randalllynch

Great news for the Ohio Valley, we have cleared the way with our athletic department to bring back the historical "Falls Cities" individual tournament to New Albany High School.
16 Teams
Double elimination 
Wrestle back to 3rd, place 6
21 Dec 24
We will run it on Track Wrestling
 
Please let me know if you are interested and we will get you a contract out!
 
Coach Lynch 
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That’s why he is one of the best rankers in the game 

Spatola just outside Cincinatti has always been good to us.

Spatola just outside Cincinatti has always been good to us.

The best way to curb that is for injury time that the coach cannot attend to the wrestler and a trainer/doctor must attend to them. Along with not allowing water or anything like that.

People can look at it as CP blew it, but why not look at it as the state of Indiana is strong as a whole. The talent levels over the past decade has exploded in our state, and we are seeing it in the national and college level as well. 

Went 11/14 on champs
49/56 on qualifiers
6/7 misses were identified in the Best first round matchup
 
 
Regional summary-
Jennings County as expected is far deeper 
Columbus East looked dominant and loses only 2 seniors which should frighten both sectionals for next year
 
 
Jeffersonville Regional
Jennings County Sectional -41 qualifiers
Jeffersonville Sectional - 15 qualifiers
 
Team Race- Columbus East puts 6 in the finals and comes out with 4 champs to secure the team title.
 
State Hopefuls
106 Talon Jessup Columbus East
120 Jayden Owsley Corydon Central
126 Peyton Richards Switzerland County
138 Justice Thornton Columbus North
157 Asher Ratliff Columbus North
165 Oliver Hallet Indian Creek
285 Ben Land Jeffersonville
 
 
 
106- Jennings County clean sweep  - 4/4 nailed the order
Talon Jessup Columbus East
Ethan Rose Switzerland County
Aiden Woods Franklin Community
Nolan Riley Columbus North
 
Best first round matchup-
Nolan Riley Columbus North v Sebastian Berry Jeffersonville
The newly crowned sectional champion should be on upset alert.
 
 
113- Young gun Pittman continues his run by adding a regional title to his resume - 3/4 
Ethan Pittman Madison Consolidated
Carson Collier Charlestown
Ethan Poling Columbus East
Wyatt Schreck Corydon Central
 
Best first round matchup-
Ethan Poling Columbus East v Christian Bergstrom Silver Creek
Freshman v Senior with a trip to Evansville on the line.
 
 
120- Owsley rolls to a regional crown - 3/4
Jayden Owsley Corydon Central
Luke Kirchner Jennings County
AJ Franklin New Washington
Eli Stewart Madison Consolidated
 
Best first round matchup-
AJ Franklin New Washington v Dakota Fields Switzerland County
The last time these two met it was a 7-6 match in favor of Fields.
 
 
126- Richards rolls to a regional crown -3/4
Peyton Richards Switzerland County
Gage Rutan Columbus East
John Stivers Jeffersonville
Christian Grayson Charlestown
 
Best first round matchup-
Christian Grayson Charlestown v Ryan Million Franklin Community
Another freshman v senior matchup
 
132- Carter rolls to a regional crown - 4/4 missed the champ
Kellan Carter Scottsburg
Cohen Long Columbus North
Eli Theobald Providence
Kegan Jochim Franklin Community
 
Best first round matchup-
Eli Theobald Providence v Harley Schocke Salem
Providence is the favorite but the scrappy Schocke has home run ability
 
 
138- Thornton had a tight 2-0 match last week with Kirchner and will look to come out on top again - 3/4 
Justice Thornton Columbus North
Lane Kirchner Jennings County
Caleb Kirkpatrick Columbus East
Ethan Jones Switzerland County
 
Best first round matchup-
Ethan Jones Switzerland County v Dawson Slaughter Jeffersonville
A deep weight class at Jennings County could spell doom for the champ from Jeffersonville.
 
 
144- Cooper and the rest of the Jennings County class make it a clean sweep - 4/4 nailed the order
Caleb Cooper Columbus East
Gabe Rose Switzerland County
Owen Trimpe Franklin Community
Josiah Green Columbus North
 
Best first round matchup-
Josiah Green Columbus North v Isa Santos-Moore Jeffersonville
Green will look to pull off the upset at Jeffersonville.
 
 
150- Anderson adds a regional title to his resume. 3/4 
Nate Anderson Columbus East
Cameron Sommers Franklin Community
Trey Ozier Charlestown
Luke Spurgeon Columbus North
 
Best first round matchup-
Trey Ozier Charlestown v Zane Skinner Madison Consolidated
Ozier holds off the upset minded Skinner in this sophomore scrap.
 
 
157- Ratliff got the job done with a tight 6-4 decision last week. Look for more of the same - 4/4 nailed the order 
Asher Ratliff Columbus North
Elijah Guyer Indian Creek
Lincoln Cooper Columbus East
Boomer Hester Charlestown
 
Best first round matchup-
Corinthian Tonte Franklin Community v Boomer Hester Charlestown
I have had this weight class circled for some time. Two very talented young grapplers will face off for the first time in high school with a semi state trip on the line.
 
 
165- Hallet rolls to a regional title - 3/4
Oliver Hallet Indian Creek
Clay McClelland Charlestown
Evan Saevre Columbus North
Clayton Miller Columbus East
 
Best first round matchup-
Clay McClelland Charlestown v Cory Fuller Franklin Community
The Pirate signal caller will need his head on a swivel in this first round matchup.
 
 
175- DeSpain looks to keep rolling - 4/4 missed the champ
Keller DeSpain Columbus North
Tyler Lake Columbus East
Sean McAfee Charlestown
Noah Kendall North Harrison
 
Best first round matchup-
Ayden Waggoner Madison Consolidated v Noah Kendall North Harrison
Two wrestlers with 5 and 6 losses respectively meeting in the opening round of regional does draw the eye.
 
 
190- This will be the 3rd meeting between McMahon and Shewmaker this year. Both have been close, expect fireworks. - 4/4 missed the champ badly
Colin McMahon Columbus East
Cody Shewmaker Jeffersonville
Jose Ramirez Columbus North
Lance Jones Franklin Community
 
Best first round matchup-
Lance Jones Franklin Community v Jordan Guerrero Charlestown
The senior Grizzly Cub will look to punch his ticket against the Jeffersonville Sectional Runner Up.
 
 
215- The freshman will keep rolling this weekend. -4/4 
Kellen Fellure Franklin Community
Jesus Aguilar Seymour
Noah Daulton Salem
Xavior Gindhart Jennings County
 
Best first round matchup-
Preston Schoen Providence v Noah Daulton Salem
After being upset last weekend, Schoen’s season could come to an end a little earlier than expected.
 
 
285- Land won’t be challenged - 3/4
Ben Land Jeffersonville
Brody Stephens Franklin Community
Brayden Jones Eastern Pekin
Andrew Holzknecht North Harrison
 
Best first round matchup-
Both of the 2v3 matchups in the bracket have the potential to go either way.

Show me the draws, you're acting quite pretentious saying you can predict them and then not posting them. Look into your crystal ball and give us a few weights at least. I know hundreds of coaches that want to see them.

The MD Classic always had the best brats and soups. The team moms do an outstanding job.

I might be wrong, but…by not being in the weakest regional in the Evansville SS they now have an opportunity to draw a kid from that regional in the first two rounds if they qualify. Better match ups for them.

The movement of Floyd, Tell City, and New Albany into the sectional with Jasper and Southridge has made it a pretty tough day.

Have to disagree on this point, New Albany is only 10 minutes from Jeffersonville and Floyd Central is 15.  We currently go 1.5 hours to Southridge.  If it is only geography based decisions then this would never be the situation.

I'm with Kendrick. 
 
It's not a shot at any team in the Jeff Sectional or anything, the disparity needs to be addressed. 
 
Switzerland County should be at Richmond this weekend
Eastern back to Jeff 
New Albany and Floyd should be back at Jeff
Corydon, Crawford Co and North Harrison to Southridge
 
 
 

I would guess in the next day or two. As always the ratings to determine the ever controversial sectional and regional strength took a few tries to get ironed out. I know maligned is working on it though.

As I said, their decisions do not always make sense. However, the party line from their end is making geographic equity, not competitive equity.

Have to disagree on this point, New Albany is only 10 minutes from Jeffersonville and Floyd Central is 15.  We currently go 1.5 hours to Southridge.  If it is only geography based decisions then this would never be the situation.

The movement of Floyd, Tell City, and New Albany into the sectional with Jasper and Southridge has made it a pretty tough day.

9:00am CST on Friday is the email I got last night, and deadlines loaded in Track.
 

This is gonna hurt.

Southridge does a pretty good job.

Southridge does a pretty good job.

That would be a big lawsuit waiting to happen. No referee should be put into a situation to determine if a kid is hurt or not. 
 
The simplest solution is do what college does and give the opponent choice of position. It's not a penalty, but gives the opponent an advantage.

Anyone who believes Indiana wrestling isn’t classed, I disagree with you.  Wrestling is classed all year.  Small school programs generally have few opportunities to wrestle the large schools…maybe their JV team.  Large schools typically don’t schedule dual meets with small school teams…why would they?  Most of the time, it wouldn’t be competitive.  Also, school conferences are typically set up among schools of similar size.  Wrestling is classed all season.  It’s just the IHSAA state tournament at the end of the year that suddenly isn’t classed. 
 
 
I've coached at a small school for nine seasons now.  Having to face off against huge school programs in sectionals absolutely hurts our participation.  I coach two types of kids.  "True wrestlers" and "guys who wrestle."   True wrestlers, they love it and are committed no matter what.  But "guys who wrestler", newer/developing wrestlers, when they see the better guys on their team who have been competitive all year get smashed, many of them wash out or check out.  They just chose to focus on other sports...guess what, they pick ones that have a classed state tournament, where their small school typically does well and gets a lot of attention.  
 
When the "guys who wrestle" start to wash out, then your "true wrestlers" have fewer and fewer training partners...it doesn't matter how hard they work.  When they have no one to wrestle that can push them or no one to wrestle at all, you're not going to be competitive against wrestlers from large schools that don't face this problem. There's always rare exceptions, amazing kids, but this is the general result for small schools that are grouped with large schools at the sectional and regional level.
 
It's a fact, large schools more consistently produce elite wrestlers than small schools.  There’s a number of factors, but the single greatest factor is rooted in the nature of wrestling. Wrestling is the only sport where you compete as an individual, but the training and development aspect of the sport is 100% a TEAM activity (you cannot train alone).  Large schools with large rooms full of talented wrestlers can train at an “academy level” within their own program.  This is a significant advantage and allows large schools to more consistently produce elite wrestlers.  
 
 

Unless WC has a valid explanation, they shouldn’t be eligible for Team State next year. Others have mentioned this but this is the type of shenanigans that the IHSAA used to justify eliminating the team portion of the post season. Fortunately the IHSWCA can hold schools accountable for this type of tomfoolery.