MattM

Per the USA Wrestling site information on each Regional: Open to ALL wrestlers that meet the necessary age requirements. Top four (4) place winners at this event qualify for your state`s ASICS/Vaughan Junior National Championship (July 18-25, 2015) teams above the state limit (in the style in which you qualify). Athletes must still adhere to all state policies and you qualify in the style in which you place. However, with some of the better wrestlers in the Mid-West attending this event each year, placing in the Top 4 in many of the weight classes will not be an easy task. For more information related in Indiana's involvement contact STATE KIDS/CADET/JUNIOR DIRECTORS Indiana Kids: Matthew Brewer, 317-201-0644, mbrewer@eliteindy.com Cadet: Tom Dolly, tdolly2@yahoo.com Junior: Jim Tonte, jtonte@msdpt.k12.in.us http://usawevents.sportngin.com/page/show/1670174-eligibility

. It's laughable that your distain for the coaching staff is so deep that you turn my pleas to stop ruining all college wrestling thread with your "I hate Goldman" rhetoric has become some belief that I must be some IU coach super fanboy. It's been nice for the last half of the college seasons being able to read discussion without seeing your standard Goldman hate post butting into most of the college threads. I commend you on at least sticking to a proper thread this time instead of ruining the others on this board with the IU coaching jabs. But why should I offer anything now when clearly all others comments have been ignored or misconstrued due to the blinders you clearly have on.

I believe the two event requirement was for Freestlye only. Greco has too few events to really make that qualification plausable at this point. So your son could have participated in the Greco event.

They do have double our state population and a somewhat stronger wrestling interest level in that land of Lincoln. Wisconsins numbers maybe slightly better for comparison purposes based on state population and wrestling interest level.

IN didn't get too much talk in the end of the year FloWrestling HS Awards, but they did recognize the depth of 138 and 113 state bracket as some of the toughest in the nation. http://www.flowrestling.org/coverage/252014-Whos-1-2015/article/31131-2015-High-School-Awards#.VUFWK1L3anM

I don't have any inside info on that one, but I would venture to say having a national runner-up under their watch isn't going to garner any complaints from the AD.

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2015/April/27/Hall-of-Fame-names-state-regional-winners-of-HS-Excellence-Awards

http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2015/April/25/Hildebrandt-Page-win-golds-at-Pan-Ams-as-USA-gets-four-medals

. Actually the turn off seems to be attending local tournaments in general. The qualification system was attempting to help with that issue though it has been meet with mixed reviews. Most of the complaints seem to be focused on why they done want to go to local events or feel they can't make it to local events. So the question is, is not through qualification, how do we get more participation at these local freestyle events? Because at this rate most clubs are having a hard time justifying hosting the events and thus fewer are existing within a reasonable distance of people. Is it due to a lack of interests in freestyle and greco among athletes and clubs statewide. If so then how do we begin to build this back up now that the rules/scoring seem to be more acceptable compared to the past. More promoting and push by the state towards the clubs, academies, and HS/MS coaches? Extending or moving the start/end of the freestyle and greco season to make it seem more useful to those just getting involved in the sport? Is it due to lack of "quality" opponents at these event. If so then how do you attract those athletes. Does the event structure need to change (maybe pool competition to increase matches you get or even just an open meet concept rather than actual brackets)? Would Sunday instead of Saturday improve the chances of those athletes attending? Does turning off the TrackWrestling Matrix help or would not knowing numbers scare people off too? Is it due to too many bad experiences at previous tournaments such as long days, extreme wait times, organization issues, etc. If so how do we reinvent this system to work better? Have a group of traveling tournament organizers who ensure things run smoothly? Have staggered start times for each age group so everyone isn't packed in the gym at once with a limited number of seats and mats avalable? Is it due to something else? I'm guessing it's actually a combination of these things depending on who you are. I'm also guessing the qualification system somewhat fixes itself if we did find a workable solution to many of these issues. But, one things for sure the less events we have the harder it is to get all levels of wrestlers the quality mat time in these styles in order to develop a greater depth of talent. I'm guessing other state organizations with top or rapidly growing Freestlye and Greco systems are also going through similar issues. Is there ways learn some new strategies that have worked for them, as well as, ideas to avoid? Is there anything we can take away from other sports organizations that focus on individual competition I n how thwy have improve on issues with their event organization?

All their other rankings are out of 20, so you may have just been assuming. Either way nice to see Red get this type of recognition.

The Flo P4P just goes to 14, so Red jumps in at #14 on that list. Plus, he will likely be moving up to #6 on Flo's P4P once the Seniors are removed over the summer.

The trend of most Folkstyle Tournaments being on Sunday mostlyhas come from piggy backing off of the Saturday HS wrestling events at the school. Only Sunday was available and with everyhing already set up the youth event was easy to host the following day. In some cases where their was no Saturday wrestling events a basketball events may have been the reason for hosting on Sunday. Freestyle on Saturdays has been a long standing trend as the wrestling day which is why it likely continues. Plus in many communities it may have something to do with trying to to interfear with Sunday church events more than already is occuring.

From Red's post FloNational interview that was his last event of the year until Super32. So we may see him absent from several big events this spring/summer.

These guys are not exactly obligated to go, but it would be nice. However, it seems Likenif more top state teams would attend and/or more top talent would be listed that it would help entice other top guys to be in their states lineup too. These guys look for event where they know they are getting the best competition, improve their stock in the ranking, and the college recruiting game which doesn't always seem to occur at the National Duals. While their are some quality opponents each year I think this event still needs to be promoted better nationally in order to attract more high level states and more top level guys. Many other good wrestling states don't even send a team and several that do are also lacking their top guys. For all the current national interest in folkstlye events the Folkstyle National Duals seems to not be recieving as much national focus when compared to other national events. Talent and exposure will attract more talent and thus further exposure. Seems as though the National Folkstyle Duals has somewhat stalled out in both those areas.

In a years period along with his 3rd undefeated state title season Red's become a:Fargo Champ Super 32 Champ FloNational Champ Pretty clear why he's got the #1 National Ranking. He done enough to be considered for the Flo Pound for Pound list after a few seniors move off this summer.

https://www.twitter.com/FloWrestling/status/584145545616367616/photo/1This should clear it up.

Great interview with the Cleveland State AD by Jason Bryant. It really shows, in the ADs own words, some of the poor thought process that went into this decision. http://www.mattalkonline.com/podcast/short-time/st156-cleveland-state-athletic-director-john-parry-talks-about-the-future-discontinuation-of-wrestling/

Their is a voting poll with this article on the Cleveland.com website. The results of the poll by itself will not be enough sway the AD's opinion, but it may help generate more discussion in the media about the situation. http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2015/04/should_cleveland_state_cut_wre.html#incart_2box

While he was the AD at Butler he also pushed to begin a Lacrosse program. Butler canceled it the year after he left the school. Some people are saying that even though lacrosse only a small following in Ohio that Parry was able to sell this idea to the school's board of trustees by ensuring them that it will attract more wealthy donors and prep school applicants than what wrestling currently has.

Flo results have him winning that quarter-final matchup 10-3 and advancing to the semi-finals. Then losing that semi-final 9-7 in sudden victory to Cali of New Jersey.

Jason provides a little insight into thing here http://www.flowrestling.org/coverage/252093-2015-NCAA-D1-Championships/video/764632-Jason-Tsirtsis-Felt-The-Pressure-All-Year-

Reminder that the Semi-Finals are on tonight live at 8pm (EST) on ESPN. Finals tomorrow same time and network.

They often find the smallest TV available to put in on if the roundball game is on.

Is that the first occurance of three brothers in the finals in the same year?