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OK, I see the point you're making now.

It would be nice to have three divisions with one team champion and 14 individual champions in each division, but I guess the WVSSAC will never agree to that.

In both the OVAC and the WSAZ, all points earned go toward the final team scores, regardless of whether or not a wrestler defeats someone in his own division. The team in each division with the highest score becomes the champion of that division. If that's not what you're saying, then I apologize fo...

Oh, and perhaps if a school has a 5th place finisher qualify for a vacant spot under my scenario, I think he should be considered a non-scoring wrestler (since he didn't finish in the top 4 in his region), but he could still place. Does that make sense?

For what it's worth, I took the entrants from the 2015 regional tournaments and put them all in a spreadsheet. I then took those same teams/regions and realigned them with the 2017 classifications, but using the 2015 data. I realize the numbers aren't exactly the same, but if you took the 2015 wrest...

I worked as statistician for the same school under three different head coaches, and they all shared the same philosophy. Basically, if a wrestler was wrestling in a varsity-level event (even if he was wrestling as a member of our JV team) and he had his hand raised, it counted as a win - even if it...

Yep! You're right! 200 wins exactly for Elijah. Good memory!

Yes, I think you're right, Refuse-to-lose. That sounds familiar, because it was right at 200.

I believe Tory Bennett holds the state record for both career (217) and single-season (63) wins. David Jeffrey finished his career with 210 wins. I had thought Hedgesville's Danny Lord had over 200 wins, but I added up his records from the four years he was in the state tournament, and it came up to...

All of the schools above have rosters and schedules for the 2016 school year on trackwrestling.com.

Schools by Class with 2017 Enrollment Figures: Class AAA Cabell Midland 1,965 Morgantown 1,808 Parkersburg 1,798 Huntington 1,658 Parkersburg South 1,576 Musselman 1,525 Jefferson 1,515 Wheeling Park 1,514 Woodrow Wilson 1,351 Martinsburg 1,313 Capital 1,275 University 1,264 Spring Mills 1,252 Hurri...

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Congratulations, T. J.! Sorry I wasn't there to see it.

Oh well. Guess I'll just have to read about it.

So if Round 1 begins on Saturday at 10:00, Round 2 should start at 11:30 (if it's like the Wheeling Park Duals, which starts each round exactly every hour and a half). Brent, since this tournament is significantly smaller now, and there is no threat of bad weather impeding travel, can you tell us th...

LOL! It's beautiful in Athens this afternoon, albeit slightly chilly. I'm sure nobody had any trouble getting to Parkersburg. I'm glad it didn't stick around!

I just want to warn everybody to be careful if you're traveling to Parkersburg later today. Tomorrow's forecast is great, but today could be slightly less than perfect. In Athens, Ohio (where I work), there is a new dusting of snow on the highway, and it's still coming down quite steadily. (Athens i...

Kudos to Coach Smith and the entire WLU wrestling team. What a great group of men!

Holdyn and his family will most certainly be in my prayers.

No, the post was directed at the actions of the Ohio wrestler that I mentioned in my post.

He lost 3-1 in overtime. And I want to commend Justin on the class he showed in the loss. He accepted the defeat without throwing a fit, and then when he was on the podium, he was smiling the whole time. It was nice to see after an Ohio wrestler got a team point deducted for the way he acted after h...

Congratulations to Caleb Nice, who just became the first OVAC champion from Magnolia. Great tournament, Caleb!

I'm sure the first two comments about Logan Ball were jokes, but just in case 2015DeBee106 isn't joking, the Logan Ball in this year's tournament is a junior who has wrestled all three years for Cambridge.

Match started with the 220-pound weight class.

Parkersburg South 56 Parkersburg High 15 106 Braxton Byrd (P) p. Tucker Windland, 3:43 113 Luke Martin (PS) p. Hunter Ackerman, 1:29 120 Mikey Shamblin (PS) p. Kaleb Sams, 3:14 126 Jacob Roberts (PS) p. Brandon Kincaid, 4:35 132 Jared Donahue (P) p. T. J. Huffman, 1:32 138 Jarritt Flinn (PS) dec. Lo...

Jacob Roberts, 126

And one more thing: It's standard procedure for the OVAC to not release any information until after the Monday evening press conference. They've been doing it that way for as long as I can remember.

The home page of OVAeC.org, that is.

Um, they've been up since about 7:45 p.m.

You need to click on OVAC Tournaments on the home page, then click on 2016 OVAC Ron Mauck Tournament.

Head to Head Results from North Canton Holiday Tournament: 106 Tucker Windland (Parkersburg South) dec. London Bowen (Huntington), 5-2 London Bowen (Huntington) p. Tino Kayafas (Wheeling Park), 0:35 120 Clayton Stewart (Huntington) p. Matt Porter (Wheeling Park), 1:33 126 Taylor Hutchison (Huntingto...

56th Annunal North Canton Holiday Tournament Top 10 Team Scores Plus All WV Teams 1. Wadsworth 169.5 2. Central Crossing 156.5 3. Parkersburg South 151.0 4. Canon McMillan 148.5 5. Dublin Coffman 148.0 6. Carrollton 132.0 7. Steubenville 122.0 8. Uniontown Lake 121.0 9. Huntington 94.5 10. Jackson (...

Congratulations to Justin Allman (#1 seed) who decisioned #2 Francis Duggan of North Allegheny 2-1 in overtime to claim the 195-lb title at the 2015 King of the Mountain Tournament. I'm sorry, but that is the only update I have other than this report on the finals. Signing off now. I'm baking Christ...