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No, he was the anchor on the 2013 Spell Bowl State Championship team from Martinsville. My daughter (older than Ben) was on several Academic Decathlon and Spell Bowl state champ teams and talked Ben into trying it last fall. Since his back injury prevented him from playing football, he did it.

Ben is 6'4" and weighs about 205. He eats enough to be over 285. Did anyone else notice that the four 220 pounders to advance from Evansville were all from the Mooresville regional? How often does that happen?

Doesn't look like they seeded this tournament ???

Let me be of assistance: "too hard" not "to hard". I didn't say you were ignorant -- I can't speak to that. I said your comment was ignorant.

What an ignorant, childish, immature comment. Wow. You obviously haven't seen Ben wrestle. I hope you were a better wrestler than you are a speller.

The classes are what they are. For the whiny argument about "lifers" vs. "warm bodies", consider this. My son has been wrestling since he was 4 years old Pee Wee 50. He is now a Junior in HS weighing about 210 lbs., is 6'5" tall. He is a very technical wrestler. He took his lumps as a Freshman and Sophomore wrestling 182 and 195 respectively wrestling older, stronger kids yet still pulled off 20+ wins both years and 19 pins last year. Are you trying to run kids like that off to basketball (which he's pretty good at, by the way)? He's worked as hard as any of those so called "lifers" at the lower weights and loves the sport, yet you argue he's a warm body. Your generalizations are very ignorant and self serving. We were grateful for the change in weight classes or he would have been at 189 freshman year instead of 182 and at 215 last year instead of 195. He has no excess weight to cut and has been growing like a weed. I guess the one argument above is probably the root -- some of you guys can't do anything else and want the sport to yourselves. Instead of crying and complaining, make the best of what your dealt and get on with life.

The first post in this topic.

All I was doing is providing some information. He asked for help. These rankings are meaningless anyway, outside of amusement purposes.

Hunter Cullison - 182 (Martinsville) beat Petrole at conference for the championship. Also, Randy Scott is at 195 now and was third at that weight at conference. Scott beat Brownfield for third place.

The initial injury occurred at the New Palestine tournament in January 2010 during a match. He tried to come back for sectionals and tore it up worse. He missed the first three football games this season, then injured it again lifting at the end of the season. He was only supposed to be doing light reps to build strength back into his shoulder but one of the coaches ridiculed him and pushed him to lift heavy with subsequent re-injury. He's in physical therapy again now and is very limited in what he can do without losing sensation in his arm. It's very frustrating.

Joe is a Junior this year and has a major injury to his brachial plexus nerve that may have ended his athletic career.

Joe has sustained an injury to his brachial plexus nerve that may well have ended his athletic career. He's been fighting it for over a year with multiple bouts of physical therapy and many different doctors.

6-0 wrestling with one arm isn't "beat up pretty bad". When the Brachial Plexus nerve is inflamed, one loses control of his arm. It is an injury with significant risk of permanent paralysis of the arm if not allowed to heal completely. I probably shouldn't have allowed him to wrestle at all on Saturday, but he is a relentless competitor and wanted to make an attempt. His left arm was completely limp and numb after the Hacker match. Congratulation to Todd. Good luck at regionals.

Joe Schoolcraft, 6'1", 185 lb. sophomore, rushed for 116 yds. on 17 carries and 3 TD's Friday night for the 3-0 Martinsville Artesians. Jacob Underwood, sophomore, is starting at corner back now and had a huge game at Lucas Oil Stadium a week ago.

This class wrestling stuff doesn't make any sense to me. I used to be a big basketball fan. I didn't wrestle in high school. My sons wrestle, so I've gotten involved. Class basketball has destroyed Indiana High School Basketball. Attendance is down and interest isn't there anymore. I guess since you say the interest has never been there for wrestling, class wrestling will create it? This is ludicrous. Don't do class wrestling. I know, I know. I'm just a newbie messing around in someone else's sandbox.