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All seeds roll up and the alternate moves into the 4 spot.

I stated sometime last year I think, that not having accurate stats and more importantly, tracking hurt coverage which contributes to the lack of growth of the sport. I'm sure I was more articulate in my thoughts on the earlier post but bare with me here for a second to explain. Sports by nature are statistically driven, mostly in wins and losses. When the local media (newspaper) reports on a sporting event they talk about win-loss records, rankings etc. as well as the event itself. Being that the information on our sport is not always accurate and sometimes sketchy at best, how can local media report and thus help promote the sport? If it (matches) aren't documented or recorded, are they even important? If they aren't important, why would anyone care? In the largest metropolitan city in the state (Louisville), they have little to no coverage of wrestling. The Courier reports on wrestling three times a year. Usually a small snippet at the beginning of the season, Jefferson County Championships and a write-up after state, maybe the Dragon once or twice in the past few years. I don't have a dog in this fight anymore, but it kills me to see basketball, football and baseball flood the local sports scene while the best sport in the world doesn't even get a sniffle. Hell I've seen highlights of two basketball teams with losing records on the local news while two top five teams were wrestling a dual on the same night in the same city. I understand that recognition is not why kids wrestle, if you want that your'e in the wrong sport. But, if we want to grow the sport, we need to promote the sport. If we treat the sport like a third tier sport ourselves by not even recording our records and performances the why would anyone on the outside take it seriously? Another reason why the State Tournament could never be seeded, which will most likely never happen anyway. But without the tracking aspect, we have no leg to stand on if it were ever to be proposed. Just my two cents, take it for what it's worth.

One take away everyone should pick up on with these stats. If your desire is to wrestle at the next level, hitting the books and keeping that GPA up should be right up there with your training!!!!!

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