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The worst? I personally wouldnt care, they were the best in their class that weekend. Thats all that should matter, some kids get better towards the end of a season, some stay the same, and some even seem to lose some intensity. Let's congratulate our champions, not look for the worst in them.

Best to put together a strong in season schedule to prepare for the post season. In season schedule should be tougher than the state tournament. In this way, the team will go into the state meet battle tested. They will be able to go beyond their competition, taking them to uncharted waters.

Why can't you do both? I feel that successful teams pull more kids (of all abilities). I know that CC has and will continue to have a very legitamate JV schedule (majority of which are varsity tournaments). That is why they can bring a guy up from JV and have them do fairly well at the Varsity spot. Why not take the average kid to Ironman, "if it doesn't kill you it will only make you stronger" fits here if you take an average kid and expose them to very tough comp. then when they wrestle at an average comp tourney they could dominate.

Hahahahahahahha thats awesome stuff that kid was huge way to work joe nice movement and smart wrestling guillotine was nice good shots and nice lift in the third , scary Rollin around with someone that big but keeping calm looked like the key good strength off the bottom a big kid having to kick you out every time says a lot ,awesome job , now get ready for High School and be sure to let us know if you need any help moving next week you will look awesome in purple and gold !!

I remember I was talking to Josh Lopez when we were both at Fargo (can't believe that was what 2 years ago?) and when I mentioned I had seen more top level Tennessee guys then Kentucky guys he went on a huge rant about how underrated Kentucky is and how we could destroy Tennessee. Hate to break it to everyone but outside of our top level guys like Kevin Cooper, John Fahy, Garth Yenter, Stephen Myers, Austin Myers, etc. We really can not hang with the Ohio teams. Now I will say that Kentucky is a lot closer to the middle of the pack then people give us credit for, not a lot of our guys really understand what it takes to get national exposure. The more guys we have go D1 the more respect we will gain. I am wrestling in college up in Ohio and guys on my team come from big name schools like St. Ed's and Walsh Jesuit. We have a couple state placers but a lot of state qualifiers on the team (we are only D3) and let me tell you the state qualifiers from Ohio would be state placers at the very least here in Kentucky. Joe Whalen was considered one of the best guys in Kentucky my senior year and I know a state qualifier from Ohio who beat him pretty soundly over the summer. If anybody remembers Fort Campbell's heavyweight from last year who was a couple of stupid mistakes away from being a state placer, I would like to inform you guys he didn't even make it past sectionals in PA. Kentucky is improving and I see great things in our future, and saying the whole state is full of scrubs is ridiculous. But we are still quite a ways behind the likes of Ohio and PA. Right now we should focus on catching up with Tennessee, which we are very close to doing.

i know in '05 at the hoptown tourney sam mitchell pinned a kid in 5 seconds, the kid basically fell over and he just didnt move