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Bloomington Semi State 🤔

Bloomington Semi State 🤔

Have coached at both New Castle and Evansville Semi States. New Castle atmosphere is on a totally different level. Fans right on top of the mat, parents jumping over the rails, tiny holding pin area in the tunnel, full gym of fans. Its a great experience. 

Have coached at both New Castle and Evansville Semi States. New Castle atmosphere is on a totally different level. Fans right on top of the mat, parents jumping over the rails, tiny holding pin area in the tunnel, full gym of fans. Its a great experience. 

Have coached at both New Castle and Evansville Semi States. New Castle atmosphere is on a totally different level. Fans right on top of the mat, parents jumping over the rails, tiny holding pin area in the tunnel, full gym of fans. Its a great experience. 

Bummer. Would love to see these places filled to the rafters for these kids. Here was New Castle last weekend

A few around here that, despite not having the numbers of a big school, have kids in the mix nearly every year are Chris Fleeger, Steve Sandefer, and Jerimiah Maggart. Very impressed with how much they get out of kids. 

5th semi state didn’t disappoint.  Maybe it’s time to realign some things???

Sectional Team Duals
Two pools, cross bracket for the last round. Everyone has wrestled each other or has at least a common opponent. One 2 point weigh in and its basically over. Not many crazy sectional bracket situations anymore. Doing this would also allow you to use the "wins vs sectional field" criteria as the last possible criteria if its needed. Sectionals with more than 10 teams, I would think we could figure out how to handle this situation somehow. 

Should be a requirement that each team in sectional wrestles each other in some type of dual format at some point in the season. Pretty simple but when it's brought up at seeding meetings, people think you are crazy or complaining. 

Sectional Team Duals
Two pools, cross bracket for the last round. Everyone has wrestled each other or has at least a common opponent. One 2 point weigh in and its basically over. Not many crazy sectional bracket situations anymore. Doing this would also allow you to use the "wins vs sectional field" criteria as the last possible criteria if its needed. Sectionals with more than 10 teams, I would think we could figure out how to handle this situation somehow. 

Sectional Team Duals
Two pools, cross bracket for the last round. Everyone has wrestled each other or has at least a common opponent. One 2 point weigh in and its basically over. Not many crazy sectional bracket situations anymore. Doing this would also allow you to use the "wins vs sectional field" criteria as the last possible criteria if its needed. Sectionals with more than 10 teams, I would think we could figure out how to handle this situation somehow. 

Sectional Team Duals
Two pools, cross bracket for the last round. Everyone has wrestled each other or has at least a common opponent. One 2 point weigh in and its basically over. Not many crazy sectional bracket situations anymore. Doing this would also allow you to use the "wins vs sectional field" criteria as the last possible criteria if its needed. Sectionals with more than 10 teams, I would think we could figure out how to handle this situation somehow. 

Should be a requirement that each team in sectional wrestles each other in some type of dual format at some point in the season. Pretty simple but when it's brought up at seeding meetings, people think you are crazy or complaining. 

Should be a requirement that each team in sectional wrestles each other in some type of dual format at some point in the season. Pretty simple but when it's brought up at seeding meetings, people think you are crazy or complaining. 

I completely agree that this was an issue, as my wrestler at 152 is the one that got hurt most by the seeding. I do not think record versus the opponents in sectional is the best way to seed but I do think it should be a requirement that the team wrestles in at-least a dual or tournament with a school(s) in their sectional.  I am not sure why they do not wrestle in city or county based off their location. It makes it very hard to find common opponent and other teams in the sectional have tried to dual them and they have declined. It hurts 2 and 3 seed at the sectional and then also hurts the kid at the other regional as well. If a wrestler does not wrestle against one opponent or school (atleast entered at the same tournament) in their sectional, then I do not think they should be seeded. It also might sound stupid but why not wrestle a true second if you have not lost to the opponent that got second. It might add a total of 7 matches but could also solve some seeding issues heading into regional. We beat Kiner 12-2 during the year and then did not get a chance to wrestle him based off the bracket and he placed higher than us and advanced to semi-state the next weekend. The point of seeding meetings is to separate the best two wrestlers but when schools will not wrestle other schools in their sectional, this makes it impossible. 

Nick Borta North Montgomery. Unheard of kid who possibly  had a losing record freshmen year (I can’t remember). Made it to semi state that year and had a controversial loss. Senior year finished 6th, giving the eventual state champion his only two losses of the season. 

Nick Borta North Montgomery. Unheard of kid who possibly  had a losing record freshmen year (I can’t remember). Made it to semi state that year and had a controversial loss. Senior year finished 6th, giving the eventual state champion his only two losses of the season. 

Nick Borta North Montgomery. Unheard of kid who possibly  had a losing record freshmen year (I can’t remember). Made it to semi state that year and had a controversial loss. Senior year finished 6th, giving the eventual state champion his only two losses of the season. 

Nick Borta North Montgomery. Unheard of kid who possibly  had a losing record freshmen year (I can’t remember). Made it to semi state that year and had a controversial loss. Senior year finished 6th, giving the eventual state champion his only two losses of the season. 

Nick Borta North Montgomery. Unheard of kid who possibly  had a losing record freshmen year (I can’t remember). Made it to semi state that year and had a controversial loss. Senior year finished 6th, giving the eventual state champion his only two losses of the season. 

Dual meet will be streamed live on the CG Sports YouTube channel. Start time is 6pm but subject to change due to travel. 
 
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Great dual meet and a great atmosphere last night. Our sports network (CG Sports) always does a great job with the broadcast. Thanks to Cathedral for allowing us to stream the dual live! 

Great dual meet and a great atmosphere last night. Our sports network (CG Sports) always does a great job with the broadcast. Thanks to Cathedral for allowing us to stream the dual live! 

Great dual meet and a great atmosphere last night. Our sports network (CG Sports) always does a great job with the broadcast. Thanks to Cathedral for allowing us to stream the dual live!