MattM

44-21 victory. First boys team championship ever in any sport, and first school team championship since girls in the 1980's. It's been a long time coming for the Falcons and many time of being very close. Glad to see them finally climb to the top of the heap and win a Team title. Also, an impressive job by Lawrence North pulling off and impressive win against Mater Dei to make it to the finals themselves. Their is something about team state that make it a unique feeling and experience than the individual series. And the parity involved in this years team finals showed this.

I'd e-mail one of the UFC talent directors through their corporate website. Your best bet is to also get in with some trainers/promoters who the UFC trust to tell them about up and coming talent. Being a ton of people try out for the show yearly it would greatly help your chances if someone like that recommended you to them and prior to the cattle call tryouts. Each year on the show you usually hear Dana say certain guys are contenders to win it because where they were training or because he had heard good things about there fighting. That would tend to make me think more guys are picked for the show in advance than end up making it just by the cattle call audition process. Odds are they don't have a perfect rotation of what weight classes they will pursue for the show. I would guess they look at what weight classes they need to add more depth too. Plus if they have a weight they know a lot of top prospects are in I would guess they would consider that for the next show. My hope is one of the next one will highlight their really lightweight divisions since they just added the new weights and got the addition of the WEC talent to their line-up.

Thanks. The 4 team wins team state. The 8 team comes in second. And the 6 and a team that didn't make top 10 are in the team state semi-finals. 3 teams make team state that don't score in top 10 of individual state. One obscurity in the results could be over looked, but several of them tells me a little something about determining a "team" title. I'm all for classing team state, continuously add point up as we go through the tournament series, or whatever need to be done. But it just hard for me to call what is accomplished at individual state a "Team" championship when its only being scored by a few wrestlers that make it that far. Nor, can I believe the IHSAA actually sees it that way either. Thus only wanting to change the system based on their ability to keep relatively the same revenue while having to put less effort into the running and organizing wrestling related matters.

These rules can be found in the IHSAA Winter Bulletin under wrestling B. To be eligible for the heavyweight class, a wrestler must weigh over 189 lbs. A contestant may wrestle at the weight class they qualify for by virtue of their weigh-in for that event or one weight class higher only. B. The IHSAA copy of the sectional entry list is the official copy. 1. A wrestler entered on the official entry list may be entered in his/her listed weight class or in the class immediately above his/her listed weight class at the seeding meeting. That is all I have found so far regarding this issue, thus far.

Where did the two team finalists (or even the 4 semi-finalist) finish at individual state under the old scoring system? I'm just going to go out on a limb and guess those numbers would yet again tell us the two systems don't connect very well.

It's been a long time coming for Perry to win Team State. I wouldn't mind seeing them finally accomplish it since this may be the last chance they have.

Is this like the wrestling version of Benjamin Button where he ages backwards but keeps the wrestling knowledge he has gained through life.

According to one of the IHSWCA board members not only did the IHSAA never mention it before as an issue, but at time during previous event Mr. Cox had asked how the scoring was going. From that it seems like it wasn't an issue until the IHSAA need as many selling points as possible to convince people we no longer needed team state.

No change tied with Choice B last year (out of A, B, C) in the voting. So the National Federation decided to not change anything and try again with Choice B this year. So now we have the old Choice B or no change to pick between.

All day Saturday at Center Grove High School Greenwood, IN.

www.ihsaatv.org It's the entire broadcast of the state finals so you will need to forward through the matches unless you feel like watching them.

I though he held up 1 finger in one hand and 3 in the other hand. I would think that would signify the state championship he won and the other three he wants to win. He said in his post-match interview that at the start of the year his goal was to go undefeated and win four state titles.

Yes the Goldman clan as well as some other on the IU staff were able to be present by the last session. They were moving and leaning right along with Garrett in that last match.

After the first round the attendence usually drops as some of the fans that lost the first round start to travel the long way back home. So, even if you don't make it to the first round its worth it to attend during the later rounds to help keep the bleachers full of fans the entire day. The wrestlers that make it to the final rounds deserve the support reguardless of what happens after this year.

Yeah, Brent Smith. I'm guessing a cradle may have even fell into play, but its been a few years so my minds a little fuzzy. He is actually our motivational story for many young wrestlers in the program. A pudgy kid they called Theodore (Chipmunks) with an uneventful middle school career, poor freshman JV year, sub-par JV sophomore outing, average at best junior campaign in the varsity lineup, and then places in state his senior season. Brent went on to wrestle for West Point, leading the team in pins and second in wins his senior year. Captain Smith is currently serving his second tour of duty in Afghanistan.

The question would be are you arguing for wrestler skill development or improving wrestling attendance numbers. My prosper was in reference to the slow growth of the talent of wrestling at all levels. The attendance issue is a different issue to tackle based on the public understanding, general publicity, and public perception of the sport beyond the meet regulars (family, close friends, old wrestlers). This will also be a very slow growth process to reach the levels other states have. Obviously, the quick approach to fixing attendance is just to over class the individual side of the state. That would easily raise attendance by causing more family members, close friends, and old wrestlers to attend because more individuals made it to state. This doesn't work as much in basketball because of the limited roster and 2 teams per class situation that occurs in state. I'd much rather see the wrestling ability increase in some way then find ways to slowly improve the attendance to greater numbers.

Lets help Y2 out again. I'd argue that while it would water down the competition for the first several years it would eventually prosper to the level of the current one. This would occur as the improved team gains interest from students and more development of the wrestlers. Its almost like if the team is set up in a way to have more success more student will buy into it and program will prosper even further. Man I should have pointed out arguments for the other side earlier on it is more entertaining. But still brings be back to the idea of developing the small school team aspect as so many more longer lasting effect on the school and program long term than the effect of a few individual studs coming through ever will.

That would be pretty good small school percent if we are going off the earlier discussion of total participants. Would seem to me with a number like that the small school individuals may be gaining some steam compared to before that 10 year mark. To help ya out Y2, I'd use the argument about the huge talent drop off of these small schools usually have after the individual state studs. This can be show by the small percentage of their wrestlers competing at the semi-state level. It almost like the team aspect of things could use some ways to grown and improve or something at the small school level.

I knew you were not trying to downgrade Trey which is why I tried to phrase the start of my last post to make it more of a springboard for an alternative view rather than a complaint against your point. By the way last one was actually a rolling scramble to a headlock finish. Not sure about the rest of them.

Usually an accomplishment like that tells me one of two things: They made a commitment to put in a huge amount of work during the off season and in season allowing them to make great strides in their abilities. and/or They had a very daunting task (unlucky draw) in the first or second round of semi-state last year which prevented them from at least qualifying for state last year. Either way it still worth the extra recognition for being able to surpass the veteran state qualifiers to win a state title.

PrepareToWin was right at the start of the season "the south did rise again" And we didn't have to count 3/4ths of the state as south or it all being about the EMD crew to contend with the mighty region or other areas. ;D Nice showing Evansville Semi-state.

I'm using your comment more as a springboard for my post more than trying out debate your view. I agree a tech falling all your state level competition is very impressive. I would say that everyone could get caught if he just did it one time to a good opponent, but Reece did pin some of the top best 215 pounders in the state in one day. I would assume they were little better than average, so in essence it would would seem he did a little more than catch them. The difference I see between a tech fall and a pin is really the time it takes to accomplish both. If you can get your opponent to break position while you are in the right spot you can get a pin quickly at any point in the match. However, a tech fall would take time to build up since you are scoring just a few point at a time. With most opponent going into block/defense mode I would say a tech fall at the state level would be hard to get mostly due to time constraints more than anything else. A tech usually shows your just that much better at one aspect of wrestling than your opponents, but doesn't always show much more. We have seen more people tech their way through state on take down ability than we have seen people pin their way through state. So, its hard for me to think that tech is more impressive. If those guys were so much more dominate in every aspect you would think after a large point lead they would be able to easily turn and pin their opponent by the end of the match too. Either many of these tech guys couldn't find a way to pin their opponent once they changed to block/defense mode, so went back to their bread and butter techniques to get the pin. Or they have also been instilled with the idea that the tech is more dominate than a pin, so they have lost their drive to work on mastering the pin fall against top level competition. Pinning shows you have to out wrestle your opponents in one position followed by placing them on their back in a different position. Not down grading the tech fall since it is ultra impressive at the state level but as a pure accomplishment I would say finding a way to pin all of your state level competition is just as amazing. Heck, no one wants to get pinned in state even if they are getting dominated by their opponent.

During the online broadcast they made special mention of Mckinley's goal to someday teach and coach at the Indiana School for the Deaf. It's nice to see people think outside a little the normal job parameters to select a goal such as this.

It's kind of scary the number of programs that at one time had wrestling talent who could beat the best in the nation (or even the best internationally), but have since folded due to athletic issues, conferences putting focus on the importance of other big name sports, and Title IX. Example would be Jimmy Carr (Olympian before attending college) wrestling at the University of Kentucky (then Alabama). This should have been a big push to build either program, but the schools let the opportunity slide and the conference agenda caused it to faded away.

I've said for several years it would be very impressive for any wrestling to pin his way through the state tournament. Hats off to Reese for accomplishing this very hard achievement. Any new on how many other pins he had during the entire tournament series?