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Tim Vaughn 138 (1987) Tony Stewart 152 (1996) Mike Fields 135 (1997) Jarrod Combs 171 (1997) Dylan Bell 130 (1998) Clint Bell 145 (1998) Dylan Bell 130 (1999) Jason Daviaux 112 (2000) Jason Daviaux 125 (2001) Benden Pye 113 (2019)

just to set the record straight. NK state champions. Campbell 30-----Simon Kenton 27-----Ryle 23------Conner 20--------Bonne county 11-------Newport Catholic 11--------Scott 10--------Walton Verona 9---------Dixie 2-------Holmes 2---- 7 other schools with 0 (Brossart--Cooper--Cov Cath--Highlands--Holy Cross (Cov)--Lloyd--Newport) I believe these are all the school that have ever had wrestling in NKY.

Why is this site getting bombarded with spammers lately. I feel every day I delete or hide over a dozen of these. Is there no way to filter these out?

Sorry been a little busy. I do have the 87 complete bracket. The one I filled out while there, however I believe it is in a storage unit. I already sorted out the information from it, if anyone else needs info from it. (Qualifiers from that year and placers from that year.) Which leads me to my yearly plea. If anyone has partial or completed brackets from 1964-1970, can I have a copy. I have partials from each year and trying to piece together a full bracket if possible. (Even if you just have the names of the qualifiers from certain teams that will help)

One stat that sticks out. This is the fist time since 1972 that Northern Kentucky has NOT had a state champion.

Looking at the new unsportman rule. (Celebrating) This year there were 18 calls of unsportmanlike conduct in the state tourney. Only 1 that I know of was something other than celebrating. Last year there were 3 tournaments to comprise the state tourney 2 semi-states and 1 final round. 0 calls for unsportmanlike conduct were called in the final round of wrestling. In the 2 semi-states there were a total of 9 calls for unsportmanlike. 1 biting and 1 coaches misconduct. My question is this. Is the non celebrating rule really needed?

138 Holmes is out Cooper is in.

I too was against the 32 man bracket. KY had a 16 man bracket until 2002. The 32 man bracket has done wonders for KY wrestling. At that point there were about 80 schools that had wrestling (Maybe less). Since then we now have 133 schools with wrestling. We have traded off good wrestling throughout the state tournament for having more participants in the state. Kids who normally would not qualify for the state tournament now go and bring back that experience to their school. It helps keep kids out and getting more kids involved in wrestling. I was not a supporter of the 32 man tournament but the proof is in the pudding. From the 80's when I wrestled to the 2000 we only increased the number of teams by about 15. From 2000 to 2024 we have increased the number of teams by about 50. Lets look at the number of teams competing in the state tournaments. 1964 (1st year of the state tournament) 5 teams competed. 1974: 47 teams 1984 50 teams. 1994 48 teams. 2004 66 teams. 2014 88 Teams. 2024 109 Teams. Now I know these are just the teams who competed in the state tournament but it should correlate with the number of teams in the state.

As have mentioned the before. Did you see how track seeded the tournament during COVID. NOT GOOD. How do you compare wrestlers, when many wrestle out of state, or a different wt. class etc ect. Going by last years results makes very little sense to me. Seeding the regional champs I can agree with. But will that really change much. Most of the problems happen with the 2nd and 3rd place finishers. Plus moving a kid up one spot or down one spot really doesn't matter much. (I was one of those who probably would have moved up one if on the other side back in the stone age). I also don't want to see regional teams wrestling in the championship bracket before the semi-finals. Which may happen if you seed everyone regardless the placement at region. On this one point KHSAA is NOT making a bad decision.

I am a stat nerd so here are the numbers in each Region. Posted is the short version. I thought it interesting the number of teams who filled all 14 wt. classes. (33) The qualifier section is the number of teams who had state qualifiers (Top 4) Region stats short.xlsx

What is this for it says 3/24/23 for the info entry?

Arguably the most important sport to KHSAA does not seed. (Basketball)

What is wrong with having a few exciting matches in the semi's and quarters. Keeps the whole tournament exciting. Having an athlete move up or down one spot in placement ultimately is not a big deal.

If this was true then how was it that all wrestlers from a certain team only had about 5 matches when they went to the state tournament during COVID? What is the consequences? Look at track now do all teams have their events updated? How do you seed when teams spend most of their season out of state like many of the Nky teams do? Mostly because they don't want to travel 2 hours every weekend to wrestle in Lou and Lex. I know my parents and wrestlers love when we are in Ohio because they can sleep an extra hour and their family can make the short trip across the river. Not to mention the school enjoys the lower travel cost. There are several reason I don't like the idea of seeding, most of which have already been mentioned.