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The NCAA gives out the Gorrarian Award each year for the most falls in the least amount of time during the NCAA tournament.

I didn't get the scores submitted until this morning. Cave Springs 36, Indy 27 Cave Springs 61, Riverside 6 Indy 77, Riverside 0 It looked like Pomeroy hurt his knee and be didn't wrestle. Riverside's 285 didn't wrestle either. Holstion wrestled Amos, but didn't wrestle Daniels. Think he got dinged ...

Brent, weigh ins at 2 pm on Friday and 8 am on Saturday?

Any idea about format or pools, Brent?

That potential finals matchup between Whorton and Martin at 113 was the match I was most looking forward to watching as a wrestling fan at WSAZ. It's a shame we won't get the chance to make that one up. Two really good wrestlers. That storm robbed us of some real drama Saturday night.

Yes. Will be base + 4.

I read somewhere else that it was the same Cody Amos and assumed (incorrectly) that it was true. My apologies. Wednesday evening, Independence will host Cave Springs (VA), Riverside and George Washington. Weigh-ins will be held at 4 pm. Wrestling will begin at 5 pm. Leaving aside some good matchups ...

Independence is hosting Cave Springs (VA) for a dual meet this Wednesday. Cave Springs is expected to end Christiansburg's run of 14 straight state titles this season and has, among others, PowerAde champ (and former Wheeling Park Patriot) Cody Amos. We would like to make it a quad. We plan to weigh...

No, it isn't. There is no high school seeding meeting attended by the coaches. There is a seeding committee that seeds the wrestlers at each weight according to the seeding criteria. I think the committee is primarily the coaches responsible for running the tournament (Huntington, Cabell Midland). O...

Before the forum spins into a tizzy, my understanding of the WSAZ seeding criteria are: 1. Head-to-head 2. Common opponent 3. Returning state champion 4. Returning state placer 5. Returning state qualifier 6. Returning WSAZ champion 7. Returning WSAZ placer 8. Won-loss record/win percentage So when ...

106 1. Hodges - Grafton 2. Lusher - Independence 3. Stover - Herbert Hoover 4. Pettrey - Liberty (R) 5. McLean - Phillip Barbour 6. Shaw - Berkeley Spring 7. Linder - Braxton 8. Redden - Greenbrier West 113 1. Skaggs - Grafton 2. Dennison - Braxton 3. Edenfield - Greenbrier West 4. Davis - Berkeley ...

I think the lack of emphasis that we place on dual meets in West Virginia is a big contributor to the number of forfeits you see. If you had a dual meet state tournament, I think you would see a lot more teams work a lot harder to fill all of the weights. Dual meets between full or nearly-full teams...

With the pill, you've got a system that is somewhere between a random draw (like UWW uses to contest the World Championships) and a seeded tournament. It's kind of an educated random draw. I like the pill. Not because it is quick or because it is easy. In my eyes, the pill has two primary advantages...

For the sake of argument, if you were to seed the state tournament, what would be your seeding criteria?

Independence Noah Adams - 1st - 195 Alex Daniels - 2nd - 220 Will Cox - 2nd - 145 Hunter Taylor (B) - 4th - 126 Tanner Harris - 6th - 120 Haegan Harvey - 8th - 126 Team finished fourth. Point Pleasant Grant Safford - 3rd - 195 Tannor Hill - 6th - 220 Team finished 13th. Camden County (5A out of Geor...

Repo, I am about a year ahead of you in this process (my son is a junior) so I can tell you some of the things that we did between his sophomore and junior years. The first thing I would recommend is hitting one of the post-season national tournaments. We have gone to NHSCA Nationals the last two ye...

Spears (126), Donahue (132) and Johnson (160) all finished third. Didn't get to see Donahue wrestle, but watched Spears and Johnson. They both looked good. Both lost to really tough kids. I was really impressed with Parkersburg's 106 pounder, Braxton Byrd. Really strong. Scrambled well. And stayed o...

http://highschoolsports.pennlive.com/news/article/-2343119753166349139/prestigious-king-of-the-mountain-tournament-features-plenty-of-high-school-wrestling-heavy-hitters/ PennLive article on the King of the Mountain tournament that South is headed to in Pa this weekend. Lot of really good individual...

I could never find the results on the Herald-Dispatch's web site. Not sure what I was missing. SouthFan, if you want quick results, you really need to go the Twitter route (if you're not already). Most of the bigger teams in the state have an account and tweet results. Huntington's was the first acc...

I stay away from predictions on the AA-A side of things because my son and other kids I coach compete there. With high school practices about to begin, I will throw my predictions out there on the AAA side. These will probably look a lot different in sixty days when everyone has settled in to the we...

For those who think the way the state tournament is bracketed needs to change, check out the result of the Mingo Central-Westside football game tonight. Mingo Central sat their starters and lost on purpose to get on the side of the bracket away from Bridgeport. Seeing the two best kids wrestle on Fr...

Yes. I will be there. My name is David Hart. My son is Indy's 152.

152 - Hart (I) by decision over Minihan (H), 6-1 160 - Justice (I) by major decision over Franklin (H),14-4 170 - Adams (I) by major decision over Johnson (H), 13-2 182 - Murphy (H) by tech fall over Lawson (I), 16-0 195 - Daniels (I) by fall over Adkins (H) 220 - Williams (I) by forfeit 285 - Duval...

My best guess about the Huntington lineup you will see tonight is: 106 - 113 - Humphreys 120 - Haddix 126 - Grass 132 - Jeffers 138 - Allen 145 - Chiilders 152 - Shepard 160 - Johnson Considering they played football until Saturday, I have no idea which of their big guys might have enough practice t...

This is the Indy lineup you are likely to see tomorrow: 106 - Tanner Harris 113 - Alex Hart 120 - Hunter Taylor 126 - Connor Gibson 132 - Will Cox 138 - Nathan Wood 145 - Cody Clifton 152 - Jacob Hart 160 - Trey Gunnoe 170 - Dustin Justice 182 - Noah Adams 195 - Alex Daniels 220 - Trey Williams 285 ...