aoberlin

When our U14 comes through high school it's going to be fun.

Just more fuel to keep working hard. Thanks for the post.

My son cut from 138 before this year's season to make 113 for Sectionals. Our first scratch weigh-in could only happen the week before Sectionals. He got rid of all his baby fat, and it was the best thing for him. He is a new kid. So yeah, I am happy to talk about it. No titles were won though. That took allot of mama meal prepping. But... you are absolutely right. We will get the veneer and the rarities.

1. Implementing a harsher penalty for unnecessary roughness. 2. Wrestlers being considered inbounds with one supporting point. 3. Specific measurement requirements for required girls uniforms. 4. Video replay in championship events. 5. Awarding three points for a takedown instead of two. 6. Awarding two points for near-fall after a two-second count, three points for a near-fall after a three-second count, four points for a near-fall after a four-second count. 7. Charging the wrestler with a loss when using a medical forfeit. 8. Requiring only one supporting point for wrestling to be considered inbounds. 9. Eliminating that knees be inside the boundary to earn a fall or near-fall with the defensive wrestler out of bounds. 10. Allowing that the pinning area not be the “total” of supporting points when the defensive wrestler is on their back. 11. Allowing a wrestler to touch the mat in front of the starting line in the neutral starting position. 12. Adding grasping of the ear guards or mat as a delayed call. 13. Adding head-butting to the list of illegal holds/maneuvers. 14. Expanding to include gouging or poking of the eyes to Rule 5-29-1 (Unnecessary Roughness) 15. Requiring at least one coach in the corner of a match. 16. Requiring mat-side weigh-ins. 17. Mandating coaches’ attire at dual meets and tournaments – similar to other NFHS sports.

I received this yesterday. But no survey. Figured they didn't really want my opinion. By now you should have received a notice from the NFHS regarding the 2024 Rules Survey. Please complete the survey within the allotted time period. Thank you.

Personally I believe it depends on the weight some and how naturally lean a wrestler is. 175 and above you may get away with not cutting and hanging close to 175 maybe even 165. My 175 weighed 165 and lost ticket round to someone who looked much bigger than him and we had a couple of positions we probably would have held if we were on weight or possibly floating over from time to time. My 190 weighed 176 at semi-state. Under 175 I think you for the most part need to be lean and around your 7% body mass and actually be strong and not just a skinny rail. We can talk about position and mindset all day long which I think are the most important things. But if the kid doesn't have the strength to hold a position and execute a technique or defend an attack then you aren't winning titles. They have to be at a weight that makes sense for their body and the strength they have. We have been a non-cutting team for quite a while, I even forced a kid to go up a weight due to cutting too much, and I do feel like it has cost us some matches and kids not going as deep in the tournament as they could have. In the ideal world it would not matter but to say it doesn't just isn't living in reality. The size difference I see with some of our kids vs who they are wrestling is sometimes glaring. But... I also hate watching a kid suck weight 2 days before a match and use practice just to just cut weight and survive. Part of it may depend on just how natural of an athlete a wrestler is. We have also had plenty of kids that didn't get down to their fighting weight before the season or within striking distance and do the fat test and certify over what they naturally start weighing halfway through the season even though they say they are hammering food. So there is that to manage also. With all that said our big focus this off-season is #1 Mindest, #2 Weights/Agility, #3 Chasing Competition, and #4 Technique. That isn't the order every team needs but that is what we need right now. Kraus, I thought I explained this to you in our chat group. Also for a 175 Chase looked just fine and chiseled.

Angel is my pick also. I didn't get a chance to watch Lance.

Pearl Jam lost to Ticketmaster. I doubt the Indiana Wrestling community goes any further than someone's junk email box.

When have we ever wanted to be compared to other sports? That's how we ended up with no wrestlebacks. For the record I honestly didn't key in on any injury calls this weekend I thought were gamesmanship. I was just stating I have been seeing it a lot recently and feel we need to do what we can to minimize and curb it as much as possible. Personally, I had a wrestler who got a bloody nose every match and we were never able to use our conditioning to break an opponent which drove me nuts, I can't stand breaks in the flow of the matches but that is the style I enjoy watching and coaching.

This^^^^ Like everything else I am sure there will be holes shot in this but this has made total sense to me. Doesn't "water" anything down. We wrestled for 5th a while back and it wasn't an issue. It provides more opportunities for kids.

For anyone that knows Waylon when it comes to wrestling he has a mindset at all times to score points and break his opponent. All the while being confident he will do that. What is wrong with that? His speech reflected that and the question is asked less than 5 minutes after he just got done taking care of business. You think his mindset changed that fast? The kid just went full throttle on a very tough bracket. Being humble in an interview is not be a requirement. Being confident in your ability is if you want to win on that level.

You just #SETL down. He is fully blown 260 now!

100% I made this point earlier this year in a post.

Doster won convincingly. End of story.

That's about the same time he hit me with a luck slide by in practice. So he was really arrogant back then. Boy, how things have changed..........

As big as it is we could do one per semi-state. I would be happy to host one at Homestead next year.

Sorry, I didn't focus on what you actually wrote and read the whole thread. I assumed you were just saying how it is set up now.

Which makes no sense since that is probably the 4th placer from sectionals. It should go off the highest placer of the sectionals of the 1st placer that didn't qualify. Or... have wrestlebacks.

Did we just become best friends? Did we just become best friends?

Every transfer no matter what is supposed to be approved by the IHSAA and gets the pass of the principal of the recieving school and transferring out school. The parent/athlete needs to submit an Athletic Transfer Report that the principals will need to sign off on. You can have a student from another school that didn't play any sports transfer and they are not allowed to play any sport at the new school until the Athletic Transfer Report has been approved. For the most part, the principals from both the receiving and transferring out are supposed to evaluate if any of the transfer rules in the bylaws have either been broken or met then throw a red flag to the IHSAA or give approval. Transferring is very well defined in the bylaws. https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-23 By-Laws.pdf Start reading on page 96 and it goes over all violations and reasons for legitimate transfers. Someone can correct me if I am wrong I am just reading the rules. We have never had a high-level athletic transfer so I can only go off of the fact we had a student from another school move to us and they never even played a sport but had to still jump through the hoops. How people get around these rules I have no clue. But it is pretty hard to argue if there is a legit change of address barring it being some apartment with an address that "receives mail". Also, remember middle school is the wild wild west and kids can go to any school they want before high school starts as long as the school system they are going to has open enrollment. Which then doesn't throw an Athletic Transfer Report.

Contenders is huge. You can't leave them off the list.

Great read. Your story is not an uncommon one. Your perspective at such a young age is rare. Keep at it.

Then do it.

Probably countless times a year.

I will say I have only watched Thrine wrestle at State and he looked amazing and like wrestling just makes sense to him. I am not sure how much off-season work or youth experience he has. But… I hate to tell some people that once in a while there are wrestlers that just get it and he looks to be that type of wrestler. I wouldn’t bet against him no matter who he wrestles. Especially in the big moments.