Dwilly

Rest in peace Coach Tim Brown. He was ALL IN ALL a good man and gave a ton to YOUNG wrestlers and the sport of wrestling in general. Tim gave all he could (willingly). 
 
Lots of good memories for a ton of people. A reminder to be present in the everlasting now.
 
SS

I actually feel like a lot of good things are happening off the mat.  
 
This weekend was high emotion, and that breeds tension. 
 
I saw kids that were finished staying to watch placement matches. Many of these kids weren’t from the same school, club, region or semi-state. I saw kids that don’t know each other talk and interact and support each other. I saw parents hug their kids and tell them how proud they were. I saw coaches tell a kid how much they’ve grown. 
 
I would argue there is more of that than the opposite. Bad things get a lot of attention, but I think we should focus on all of the good stuff instead. 
 
The future is bright in Indiana for wrestling. This tournament seems to get tougher every year, and that’s awesome. 

We, as adults talk about the "younger generation" and the lack of respect and accountability, and then we have people that act like this with no consequence.  The mystery as to why these kids act this way is not hard to solve, in my opinion.  If you want your kids to act and carry themselves in a particular manner, you must model what that looks like when things don't go your way.  Kids only know what they're taught and seeing the way some "coaches" and parents carry themselves, those aren't the lessons I want to teach my young people.  

Rare brain infection attacked Brownsburg wrestling coach: 'I'm dying' (indystar.com)

Soooo to the people who say that they are boring, don’t score points etc. do you want to explain why center grove scored the most total match points as a team? Or are you guys not ready to have that conversation yet?

Pearl Jam lost to Ticketmaster. I doubt the Indiana Wrestling community goes any further than someone's junk email box.
 

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

I was wrong to use the term “overachievers,” and after being presented with a new perspective, I will be changing the title of this thread if possible.

Overachieving is a very relative term. What might be considered overachieving to one spectator could be a letdown for the actual wrestler.
 
One example: I(very wrongly) had Elias Cressell ranked #8 in the semi-state. I’m sure all of Wabash county thought that was ridiculous, but for most of the state who didn’t get to watch him this year, it probably looks like he’s having the tournament of his life. To him, I would bet he was still distraught losing in the semis despite his ranking being much lower than his final placement.

Congratulations to Luke Penola for winning the mental attitude award at the state finals. Luke didn’t reach his goal of winning a state title but he walked out of the arena with his head held high. He is one of the best leaders, wrestlers, and people we’ve ever been around. We are forever grateful to of coached you and to have you in our Zionsville wrestling family. 

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

The Not Top 10 as ESPN portrays it generally consider to be embarrassing blooper and ridiculous errors of well paid adult professional athletes. Most of yours is call out kids who already had an off day and give no credit to their opponents rising to the occasion and finding their own moment. Just because top CP wrestlers, and a few others,  didn’t win a tough match doesn’t mean it should fall into this type of Not Top 10 embarrassing type call out.  In my view most of your 10 are not good takes.  Heck some of them aren’t even big upsets ranking wise. Your own picks may not have been Top 10 calls but no need to call any of these kids to task just because they didn’t live up to your picks. If this was a joke it was done way too poorly in taste.  Get some sleep, you’ve had a long day. 
 
The following take (posted below) is more along the lines of the type of Not Top 10 criticism of this years state event that is worth pointing out.  I can at least respect those thoughts cause it’s about the process and someone could actually consider those ideas when planning future events.  
 

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

Peyton Schoettle. Great composure,desire,and will to win every position.  Impressive performance the entire weekend. Congrats!!

I grew up behind Arlington HS and My dad worked for IPS.  Coach Grundy was an incredible example to the youth in our area.  

The Brownsburg coach medically forfeiting in the Haines/Henderson match was perhaps the classiest thing I’ve seen in wrestling. The match was almost over and your wrestler was on the verge of losing. He appeared to have some other injury problem as well, having already taken injury time just a few seconds prior. The ref’s call of an illegal move was questionable at best. Brownsburg could have taken the cheap win and made Haines a “state qualifier” in name only, but sucked it up and did the right thing. 
 
Henderson’s season lives on solely because of the sportsmanship of Brownsburg. 
 
Prayers for a speedy recovery to Haines.

#8 Getz 36-3 comes in as the 4 and wins two matches to punch his ticket.

12 years of SS brackets, this is the number of times these regionals will meet
A1 is the champ for the regional vs. the 4th's in the first round
A1 vs. the 2nd's and 3rds are the bottom two charts and they would obviously hit in the quarters. 
 

Pug, I bet the brackets get leaked before that…
like your putts always leak off before the hole.