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  1. Tito Santana
    I think the Fort Wayne Semi-State will shock the world!!! Knowing they are totally outmatched, a consensus will be made amongst programs, coaches, wrestlers, AD's, wrestling moms, mat maids, and northeast Indiana shaved ice lovers alike; to not have a single wrestler make the trip Friday. That's right folks the Fort Wayne Semi-State will secede from the IHSAA wrestling tournament. We know we already have one of the finest Semi-State venues, we'll just start crowning our own state champions a week early! That's right suckers, you probably would have eliminated every single one of our wrestlers if we had shown up, but the joke is on you! Now we can claim the title of "TRUE Indiana High School Wrestling Champion" just on the basis we are going to be the first champions crowned each year. You other three Semi-States can duke it out for the illegitimate title, and let us know how that turns out for you!
  2. Tito Santana
    Well this contain the same information as the first Echoes or will it just be an addendum? Being the tight wad I was at the time, I missed out the first go around.
  3. Tito Santana
    Kudos to Coach Harmon, that's some amazing memory there. When you hear people talk about the fastest this or that in wrestling, time seems to embellish some memories. Elmhurst started to return wrestlers back to the state tournament in the late 90's-early 00's so when Coach Sherbondy asked, "You guys want to see what is probably the fastest takedown ever in a State finals match?" we were skeptical. He dusted off the tape around Semi-State/State week and sure enough he did not lie to us. The old timers are right, it was literally one of the fastest takedowns I have seen at ANY level. Heck, I was just telling my buddy last week that I thought I remembered it was a snap down, but Coach Harmon's description is correct. Imagine a duckunder so quick it looked like a snapdown, finger point and all. Man I love this time of year!!
  4. Tito Santana
    I think the bracket selection process is about as transparent as our current White House administration....
  5. Tito Santana
    Did Luers ever pickup some decent meets to replace the Al Smith and Belmont duals?
  6. Tito Santana
    and become Bishop Luers first state champion in wrestling?
  7. Tito Santana
    http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/portals/0/Individual%20State%20Brackets%20-%202010.xls
  8. Tito Santana
    http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Sports/Boys/Wrestling/200910/IndividualStateTournament/tabid/754/Default.aspx
  9. Tito Santana
    ...for grossly under-preforming? 5 to Semi-State and no one out. Heck their cross town counterpart Bishop Luers, got more kids out. I like the program, I really like almost all of the people associated with it, but their season shouldn't be ending at the Coliseum. With the resources, and feeder programs at their disposal, they should be doing better than just ruling the roost of the dumpster fire that is the SAC. I will admit they are churning out fine young adults, and should be proud of the wrestlers that represent their program and school. Just would think they could achieve greater mat success. How is it they helped lead the charge to change the scheduling of the SAC, and their schedule still seems as weak as ever? Like I said, they may be content with where they are at, but I would be disappointed myself.
  10. Tito Santana
    Are you kidding? From what I heard, the kids coming out of 189 this year aren't the same caliber 189lbs Fort Wayne has seen in the past. With the SAC taking a nose dive, you don't see the same type competition you used to get out of the upper weights. Not saying that all these kids couldn't compete with the Talamantes, Hammocks, Arvesons, and Moes of the world; it's just not near as deep as it once was.
  11. Tito Santana
    Give us some brackets!!!!
  12. Tito Santana
    I think that outfit would finally dethrone my brother's fishing hat during Dommer's state championship appearance!
  13. Tito Santana
    All hail Commissar Caprino!!!
  14. Tito Santana
    Is Tony Lovejoy the first Fort Wayne Semi-State champion to repeat at a lower weight class since Anton Talamantes at 215-'97 and 189-'98?
  15. Tito Santana
    I was the only wrestler and Hispanic in my group of friends in high school. Between those two things, and the fact that we grew up in the 80's as Hulkamaniacs (this is not us pictured, but these pics are awesome) I ended up Tito Santana... It's funny the name Tito has stuck for over ten years. So much so, that several of my friend's parents had to ask them what my real name was for my wedding. When my two brothers and I were on the wrestling team at the same time '97-98 they called us the Flying Burrito Brothers.
  16. Tito Santana
    Tom Uhrick 36-0 Fort Wayne Elmhurst 167lbs. 1987 I don't think he even made out of Regionals until his senior year. Boy, there is probably just a handful of people on this board who will even remember him. I'm not sure that I even have the details right, but I was told that he gave Lance Lantz Wawasee the 1986 167lbs champ his only loss at the Wawasee Tournament, and then at Regionals Tom broke his leg in the rematch. So Tom comes back his senior year wins an undefeated campaign after placing no higher than Sectional champ. I would say that was pretty "out-of-nowhere" for the rest of the state. At least that's what was passed on to me, wrestling that old you either have to be the Ancient Elder, or be able to decipher wrestling results from scrolls.
  17. Tito Santana
    If IHSWCA meetings are as organized as the ones around 99-02 there will NEVER be class wrestling. I don't fault the leaders of the IHSWCA, but once some coaches(members not officers) got some liquid refreshment in them, it just deteriorated into a bunch of yelling.
  18. Tito Santana
    On that note, we could start a topic entitled "Is it possible for God to make something so heavy he couldn't lift it". That could generate some good discussion that's likely to get about as far as we have on this one. That's easy. He could, and he would lift it anyways. Do class supporters actually trust the IHSAA to not screw up class wrestling? If we go class, I bet they don't medal anymore kids than they do now, wind up losing tiers of tournament, and end up creating Sectionals that would cover more area than the Regionals do now. For those who know the northeast side of the state, how about a small size school Sectional that would include Fremont to Southern Wells/South Adams.
  19. Tito Santana
    Have they yet to reveal how they do State Brackets? I've always thought they needed more transparency about how it's done and who is involved.
  20. Tito Santana
    Just looking at the SQs, did the Goshen Regional under perform today?
  21. Tito Santana
    Man, you move to the great white north of Michigan and turn your back on the IHSAA, and next thing you know Team Semi-State is gone. Not that I am sad to see it gone. What new teams are good possibilities to make it out because of the realignment? Are there any traditional state powers that will be knocked out before State because of the change?
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