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It was a very exciting event. The crowds were great, the passion the teams had and the overall atmosphere was intense to say the least. I would like to give a big THANK YOU and a job well done to Summit View and their coaching staff and parents for hosting this event. RIVER CITY and the Coaching Staff, great job and congratulations on winning the State Duals. It was exciting battling you guys in the Finals. A lot of matches were stressful (for me at least, LOL) but exciting. You guys have an outstanding team and a very well coached team. I wish you the best next weekend at State! NORTH OLDHAM, this event was very competitive and also very exciting. Coach Goldsmith does a great job with his kids and they are a well coached team. CLASS ACT! Best of luck next weekend to you guys! CAMPBELL COUNTY, man I'm tired of battling with you guys, LOL. But I wouldn't change it for anything. Campbell County is always a Class Act and very well Coached Team. Great Parents, Great Kids and Great Coaches. Best of luck to CC and Coach Moore next weekend. SUMMIT VIEW, a young team, Adam has some kids that will be names you'll hear about in the next few years. The Duke boys will be a handful to deal with in the next couple of years, if not sooner. Adam does a great job with his teams and it was a fun day competing with your team. Best of luck to you guys next week! I agree with Ranger, This event is an awesome event. In the past I've been not a fan of the timing when State Duals is held. For several reason! But I think its a great event and wish more teams would take the opportunity to compete in this! To the kids wrestling next weekend at State, I wish everyone safe travels, stay healthy and best of luck! GOB BLESS you all! Coach Roth

As a fan, great day of wrestling...exciting, organized, and nice arena. Here is some of what I saw yesterday. Feel free to agree or disagree with my comments. Big School: Campbell continues to struggle a little this year but their big point scorers will have them in the mix at the state tournament. Trinity is a great team so no shame in losing to them first round. Campbell is one of the best programs in the state but you can't be unbeatable every year. Their studs like Myers and Fausz are fun to watch and have brought Kentucky Wrestling to a new level. X and Trinity semifinal was amazing to watch. The dual was full of good wrestling and excitement...true rivals getting after it. Some of those match ups have happened multiple times which makes wrestling each other that much more difficult. X always has their kids wrestling well at the end of year and it seems as if they are getting ready for another title run. Great on their feet, powerful takedowns. Henry Clay will also score good points at state. The match between 113 Hernandez and Vega was surprising to me. A returning state champ should not get teched, great match by Hernandez. If their studs take care of business who knows where they could finish. Fern Creek did well for coming on short notice. They won some big matches and that program looks much better than the past couple years, good for them and I hope they continue to great better each year. Small School Union like always looked impressive. Their handfighting and angles are better than any other team in the gym yesterday. They wrestle each match with power and look to score as many points as possible. I would love to see their lightweights practice against each other, great group of wrestlers who are all respectful kids. After their efforts yesterday I would say Union is the favorite in 3 weeks. If they can get points from some of the second tier kids they have the ability to build a little lead, may come down to the draws. Good luck to them. Love the singlets as well. Moore for my money was the second best small school team. From the 5th seed they took third and pushed Union the most. Their lightweights are also tough having great matches with Union. Not many schools can say that against Union, those rematches will be entertaining. 182 will be in the mix for the title in a very tough weight in 3 weeks. Moore is a program that over the last couple years has really improved and is now a team to be feared. Good for them, Louisville, and Kentucky. A lot of talk about Scott this year on here. Looked to me as if they were missing a wrestler or two but they are still a couple years away from being one of the top teams in that area. They seem to be on the right track to improving as a program. Glad the two champs wrestled each other, as a fan that was exciting to see. Overall, I was impressed with Louisville area teams X, Trinity, Moore, and Fern Creek all look to be solid teams. Should be a fun and exiting end to the season Kentucky wrestling has come along way and when you put the best teams in one gym I am reminded how much better the wrestling has gotten. Thanks to all who put the tournament together and ran it so well.

Very cool indeed ,'Union is clearly the champs and X showed great love of the sport for allowing it as well .

Very cool that the big school and small school champs hooked up. Hope this becomes permanent. I firmly believe that duals tournaments are a great way to promote the sport to the casual fan. Also, it gives a true measure of the best team.

Wow. River City and X both with wins today. Congrats to both!

Just want to say thank you to Union and St. X coaches for going ahead and wrestling after they had won there divisions. A lot of teams would not have risked losing after winning a state title. That's speaks volumes about your programs in my opinion.

I'm hoping an amendment to this new state duals format will be permanently in place for a big vs small school final dual.

Well ran State Dual!! Thanks to MCHS for hosting.

There's a reason I've been saying Union would win state all year

Wonder what Tarzans thoughts are on the state duals. Must've been a tougher tournament than those in Ohio. They will surely do better at individual state tho.

This may be a post I regret but to me these rankings were just something to put out just to satisfy people to get them off your back. I do not feel that there was a lot of effort that were put into these as various wrestlers that are ranked are out for the season or not wrestling at all and other wrestlers that are ranked that quite frankly shouldn't Be. There are also some wrestlers that should be ranked a few very high that aren't Ranked at all. I promise that I have a great deal of respect for all that you do for this sport and I know that when you put your report out for the regions and the state tournament the results of these rankings will be quite different. I don't know I guess my question to you would be why put these out at all if you know in your heart you didn't give your best effort? I still thank you for all you do for this great sport ! Sorry my grammar is so bad on this post as I'm posting from my phone. I know when the Ranger report comes it will be top notch and no one can do it like you can. Respectfully submitted.