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I attended these State Duals for the first time this year. I thought they were alot of fun and I really enjoyed the whole day. Except for two things that need to be taken into consideration for future State Duals. Wrestle the finals exclusively on a center mat with faceoffs!The championship was being wrestled at the same time as the other medal rounds and it caused for a chaotic finals round. I think the kids in the championship deserve an organized dual, wrestled in the center of the gym without any other wrestling. They also deserve a face off. Crowd control was non existent for the final!There were way to many people on the floor. There's no need for all the other people on the mat screaming, jumping up and down and causing commotion and distraction, the setting was a little chaotic. The teams deserve a controlled setting to wrestle the match. The only wrestlers that needed to be on the floor were Larue and Woodford. They could have gone to one mat pulled the floor bleachers out a few rows and one team could sit on one side and one team on the other side of the gym well away from the mat.

Great Atmoshpere today with alot of good matchups! It was a two team race with a great finish! Congrats to Larue on a hard fought championship!

Good Idea Dawg! Tag team or round robin?

Pappy, Do you know the criteria used for seeding?

So now that we know the teams, does anyone know the pool assignments yet or the seeding? When is this released, be nice to get it ahead of time before we walk into the gym.

Not True! Caleb will be back for Regionals if not sooner!

South Oldham Fern Creek

The seeding for this tournament is interesting, does anyone know the criteria?

I think Eastwood beat Paris St. Graham this year for Divison II Duals Championship.

I hear your argument and I agree the coaches can do a better job of communicating to the media. But I dont understand the resentment of the paper against a group made up mostly of volunteers trying to help kids within your community. I am just trying to point out various levels of interest that could be reported on that might appeal to your readers. I think overall readers appreciate good reporting and enjoy reading more stories about people they know from their own areas versus stories about people from far away that they cant relate to and could ultimately result in more newspapers being sold. My point is wrestling is a very interesting story that I think your readers would enjoy learning about. With all the various ways of obtaining news today, TV, radio, internet, wire services. email services, newspapers are no longer the sole source for the news nor even the most up to date source, but they are still a relied upon and heavily utilized source for news and relaxation. I appreciate your comments and whatever support you can provide to the subscribers in your community.

Wolverine, I am starting to sense you have a role in the newspaper. If so you could be the ice breaker! Whether you are or not, we are asking for coverage. If your not the man please pass it on to your contacts. The middle school state tournament is being held in your own back yard, great opportunity to take the lead and give your customers what they are asking for from its newspaper. Middle School wrestling would make a great story, from the sports angle or as a human interest piece. Wrestling is a growing trend, as a sport in KY it is a great story to tell how it is expanding with new programs and an increasing number of kids. How many middle schools have added wrestling in the last few years? How many high school programs have been added? Have you heard of the wrestling clubs being established around the state? Just call K. Smith, of N Hardin about the growing interest in the USAW ranks? How the state now has two collegiate programs with the recent addition of Campbellsville. Is the public aware of the recent success of both programs at the National Duals? How many KY colleges have wrestling as a club sport? Which college will be the next to add wrestling as a competitive sport. Are KY kids wrestling in college? Are they getting scholarships? Yes and Yes. Parents (readers/subscribers) like to hear about these things. Wrestling relates to other sports! Have you noticed the popularity of UFC and the relationship it has to wrestling? What about Real Pro Wrestling? What about the alternative as a sport to basketball that wrestling offers to kids not gifted enough to have the size to play basketball. What about the advantage that wrestlers have when they play football. The NFL is full of players who wrestled in high school and/or college. The leverage that is learned and the speed and strength that is developed on the mat translates well on the football field. Alot of football coaches in KY discourage their football players from wrestling, but check the trends in other football dominant states, alot more football players are wrestling in OH, CAL, TX, IL. KY is behind the times in this area, its time to bring this state up to speed. Wrestling is the oldest Olympic sport. Its a natural for kids to wrestle. The benefits of kids learning to compete one on one, with no excuses. There's not many sports teaching the discipline that comes with wrestling. With all the distractions kids deal with today, I think parents would love to find out about this sport. There are alot of things to report on wrestling. Its a great sport that your public is missing out on!

Fern Creek travelled to Campbell County Wed Nite Fern Creek 40 Campbell County 21 Fern Creek 60 Conner 15

The Duals are on College Sports Network TV. Konrad makes Mocco look small, he is a beast! Another great match @ 140 between Zach Esposito OK State and Dustin Schlatter, MINN. Esposito was NCAA champ last year and Schlatter was High School wrestler of the year, they put on a clinic!

I agree the site would be a great place to publish the results. They could devise the site so all member coaches are assigned a password so they could post the results themselves. Seems like that would take alot of the work off of one man and spread it out among the coaches.

Grappler, I agree to a point. We have discussed this on here before about the lack of results published and the lack of coverage by local media. It seems like its up to the Coaches to get this accomplished. I guess that would be the KWCA? If they want it done they seem like the logical group to make it happen. I guess the other alternative would be for the KWCA to work with a site like this one to help. With the effort being put forth to develop and grow the sport in the state I think the KWCA would be smart to put more focus on gaining exposure with the public. Publishing results, rankings, schedules and other important information about the sport to all the major newspapers and websites and improving their website to be more user friendly for coaches to publish their results. The ranks in the middle schools continue to grow and I think the High School numbers are growing as a result of the middle school effort. I live in Louisville so all I really see regarding media coverage is the Courier Journal, They have done a better job this year than in the past but there is still alot being missed. Some of the information they report when writing about upcoming tournaments has been outdated or inaccurate but I think its a result of the information they have been provided, such as the preseason rankings. They published today, the latest rankings from the KWCA, I think these are the 1/10 rankings and I dont think they had published any rankings since the preseason rankings. I thnk thats about 6 weeks of no updated rankings, basically half the season. Theres a lot of opportunities for more rankings to have been published. This would help the public be more aware of high school wrestling. The other side of the lack of information issue is the kids are more difficult to track by fans and college coaches. I know most recruiting is done during the off season, but I also know that college coaches just like fans read everything they see about wrestling. Remember the old saying "Out of sight out of mind"? The more times they see KY wrestling information the better for the kids and the sport.

Fern Creek Wrestling MS Invitational Tournament Middle School Wrestling January 7th, 2006 Fern Creek High School Team Results Pts Team 1st 135 Reitz 2nd 107 Trinity 3rd 87 Mater Dei 4th 32 Woodford 5t 26 Tell City 6th 25 Fern Creek 7th 24 Oldham County 8th 22 Jasper Wrestling 9th 22 Moore 10th 14 South Oldham 11th 14 Union County 12th 11 Franklin County 12th 7 Campbell County Medalist Wt Place Name /Team 50 1 Kyle Embry, Mater Dei 50 2 Ben Barton, Trinity 50 3 Jacob Burroghs, NO OX 50 4 AJ Binder, River City Wrestling 55 1 Blake Jourdan, Mater Dei 55 2 Nathan Thompson, Fern Creek Wrestling 55 3 Sean Fause, Campbell County 55 4 Blake Herbert, River City Wrestling 60 1 Chad Lampe Fern Creek Wrestling 60 2 Alex Johnson, Mater Dei 60 3 Mason Waninger, Tell City 60 4 Brady Emerson, Oldham County 65 1 Brock Ervin, Union County 65 2 Austin Miller, Fern Creek Wrestling 65 3 Garth Yenter, Campbell County 65 4 Blake Johns, Reitz 70 1 Damon Kuhn, Reitz 70 2 Jessie Lawalin, Tell City 70 3 Myron Ricketson, Union County 70 3 Neil Pitstick, Jasper Wrestling Club 75 1 Trevor Appell, Mater Dei 75 2 Gideon Van Hook, Reitz 75 3 Jessie Bouchie, Tell City 75 4 Alan Wimpleberg, Reitz 82 1 Bryan Kuhn, Reitz 82 2 Myron Bradbury, Trinity 82 3 Lennie May, Mater Dei 82 4 Caleb Chambers, Jasper Wrestling Club 89 1 Brent Hitchings, Trinity 89 2 Blake Rueger, Reitz 89 3 Max Mangold, Mater Dei 89 4 Dylan Coomer, Moore 96 1 Zack Byrd, Woodford County 96 2 Erin McCauley, Trinity 96 3 Omar Jarvis, Fern Creek Wrestling 96 4 Brandon Whitehouse, South Oldham 103 1 Zach Henderson, Mater Dei 103 2 Corey Voegel, Reitz 103 3 Caleb Ervin, Union County 103 4 John Lampe, Fern Creek Wrestling 110 1 John Sims, Mater Dei 110 2 Mack Logsdon, Woodford County 110 3 Evan Weinzapfel, Mater Dei 110 4 Dakota Gores, Reitz 117 1 Grant Ohlman, Trinity MOW 117 2 Zak Crawford, Mater Dei 117 3 Adam Harder, Jasper Wrestling Club 117 4 Steven Willbanks, Moore 124 1 Dylan Harbolt, Trinity 124 2 Josh Colbert, Reitz 124 3 Antonio Griego, Moore 124 4 Josh Boots, Mater Dei 131 1 Cullen Miller, Reitz 131 2 Larry Boots, Mater Dei 131 3 Alex Griego, Moore 131 4 John Varner, Jasper Wrestling Club 140 1 Brad Hitchings, Trinity 140 2 Tyler Pfister, Reitz 140 3 Cory Despain, Trinity 140 3 JJ Bramantje, Oldham County 150 1 Lofton Wright, Fern Creek Wrestling 150 2 Antoine Lee Trinity 150 3 Brandon Kemp, Reitz 150 4 Alex Evans Woodford County 165 1 Josh Lewis, Trinity 165 2 Josh Malone, South Oldham 165 3 Jeremy Gardner, Franklin County 165 4 Jeff Fentress, Reitz 185 1 Ronnie Benedict, Reitz 185 2 Willie Singleton, Oldham County 185 3 Ryan Griess, Campell County 185 4 Christian Wilkins, Franklin County 230 1 Zach Wimpleberg, Reitz 230 2 Dylan Froelich, Tell City 230 3 Zach Stewart, Oldham County 230 4 Ryan Angelo, Woodford County

Ranger, This is cool, do you currently coach? I like this type of calculation but do not agree with using 6 yrs of data. Kids from 4,5 and 6 yrs ago will have no impact on this years strength of region. How do the numbers add up using 3 yrs, 2yrs, and 1yr of data? My thinking is that these results would be more indicative of the current wrestlers. You seem to have a real interest in wrestling here in KY (to put it mildly), can you join the KWCA and get some results and ranking posted?

Fern Creek doesnt go to 5 Star this year, we are going somewhere in IN.

Jefferson Co Tourn of Champions Valley High School, Louisville KY Jan 7 2006 Team Fern Creek 251.5 Trinity 229 Seneca 185 St. Xavier 156.5 Eastern 142.5 Southern 124 PRP 120 DeSales 111.5 Central 105 Ballard 76 Valley 73.5 Moore 65 Doss 59 Fairdale 54.5 Jeffersontown 52 Manual 37 Iroquois 17 KSB 10 Western 8 Atherton 7 Holy Cross 7 Individual 103 Smith, Trinity Martin, Seneca Warren, Fern Creek Reichmuth, PRP 112 Luna Eastern Marksbury, Doss Barton Trinity Higgs PRP 119 Wood Fern Creek Chiu Seneca Norwood St. Xavier Mills PRP 125 Baines St Xavier Suell Eastern Branch Fern Creek Ashley Southern 130 Bowlds Trinity Maguire DeSales Smith Moore Keller Fern Creek 135 Case Trinity Weldon Fern Creek McKenna DeSales Glover Central 140 Hayes Jeffersontown Powers Southern Stewart Fern Creek Burks Ballard 145 Barger Fern Creek Condon St. Xavier Rader Valley Beasley Central 152 Wolsiefer Fern Creek MOW Hooper Seneca Tomassetti Trinity Glenn PRP 160 Poulton Seneca Merideth Southern Schneider Moore Greenwell St Xavier 171 Rupp Eastern Florence Trinity White Seneca Coots St. Xavier 189 Chaney Fern Creek Laswell Trinity Raleigh Valley Ackman Ballard 215 Wise Eastern Dockery Seneca Leicht Desales Nickel Doss 275 Hardin PRP Peters Central Brown Fairdale Smith Valley MOW - Wolsiefer Fern Creek Fastest Pin- .18 sec Ackman Ballard Peters Central

Wishing him a quick recovery! Good Luck!

Final Team Standings: 1. Evansville Mater Dei 318.5 2. Franklin 280.5 3. Floyd Central 152.5 4. Avon 138 5. Evansville Memorial 127.5 6. Tell City 127 7. North Posey 108.5 8. New Albany 95.5 9. West Lafayette Harrison 92 10. Trinity 78.5 11. Indianapolis Roncalli 70.5 12. Munster 68 13. Sullivan 65 14. Caldwell County 58.5 15. Mount Carmel 58 St. Xavier 58 17. Gibson Southern 57 18. Vincennes Lincoln 47 19. Providence 39 20. Lafayette Lexington 29 Individual Results Championship Round 103-Conner Zuber(Evansville Memorial) decision Dan Smith (Trinity) 4-1 112-Sean Herron (Evansville Mater Dei) decision Terri Hubbard ( New Albany) 7-1 119-Brad Gallagher (Franklin) decision Alex Weinzapfel (Evansville Mater Dei) 3-1 125-Jerry Parkison (Evansville Mater Dei) decision Danny Cooper (Franklin) 8-2 130-Eric McGill (Munster) decision Drew Lappe (Evansville Mater Dei) 5-3 OT 135-Zach Myers (Avon) major decision Shawn Will (Evansville Mater Dei) 14-5 140-Nick Dewig (Evansville Mater Dei) decision Justin Cox (Sullivan) 10-5 145-Cooper Samuels (Floyd Central) major decision Chris DeWitt (Evansville Mater Dei) 152-Brandon Harrison (Tell City) decision Jerry Johnson (Avon) 3-2 160-Michael Reese (Franklin) decision Wes Deal (Gibson Southern) 12-8 171-Jeremy Goebel (Evansville Mater Dei) decision Phil Glasser (Franklin) 7-2 189-Taylor Vieck (Vincennes Lincoln) decision Jacob Schneider (Evansville Mater Dei) 3-1 215-Cody Johnson (Franklin) decision Matthew Scheller (North Posey) 3-1 275-Calvin Johnson (Franklin) pinned Jason Wire (Evansville Mater Dei) 2:46 Third Place Results 103-Kirk Moore (New Albany) major decision Colton Cassel (Franklin) 9-1 112-Alex Morfas (Munster) pinned Kevin Mooney (Providence) 4:09 119-John Maymon (New Albany) def Eddie Garrett (Mount Carmel) 125-Jeremiah Faulkenburg (Floyd Central) pinned Martin Woodrome (New Albany) 2:00 130-Jake Missi (Floyd Central) decision Ben Whitaker (North Posey) 4-3 135-Adam Nix (North Posey) decision Cord Dorsey (Franklin) 9-4 140-Harley Cyr (West Lafayette Harrison)decision Tyler Alvey (Floyd Central) 2-1 145-Donnie Nelson (Franklin) pinned Brock Wenderoth (North Posey) 3:33 152-Frank Fabiano (Evansville Mater Dei) major decision Jacob Blackwell (Indianapolis Roncalli) 13-1 160-Bart Schaefer (Evansville Mater Dei) decision Cody Walls (Caldwell County) 5-2 171-Matt Powless (Evansville Memorial) decision Chase Litherland (Tell City) 3-1 189-Jim Durchholz (Evansville Memorial) decision Logan Jefford (Tell City) 3-0 215-Matt Eickhoff (Evansville Mater Dei) decision David Dildine (Indianapolis Roncalli) 4-2 OT 275-Chuck Peregrine (Avon) pinned Greg Batie (Tell City) 3:43 Fifth Place Results 103-Drew Will (Evansville Mater Dei) decsion Travis Girten (North Posey) 3-2 112-Jordan Fish (Franklin) pinned Charlie Lind (Indianapolis Roncalli) 1:41 119-Shane McNeeley (Sullivan) pinned Tanner Leach (Caldwell County) :26 125-Tyler Baines (St. Xavier) def James Price (North Posey) forfeit 130-Mike Bowlds (Trinity) decision Pete Dominguez (Avon) 3-2 135-Ben Case (Trinity) decision Jack Tuggle (Tell City) 6-1 140-Nick Coomer (Lafayette Lexington) decision Kyle Altum (Franklin) 8-2 145-Tanner Wedding (Evansville Memorial) decision Chip Condon (St. Xavier) 7-0 152-Stuart Reissen (Franklin) def Nick Oakes (Floyd Central) 160-Joe Taylor (West Lafayette Harrison) decision Ethan Cook (Providence) 2-1 171-Sam Johnson (Avon) decision Trevor Griffin (Floyd Central) 3-1 189-Sean Zenthoefer (Mount Carmel) decision Grant Laswell (Trinity) 4-0 215-Josh Thomack (West Lafayette Harrison) decision Phillip London (Floyd Central) 13-10 275-Eric MacDonald (West Lafayette Harrison) pinned Dustin Johnson (Gibson Southern) 2:06

Is there any brackets or seeding available to look at for WCI?