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Heck, I just found out last night the Milan School Board adopted a new policy prohibiting co-ed teams where the oppostion fields boys-only teams. Because of this new policy I was told that my girls could not come out for the wrestling team. ??? Now how is that possible?

I agree except for School Boy 112 and Cadet 189. We was there forever it seemed.

My thoughts are the same as most of you guys, I do not think girls should be wrestling boys. I have had this argument with my two daughters numerous times, about the touching and grabbing. Heck my girls do not even like other people touching them, but in the end I lost the battle and my twins are wrestling. I won?t lie, it is tough to watch not knowing what is going to happen. Yes, there is always someone in the stands making some type of comment about it. But let us look at all of the facts, there are not enough girls to form a girls division in the state of Indiana the numbers are just not there. So until that happens, the girls will be wrestling the boys and life moves on. Also remember everyone used to say that girls could not handle playing football because it was so rough. But guess what, there has been some girls doing that also.

1st Place EC 2nd Place Conn 3rd Place Batesville 4th Place SD

Yes, both did not wrestle.

I would like to have a copy of these brackets as well. Just so I can compare them when I sit down with the other Coaches the day of the Tournament. The Classic is suppose to be a BLIND DRAW and if they are putting the brackets together without the coaches input then I think there are going to be a lot of upset coaches. >

The question is will Phillips being wresling 112 or 119?

Milan Friday 19-Nov @ New Castle Chrysler High Saturday 20-Nov @ New Castle Chrysler High

So I am guessing that Milan would fall under Sectional 16 ?

I did not see Milan listed any where.

Now that is a thing of beauty! I love the wrestling profiles, it help gives it that personal touch. You have put more thought into this website than some colleges do with theirs. Keep up the good work!

Strub1, I sent you a PM

Darren, I like to thank you for the feedback. 200 women registered in Indiana with USA Wrestling seems kind of high to me. The only reason I say that is I went to many FS/ GR tournaments over the summer with my nephew and I did not see but maybe a handful of girls at every tournament. Even at State I did not see that many. Maybe there was more with the Folkstyle. The only reason I bring this up is that I am trying to understand what kind participation there is in the state. Due to the fact that my daughter who is in the 8th grade came to me a couple weeks ago and told me she is going out for the wrestling team instead of trying out for the Basketball team. I had a major breakdown and put my foot in my mouth not once but many times and said some means things. My wife did not say a word during the discussion, but did so after things calmed down. I told my wife during my years of wrestling, I never wrestled any girls and thank god I did not. I asked my wife where in the heck did this come from. She told me that she thought that my daughter would like to spend more time with me and that she knows that this is the one sport that I truly love. I told my wife that I have gone to every basketball game and cheer for her and her twin sister. I help volunteer for club volleyball, and have supported them both all the way with anything that they did. I told my wife that I do not see anything good coming of this, and 90% of the time I am right. Last week at a barbecue my nephew brought the subject back up and he started with nasty remarks, and again I lost my cool. I basically told him if he very touched her or made a rude comment in any way, he would not live to see another day on the mat. This main reason I do not want her wrestling. The other problem I have is there is a boy on the team that she likes, and I told her it will not go well, and I can not handle the emotional baggage that comes with girls (That is my Wifes job). I told my wife that I do not have a problem with her wrestling with other girls, but I just do not want her wrestling with the boys. Maybe I am being overly protective and at times I feel like an oxymoron, because I tell my girls they can do anything they want except wrestle. So as the ISWA Women?s Director I need to hear some logic as to way I should let my daughter wrestle and this goes for anybody else that wants to put their 2 cents on the subject.

I gotta ask, how many girls do think wrestle in the state of Indiana (High School and Middle School)?

The big one here is also Disney has more to offer to a family then going out west. If I gave my family the choice my son would be out voted every time.

My biggest disappointment was the amount of Indiana kids that showed up for this tournament. My nephew was hoping to wrestle some new kids from other areas of the country, instead of the same kids. He had no one in his bracket to wrestle. I would have never thought that this would happen, especially at a Regional Tournament. But again a lot of kids are still in school, so I can see the kids from out of state not coming in for this Tournament. But Indiana was the home site and you would have thought that these kids would show up trying to win a regional title. ??? When I was in there watching the Junior Division, I thought it was an excellent idea putting on the screen who was wrestling, who was on deck, and so on. No need to keep running out in the hall looking at the bracket. From a fan's point of view I like it.

I am going to throw my 2 cents into this. Now everyone knows that rules change over the years, some for the good and some, well there just there. If the coach and the wrestler knowingly break the rules that the govern body has put in place. Each should have to pay the price for their endeavors. It is no different than anything we do in life. We as parents, coaches, wrestlers, officials, and spectators all talk about having good ethics and good sportsmanship in our beloved sport. So maybe it is time to implement some additional changes to the system. We have come a long way with computers and the internet; we have all embrace this technology. With this being said, I believe there needs to be a data base put in place for weight management. It does not take much expertise to put together an excel spreadsheet that tracks each wrestle during the season. This how it could be done: Each school would put together a list of their wrestlers at the beginning of the season with what they currently weight and what weight class they want to wrestle for the season. The coach would be responsible to add each individual in the data base. That is all they will be allowed to do. The officials will have the biggest responsibility in this, since they are there to legitimist each kid?s weight before they wrestle. They would certify the scale before each weight in by placing an IHSAA certified weight on the scale and recording what the scale tells him. This force schools to keep their scale calibrated. Once the dual meet or tournament is over with, the officials would be the only ones that would enter the wrestler?s weight in the data base. As the official is entering the data in the system, it could be set up to immediately flag a wrestler for impeding on the allowed weight loss. Then proper action can be taken against the wrestler and the coach.