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Lead them to the water. Just make sure that it tastes good.

Sorry forgot it was freestyle. Let me adjust my statement and say it should be illegal.

NO. But he got away with it.

Sorry. Will be praying for the family and Prairie Heights community.

Any updates on this?

Miron?

Freestyle and Greco definitely has a place for wrestlers and makes a folkstyle wrestler better. But I will agree it is on it's last leg in Indiana.

All joking a side, I am surprised they even give medals for 3rd.

Sometimes our own delusions of grander or our personal perspectives on the importance of somethings cloud what we feel may be something that is much bigger than it is. We as fans, coaches, and wrestlers only want the best for our sport and our athletes and sometimes when things go wrong we like to find someone to blame. That is the nature of society anymore, almost anytime a big news story about an accident or a tragedy comes out the public and the reporters are looking for someone to blame. When in reality allot of times it is just the way life is. One of the best things you can teach someone is that life is not fair so learn to deal with it because sooner or later you are going to be on the short end. We, as Americans, are luckier than most in this world and should be thankful for that. I enjoy reading these wrestling forums because I love this sport and keeps me up to date, but I currently do not have allot of time to dedicate to it in this phase of my life. Recently I have been noticing more and more posts that are blaming one person or another for things that have happened. While the posts may be true and the situations real, as a wrestling community, we should be trying harder to focus on the positives. Almost always the posts turn negative and nasty, this does nothing for our sport or our wrestling community. Like everyone else I have been watching the Olympics this year and there were a couple things I saw last night that made me put things into better perspective. The athletes in the Olympics are elite and train their whole life for a brief moment to prove themselves and even though they may be the best at what they do there are times that even they get short end. Here are a couple stories for you. http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_14467204 http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/culturesports/2010/02/25/80/0702000000AEN20100225006000315F.HTML The bottom line is sooner or later it will probably happen to you. It is how you respond to it that shows what type of person you are. ?Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.?

We need a branch in the Fort Wayne area. ;D

I get the same message. I would like to see it.

I blame Mishawaka if they would not of taken up 10 spots that is a possible 10 other schools that would of had fans there. Seriously though, there are allot of areas in the state that are being hit really hard and the state tournament has people coming from all over the place, not just a few areas. I'm sure it is not the only reason but I would say it is a major factor. I know a few people that didn't go because of money.

What Jimtown said. It's not cheap.

I agree with Y2. I don't think FW will get a single person to the 2nd day.

Bellmont has that almost every year. Great program. Nothing but respect for what they do.

#1 had a bye. Which I felt wasn't necessarily fair for the #1 because anyone who wrestles knows their first match usually isn't their best. This is why I don't mind a 4th placer at semi-state.

It would cost them more money though. Think about the fact that there will be 56 less wrestlers at semi-state. Estimate at least 2 people paying $9.50 to get in to see the wrestlers that equals $6272.00 now X that by 4 semi-states and your looking at $25,088 state wide that they probably get a decent cut of. And this a low ball estimate. Why do you think they did it in the first place? It certainly wasn't for the kids or they would have wrestle backs. Remember their only goal is to find a state champion at each weight class, taking 4 from each regional surely does not help with this in their minds. Oh yeah also don't forget about the money for buying food and drinks. Now that I think of it. If we could find a way to show them that they would make more money from having wrestling backs we may have a chance.

Simple answer. Wait till she wrestles nationally. That will speak for itself.

Warsaw.

Here is the story Duck. The old site kept getting hacked and going down for a long time. So Joe made a great site and people now like this one better. And everyone posted happily ever after. Hacks happen all the time, especially when servers and programs are not being updated and patched. They usually aren't even hacked by a person but by a bot that is just looking for vulnerable servers. Any other questions and I will have to charge you.

I did not read through all ten pages of this, so I don't know if this was brought up. I, as a coach, always thought brackets were handed out after the tournament. Then you knew who you drew for the following weekend. With that said, it is obviously unethical and poor sportsmanship to try to use prior knowledge to your advantage, which NO ONE should be trusted with. You are not teaching your kids anything but how to work a flawed system. The flawed system being the brackets coming out to early and having no wrestle backs. Again this brings up the fact that our tournament needs changed. It is absolutely ridiculous that our kids should have to suffer year in and year out because IHSAA likes to compare wrestling to basketball. The "There Can Be Only One" mentality needs to go, it's not always about winning the State Championship, for some kids making it to Semi-State or State is the goal. It is always saddening to see a Senior walk off of the mat for the last time after working extremely hard, for who knows how many years, when he knows and you know that he should be going to the next level. For those of you that say "But I love the ticket round", there will always be a ticket round and you wouldn't love if you got screwed over by it a couple of times. If our tournament was set up correctly in the first place we would not run into people trying cut corners and cheat.

Don't forget to mention that Anton is one of the best high school wrestlers to come out of Fort Wayne if not the best. <--Caprino stats? Injured freshman year State Runner-up sophmore. State Champion junior and senior year. High School All American. And I am sure many other achievements. He is currently still competing and will still get out on the mat unlike some other old fat people like myself. I plan on sending my kid to him when he gets old enough. I think he can help get Fort Wayne back on the map. The North will rise again. ;D