No One Famous

Pales in comparison to the coach from North Central.  I could see that from the nose bleed seats.  A lot of effort has gone into that stache.
Back on topic...Fowler was probably one of my favorite matches from the entire weekend.  The last two matches of the tournament were fantastic.  Too bad so many people left early.

There has been alot of speculation about coach Tonte's height versus mine.  Some even suggested Jim was shorter than me.  Anyway, today after the Hall of Fame Banquet I got a picture of Coach Tonte and me.  I think you will notice he is pretty tall.  He has been my friend for quite awhile and will always be a giant in my eyes.

Slap some hashtags on it, talk about “one community” and watch those views explode !
 

https://cavemensports.com/2019/02/13/laplace-gets-new-life-going-to-state/
I consider the Laplaces friends. Great to see Jacob make it. I’m sure that the boys will make it fun. 
With that said.... just watched Carson slam a nice big steak dinner coach and was still .5 under. Don’t bank on him being “sucked down”. 

We put together a massive media guide for nerds and others that like historical information.
Check it out here
http://indianamat.com/stuff/2019StateFinalsMediaGuide.pdf

The National Anthem at the Evansville Semi-State was the highlight of the day!  Mater Dei churns out great wrestlers and singers.  Well done young lady!!  Chills!!!

Raw.. but not a first year wrestler. He wrestled some st Ben Davis before. Kid is fun to watch. 
Again, congrats to Brownsburg for winning. 

Uncle Jimmy was right when he mentioned the remarkable absence of the "Region  Rat" on SS weekend.    This leaves a whole other void for the SS this weekend.   Where's the Rat's annual trash talk on the Logansport regional, the traditional "Region Rat" tourism brochure on the great adult entertainment and fine ethnic restaurants  to explore if your wrestler was eliminated early,  his historical memoirs of great feats of former Region wrestlers .    1st were missing Fabio and now  the Rat has gone down the Rathole.  The community of Indianamat is missing out, and its serious.
Im not sure how true it is, but one of my reliable "Region" sources told me that "Region Rat"  retired to the Tampa St Pete area in Florida.  They have a bad "Palm Rat" infestation down there,  and he thought would be a good place to fit in.   They said it took him a few months for locals to understand his dialect,  but when they got it he's a real popular guy down there.   He traded his Lincoln in for a Golf Cart.   After years of breathing the famous  "Region"   refinery contaminated air,  he's spent three month breathing clean Gulf Coast air and the color of his skin isn't blue anymore. And he might of put a pound or two after he has a 25%  off senior citizen discount at the local Kalabash seafood buffet down the street from his condo.    They say he softened a little bit but still has a little of the "Region Chip on his shoulder" but spends a lot of volunteering  at the local orphanage.   He tried to get into Florida wrestling,  but  was too disgusted with their lack of skill and silly class wrestling system, that he gave up on wrestling.  He spends his afternoons gambling on Jai, Alai and playing pickle ball.  His Condo has bad WI-FI so he cant always pick up Indianamat.
 
 

By JEREMY HINES
Thehines7@gmail.com
In a town named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, a new wrestling star is rising in the south east corner of Indiana.
South Dearborn sophomore Bryer Hall was a relative unknown last season. He put together a successful freshman season, and by the end of the year had worked his way up to No. 16 in the state rankings at 126 pounds. When the state tournament rolled around, people started to take notice of the newcomer.
Hall rolled through his sectional as a freshman, winning every match by pin. He was just as dominant in the Richmond regional. He won his first round with a pin in just over a minute. In the second round he took on ranked senior Trevor Ragle (47-4) and pinned him in just 1:09. Then, in the final he went up against another talented wrestler in Centerville freshman Gabe Phillips, who is currently undefeated on the year and ranked No. 5 at 138. Just a little over two minutes into the match Hall injured Phillips shoulder, and Phillips was unable to go on. That injury ended the season for Phillips.
Then, to start out the semistate, Hall injured another wrestler with almost the same move. It wasn’t anything intentional, but the injuries rattled Hall.
“I didn’t want to hurt anyone,” Hall said. “It was upsetting that I ruined someone’s season and they could have went pretty far in the tournament. I thought it would be tough to go back and use the move because I didn’t want to hurt anyone else. But once I started wrestling again, instincts just took over and I had to get that thought out of my mind.”
Hall won his ticket round semistate match 16-8 and then secured his biggest victory of his young career. He defeated former state champion Alec Viduya 11-5 to advance to the semistate championship.
“We were hopeful that Bryer could get to state as a freshman,” South Deaerborn coach George Gardner said. “But we thought it might be a long shot when he had to go up against returning state champion Alec Viduya. But Bryer really took it to him in that match and handled that match much better than I thought he would.”
Hall didn’t have enough in the tank to defeat Ethan Smiley in the final, who cruised to an 11-2 victory.
Hall ended up placing sixth in state. He had wins over Kyle Lawson and Brycen Denny, but lost big to Cayden Rooks (tech fall) and Christian Meija (17-5).
This season Hall is hoping to not have those big letdowns.
“He ran out of gas in the semistate,” Gardner said. “Hopefully that won’t happen again.
This year Hall is undefeated. He has stepped on the mat 33 times and each time had his hand raised in victory. He has moved up three weight classes and is currently ranked No. 2 at 145 pounds.
“It felt pretty good to get noticed in the rankings for my hard work,” Hall said.
Hall’s style of wrestling is difficult for others to scout. He calls himself a funky wrestler.
“I am hard to figure out,” Hall said. “I’m just naturally funky. I move where my hips feel they should go.”
That funkiness is especially helpful in scramble situations.
“Bryer is a tremendous scrambler,” Gardner said. “He doesn’t have a signature takedown. He just makes things happen. He’s really hard to scout because he doesn’t do the same thing very often.”
Hall could potentially see Warren Central’s Antwaun Graves in the New Castle semistate semifinal. If so, that is a match that could be particularly interesting. Hall won the regular season battle 4-3.
“Anything can happen Saturday,” Gardner said. “He has to go out and wrestle his best each match.”
 
Hall said his biggest wrestling accomplishment so far was placing fourth at Fargo over the summer at 138 pounds. He is hoping to top that with a state title this year.
“My goal is to go undefeated and win state,” Hall said. “Last year I was nervous. This year I’m coming in a lot more confident.”
 

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Are you suggesting there's a possum in the woodpile?!?

Individuals:
One semi-state has 82 ranked kids
The other has 78 ranked kids
 
One semi-state has 20 Top 5 kids
The other has 24 Top 5 kids
 
One semi-state has 21 wrestlers ranked between #6 - #10
The other has 20 wrestlers ranked between #6 - #10
 
One semi-state has 20 wrestlers ranked between #11 - #15
The other has 21 wrestlers ranked between #11 - #15
 
Team Power Poll:
One semi-state has -- #1, #3, #4, #11, #12
The other has -- #2, #5, #7, #9, #16, #19, #20
Team State Finish:
One semi-state has -- #1, #4, #5, #10
The other has -- #2, #3, #6, #7, #8
 
Is it really that easy to identify the best semi-state?

FYI, I'm updating the brackets with records, grade,....oh and RANKINGS! Fort Wayne is done working on the others.

#JustWannaFitInDamnIt

There is a nice appetizer for wrestling fans tonight to prepare you for tomorrow's Regionals.
On the Big Ten Network (free) Michigan wrestles at Penn State tonight at 7:00 ET. 
The matchup with feature 3 of Indiana's best studs in recent years:
 - Stevan Micic going at 133 for Michigan.  Micic is ranked #1 in the country coming off his National Runner-Up finish last year. Stevan is 9-0 on the year after nursing an early season injury.
- Nick Lee will go at 141 for Penn State.  Lee is ranked #7 in the country and will face #5 Kanen Storr.  Lee is 19-1 on the year while Storr is 17-3.  
- Mason Parris will go at 285 for Michigan.  Parris is ranked #7 and 23-3 and will face Anthony Cassar who is ranked #3 and 16-1.
Big matchups for both Lee and Parris.  Micic will likely get a Penn State backup after Roman Bravo-Young tweaked his knee last weekend at Purdue.
Check it out and head over to the College Board for updates on this match and updates on many other former IN HS wrestlers.

Based on the IndianaMat final Power Poll (https://indianamat.com/index.php?/team_rankings.html/2019/power-poll-final-r114/) of the top scoring teams, here are some potential landmines with respect to the race for the team championship.  HUGE thanks to @Indysportsfan and his excellent data!
*NOTE: Northerners - before you complain... there are not many highly ranked teams (other than Portage and Crown Point) from either the East Chicago or Fort Wayne semistates.  Although there are a LOT of compelling matchups at regionals and semistate, I did not see many that would directly effect the team race at state.  Once they get to state - then there are plenty of hammers that could mess up team points!
106 Pounds
Huge landmine potential here
Evansville Semistate 
Alec Freeman - Mater Dei (#3 / #1SS) @ Evansville North Logan Miller - Brownsburg (#8 / #2SS) @ Mooresville Blaze Garcia - Avon (#12 / #3SS) @ Mooresville Noah Lykins - Columbus East (NR / #8SS) @ Jeffersonville Either Miller or Garcia will likely finish 2nd at Mooresville.  They could draw into Freeman or Lykins at semistate ticket-round. Freeman won a 8-6 decision over Miller this season, and Miller won by 3-1 over Garcia at sectionals. Could be a big point-scoring swing at Bankers LIfe for one of these teams depending on how things go
113 Pounds
Evansville Semistate
Cole Ross - Mater Dei (#5 / #1SS) @ Evansville North Ben Dalton - Monrovia (#6 / #3SS) @ Mooresville Hayden Watson - Center Grove (#8 / #4SS) @ Mooresville Cameron Allen - Plainfield (#13 / #8SS) @ Mooresville Kamariyon Nelson - Brownsburg (#17 / #6SS) @ Mooresville The log-jam at Mooresville could wreak havoc at semistate. Watson defeated Dalton last weekend 7-2. Doesn't look like Ross has faced any of these yet - but one of the 4 will be in the same ticket round group as him
120 Pounds
Evansville Semistate
Blake Boarman - Mater Dei (#2 / #1SS) @ Evansville North Brayden Littell - Center Grove (#1 / #2SS) @ Mooresville Kysen Montgomery - Brownsburg (#6 / #3SS) @ Mooresville Tyler Conley - Avon (#11 / #4SS) @ Mooresville This Mooresville regional is really creating some tough matchups @ Evansville semistate!  From the look of results, Boarman and Littell should be favorites to win their regionals. Boarman has a good chance that he will have to face either Montgomery or Conley in the ticket round.  Either way will have huge implications for state scoring potential cause all these guys could win a few at state. Boarman has a 4-1 decision over Conley this year
126 Pounds
New Castle Semistate
Lukasz Walendzak - Cathedral (#6 / #1SS) @ Pendleton Heights Chase Wilkerson - Mt Vernon (#9 / #4SS) @ Pendleton Heights Logan Wagner - Westfield (#7 / #2SS) @ North Montgomery Cameron Toole - Lebanon (#8 / #5SS) @ North Montgomery Jevian Ross - Warren Central (#11 / #3SS) @ Perry Meridian Big landmine for Cathedral and Warren here. Wilkerson defeated Walendzak 2-1 at sectional last weekend. If Walendzak finishes 2nd again this weekend, he could get Ross, Wagner or Toole for ticket round at New Castle. If Walendzak wins this weekend, he could still wind up in same bracket as either Wagner or Toole.  He has split decisions with Wagner this season
132 Pounds
Evansville Semistate
Asa Garcia - Avon (#1 / #1SS) @ Mooresville Logan Boe - Plainfield (#7 / #2SS) @ Mooresville Drake Campbell - Brownsburg (#9 / #4SS) @ Mooresville Tyler Fuqua - Franklin Comm (#18 / #5SS) @ Mooresville Clay Egli - Mater Dei (#11 / #3SS) @ Evansville North Joey Gordon - Columbus East (#19 / #6SS) @ Jeffersonville This landmine could hurt either Mater Dei or Columbus East (or both!).  Mooresville is stacked at this weight - they will send 4 highly ranked wrestlers to semistate.  Assuming Egli and Gordon both win their regionals, they will each have to make it past one of the Mooresville placers to get to Bankers Life
138 Pounds
New Castle Semistate
Tyce Freije - Roncalli (#2 / #1SS) @ Perry Meridian Gabe Smith - Perry Meridian (#9 / #2SS) @ Perry Meridian Jarred Rowlett - Warren Central (#12 / #5SS) @ Perry Meridian Andrew Wilson - Cathedral (#16 / #3SS) @ Pendleton Heights Chris Wilkerson - Mt Vernon (#17 / #7SS) @ Pendleton Heights Wilkerson defeated Wilson 2-1 at sectionals. They will face off again this weekend at Pendleton. Perry regional is loaded at this weight - Smith and Rowlett should face off in the semifinals. If Freije can win regionals, then Smith and/or Rowlett could draw into Wilson or another tough opponent (Gabe Phillips/Kyle Holman) and have their trip to state cancelled.  Wilson really has his work cut out for him to get to Bankers Life and help Cathedral's point total - he's lost to Rowlett, Smith and Freije this season
145 Pounds
New Castle Semistate
Alex Mosconi - Cathedral (#3 / #1SS) @ Pendleton Heights Jeff Dunasky - Guerin (#9 / #5SS) @ Pendleton Heights Aiden Warren - Perry Meridian (#4 / #2SS) @ Perry Meridian Antwaun Graves - Warren Central (#5 / #4SS) @ Perry Meridian Bryer Hall - South Dearborn (#2 / #3SS) @ Richmond So many possibilities here!  Graves or Warren will be a #2 finisher this weekend and both are absolute hammers. Warren beat Graves in OT 4-3 earlier this season so this final could go either way. If Mosconi can beat Dunasky at Pendleton, then it sets up a possible ticket-round death match of Mosconi vs Graves/Warren or Bryer Hall vs Graves/Warren unless they happen to draw the winner from North Montgomery.  Cathedral/Perry/Warren could all lose a super high potential guy next weekend at New Castle
152 Pounds
New Castle Semistate
Cooper Noehre - Greenfield Central (#3 / #2SS) @ Perry Meridian Brice Coleman - Warren Central (#4 / #3SS) @ Perry Meridian Sam Fair - Perry Meridian (#9 / #4SS) @ Perry Meridian Elliott Rodgers - Cathedral (#2 / #1SS) @ Pendleton Heights Like 145, this is another very dangerous situation for Cathedral / Perry / Warren.  Rodgers should win at Pendleton.  The regional at Perry is a tossup (Fair has lost to both Noehre and Coleman, Coleman defeated Noehre last weekend).  Any of the 3 Perry competitors will be heavily favored over the winners from Richmond and North Montgomery, but if one of them lands in the ticket group with Rodgers then it will be a high-stakes battle, as any of these top 10 wrestlers could end up scoring a lot of points in Indy
160 Pounds
Not really any here that I see - D Washington, J Slivka, and B Davis should all win comfortably and be separated at their semistates unless there is a big upset.  Most of the other top 160s are from teams not challenging for state title
170 Pounds
New Castle Semistate
Tyler Wagner - Cathedral (#20 / #6SS) @ Pendleton Heights Cody Klettheimer - Frankton (#3 / #1SS) @ Pendleton Heights Eli Mahan - Roncalli (#5 / #3SS) @ Perry Meridian Tucker Coffman - Union County (#8 / #5SS) @ Richmond Logan Hart - Carmel (#10 / #4SS) @ North Montgomery It's going to be very difficult for Tyler Wagner to thread the needle and make it to state. He will have Klettheimer at Pendleton Heights who will be heavily favored.  Should Wagner finish as runner up, then he will have to get past either Mahan, Coffman or one of Hart/Saez/Lowe in the ticket round. Can he pull out an upset and give Cathedral a potential huge upside of points?
182 Pounds
Nothing really here - Avon is the only top team to have a wrestler in the Top 20 and Brewer should be safe through semistate no matter the outcome of regionals
195 Pounds
Again, not much to see. Perry Meridian's #12 Austin Lane should win there.  He could have #13 Tremor Bynum at semistate ticket round
220 Pounds
Evansville Semistate
Micah Dodson - Martinsville (#7 / #2SS) @ Mooresville Jayden Williams - Avon (#11 / #3SS) @ Mooresville Lawson Allen - Brownsburg (#12 / #4SS) @ Mooresville Jacob Bolte - Columbus East (#1 / #1SS) @ Jeffersonville Bolte should be fine, but the outcome at Mooresville could be a swing in points down the road. Avon and Brownsburg will have to hope their wrestler can finish #1, or if they do not, then hope that they do not draw to the Bolte ticket bracket at Evansville semistate or they could leave points on the table
New Castle Semistate
David Guhl - Cathedral (#20 / #5SS) @ Pendleton Heights Kyle Cornwell - Elwood (#4 / #2SS) @ Pendleton Heights Andrew Irick - Hamilton SE (#3 / #1SS) @ North Montgomery Drew Webster - North Montgomery (#8 / #3SS) @ North Montgomery Haakon VanBeynan - Carmel (#16 / #8SS) @ North Montgomery Guhl has the potential to make it to state, but he will have to navigate some landmines - if he finishes a likely 2nd place to Kyle Cornwell this weekend, then he will need to get past one of the North Montgomery top 3 - best scenario for him matchup-wise is to get the #4 from North Montgomery and the #1 from Richmond as they have nobody on either the state or semistate list
285 Pounds
New Castle Semistate
Jamichael Watts - North Central (#1 / #1SS) @ Pendleton Heights Dennis Hubbard - Warren Central (#9 / #3SS) @ Perry Meridian John Harris - Roncalli (#10 / #5SS) @ Perry Meridian The big guys are pretty unpredictable - Roncalli's John Harris defeated Hubbard at sectionals.  If Harris can win again then he should be in a good spot to make it through New Castle.  If he loses, however, then the danger is that he is put in the same ticket round bracket as Watts from North Central, the #1 heavyweight in the state.  Roncalli will need these points and potential bonus points if they want to make a run at the top.
 
 
I'm sure I missed some great matchups. Mater Dei is #1 and Cathedral is #2 in the Power Poll, but both of them have a LOT of tough matchups due to the depth of talent at the Mooresville and Perry Meridian regionals.  Columbus East doesn't seem to have as many matchup issues - so who knows maybe them, Avon or Roncalli will be in the drivers seat in a couple of weeks

Team Garcia + TheCounty does not a secret make

These 106-lb brackets over the past 15 years often look unbelievable looking back. You've got a mostly freshmen weight, so those kids can start building accolades earlier than some other freshmen wrestling stronger kids. You're automatically isolating wrestling-focused kids who will have long-term success because you have to have put in the time in middle school and younger to compete at that level as a 9th grader. Finally, you're at a weight where most kids will also be wrestling-focused (and therefore probably highly skilled with great potential to keep winning) because they tend not to be big enough to achieve the same level of success at other sports. 
This weight really should be dubbed the "future stars" division because it's always chalk full of future champs and multiple-time placers.

(28) ranked in Avon Sectional..Record ! 
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I see Laplace went from 145 to 182.  These are all big jumps (132-170, 182-220, 145-182)

Whoa... hold up ! You got me mixed up with that crazy lunatic Pistol Pete guy that only loves Oklahoma State, Columbus East school colors, and 6 shooters and rifles in fancination stuff. 
MackG isn’t me, this guy posting a interesting topic about Counties . (pssss..... I think MackG has a thing for Counties himself) I just might of well..... so .... happen to be biased for TheCounty and where my kids was born raised in Delaware County where I grew up. Only like 2 Counties.
If i wrote this up there ONLY be 2 Counties listed on there and might of forgot Allen County in the post entirely . LOL !
I only answered Mattyb about Hendricks County Wrestling . Mattyb might also like TheCounty. That’s all I got lol. 
 
The Notorious 
P.S. there is only one TheCounty = That’s Hendricks County 

This just in.....   Jason Nolf is pretty good

This is a great read 
http://www.dailyjournal.net/2019/01/17/center_grove_wrestler_uses_troubled_past_as_motivation_for_the_future/

Crap ...... and it Begins ! 
Woooo.... Bang ! Bang ! Bang! 
Pistol Pete