Greg Ratliff

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

When someone wins a sprinting event, we don’t look to see how many people ran the 100 meter dash in high school because we know the Olympic sprinter would smoke every single person in the world. 
Hildabrandt and Miracle would smoke almost every single woman in the world on the mat, and it’s a big pretty big world. 
 
 

Just spitballing, but I think you make the World Team. 

The first round of invitations for the 2022-23 Team State have been sent out and each team accepted their invitations. It's going to be another great tournament!
 
There will be an invitation late April for 1 team each class and 1 in season vote determined the week before Christmas. 
 
The following teams that have accepted:
 

4A 3A 2A 1A Brownsburg East Central Bellmont Adams Central Center Grove Floyd Central Delta Bluffton Crown Point Hobart Garrett Cascade Evansville Mater Dei Mishawaka Hamilton Heights Cowan Indianapolis Cathedral New Haven Heritage Hills North Posey Penn Roncalli Jay County Prairie Heights     New Prairie Rochester Community     Norwell Southmont     Rensselaer Central Tell City     Western West Central

My team has been 0-2 in vote ins at the end of the season, 2021 and 2019, though we did get the second vote-in spot last winter when Columbia City withdrew their auto-bid during the season. It is frustrating to be close and not get in. I've been there. 
 
I think part of the difficulty in explaining reasoning comes from it being a committee that votes on the teams. No one person's reasoning supersedes the group decision. Each person votes equally. We all look at last season's results, the information given from the coaches, and the projected line-ups to make our votes. 
 
 
 
 

The first round of invitations for the 2022-23 Team State have been sent out and each team accepted their invitations. It's going to be another great tournament!
 
There will be an invitation late April for 1 team each class and 1 in season vote determined the week before Christmas. 
 
The following teams that have accepted:
 

4A 3A 2A 1A Brownsburg East Central Bellmont Adams Central Center Grove Floyd Central Delta Bluffton Crown Point Hobart Garrett Cascade Evansville Mater Dei Mishawaka Hamilton Heights Cowan Indianapolis Cathedral New Haven Heritage Hills North Posey Penn Roncalli Jay County Prairie Heights     New Prairie Rochester Community     Norwell Southmont     Rensselaer Central Tell City     Western West Central

Last evening our Team State committee hosted it's annual vote-in selection to choose ONE OF THE FINAL TWO spots for the IHSWCA Team State Tournament on January 7th 2023.    The committee has to make very difficult decisions on which teams will be selected for this tournament.    As a reminder, in the last two seasons we have chosen to pick ONE MORE team based on in-season results. That vote will be around December 18th.    Teams chosen last evening were:  4A: Carmel 3A: Terre Haute South 2A: Wawasee 1A: Winamac   Thanks, and congratulations to these programs.

We intend on having 1 at large bid Sunday the 15th of May and another late December.

Well... it was pushed back until next Sunday the 22nd. Those results will be emailed to the coaches Sunday evening.

https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2022/April/27/Kriebel-named-Assistant-National-Womens-Coach
 
Unfortunately for the state of Indiana it looks as if we will lose Katie to Colorado Springs. It's a great opportunity for her as she has played a vital role in women's wrestling not only in the state, but the country. Congrats to Katie on the new job!

We (Jay County) have also expressed interest in hosting 2A or even 1A/2A

I'd be happy to speak with my AD and see if Rochester can host 1A.  Let me know what you think @ehscoach

Well... Maligned has already mentioned some of the reasons, but I can get into some of the info.
 
The 4th class was created honestly because the group from 1000-2000 was starting to really be under-represented. In the 3A class, other than MD, the representatives were all 2000+.
 
2A, was 1000 and under and 3A was basically 1100-5000 students. 
 
We as a committee thought it was important to keep the bottom of the class close to about half of the top of the class.
 
So currently they are roughly 4A: 2000-4000 (Carmel is the outlier at 5K); 3A: 1000-2000; 2A 500-1000; 1A: 250-500.
 
Like Maligned said, the percentage of 1, 2 and 3, teams that qualify are the same. 
 
There was talk of going down to 4 teams per class, giving 32 a bid. But a couple of things there. We didn't want to reduce the opportunity the smaller classes had to qualify, since 1A and 2A were 12 teams when there 3 classes. That would have only given 16 spots to the smaller schools. Given the big disparity there is in smaller teams and bigger teams at the individual state, some small schools really talked about what Team State did for their program. It gave them something to shoot for. 
 
That's kind of the longer explanation.

The first round of invitations for the 2022-23 Team State have been sent out and each team accepted their invitations. It's going to be another great tournament!
 
There will be an invitation late April for 1 team each class and 1 in season vote determined the week before Christmas. 
 
The following teams that have accepted:
 

4A 3A 2A 1A Brownsburg East Central Bellmont Adams Central Center Grove Floyd Central Delta Bluffton Crown Point Hobart Garrett Cascade Evansville Mater Dei Mishawaka Hamilton Heights Cowan Indianapolis Cathedral New Haven Heritage Hills North Posey Penn Roncalli Jay County Prairie Heights     New Prairie Rochester Community     Norwell Southmont     Rensselaer Central Tell City     Western West Central

It’s not that it’s not possible. We’ve shown that the last few years we can spread out a little. 
 
The concern from people that I work with is asking for a “tournament director” for each site. Basically spreading ourselves too thin.
 
But that can also be solved by training someone ahead of time.
 
Also getting non-school provided supplies to 4 different locations provides a lot of coordinating. As well as setting up things like internet at 4 spots requires someone to go to multiple places. I know Pat Culp went multiple places last year to setup.
 
We have shown we have a great product and that we don’t need to do that all at one site. The introduction of streaming has really reduced a need for that.
 
Really the answer is I don’t want to spread thin the help that I have that makes this tournament great. But the last few years we have proved we can do more than we think. I just have not met with the people yet that would be involved in this decision.
 
Ratliff

The first round of invitations for the 2022-23 Team State have been sent out and each team accepted their invitations. It's going to be another great tournament!
 
There will be an invitation late April for 1 team each class and 1 in season vote determined the week before Christmas. 
 
The following teams that have accepted:
 

4A 3A 2A 1A Brownsburg East Central Bellmont Adams Central Center Grove Floyd Central Delta Bluffton Crown Point Hobart Garrett Cascade Evansville Mater Dei Mishawaka Hamilton Heights Cowan Indianapolis Cathedral New Haven Heritage Hills North Posey Penn Roncalli Jay County Prairie Heights     New Prairie Rochester Community     Norwell Southmont     Rensselaer Central Tell City     Western West Central

The first round of invitations for the 2022-23 Team State have been sent out and each team accepted their invitations. It's going to be another great tournament!
 
There will be an invitation late April for 1 team each class and 1 in season vote determined the week before Christmas. 
 
The following teams that have accepted:
 

4A 3A 2A 1A Brownsburg East Central Bellmont Adams Central Center Grove Floyd Central Delta Bluffton Crown Point Hobart Garrett Cascade Evansville Mater Dei Mishawaka Hamilton Heights Cowan Indianapolis Cathedral New Haven Heritage Hills North Posey Penn Roncalli Jay County Prairie Heights     New Prairie Rochester Community     Norwell Southmont     Rensselaer Central Tell City     Western West Central

The first round of invitations for the 2022-23 Team State have been sent out and each team accepted their invitations. It's going to be another great tournament!
 
There will be an invitation late April for 1 team each class and 1 in season vote determined the week before Christmas. 
 
The following teams that have accepted:
 

4A 3A 2A 1A Brownsburg East Central Bellmont Adams Central Center Grove Floyd Central Delta Bluffton Crown Point Hobart Garrett Cascade Evansville Mater Dei Mishawaka Hamilton Heights Cowan Indianapolis Cathedral New Haven Heritage Hills North Posey Penn Roncalli Jay County Prairie Heights     New Prairie Rochester Community     Norwell Southmont     Rensselaer Central Tell City     Western West Central

It’s not that it’s not possible. We’ve shown that the last few years we can spread out a little. 
 
The concern from people that I work with is asking for a “tournament director” for each site. Basically spreading ourselves too thin.
 
But that can also be solved by training someone ahead of time.
 
Also getting non-school provided supplies to 4 different locations provides a lot of coordinating. As well as setting up things like internet at 4 spots requires someone to go to multiple places. I know Pat Culp went multiple places last year to setup.
 
We have shown we have a great product and that we don’t need to do that all at one site. The introduction of streaming has really reduced a need for that.
 
Really the answer is I don’t want to spread thin the help that I have that makes this tournament great. But the last few years we have proved we can do more than we think. I just have not met with the people yet that would be involved in this decision.
 
Ratliff