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Also not fair for a wrestler to prepare all week for one opponent and then find out Saturday morning they have someone different.
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Seeds will be released tomorrow at 6 PM on Dane’s radio show. happy New Years!
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If anybody wants to hear the e results of today’s vote-in process: WZBD.com and click on the red listen live button Starts at 7. We’ll have the results posted later after the show is over!
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Thor reacted to a post in a topic: Coaches- Team State Voting- Action needed
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Coaches, This year, the IHSWCA Team State Tournament that will be held on Saturday January 6th will be voting on 2 more teams for each of the 4 classes. If you would like to be considered for the last 2 spots, you need to email Dane Fuelling decbell1@gmail.com to say that you would like your team to be considered. You should send him your roster, varsity records/ participants, and your season results. We are also asking that you post your team scores on Indianamat as well. We need your information by December 10th and the vote will be December 17th and announced on Dane's weekly radio show. It is critical that we have all the information to make the most informed decision that we can. Thanks, Greg Ratliff
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There's no great answer I know. Some of the bigger schools have the option of fulfilling a contract with a JV lineup not at state. I've been on both ends of it. I've had to drop to get in before and had someone drop out of one of my tournaments to get in. Every time it has happened the AD's and coaches have understood due to the significance of the Team State tournament. I've heard people say several times there should be a tournament for those teams hoping to get in that don't. And just find a host from the unpicked teams once the vote-ins have been announced. But it's not something the IHSWCA has the resources for, so it would be up to a willing school.
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2A Team State "Wildcard Weekend"
Greg Ratliff replied to Nate Spangle's topic in High School Wrestling
Coach Spangle decided to make that happen. I love the idea. It would be a big undertaking for the IHSWCA to do that and hope that other classes will step up and do the same. -
2A Team State "Wildcard Weekend"
Greg Ratliff replied to Nate Spangle's topic in High School Wrestling
This is great! It would be cool to see some other classes follow in similar fashion. -
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Greg Ratliff replied to Y2CJ41's topic in High School Wrestling
Board probably didn't know this, but he's TripleB trained... -
Kevin Whitehead's Final State Championship
Greg Ratliff replied to Y2CJ41's topic in High School Wrestling
Someone beat me to it… but I was going to say “DJ RADNOVICH!” -
Can't beat a dead horse. What happened happened. The time was tight and the call was close either way. The harder thing to understand is why a stalemate was called after they had just came out of a scramble with 10 seconds to go? The officials on that mat were good officials. No blame. Evansville semi-state is very unforgiving... Both of the assistant coach's sons, Lane Deckard (2020 against Ben Dalton) and Cash Turner, had careers end in the same heart-breaking fashion
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Team State Qualification leaderboard delay
Greg Ratliff replied to maligned's topic in High School Wrestling
Maligned; ton of work that you graciously do for the sport/ state. Appreciate it big time! -
Hey , I want to start by saying thank you to lots of people. I attended the Franklin site last weekend. One of my former coaches was there working all weekend. He once said to me "I don't know how much so and so is getting paid to do this, but it's not enough" I'll tell you that number was probably $0. We have a lot of people that help with a data driven formula, seeding, a rules/ selection committee, selecting/ assigning officials, securing mats, setting up LOTS of things, trackwrestling setup, awards, and now streaming the whole thing. If ANY of these people aren't there helping, I don't know now this tournament continues. It is a huge undertaking. I won't say that the experience is perfect. But we keep aiming to make it better. The goal is to always keep this tournament centrally located. The tournament was setup to sort of bring teams (the best teams is the goal) from all geographical locations. The 1A problem becomes that there aren't many 1A options in the Indianapolis area. And not many 1A options that can field 6 wrestling mats. Someone on the IHSWCA has continuously asked me to drop 1 and 2 back down to 8 teams. I have not wanted to do that for lots of reasons we have discussed over the years. That in itself limits venues we can go to. Which is why we have done fieldhouses the last two years. We have several people that want the tournament all at one location, but that has been difficult to accommodate. We have several that want the tournament all 4 separate locations. That also raises issues as we spread ourselves too thin with helpers. There's only so many volunteers you can ask for. I do like to read on ways we can improve. I don't think everyone understands the logistics. I think the faceoff needs to be done before the finals That would be incredible. As far as the spotlight finals or one match finals. Also a great idea! Brownsburg reached out last year to ask if they could do that, but that meant that the finalists had a double bye. It comes back to asking officials, and workers to stay longer. So there are ways to improve and I'm always interested in hearing how you think we can improve. But it's not always as easy as people think.
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Well lots goes into it... but 1 location or 4 we're still going to have several upset it's not where they want it. But we are commonly asked to centralize the tournaments. We've tried to do that often at several complexes, but can't do that without losing lots of money. Team tournaments are very different than a tournament that are "pay per entrant". Fort Wayne was very cost efficient, but not centrally located. This set-up is different than last year and I think a better option. Last year 1A and 2A were in one location; which is 24 teams, which was a 12 mat setup (8 in the fieldhouse and 4 in the gym). This year 1A and 3A are together, which is 20 teams, which is a 10 mat setup (6 in the fieldhouse and 4 in the gym). There are some ideas already being tossed out there next year to centrally locate it and try and have more classes together, but it's not an easy process. I won't say we are exempt from mistakes, but we keep trying to improve and have a lot of people working on this tournament that just love the sport/ tournament. Always welcome for constructive ideas to consider, but we are always working through several scenarios.
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December Wildcard Team State Question
Greg Ratliff replied to Nate Spangle's topic in High School Wrestling
Coach Cook said it all really, but things that have been important were: going out and wrestling those teams that you might be compared to. It's hard to change your schedule each year for that, but it's not difficult to make sure your are getting meaningful results. Putting yourself in tournaments that give us something to base you off of. Having a full lineup is a big deal too. We all know that weak spots in the lineup can consistently put you behind in duals, but forfeits are guaranteed points behind. Good luck!