repachage.  However, if that wrestler gets eliminated before the finals, then Kayla is out.

3 hours ago, SIACfan said:

It is now possible we could see 2 Indiana wrestlers bring home a World medal in the same year.

 

Has that ever happened before?

59 minutes ago, maligned said:

Both 2021 & 2022: Sarah Hildebrandt and Kayla Miracle

And  other of them could do it in this one too. So that’s 4 potential Indiana medalist for Team USA if everything falls into place.  But why stop there, we can still throw in Micic with an outside shot by way of Serbia to make it a possible 5 for the Hoosier state. 

Murphy lost a close 2-2 match (freestlye) based on her opponent having the higher scoring move.  Decent action early but Nieuwenhuis was always able to scramble to a leg and create a stalemate. Murphy has several almost scores that were called by the ref but got white paddles the other official. Nieuwenhuis did giving up two passivity point along the way to give Murphy the lead. Then with a minutes left in the match Nieuwenhuis scrambled to get the TD and earn the criteria win.

On 9/1/2023 at 9:57 AM, aoberlin said:

Yeah. I have looked before. Like I said it would need to be converted by someone.

If no one else associated with your team recorded it your best bet maybe to try to get in contact with the family of the other schools coach or your opponent.  I can’t recall how laxed the arena was with fan recording devices but they would likely be the only ones that may have captured it.  As mentioned by Maligned I don’t think anything but the finals was officially saved by the IHSAA. 

This is Pre-season so Im sure they are still figuring out weights.  And these are usually heavily influenced by the recent Fargo showing.  

106 - Rioux 8th

126 - Hockaday 6th

126 - Shepherd 19th

189 - Veazy 9th (guess IN get him for one more ranking)

220 - Clark  12th

It wouldn’t be the first time the IHSAA has given a special waiver for certain sports opportunities, but you definitely need to make a very good case to them early if you hope they will consider granting one. 

If Brayton can get back close to 100% he would definitely be a solid AA threat this season.  Hoping for the best here.

2 hours ago, Justin Ratliff said:

Not sure about Franklin as they are coming out of one of the toughest (if not the toughest) regionals in the state.  Rest assured,Tonte will have his crew ready.  

Franklin had a really young squad last year, but some of them did preform well in a very tough sectional.  Tonte definitely will be looking to build on that this year in a new sectional/regional.  

11 minutes ago, Clint Gard said:

Anyone want to swap schedules that was going to EC?  LOL...we have no one on our schedule that wrestles in the Plymouth Sectional.  

Yeah not the best timing for those needing to get matches against new sectional opponents. 

At 100lb Indiana’s own Rianna Murphy will face Madison Nieuwenhuis of Michigan at Flo’s “Who’s #1.”.  Murphy was our recent World Team Rep at U17 and prior Fargo champ.  Niewenhuis just won a Fargo title this past summer. 

https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/11202261-its-world-teamer-vs-fargo-champ-as-murphy-wrestles-nieuwenhuis-at-wno

3 minutes ago, Disco said:

So how did he scoring end up? 

U20 Mens Freestlye 

165 - Iran

152 - USA

102 - India

Close but not quite there for the US squad. 

3 hours ago, The Genius said:

USA leads Iran 95-80 in the FS team title after day 1

 

Iran did better on day 2, will be very close...

As it currently stands Iran has jumped to lead of 150 to 125. 

4 hours ago, Y2CJ41 said:

The Iranian's underhooks and collar ties stymied Jesse most of the match. 

Iran’s undertook technique has been an absolute bear to deal with for many top international wrestlers over the years. 

31 minutes ago, The Genius said:

They wrestled once last year, Zare won 11-3. Masoumi was only 18 (now 19), he's a totally different build and style to Zare but he would probably medal at Worlds already (lost in the last few seconds to Munkhtur a few months ago in a match he was leading the entire time). Zare is likely still the guy for 2024 but Masoumi is a special talent. 

 

Zare himself is also very young, he's only 22.

 

 

Is Amir related to Fardin who wrestled for Iran a few decades back.  Fardin's name comes up alot if you just search Masoumi Valadi and Iranian Wrestling.  Same last part of the name, similar size,  and Fardin's age matches up to be his father or uncle.

Jesse Mendez in the finals against Shakeri of Iran

Christian Carroll up early tomorrow morning. He will have a beast of an Iranian in Masoumi to battle if he makes it to the quarters. 

If you want some insight on those opponents or others from Iran the US contingent will likely face, our Iranian friends via the College-International Board have talked some about the U20 event in recent days. 

6 minutes ago, Thor said:

She lost first round and her opponent lost the next round so she didn't get pulled back in. 

Ah, thanks for the update. For some reason I didn’t think she competed until tomorrow. 

1 hour ago, anskinne said:

Any thoughts on whether the IHSAA will use the NFHS girls weights?

I would assume they would go to it if the IHSAA ever made Girls Wrestling a new sport.  Until then I believe they would likely been good with schools using it for any girls competitions they may host. 

Next up Rianna Murphy

Crull will be wrestling for a U17 World Bronze Medal

38 minutes ago, Misty Kendrex said:

Not sure who you are, how you know where I work & how my job has anything to do with wrestling?