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The powers to be need to figure it out! Like all sports wrestling is a seasonal sport. The big numbers come from novice down, almost all little boys play baseball in the spring. Freestyle and Greco are dying you cant keep sugar coating it. I can?t remember how many tournaments that were canceled this year to lack of numbers. The only tournaments that went on had three styles and folkstyle was the one that made the tournament run, while freestyle and greco were 10.00 dollar medal give away for showing up. Folkstyle wrestling is what the United States is all about we all wrestle folkstyle from peewee to college.

Does anyone know what the attendance figures were for Basketball State vs. Wrestling State? By watching on TV, the stands looked pretty bare for Basketball State. Maybe the IHSAA is starting to take notice or getting worried that basketball is losing its appeal while wrestling continues to grow.

This type of tournament should had larger or full wrestling surfaces for the larger kids at least. Dividing up the mats in the small gym into 4 areas was wrong, kids were falling all over each other and thats not including their parents. Several matches would have ended differently if full mats or larger areas was being used. Refs made some bad calls on kids being out of bounds especialy on mat 7 and 8 not consistant at all but then again maybe alarger surface might have helped.

Thanks for clarifing.

Can someone please explain the weigh in process? Do you have to make weight with shoes and clothes on or is there a weight allowance. For instance if your kid is wrestling 112 does he have to be under 112 with shoes and a singlet on?

It's almost go time, when's your teams first meet's?

But,The IHSWA is just like the ISWA their afraid of change. They should never be a novices wrestling 2nd year cadets.

First, has with all sports their season ends with the start of another sport, almost every kid 13 years old and below plays baseball in the spring. Football ends in October for this age group why not move the start of folkstyle back to start in first of November? or move freestyle and greco to start November? either way its better than wrestling in May.Wrestling season for this age group needs to end in March, combine their state tournament $35 for one style or $70 for all three then the numbers will rise. As for the High School kids their window is very narrow freestyle and greco needs to be done a month after the high school season ends. Lets all face it hardly nobody is turning out for tournments in April and May. Nobody wants to travel an hour or two and pay $10-15 dollars for a medal and not wrestle.

Has Freestyle and Greco wrestling run its course? The last few tournaments we have attended the numbers are low even in the kids side. Without blocking kids together you would be lucky to get 1-2 matches. Is it time to look at extending folkstyle. We all attend camps in the summer they don't teach freestyle its almost all folkstyle.

From, what I'm reading Middle School State is nothing short of a joke. If we're putting legit novice and schoolboy aged kids up against cadets, this makes these so called 15 year old champions no more than frauds. If you're holding a kid back for athletic reasons, than your trying to live what you couldn't accomplish through your kid!! Wake up people with our Man Mitch cutting schools the way he's doing we are going to be lucky to keep wrestling in Indiana. Let's not give the Mitch and the administrators any more ammunition to use against us.

Coaches, watch sending your wrestlers to the Prime Time Wrestling camp ???. They might not return.

Thanks to the Whitko staff and kids, you ran a great tournament today. Good comptition, two boys 3 matches apiece and home by 1:30 good job!!

1 Northfield 2 Whitko 3 Southwood Congrats to Northfield first conference title in 14 years.

O-C-W first off, I didn't even have a dog in the fight I was simply saying if the ISWA made a mistake they will and should fix it, If not maybe another organization will. The IHSWCA might be the answer, they do the middle school duals,and it goes well and you don't even need a card to wrestle. Next move the date ahead a month when wrestling is going in schools, I'm willing to bet that half if not more schools dont even start their elementry wrestling till after Christmas break. Just think of the teams that might show up, instead of 9 teams could you amagine 20+. Then maybe we would have a true champion.

First, Hywa is trying to better wrestling in Indiana, by keeping cost low. Not everbody can afford 30 dollars for a cards and tournaments, especially in this economy. Second over half the kids don't even bother to wrestle after folkstyle state anyway just look in the book.