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106 Hodges/Wharton/Logston 113 Lusher/Flint/Skaggs 120 Hall/Powell/Laya 126 Whorton/Harris/Rea (tough too call) 132 Seacrest/Taylor/Cook 138 Bozak/Hart/Pumphrey 145 Moore/Gibson/McCune 152 Goode/Harvey/Wamsley 160 Moore/Booth/Life 170 Daniels/Rollyson/Jarvis 182 Safford/Hart/Cook 195 Nice/Roach/Gun...

mike.carman wrote:This is great information. I can see how my last post could have been taken as negative. It wasn't meant to be. It was only to state that we need to offer solutions to those in positions to do something. I do know people have heard and are listening.

You got moderated! Haha

Some argue that a timeout can be called in other sports so why not wrestling. Here is the huge difference though. Those timeouts are called on a dead ball situation. In wrestling a wrestler can do it in the middle of live action putting a halt to an impending bad situation. Imagine if the quarterba...

FiremanFan123 wrote:What are some exciting matches that are going to be happening at the State tournament this weekend before the semi's

AA/A 106 looks like Hodges and Whorton can meet in quarters. Sorry, I went off topic going lightweight AA/A outside region 4.

Thank You!

I truly do appreciate the input that you all continue to provide. Its very rewarding to see that in a little over 20 hours, this thread has 1400+ hits. That shows me that what Doc (and others) have going on here is achieving exactly what many of us are all trying to do, "Promote interest in th...

And this is exactly what is wrong with our sport. Too many hands in the cookie jar, too much red tape, too many policies that don't make sense. We have principals in charge of rule changes for sports they don't understand or care about. I am not disrespecting the principals at all, so please don't ...

Rankings in my opinion are mostly for the fans and wrestlers. Kinda like fairntasy football or something. Really they mean nothing, but it keeps people involved. Something to shoot for. People come out to watch matches and tournaments when they see ranked wrestlers are going to go at it. It's a gre...

Maybe it's just me but if go through everything it takes to win a trophy at a tournament like this and you get your picture taken with one and then you are handed a lousy plack , you are going to be disappointed. I know people' will probably say you should just be happy with winning, but really if ...

Bearhugger wrote:I live in Charlotte, NC. However, if they take two years to make changes, I could do this.

Just curious Bear, do you follow the wrestlers there in N.C. too?

Man alive! Why is everyone so pissed about rankings? It's like the story that never ends. Someone made a list, big deal. Everyone ranks everyone in every facet of life. Unfortunately in life you don't always get to prove otherwise. This is wrestling and anyone can win. My son went to a tournament on...

I believe that OG wrestler was AJ Rhodes. Great wrestler and even better young man! I think Sally was referring to OG's 189 Zac Montero. Finished 5th in the regional and was awarded the 4th position because of an injury(broken leg?) and went to Huntington and finished 2nd in the state. Sorry, Aj fi...

I believe that OG wrestler was AJ Rhodes. Great wrestler and even better young man! I think Sally was referring to OG's 189 Zac Montero. Finished 5th in the regional and was awarded the 4th position because of an injury(broken leg?) and went to Huntington and finished 2nd in the state. Man I though...

I believe that OG wrestler was AJ Rhodes. Great wrestler and even better young man!

I did not see it on the front page anywhere but perhaps a club section could be added to help those whom might not be aware of a club or organized practice room near them. I live in the northern panhandle, I can see PA and OH out of the back window of my house. Sure that doesn't help a lot of people...

I'm surely no economist and on the topic of adjusting regions I've got no real solution but regarding the success of wrestling I think the answer is fairly simple. I say this because it works for us and many others. The SSAC needs to relax the rules limiting coaching out of season and use of facilit...

In looking at the scores of OG vs. JM, I noticed that Bozek and Carmen didn't wrestle. I would have figured with the regionals and states coming up, a final match between these two would have happened. They split them up for some reason. I wanted to see the tie breaker, I think a lot of others did ...

3 at one tournament? Wow!!! Hopefully all injured wrestlers are ok and recover quickly. I've always been a freak about teaching elbows bent in referees position, if you are lifted, don't lock out on return and no kids sitting on their butts in practice with elbows locked behind them. Between wrestli...

RWWS wrote:What are you talking about?

What's this AA crap? We were talking AAA. How dare you Bearhugger???!!!lol

let the OP make one more comment... The "cream" as it is being referred to now as just the best in each weight class breaks down something like this: Region 4- 10 number ones! Region 3- 2 Region 2- 1 Region 1- 1 based on recent rankings and I may have missed one or more but that's pretty ...

I have read, composed, deleted, composed again my 2 cents regarding the ranking quandary. I totally understand the regional conflict and those great wrestlers who will fall victim to the uneven playing field. But generally speaking on rankings I've concluded...Rankings influence seeding, seeding det...

You would be ahead to atleast have someone from another team looking out for you on the obvious stuff. We took it for granted last year thinking our opponents coach would have it recorded correctly but they didn't go either so we wrestled the championship match in the semis. #1 ranked was placed at ...

noshowjoe wrote:How many 4 time state champions would we have if WV would have stayed as one class.

I'm gonna guess combined classes would yield less 4X ...

Bear hugger as always you missed the point totally. When the comment was made Region 1 AAA consisted of Oak Glen, Brooke John Marshall, Wheeling Park, Parkersburg, Parkersburg South, Weirton then Ripley. The entire point he was making was doesn't matter where you are at. If you train and have the s...

In 1975 and before there was a single class in wrestling in WV. Because of the limited number of state championship qualifiers (for a long time, 1 per region), small schools could do well at state with 1 or 2 good wrestlers (see Sophia, Big Creek). After 1976 (1st year for 2 classes) there were mor...

All class individual champion, 3 class team champion, lets do it now!!! What's the next step?

138 nathan Thacker gonz 2 time national prep placer R Bozek J Martinez 7th state 2015 and 2 Sate 2016 a carman tai Bloch hillard Darby DI 19th ohio 120 Nate Keaton circ 4th state 2015 5th state 2016 Iron man champion 2015 , Ironman 7th 2016 P Hall justin Perkins Penn hills 15-1 addison Fogle lick D...

Just how many times are Bozek and Carmen going to wrestle each other this season?? It's a war every time!!! I'm proud to have witnessed all 3 to date. Bozek has two to Carmans one. Bozek squeaked it out at OVAC w under 10 seconds. Good thing they're AA/A and AAA. I'd like to see it combined persona...

pins only matter when your losing big and you get the big pin. I'd rather win 1-0 in the state finals over the guy that 100-0 with 100 pins. It's a forum man, a chat room. Noah Adams would rather punish you and work for 3 periods than pin you. I mean kudos to the kids that are pinning their opponen...

Bearhugger wrote:Is this a two day or Saturday only tournament?

One Day, sat only...