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this is sad to see for any program. Now if im correct in wood county if your school doesnt have a sport than you are allowed to play for the next closest school with a program. i dont know if the rule is state wide or county to county but the kids that wanted to wrestle should be able to participate...

For keeping it even for comparing greenest years I’ll go back to 2011. Aa . I count 42 sr places. 9 champs. 8 runner ups. 6 all sr finals. 103 4th 112 4th 6th 119 1st,2nd,3rd 125 1st,2nd. 130 1st,4th 135 4th, 6th 140 1st, 2nd, 4th 145 1st, 2nd,4th, 5th, 6th 152 1st, 3rd, 4th 160 2nd, 4th 171 2nd, 3r...

Would be interesting to see a year to year chart of how many seniors placed and how high they placed. I did just a quick check in aaa didn’t look at aa but last year aaa had 28 sr that placed and 2011 only year I checked to compare had 34 sr place. I’d guess that high 20s into the low 30s is about n...

About recruiting South has had what 2 kids move in that had any effect on the team. One I don't think wanted to leave his hometown team but dad was transferred and than last year. They must not be doing a good job recruiting lol. Just imagine how tough south would be if everyone that trained on sout...

Wrestlingfan1 I don't know anyone calling independence subpar. Your the first one I've seen say that. Now coaches jobs are to find talent but it's hard to stand out if your school doesn't travel and you don't have the money to go all over the country out of season. Looking at Indy schedule last year...

Zeke was interested last time the job was available but as soon as Arizona state became available he was no longer interested. Even tho his wife is from Morgantown asu was and is his dream job.

I didn't see adams slam but my guess from watching him it was a physical return but not illegal. my understanding of the slam situation is offensive wrestler has to return the guy safely. meaning you can't just drop them on their head, back or like leave your feet to power drive them in the mat as t...

thats good he's interested. if he can do half of what they have done at cornell that would be a huge step in the right direction for wvu.

i would like to see kolat get it. sanderson isn't going to leave his brother at penn st but cunningham would be a good one to pluck from that coaching group at penn st. i just don't know if hughes or hahn are really interested in the job. would be nice to see a list of applicants.

this is a great tournament that ive got to watch the last six years. i suggest this tournament to any team that is looking to go somewhere warm that might not be able to get into the powerade or looking for a tournament everyone on the team can get experience and get challenged. this years tournamen...

Just curious bearhugger when was the last time wv had a bye at the state tournament and how many years in a row has it been.i didn't know this was a ongoing problem and not a new one. I do happen to see that the 2016 tournament had 38 teams and than 2017 only had 29. I think regionals is a good plac...

That article is just making excuses for Teasdale. They both have been at 132 all year except when he ran at Powerade down to 126. It sounds a lot better him giving up 2 weight classes to face a ranked guy than him losing to a unranked wv kid. . . That being said that is a awesome win and hopefully h...

no to all three. i think you should be praising btn for broadcasting it because if flo had their way they wouldve been broadcasting it themselves.

Dunbar very good points about tournament toughness effect on team scores. I've seen south get beat by teams at the ironman that only brought 2/3 wrestlers. With the small numbers in wv tho it's hard to justify being more than one individual and definitely shouldn't go to 3 division. I think getting ...

guard that is true. the old region 1 was tough and still very tough as they have 3 of the top 10 schools right now and 2 in the top 5. and the region they are in now has some very tough teams. i wasn't trying to talk down the other teams in their regions. thats why you will see 4 seeds from those re...

also 9 out of the 20 for the parkersburgs squads are top ranked so on paper they make a huge difference to how numbers look. if added to the weakest region region 2 would have 10 1st, 7 2nd, 2 3rd, 2 4th, 5 5th, 3 6th. on paper and in general anyone that has to deal with phs/south is going to compla...

well it seems like btn is the one who dropped the ball the past few years than. they have had some decent commentators on the matches ive seen the past couple years but only the bigger matches for the most part on tv. midlands is a tournament so i figure they were probably the ones that gave flo the...

looking at the numbers if phs/south are in the same region that region becomes the toughest by the numbers. with them combined for 20 ranked wrestlers they alone out due regions 1,2,3 leaving 25 left in region 4. if you put them in region 2 they now have 29 and look like a powerhouse region by the n...

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2012 was a tough year to win. 4x champs David Jeffrey, Adam bicak, and Dylan cottrell, 3x champs Elijah hull, Tory Bennett. All of which had all-American honors. That year was a tough one for them to choose a winner but I think the right guy got it. history shows the dutton is a senior award and idk...

there is a committee that votes on it if I'm not mistaken. setting the win total is amazing but i don't think that will be enough to overtake 2x powerade champ ironman/super 32 placer and most likely 4x state champ that has dominated wv wrestling.

thats why the host of the tournament should have a physician be on site for weigh ins. if no physician is on site you can't do anything about it if they have a skin form.

Wesbanco capacity is 5500 and big sandy is 5600 so no real difference except all of wesbancos seats are nice seats to watch from. Huntington is nicer in you can walk to several hotels and plenty of restaurants close to big sandy. I don't know if wesbanco has very many options that aren't driving dis...

In head to head It has always been last match wrestled. So it doesn't matter if wrestler a wins 9 times if wrestler b wins the last one wrestler b will be higher.

Bearhugger I would tell the kid from independence that he needs to work harder to be able to beat the kids ahead of him. The same way I tell my varsity kids to keep working harder to beat other kids we will see at States. So to answer your question I don't think the kid has worked hard enough to mak...

152 is a pretty even weight class in top 15. Ruffin from ga beat artalona Florida who finished 2 at ironman and in the finals beat balmeceda who won super 32. Humphrey beat Ruffin and than lost to balmeceda at super 32.

19 Clovis isn't the Clovis west that will be at Powerade.

South should end up 3-5 depending on how well they wrestle. If south would've had their full team at ironman they would've placed 8-9. Lhp and Wyoming seminary are the only teams I see that have to much firepower for south to beat.

Souths 05 team had 6 according to their all-American board in the room.

I would say he's a first. Flo starting when I was in high school. I got to watch Adams at nhsca and I was very impressed with his diversity as a wrestler on his feet and on the mat. Will be interesting to see where he ends up.