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Always interesting to bring up past tourneys where these seniors would have faced each other. Here are results from the 2017 Middle School state finals (https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/opentournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=255340009) A lot of familiar names with some really interesting matchups. Please don't "quote" this entire list if you comment on this thread! MS - 75 1st Place - Logan Frazier of Region WA 2nd Place - Coy Hammack of Maurer Coughlin WA 3rd Place - Evan Seng of Maurer Coughlin WA 4th Place - Blake Zirkelbach of Maurer Coughlin WA 5th Place - Logan Miller of Brownsburg WC 6th Place - Anthony Bahl of Region WA 7th Place - Braxton Vest of CIA 8th Place - Blake Wolf of Sunman Dearborn Trojans MS - 80 1st Place - Cheaney Schoeff of Contenders WA 2nd Place - Kamariyon Nelson of Maurer Coughlin WA 3rd Place - Cole Solomey of Region WA 4th Place - Elijah Anthony of CIA 5th Place - Sergio Lemley of Region WA 6th Place - Christopher Bohn of Region WA 7th Place - Kody Glithero of Whiteland Warriors 8th Place - Brevan Thrine of New Castle MS MS - 85 1st Place - Preston Teusch of Huntington Co. WC 2nd Place - Ashton Hayhurst of Maurer Coughlin WA 3rd Place - Sam Goin of Region WA 4th Place - Jacob Carter of Region WA 5th Place - Bryce Lowery of Perry Meridian WC 6th Place - Carter Thomas of Bellmont MS 7th Place - Braedon Spears of Club Madison 8th Place - Carter Overby of Yorktown MS MS - 90 1st Place - Stephen Roberson Jr of Region WA 2nd Place - Cameron Allen of Contenders WA 3rd Place - Alec Freeman of Maurer Coughlin WA 4th Place - Hayden Watson of Greenwood MS 5th Place - Brody Baumann of Maurer Coughlin WA 6th Place - Isaac Ruble of Bellmont MS 7th Place - Eli Otto of South Dearborn 8th Place - Blaze Garcia of Avon MS MS - 95 1st Place - Ben Dalton of Contenders WA 2nd Place - Gavinn Alstott of Red Cobra WA 3rd Place - Jacob Bechert of Franklin Community MS 4th Place - Aidan Hardcastle of CIA 5th Place - David Pierson of Warren WA 6th Place - Dillon Tuttle of Delta WC 7th Place - Johnny Cortez of Warren WA 8th Place - Dominic Litchfield of Bellmont MS MS - 102 1st Place - Jesse Mendez of Region WA 2nd Place - Zeke Seltzer of CIA 3rd Place - Diesel Duncan of Red Cobra WA 4th Place - Logan Carrington of South Putnam MS 5th Place - Tyler Fuqua of Franklin Community MS 6th Place - John Purdy of Maurer Coughlin WA 7th Place - Andrew Sinkovics of JYMS Mishawaka 8th Place - Samuel Levitz of Prairie Heights Wrestling MS - 110 1st Place - Cole Ross of Maurer Coughlin WA 2nd Place - Kysen Montgomery of Contenders WA 3rd Place - Tyler Conley of Avon MS 4th Place - Matthew Koontz of Edgewood jr high 5th Place - Jacob Pierre of Maurer Coughlin WA 6th Place - Ethan Kaiser of Chesterton WC 7th Place - Ethan Chapman of Fort Wayne 8th Place - Alex Currie of Jet MS - 117 1st Place - Blake Boarman of Maurer Coughlin WA 2nd Place - Noah Mis of Region WA 3rd Place - Ian Heath of Leo 4th Place - Logan Wagner of Zionsville WC 5th Place - Andrew Wilson of Contenders WA 6th Place - Cody Goodwin of Region WA 7th Place - Phenix Carney of Beech Grove 8th Place - Colton Roberts of Avon MS MS - 125 1st Place - Brady Mckivitz of Avon MS 2nd Place - Bryer Hall of South Dearborn 3rd Place - Tristan Ruhlman of Bloomington South WC 4th Place - Gavin Layman of Chesterton WC 5th Place - Jordan Fulks of Maurer Coughlin WA 6th Place - Jeremiah Hernandez of Warren WA 7th Place - Adam Crouch of Franklin County MS 8th Place - Spencer Phillips of Southwestern MS - 132 1st Place - Scott Fitts of Maurer Coughlin WA 2nd Place - Jaden Reynolds of Red Cobra WA 3rd Place - Gabe Phillips of Centerville Bulldog WC 4th Place - Ben Wolf of Sunman Dearborn Trojans 5th Place - Tyler Herring of Portage WC 6th Place - Justin Hummel of Shenandoah WC 7th Place - Nathan Cmehil of St. Michael School 8th Place - William Earls of Hammond Gladiators WC MS - 140 1st Place - Griffin Ison of Brownsburg WC 2nd Place - Johnny Parker of Indiana Pride WA 3rd Place - Ty Lehman of Maurer Coughlin WA 4th Place - Trevian Jordan of Elwood Elite 5th Place - Andrew Mason of JYMS Mishawaka 6th Place - Aiden Sneed of Kankakee Valley Wrestling 7th Place - Bryce Buckley of Greentown MS 8th Place - Trent Burns of Battling Braves MS - 150 1st Place - Evan Bates of Chesterton WC 2nd Place - Tyler Turley of Hobart WC 3rd Place - Seth Ortel of Triton Central MS 4th Place - Dominic Brown of Rebel Wrestling Foundation 5th Place - Nathaniel Lommock of Prodigy WC 6th Place - Cameron Hovey of Sheridan 7th Place - Joseph Laughlin of Bellmont MS 8th Place - Billy Kepler of Carmel USA WC MS - 160 1st Place - Luke Davis of Zionsville WC 2nd Place - Reid Brickey of Evansville Reitz 3rd Place - Dylan Case of Prodigy WC 4th Place - Harris Eason of Franklin Community MS 5th Place - Keon Sullivan of Warren WA 6th Place - Jared Blake of Battling Braves 7th Place - Hayden Filipovich of Decatur Central MS 8th Place - Elijah Ross of Greenwood MS MS - 175 1st Place - Garrett Sandefur of JYMS Mishawaka 2nd Place - Chase Taylor of Southridge Wrestling Crew 3rd Place - Jerry Padgett of Western 4th Place - Braden Rodriguez of Franklin Township MS 5th Place - Kyle Cardwell of Northwestern 6th Place - Brandon Waytovich of Portage WC 7th Place - Aaron Butts of Rebel Wrestling Foundation 8th Place - Grant McLane of South Dearborn MS - 195 1st Place - Braydon Erb of Western 2nd Place - Cody Timmerman of JYMS Mishawaka 3rd Place - Bobby Babcock of Chesterton WC 4th Place - Blake Victor of Maurer Coughlin WA 5th Place - Kyler Bills of Carrol Super Chargers 6th Place - Ashton Hartwell of Club Madison 7th Place - Bracken Womack of Daleville Broncos WC 8th Place - Joel Lane of brownsburg wrestling club MS - 220 1st Place - Reeve Muncie of Carrol Super Chargers 2nd Place - Deven Asher of Belzer MS 3rd Place - Antone Alexander of Franklin Township MS 4th Place - Mason Garrison of Southport Wildcards 5th Place - Moises Sanchez of Warren WA 6th Place - Peter Messina of Winchester WC 7th Place - Spencer Boettcher of Dekalb 8th Place - Devon Davis of Mooresville MS - 275 1st Place - Clayton Peters of Avon Wrestling Club 2nd Place - Maxwell Comado of Beech Grove 3rd Place - Nicholas Morgan of Lebanon MS 4th Place - James Brill of Brownsburg WC 5th Place - Jacob Leming of Dekalb 6th Place - Wade Breedlove of Warren WA 7th Place - Isai McDonald of Warren WA 8th Place - Matthew White of Edgewood jr high

Wrestle-backs are trying to get to the "perfect" orderly finish. Our current system is definitely imperfect. Yes, there is a bit of luck involved on what draw you get I am ok without wrestle-backs. I understand that it would likely reduce the amount of "surprises" in the state placers. It would also add more time to the tournament (I think 11 more matches per weight class - 31 vs 20?) and even where there are wrestle-backs in place, cross-bracketing still has to occur and there could remain unfortunate draws in that scenario. At this time, I think the IHSAA individual wrestling tournament is one of the great tournaments across the country (for wrestling fans at least) and I would like to maintain the status quo

I think we have a great compromise. Team state tournament can help the small schools recruit from the hallways. Individual state tournament is imperfect, but beautiful

Decline in participation has been driven (in my opinion) to more athletes focusing on a single sport, and offseason workouts for that sport. Also I think there are more non-sport activities and clubs available to students now. And, the wildcard - those dang video game consoles. Kids live on them many evenings and it has definitely been a motivator for not accepting the time involvement associated with school sports.

That really stinks for Vince McDonald - he is "upgraded" to the #2 placer from Frankfort .... and moves from a bracket of 4 where he was favored (by rankings) to a different bracket of 4 with Aiden Warren in it

So in theory if I have fast internet I can get all the mats in every semistate up on the big screen this weekend! My wife may kill me

Most devices can be connected to TV via a HDMI cord (iPhone needs a "dongle" that goes to HDMI output). As far as casting 2 different mats - that would be wonderful but I believe trackwrestling has it setup where you can only view one video stream per logon unfortunately. I am hoping that the State broadcast can somehow use a splitter to create one video feed that shows all 4 mats simultaneously

Bravo on the brackets!!

Final result is incredible! Thanks Joe it's like Christmas in February!

That is a great story - Sarah sounds like a real role model for young kids looking for a sport or somewhere to fit in

Love the look and all the information Joe. I do have one wish list item The rankings are great - however as the tournament goes on there are upsets. I would like to propose you shorten the grade level to a number after the school. In addition, after the grade number, I'd love to have a 2-letter code for the Regional (or Semi-state for state brackets) that they came out of along with their placement. This would let me see who was a regional champ vs 2nd/3rd and also easily reference the other quarter brackets to see how they placed 1-4 at the incoming tournament For example the first entry at 106 reads #10/NR Nova Tuttle(14-1) Crown Point(Senior) I'd like something like this: #10/NR Nova Tuttle(14-1) Crown Point (12) CP1 Telling me that he was 1st place at Crown Point regional. I could find CP2 and know that he had gotten beat by Tuttle in regional. Especially for the State brackets, I am not sure where a lot of the non-frequent qualifier schools are located and it would be great to see that NC3 or FW1 to put it all together. Thanks for all your hard work

That was a great writeup and analysis thanks Tyson and good luck in school!

Without knowing all the background and discussions.. Accepting transfers while at the same time denying a young man and his family from transferring away from your school seems very bush-league. You may hate it in the short term as a coach, but in the end you can never feel too bad letting a young man participate in a sport and your reputation will be better in the long run

It’s a legitimate concern for a school (any school) to recruit and displace a student that has come up through the area and program. Maybe a little leeway with the COVID restrictions in other states. I don’t know what you are referring to specifically, but if a school is accepting transfers and also calling out another school, then that is an issue. Not sure if that is what you were claiming

Twin Lakes, Warren Central, Jeffersonville - all of them made the same mistake. The seeding TPS report must not have been routed very well (again)!

Joe, am I correct in saying that the blind draws should go into the 7th/8th place brackets? That would make perfect sense, and be great. However, doesn't appear to be the case, as you can see at 145 at the Oak Hill sectional. A sophomore with a 1-14 record draws a first round bye, while a 4-4 senior draws into a rat-tail match and will likely be sent home. I hate to see it - would like those non-seeded kids (especially seniors) to get a better chance to get to wrestlebacks and earn a trip to Regionals. In the same bracket, another young man has a rat-tail round against the 1st seed - so he will get no chance for wrestleback

I paid for the track wrestling feed to a conference tourney and it never worked. No video at all. Are there enough track-knowledgeable people out there to make this work?

So for sectional, will each school be able to record and livestream their own kids, or will the host site be streaming all 3 or 4 mats?

Sectional and Regional sites should really figure out a way to livestream matches - even more so if parents cannot attend. These kids have worked their last 4 years for a shot. I know we mostly focus on the high-end, often year-round wrestlers - but with today's technology and all the videos you can see every day on facebook or youtube, you can't tell me that a high school can't figure out how to put up 3 or maybe 4 livestreams. Let's put the kids and their families before the money. Free livestreams will let grandma and grandpa watch Junior wrestle his senior year

Great start for Purdue. IU has been getting a lot of the big name Indiana kids, but these Purdue wrestlers are doing well at the college level! Two thumbs up for the job Ersland is doing

The McRib is back

As long as the commentary stays away from class wrestling, solid yes Really though - Mike and you or some of the other rankers would be the best commentator for such a format with all of the knowledge of prior matchups and history. I think it would be really entertaining @trackgopher just how much is a video splitter? $1000+ ?? Can the County squad pay for it in Bananas?

Ok - a consolation prize would be something like a "Red Zone" channel for NFL. Have a single announcer that is able to bounce back and forth to video from one of the 4 matches, and add their own commentary. It would be tricky, but if there was a separate table setup for the Red Zone announcer and another person choosing the mat feed, I think it could work even if it were a bit delayed from the individual mat feeds. Sure you might miss some of the action as it happens, but they could bounce between the matches that are close in score, or between highly ranked opponents. I'd love to keep that on primarily, and switch over to a single mat feed if I had a particular match that I didn't want to miss a second of...

For this year, I think it would be great if they could figure out a reasonable number of assigned seats for family and friends. Since so many will be watching remote this year I would like to suggest these improvements to TrackWrestling or whatever group is responsible for the broadcast of the rounds leading up to the finals Ability to choose from 5 different video streams. One of each mat, and one that has video of all 4 mats simultaneously so you don't miss any of the action On the video stream that continuously shows 4 mats, a button or other mechanism to choose audio from any one of the 4 mats. So the 4-mat video stream just keeps on running and viewer can easily switch audio at will Incorporate the IndianaMat individual rankings into the broadcast - would be much more interesting to the casual fan to visually see where the wrestlers are ranked and if there is an "upset" - Could also include one other video stream that shows a random fan purchasing and eating a shaved ice

What a quick drive from NW Indiana to West Lafayette! The whole extended friends and family could attend every home meet! What are we waiting for?! Boiler UP!