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Your mom must not realize that 9 former US Presidents, most famously Abe Lincoln, were wrestlers. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1141550/index.htm None of them hung out all Saturday, played video games, and watched people farting on Youtube. Checkmate, mom.

;D ;D ;D

Due to your statement that everyone was evenly matched, this example fails. Academic scholarships would go to the students who score the highest on the test scores. Some students from bigger schools may have better teachers or better equipment in science, and therefore PERFORM BETTER than their small school counterparts. Scholarships would be performance based and so 75% may go to the big school students.

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Forgot to bold a couple -- MacMurray @ 160, Duckworth @ 171

Expand the "Regionals" section here and you can see the results of each regional feeding your semistate of choice, including the order of finish. http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Sports/Boys/Wrestling/200910/IndividualStateTournament/tabid/754/Default.aspx

NEW CASTLE 103 - Levi Moss (2) 112 - Brian Harvey (2) 119 - Thien Tran (3) 125 - Brandon Wright (3) 130 - Connor Mullins (1) 135 - Josh Williams (2) 140 - Kirk Johnson (1) 145 - Montrail Johnson (1) 152 - Austin Neibarger (3) 160 - Jeremiah Oliver (1) 171 - Mike Smith (2) 189 - Andre Richards (2) 215 - Kyle Smitherman (4) 285 - Dylan McBride (1)

Sure, might as well have one winner per semistate, and can see who has the overall best points too. Someone probably more numerically-inclined than me will be able to figure out (after the semistates are done) what would have been the best possible combination of picks from each semistate.

[move]PICKS ARE NOW LOCKED IN! LOOK AT THE RESULTS THREAD TO SEE WHO WON[/move] Hopefully this will be a pretty simple way to have a fun pick'em contest for the semistate competitions this weekend. Here are the rules: 1. Each entry should choose ONE semistate. If you want to do more than one semistate, that's fine do a second/third/fourth entry 2. For your entry, you are going to choose ONE (1) wrestler from EACH WEIGHT CLASS at your chosen semistate 3. Your goal is not to pick the overall winner, but simply to choose a wrestler who will advance to State 4. Now here's the "tricky" part. Each wrestler is a #1 - #4 seed coming into semistate, depending on their Regional finish. If you choose a #1 seed and they advance, you get ONE (1) point for that pick. If you choose a #4 seed and they advance, you get 4 points. So you can go with the "sure thing" and get 1 point, or take a risk and get 2, 3, or 4 points if it pays off. 5. Highest total points for an entry (remember that's ONE semistate) is the winner. If your choice does not advance you get 0 points for that weight class. Since it's going to be hard enough to figure all this out, please include the seed of each of your picks in your entry, such as: Merrillville Semistate: 103 - Brooks (1) 112 - Ayresman (1) 119 - Hawkins (2) 125 - Camacho (4) ... .... etc. LINK TO SEMISTATE BRACKETS: http://www.indianamat.com/2010-ihsaa-semi-state-brackets/2010/02/ TO DETERMINE WHAT SEED THE WRESTLERS ARE AT YOUR SEMISTATE: Expand the "Regionals" section here and you can see the results of each regional feeding your semistate of choice, including the order of finish. Remember that at semistate, it's always a #1 seed versus a #4 seed in the first round, and a #2 seed versus a #3 seed. http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Sports/Boys/Wrestling/200910/IndividualStateTournament/tabid/754/Default.aspx

Maybe an old hangar/warehouse at Crane Naval Base could be customized to host the semistate

Are there any venues around the Jeffersonville/New Albany area that could work?

I vote for under the dome at West Baden!

One thing you're going to need to consider -- this seating capacity is what each gym can hold with all bleachers fully extended. Some of these might lose some capacity if they needed to fit 4 or more full wrestling mats on the gym floor.

Amen!

That is fantastic news. I'm sure all these young men wanted was their shot to advance, and now it sounds like they shall have it. Thank goodness all this mess can hopefully be put behind, and won't leave a dark cloud over this year's tournament. A big THANK YOU to all of the people involved in getting these additional matches agreed to and setup.

Yes, you are right for sure. Wright battled Eppert back and forth last year too, right? I just didnt' expect anyone to beat Wright this year, that was what surprised me. I wish them both luck.

This one has floored me! I was expecting Wright to win the entire tourney this year. FANTASTIC job by young Kieffer, what an achievement!

Sounsd like some of the best wrestling that takes place there today may be people contesting for the bleacher seats.

Kudos to the people involved for having the sense to put the safety of the kids and their families first.

This is insane, these schools under the snow emergency should have made the call hours ago to postpone these things. What happens when the regional begins and there are kids not there due to the weather? Do they have to take a forfeit and see their season, maybe their senior year, go down the tubes through no fault of their own? Now, it's pretty much too late to cancel them. My guess is they're going to have to delay the start until further this afternoon so the wrestlers can trickle in. Channel 8 news out of Indianapolis had a report on this morning. First, they played a recorded cell phone conversation they had with a motorist last night who was stranded on a section of Highway 37 near Elwood -- he said there was a mile-long line of cars, all stranded by drifted road. Even the snow plows were stuck. Then (and this was 8am) they reported that they had received word that the motorist was STILL there in his car this morning, and they were going to talk to him shortly. My guess is that if there are wrestlers from that area trying to make their way anywhere very far, they are really screwed.

Great job, can't believe you didn't slip the class discussion in there! By the way, it's "Commissioner" -- no 'H' in it.