MattM

Weather got some good FF today. But does that count for win % record?

If they are following the same tournament rules as sectional you can not move a wrestler once the brackets are finalized. I believe it used to be you can not move a seeded wrestler but not it’s any wrestler. So depending on what the conference rules are at least the seeded wrestler must make that weight or be out. Most, maybe not all, events allow would you to place another backup wrestler into the bracket. However again if they are following the same criteria as sectional that wrestler would move to the last seeded position and the rest of the field would bump up a spot.

You may not be a paid HS assistant. However, if you are like me you’ll end being just as involved, just now at multiple levels of the program rather than just a paid HS assistant.

Lee is Fred of the redshirt officially.

We will as long as this dumb orange pumpkin bouncing game doesn’t go into OT.

Competing with Penn St vs Michigan. Micic and maybe Nick Lee in action. Now thats seeing who your viewing audience is.

May want to be more specific with HHC. The Hoosier Heritage Conference (HHC)was not cancelled and will have an additional allowance tomorrow. The Hoosier Hills Conference (HHC) was postponed due to weather and will be rescheduled for next weekend.

http://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1515783276699&twSessionId=lwkysvlibblpsag&postId=254768132

The rule wording refers to a team being unable to practice not canceling school. In the event a school is unable to practice the day prior to a meet the coach/AD should contact the host school and inform them of the practice situation. The host school is then charged with contacting the remaining schools and making them aware of any weight allowance that will be given as a result of a team being unable to practice. All teams will be given the same weight allowance if this occcurs.

Winter Bulletin Link if needed. Wrestling is at the bottom.

Just so everyone one the same page. From the updated Winter Bulletin. Coaches should strive to keep open minds when seeding assignments are being decided. The main objective of seeding is to have outstanding wrestlers separated in the brackets so that they will not meet each other until the finals. Seeding shall be based upon the wrestler's proven ability and not upon the desire for unwarranted advantage. Determination of seeded wrestlers is given in order of importance: Varsity contests are the only record submitted for seeding consideration. a. Head to head competition current year; (The wrestler with the most head to head wins gets the seed. If they have beaten each other an equal number of times, then the winner of the last match gets the seed. Head to head is counted at any level of interscholastic competition. Matches against teammates are not counted for seeding purposes.); b. Record against common opponents; c. Semi‐State quarterfinalist, or higher in previous year IHSAA Tournament Series; d. Win percentage. A contestant with the best overall record (winning percentage) who has wrestled at least 10 matches; For seeding purposes, forfeits should not be included in a wrestler’s record. e. Farthest advancement in previous year IHSAA State Tournament Series; f. Draw by lot. Criteria is reset after determining each seed. Criteria is reset after determining each seed NOTE: A wrestler with less than ten matches may not be seeded ahead of a wrestler with at least ten matches and a winning record unless he/she meets criteria in a, b or c. A wrestler with a losing record may not be seeded unless he/she meets criteria a, b or c unless there are less than six (6) wrestlers in the bracket. A seeded contestant shall have the same opportunity to draw for a bye as other contestants in his bracket. Also at the bottom of the document with an included bracket. To insure that the number one or number two seeded wrestlers do not receive a bye into the semi‐final round, the first drawn unseeded wrestler must be placed on line 13 and the second drawn unseeded wrestler must be placed on line 4. The above bracket provides for up to sixteen (16) wrestlers to be placed in the bracket. The potential pigtail matches would be placed by draw after placing the first and second unseeded wrestlers on lines 13 and 4 respectively. There shall be no scoring or advancement points awarded for any result of matches in the round of sixteen. The wrestler simply advances to the round of eight. If a wrestler loses in the round of sixteen, they are eliminated from the tournament.

Thanks for the update. There goes another week of me not making it to a HS event I’ll be in Elementery-land again. At least I’ll get the state tournament series.

School superintendent decision. Some schools are that way. Others leave it up to the AD or coaching staff to made a decision, with safety in mind. In our school system if a cancelation occurs due to weather we are not allowed to hold any morning practices. If coaches feel the weather threat has passed they are allowed to hold early evening practice, unless the AD or superintendent sends a directive that no practices will be allowed. However, these practices can not be made mandatory and no penalty can given to an athlete for not making the practice.

Yes the wording references a team being unable to practice, not school being canceled. But as stated any clarification would be best made by Mr. Faulkin at the IHSAA since his word ends up being what goes.

Same in Seymour

Nevermind someone posted predictions on the national board with match by match score without mentioning anything about it being predictions. I jumped the gun on that one, was wondering why they would have a high profile meet on a Wednesday night. So he’s not officially lost the shirt yet but likely Sanderson will have to make the decision soon.

Nick officially not longer a redshirt. He took the mat against Michigan tonight and got a MD to help Penn State to a win. This definitely helps Penn State out in the Big 10 Duals and likely could add a couple point to their Big10 and NCAA run, but ideally I was hoping he would keep the shirt this year and then be ready to really light it up the next four years of his college career. It is what is needed though to help the teams and Nicks is definitely a big team player.

Great broadcast Nick and Mike. Thanks for putting it together.

Some of the reason is likely to show through documented weigh-ins that you are adhearing to your weight management plan.

I really wish Tom was able to reply to this one. Had a nice flashback of some conversations we have had when his screen name popped up on this subject. Jason, Hopefully someone can step in for grecoref and give you more clarity on gaining entry into the middle school and youth level of referee work.

That wording was put in although I have no clue when it or these other items were added since the Winter Bulletin was updated yesterday afternoon. If you scores down to the bottom of the Winter Bulletin it show a sectional bracket with instructions to assign the dawn in kids to lines 4 and 13 of the 16 man bracket. This eliminates the from drawing into a top seed. However, the wording of it points out the reason is to ensures the top seeds get a semi-final opponent.

Discussed or implemented? Cause it sounds like the first time people are talking about it being implemented as something that should be done. Just trying figure out why many people including coaches are unaware of it until now. Was it added to the winter bullitin recently or was it in at the beginning?

I many cases if coaches would use common sense, honesty, and a little bit of collaboration you can seed the sectional in the correct way with minimal criteria. Unfortunately it seems rare for some people to throw aside their bias when the blatantly correct seeding is right in front of their face.

I get the point of it, but as pointed out it not the wrestler fault no one walked out to wrestle him (actual weight FF, bumping a kid, avoiding an opponent). Definitely don’t like it when someone adds in another rule or rule interpretation this late in the season. Put it in place prior to the start of the season so everyone is on the same page, unless it’s a safety thing don’t spring things on coaches/wrestlers in the last hour. Next for critetia are they going to say you only get credit for one win or penalized for one lose per opponent. Or only win/loses at that specific weight class count. Or wins/loses against V2 don’t count. Seems like a downward spiral.