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Did the announcer say Ben went to state in pole vaulting?

 

Another kid placed 25th in the country in archery!  I though that was pretty cool. 

 

Yes I realized that...What a tough group from the Mooresville regional at 220!

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.

220:  Larsen from avon FRESHMAN places third and advances to state.  Kid is built for a frosh.  Kyles loses in the ticket round for the second year in a row.  Bur he is only a sophomore so expect to see more of him at the ford center!  Schoolcraft is like 7ft!!  Kid had a good run yesterday.  Wilder from Ben Davis makes it the second Ben Davis kid to finish 4th in the regional and then punch his ticket to state. Cory Clem impressed me yesterday. 

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  ???

Everything was spelled correctly, maybe had a grammatical error. But as long as you think everyone is ignorant cause they don't believe exactly what you do then I guess you are the chosen one for the sport.

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.

I don't see anyone crying or complaining. Glad your son got a participation ribbon cause a weight class was made for him so he wouldn't have to wrestle someone to hard.

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.

106-145 have been updated out to 15 in each weight, plus regional and state ranking has been added.

 

152-285 will be up tonight or tomorrow.

The first post in this topic.

Wow! Sectionals roll around and everybody gots an opinion.

 

Remember - Navy doing me a favor and covering for me last minute, he volunteered to jump into this hornets nest.

 

Andddd. He's working on revisions.

 

So ease up peeps

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.

Very sorry to hear that, good luck to Joe. Do you guys have any idea what caused this?

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.

Schoolcraft is a senior this year, but is not wrestling. I do not know why.

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.

Hacker beat him up pretty bad in the semi's and then he injury defaulted the rest of the day not rlly sure why seemed to be fine to me. He did have ice on his shoulder though so i dont no.

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.

I noticed the drop off when Freestyle and Greco changed the rules drastically.  I can't pinpoint the date but it is when the pushout rule started and the best out of three period rule started.  That was the year I saw a big dropoff in numbers.  When my son wrestled freestly he would have 30-40 kids at state and when the rules changed the numbers were cut in half.  Just my opinion.

This is when my sons quit doing freestyle.  For a long time, we wrestled every weekend of folkstyle season and every weekend of freestyle season (even though the spring weather was very tempting not to).  When the rules changed, my sons said they would rather be outside riding dirt bikes than participate in something they thought was ridiculous.  In my opinion, the rules makers really screwed the sport up with that change...but, that's just me and I'm sure I'll be labled an idiot.

Runyan wins 160

Congratulations Briar!  Made my prediction come true!

STATE CHAMP!

Congratulations from the Schoolcraft family!

The IHSAA brackets page shows Myers beating Runyan??????

 

Earlier in this thread, it was reported that Runyan won 5-0.  Which is right????

 

Runyan dominated.

Good!  Way to go IHSAA!

On second look, they have Mark Myers from Martinsville : in the finals and Mark Myers in the consolation match as well.

The IHSAA brackets page shows Myers beating Runyan??????

Earlier in this thread, it was reported that Runyan won 5-0.  Which is right????

Is Stevenson only a sophomore or is the program wrong?

Only a Sophmore...  Expect big things in the years to come.

Runyan wins 5-0

Great job, Briar!

A lock?  You must not have seen Myers wrestle this year, cause you wouldn't be saying that.

I saw Myers wrestle for the first time Friday night against a guy from Castle that Runyan pinned in 45 seconds or so.  I knew right then that Runyan would dominate.  5 - 0 win for Runyan in dominant fashion.  I told you he was on a mission.

Fisher - Nelson?

Runyan wins 160