MattM

He has some narrowing down to do, but it's the start of the process. http://www.flowrestling.org/article/58927-mason-parris-top-8-school-list#.WWe-WIUpCEc Indiana Virg. Tech Michigan Illinois Nebraska Northwestern Arizona St Princton.

Flo's Junior Lightweight Preview http://www.flowrestling.org/article/58908-junior-freestyle-lightweight-preview#.WWa434UpCEc 100 - Moran picks for 4th 126 - Konrath picked to win 132 - Smiley gets a shoutout.

Fargo, big pre-season events, and weight shifting will change things a decent amount, but here is their initial rankings http://www.flowrestling.org/ranking/2871-new-faces-new-rankings/2017-07-09/p4p Pound for Pound #9 Parris 106. #20 Moran 145 #2 Brayton Lee (behind Sasso of PA) 145 #16 McIntosh 152 #1 Joe Lee 195 #13 Davison 220 #1 Parris ( initially he was slotted at #2 behind Schultz of CO but was moved up in the revision) HWT #16 Pokorney These rankings could set up a Who's #1 clash between B. Lee and Sasso. It also could make meeting between Parris and Schultz unless Football gets in the way. Indiana is a little light on this list and with little Hoosier movement during the regular season (travel restrictions) hopefully we have some of our top guns participating in some of these spring and fall events.

According to Twitter at least VTech, Michigan, & IU have already visited the Parris homestead. Hope this is helping him feel the wrestling love over a possible football decision. If any coaches are at the B.Lee residence it sounds like they maybe camping out for awhile. According to Twitter he's currently catching some rays on the beach. I think Manning could close the deal if he shows up and jumps a shark on water skis.

Yes picking him up is a gain for the Huskers, but a loss for the Boilers. On a related note Dom Bradley just joined Nebraska a few weeks back. I wonder if he'd be interested in a training partner from Lawrenceburg.

A top middle weight recruit just de-commits from Nebraska and re-opened his search. This move lends to the speculation that Nebraska maybe putting more focus on B. Lee as the guy they are perusing for their future 149 spot.

Yeah Flo usually does the whole breath of work I've the last year or two for it's regular rankings. Plus, it doesn't usually budge as much in the summer other than Fargo Results. Although, I'd put WTT and US open up there with Fargo in terms of pool of talent. Flo's P4P list usually is a little more potential and guess work than record. If B.Lee has a few more good showing over the summer and/or Pre-season I'd say he will move up a little more on the list. But based on name recognition getting into that top 10 will be a hard to crack without them taking a substantial loss themselves.

Well there are quite a few National heavy hitters on the Top 15 list. It maybe a little deeper with name recognition than some of the past few years. B. Lee is #2 or #3 at his projected weight class of 141/149 behind Teasdale 133/141 and Sasso 141/149. If commitments stay where they say they are going, Lee is the #6 uncommitted Senior wrestler. Parris is #1.

http://www.flowrestling.org/article/58346-where-college-coaches-should-be-at-12-01-tonight#.WVaOQIUpCEc Flo currently has Parris #2 on the Senior Recruiting Board behind former Indiana resident Gable Stevenson. Speculation is Oklahoma St and lowa, among other big names, will be hitting Mason up to choose wrestling over football and fill their HWT spot. B. Lee is the #16 recruit. Flo sees Nebraska going after him with the C. Red connection. They also feel North Carolina State maybe pushing heavy for him. Also on Flo's Senior Recruit Board. #13 J. Lee which is pretty locked in to follow his brother to Penn State. #59 Lucas Davison who maybe want to try and follow his brother to Michigan or maybe look at his dads old stomping ground of Wisconsin

Is Indiana willing to put the proper emphasis on Freestyle again now that the rules have came back around? That is the question in think that needs answers before we can say if it's worth it to try and develop a competitive national team. Is the ISWA willing to make Freestyle an emphasis again even if at it take a little away from their Folkstyle dates and at first their profit from it? Are many the coaches at the youth level willing to make Freestyle a emphasis again even if it means setting some training time aside and if they can't coach it then helping their kids get to a training cente that can? Are more wrestlers/parents at the youth level willing to expand there year out to Freestyle season again? If not then we will continue to be in a hole when it comes to the development needed to have a relevant MS and HS national team. Why because the lack of that emphasis and development had been the age were have been in for the last 10-15years. The age that all these HS kids grew up in. Let's not forget we are still battling to recover from the "dark ages" of Freestyle wrestling here in IN. Most kids eligible for the current teams grew up with little focus on Freestyle due to the poor rules which causes a general lack of IN interests in competitions. So it's not hard to fathom that many HS kids have done little to no Freestyle in several years. You can say athletes are athletes and wrestlers are wrestlers, but it still hard to get a primarily Folkstyle wrestler caught up enough to compete on a National level in Freestyle in a short time of training. Several of out current top guys grew up in that "dark age" and at this point may not want to participate in National Freestyle events due to the fact they could get beat by a couple none ranked kids catching them in "Freestyle moves." If you are still tying to get recruited to wrestle somewhere taking those losses would be something you are cautious about. I'm not saying they are scared to compete in general, but Freestyle just isn't a style they are comfortable enough in at a national level. It's a product of the poor system that we and the governing body had in place as these guys were coming up through the youth system. We are still a big Folkstyle state and the Freestyle systems still on wobbly legs. If it improves hopefully that mean we will see more of our elemntery and especially MS kids try and stick with the Freestyle season. Are we as a state putting enough emphasis on growing Freestlye interest and providing oppertunities? Or are we still driving Folkstyle to such a point that Freestlye is just that extra thing some people decide to do? I think we can still be a Folkstyle 1st state without feeling like Freestyle doesn't have much of a place in the state. Sure our elementary system has been strong in getting solid wrestlers intestested in traveling to tough out of state duals. The MS system is offering more tough state competitions and even sending some tough teams out of state. So yes we have a pool of kids coming up that have experience traveling and facing tough competition. However, most of that has still been for Folkstyle events. Again a result of the Freestle "dark age" period driving out state to become ultra Folkstyle. So unless some focus chances I believe as those kids grow through the system they will make the same choice our current HS kids are. They will stick with the Folkstyle events and most will not worry about Freestlye as they develop. Is it possible to get those same elementary and especially MS age travel kid (parents) to be interested in Freestyle event (team or dual)? As a state are we again willing to place some emphasis on this as the elemntery and especially MS level? If not then where will the development of Freestyle talent come from that will make for a competitive National Cadet and Junior team level. If we want to stop our MS and HS Freestyle teams from being an afterthought nationally, then we must not make Freestyle such a distant afterthought in our states youth development process. If not then we can continue to be a ultra Folkstyle state, but I'm not sure that emphasis has translated to the national or college level growth we would like to see from Indiana.

The Indiana wrestler pipeline to the Black Knights continues. Congrats and thanks in advance for your service to our country.

If I recall correctly he was state runner up to Jose Escobedo his senior year. I see he's had a decent arm arm wrestling career as well. Hope he had some decent results on the show, his arm strength and wrestling background should help him on some of the more difficult climbing obstacles.

The best recruiter for the wrestlers are the other wrestlers. These guys know each others twitter, instagram and sometimes even phone number. They keep up each other and talk to each other all the time. If they start selling each other on the idea of a tough team that can compete then we will have one that can compete. If they feel the cause is worth of the effort then I'm sure they will train more to adapt to Freestyle and find a way financially to go. However right now the drive is just not there for many of our solid wrestlers to justify that type of summer effort or financial commitment. Currently they don't know much of a team will actually show and are not sure if they want to commit the effort and fund raising to be there. The state is just recovering from a dismal decade of writing off The Olympic styles all together which isn't helping either since many of our top guys have done very little wrestling in the spring over the last several years. 7-10 matches against top national talent shouldn't be to hard to sell especially if these guys know they are going to be on a good team. I'm sure some big name coaches calling guys early in the process and talking it up would help but getting their peers to take a leadership roll will be the best selling point. I remember hearing an interview with the Oklahoma guys a year or two ago where they said the wrestlers selling the idea of buildings a mega team team to each other was one of the reasons they were able to get so many top guys to commit and also hold each kther accountable to improving their Freestyle ability.

Didn't get smashed and it wasn't to a nobody. Freeman's is 8-2, has a series of legit BBJ wins, and just lost a close decision for the RFA title (a higher level MMA minor league). Sure he's not a UFC household name but it's not a "can" either. Pico marched Freeman down and started throwing without much headmovement. Due to this they threw as the same time and Freeman connected with an uppercut which hurt Pico. Unfortunately Pico leaned forward after getting rocked and fell right into Freeman's go to BBJ finish a guillitine choke. When you give a experienced BBJ guy your neck you are going to be in deep trouble. Pico didn't get smashed he just was either over confindent or nervous and walked right into a good punch and fell into a chokehold. If he was out skilled and punished for a whole rounds I'd call it smashed. What it was is he got caught from walking an opponent down and not moving to avoid the punch. Live and learn. Sure it's not Pico's finest moment, but no need to overly troll him for getting caught in his first fight.

http://www.goprincetontigers.com/news/2017/6/14/two-time-all-american-nate-jackson-joins-wrestling-staff.aspx

I hear Moe's is always open in Springfield.

South is a Columbus East student now. He transferred there at the start of last year from Jennings County, took his year of JV, and is now eligible for Varsity again. He made it to Semi-State his Freshman season at JC, so with another year of development since the. I would expect him to have a very successful Junior season. I cant verify for sure everyone they have is a Col East wrestler, but they usually try to get their wrestlers oppertunities for the spots first prior to searching for someone to fill the spot. I know in the the two community divisions you are only allowed a few out of district kids anyway. All-Star division is more for the mixed teams.

A tour of facilities, interviews, and some technique from camp clinicians. http://www.flowrestling.org/event/255663-brian-l-anderson-wabash-wrestling-camps/videos

Pretty decent win for Lee considering how well Parriot has done over the last couple years against national HS and college competition.

Also in the stacked 66kg weight class, Griffin Parriot will be representing the Purdue Boilermakers.

Happy to see the event is utilizing trackwrestling. I used to hated trying to keep track of results the old way through the event website.

Technically it's based on school size. Although you can opt to put your team in the higher division. Plus, if you bring a 2nd Team they can be placed in the smaller division.

Luke gets a honorable mention for FloWrestler of the Week for his performance over the weekend. Notably his semi-final victory over Sean Russell and finals win over David Terao. http://www.flowrestling.org/article/57131-flowrestler-of-the-week-jacori-teemer-ny#.WTUyroEpCEc

Must be a FloPro Subscriber at the moment but here are the two big Parris Matches. Bailey HS Courtney hasn't been loaded yet. Parris vs Kennerly http://www.flowrestling.org/video/1208084-220-lbs-mason-parris-indiana-high-rollers-vs-brian-kennerly-team-shutt#.WSzYQ4EpCEc Parris vs Hoffman http://www.flowrestling.org/video/1208098-220-lbs-mason-parris-indiana-high-rollers-vs-gavin-hoffman-bison-legend-orange#.WSzYwYEpCEc

You have to either qualify in each style through the State Tournament or by winning one of the regionals (doesn't matter which) to participate in that style in Fargo. Other than that I believe the only way is to patition the state association for one of the additional open spots that they may still have that were filled by the qualifiers.