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Congratulations Coach Whittington.

Viewing for Coach Ashley will be from 5-7 Monday evening, with services starting at 7 at the Stump Funeral Home at the Arnoldsburg location.

The family will be making final arrangements this evening. I will post as soon as I hear from them.

I just received a phone call of the passing of Matt Ashley. My condolonces to the Ashley family.

I feel that the coaches committee for the sport of wrestling has always been filled with individuals that had intentions to make our sport better. My only concern is that if only the WVSSAC would acknowledge that the effort we put forth would have more of a say to the changes that needs made, not ju...

Notice to Lincoln County, Logan County, and Williamstown, I sent each of you an email and have failed to hear a response. Please send me a message to mgstump@aol.com for i'm trying to make contact with all our regional coaches.

Coach, i do believe Calhoun County is interested. They would be fine if another team entered to make it a quad. Send me an email.

Coaches, the date for the WV Class A Challenge held at Ritchie County High School will be held on Jan.31-Feb. 1. More details will follow.

Coach Williams, the critera for the regional seedings meetings is posted on the WVSSAC website. This is what we go by in Region 4 AA-A. Not sure who came up with this, maybe the coaches committee, but it is what we use.

I recall one year my team wrestled at the Nitro Invite and it was a random drawing for all weight classes. Last year, at the Region 4 AA-A, we selected a feature match to end the finals. It kept the crowd there for the most part.

Congratulations Jake. An outstanding young man. Wishing you the best for the rest of this season and beyond.

I had one that finished 4th his senior year, 2002, in the regionals and won the state title at the 130 lb weight class. This wrestler was cut from the basketball team his 9th grade year and came to me and asked if he could wrestle. The rest is history. His name was Derek Metz.

My fault, I will send this to Dr Miller to get corrected. My apologies to Joseph.

Ok guys, enough talk about the hoodies, give this wrestling world who can't make it to the match an update please.

mike.carmen, Your mention of middle school wrestlers being allowed to compete on the high school varsity may be a good result. I have had a few 7th/8th graders that could have started on my varsity teams. We wrestled a team out of Kentucky one year at the WV Army Duals and they had a 7th grader to w...

The Jackson Co Inv has results on the thewrestlingtourney.com if interested, Thanks Tim Brown and great job Coach Hupp and the Ravenswood staff and all those that helped to make this a successful tournament.

I see an easy solution. Putnam County School Board calls a 'special session' this upcoming week, every school board throughout WV has the power to do this, call in the principals, AD.s, coaches, and anyone else that needs to contribute to this mess and get things figured out so those high school and...

I am hearing a plea for help from nmgeorge05. I'm trying to help keep a program in our region the ability to compete like they should be able to, one kid or 14, along with their feeder program, by spreading the word and am willing to make calls or whatever it takes to get the admin to make it right....

Brian, thanks for the imput. But still can't see if one kid, any kid, that goes to a school that has already been established (owns their own mats, uniforms, etc.) be denied the right to compete and a chance to fulfill his or her dream. I'm certainly glad that other counties don't have that ruling, ...

The LKC Wrestling Tournament for 2019 will be hosted by Roane County.

I became aware of a situation that has recently taken place in Putnam County. Our region (Region 4 AA-A) lost a team (Buffalo High School) due to the low number of participants at that school. Apparently the school board adopted a policy that stated that each school in that county has to have enough...

Rest in peace Coach White. Will be sadly missed by many of our states wrestling family.

forthekids, Don't feel sorry for starting this thread. WV wrestling will only get better if coaches and officials work on the necessary things that will make our sport better. We are in need of officials for sure. Who wants to take this challenge on with hardly any reward, only personal ones knowing...

Three hours left before Friday is over Bearhugger. I would love to hear the Big News but I'm getting close to my bed time. Did you mean today or the next?

Apparently you were not in attendance during the match with Stewart and Adams. The trainers from all directions worked with the dislocated finger and all were unsuccessful in getting the dislocation to fall back into place. Yes, Stewart was winning the match, yes, Noah Adams is an outstanding wrestl...

Sorry to hear the news of Coach Sparks passing away, sad. He and I go way back, another friendship developed through the sport of wrestling. Rest in peace Ernie, you will be missed by the wrestling community.

Agree. The selection of both was a great choice. 138 pound weight class may have been the most solid class in both AAA and AA-A.

As a coach, I didn't appreciate the 'pill'. It can determine the placement of the teams, in a close race, can even determine which team finishes first. Not this year though. As a wrestling fan, it's great because you have interesting matchups from the first round and beyond. Looking at the AA-A side...

I agree with a few that posted earlier, we must attack our school administrators on items that relate to the sport of wrestling. The Board of Directors made up of such administrators make the overall decisions. I have submitted several agendas over the years I served on the wrestling committee but w...

Bearhugger, I can't answer your first question you asked but to answer your other questions, yes, you are correct. But studies prove from all the youth wrestlers involved, numbers drop as they continue to the next level, which is high school if you are following me. Then college which the percentage...