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I don't know about NOONE...maybe not many from this state, but the year we went to the Border Wars nationals, there were over 20 states represented. 1 kid that stood out as a top notch wrestler was Gus Sako. About a 20-30 time national champion. D1 state champ from Ohio this year for Lakewood St. Ed's.

Not likely unless he has a significant growth spurt.

Brackets: http://www.kyswa.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=dveCVfYZCQo%3d&tabid=127&mid=588

Team Results Club Division 1 Union County Wrestling 142.50 2 Fern Creek Wrestling 85.00 3 Trinity Wrestling 62.00 4 Spartan Wrestling 61.00 5 YKC Wrestling 48.50 6 River City Wrestling 48.00 7 Central Hardin Wrestling 41.00 8 Conner Wrestling 33.50 9 Badger Wrestling 21.50 10 Perry County Central Wrestling 20.00 11 Ockerman Wrestling 18.00 12 Whitley County Wrestling 10.50 13 Madison County Wrestling 5.00 14 Letcher County Wrestling 4.00 15 Owensboro Wrestling 0.00 School Division 1 Larue County Middle 137.50 2 Johnson County Middle 134.50 3 Campbell County Middle 93.00 4 Woodford County Middle 81.50 5 Bourbon County Middle 64.50 6 Anderson County Middle 64.00 7 Radcliff Middle 60.00 8 Twenhofel Middle 59.00 9 North Oldham Middle 57.00 10 Bluegrass Middle 52.00 11 McCreary County Middle 50.00 12 East Oldham Middle 33.00 13 Gray Middle 30.00 14 South Oldham Middle 27.00 15 Wayne County Middle 26.50 16 Summit View Middle 25.00 17 Moore Middle 23.00 18 Oldham County Middle 17.00 19 Turkeyfoot Middle 16.00 19 (tie) University Heights Academy 16.00 20 Elkhorn Middle 15.00 21 Ashland Middle 14.00 22 Danville Middle 11.00 23 Christian County Middle 7.00 24 Crosby Middle 6.00 25 Newport Middle 5.00 26 Woodland Middle 1.00 27 Nelson County Middle 0.00 27 (tie) Harrison County Middle 0.00 27 (tie) Hopkinsville Middle 0.00

If you see any misspellings, or kids missing, please have your coach send an email to plee1970@yahoo.com. This list can be downloaded in Excel format at www.kyswa.org. (under forms> general forms> 2008 Academic All State Thanks, Pat 2008 M.S. Academic All State team School/Club Name First Name Last Name North Oldham Middle School Cody Wiersema North Oldham Middle School Christopher Wafford North Oldham Middle School Nicholas Thome North Oldham Middle School Ivy Stevens North Oldham Middle School Philip Sohn North Oldham Middle School Andrew Siladi North Oldham Middle School William Sack North Oldham Middle School Joshua Pennington North Oldham Middle School Joshua LeClair North Oldham Middle School Tyler Krebs North Oldham Middle School Austin Kotarski North Oldham Middle School Brian Hasl North Oldham Middle School Daniel Hall North Oldham Middle School Keane Fitzpatrick North Oldham Middle School Tanner Fink North Oldham Middle School Zachary Evans North Oldham Middle School Jakob Evans North Oldham Middle School Albert Conard North Oldham Middle School Stefan Aleksevitch Elkhorn Middle School Austin Abney Elkhorn Middle School Frederick Agyeman Elkhorn Middle School Curtis Coomer Elkhorn Middle School Nathan Hale Elkhorn Middle School Jacob Riddle Elkhorn Middle School Zane Stone Elkhorn Middle School Roderick Agyeman Elkhorn Middle School Tyler Bessette Elkhorn Middle School Ethan Grimes Elkhorn Middle School Tighe Harrod Elkhorn Middle School Erik Pina Elkhorn Middle School Marcus Turner East Oldham Middle School Christopher McKenna East Oldham Middle School Travis Schuyler East Oldham Middle School Sean Dunn East Oldham Middle School Joshua Derringer East Oldham Middle School Cody Bishop East Oldham Middle School Justin Merrill East Oldham Middle School Tyler Kaelin East Oldham Middle School Derek Kopecky East Oldham Middle School Zachary Ball East Oldham Middle School Addison Deckard East Oldham Middle School Stephen Farrow East Oldham Middle School Luke Davis East Oldham Middle School Colton Lanham East Oldham Middle School Christopher McKnight East Oldham Middle School Andrew Perry Johnson County Middle Shyler Adkins Johnson County Middle Brad Auxier Johnson County Middle Geordon Blanton Johnson County Middle Josh Caudill Johnson County Middle Alex Chandler Johnson County Middle John Conley Johnson County Middle Josh Conley Johnson County Middle Matt Dodge Johnson County Middle Austin Greene Johnson County Middle Matt Hall Johnson County Middle JJ Jude Johnson County Middle Ross Sanor Johnson County Middle James Saylor Johnson County Middle Tommy VanHoose St. Edward School Max Korfhage Whitesburg Middle School Joel Murtaugh Sturgis Elementary School Christian Ricketson Spartan Wrestling Club Nathaniel Clark Spartan Wrestling Club Zach Jones Spartan Wrestling Club Zach Clark Larue Middle School Nick Paden Larue Middle School Jared Whitlock Larue Middle School Caleb Canter Larue Middle School Cole Hughes Larue Middle School Drew Newberry Larue Middle School Kyler Gray Union County Jeffrey Wurth Union County Will Potts Union County Logan Wedding Union County Austin Ratley Union County Jake Risinger Union County Jamie Guthrie Union County Dalton Slaton Union County Colin Jackson Union County Chad Gahafer Bourbon County Alex Collins Bourbon County Jake Fooks Bourbon County Nick Patros Bourbon County Chris Power Bourbon County Russell Robbins Bourbon County Hannah Stout Bourbon County John Stout Bourbon County Forrest Vaughn Bourbon County Scottie Whitaker Verity Middle School Aaron Scarberry Verity Middle School Slater Swift Verity Middle School Jeff Meade Verity Middle School Tanner Adams Verity Middle School Cody Helms Verity Middle School Chris Blair Verity Middle School Jon Royalty Verity Middle School Dakota Sloas

i agree, them ryle mom's can scrap!! they were just walking the halls looking for a fight. pictures will be posted online soon. :-D :-D

that was officially my last post....it's hard, i'm going to kentuckywrestling.com rehab...having a bad day...had a relapse.

the msu coach was at our state tournament and planned on watching 3 kids. 112 - Travis Sullivan, 160 - Mitch Ervin, 171 - Mason Reid. i spoke to him around the quarter finals and he had a very interesting comment. he said a kid that really impressed him was an 8th grader from Larue County - Barnard Ray. I thought this is good information to share for all the younger kids watching this message board. here's a college scout coming down here primarily to watch Reid, but notices a younger kid who was busting his butt at state. if he keeps it up and can make the grades, he might very well land a big 10 scholarship some day. you never know who's paying attention while you're on the mat!! i'm sure mom & dad ray would LOVE for their kid to land a scholarship like that.

Congratulations to him, his family, and his coaches. He is truly a role model for all our young wrestlers!!

OldSchool85 - not sure what area of the state you are, but the 2 best places I've found for off season tourneys are Indiana & Ohio. You can find tourneys at their websites: www.ohiowrestler.com www.iswa.com Indiana is mostly freestyle/greco in the off season.

They're still having it i'm pretty sure.

they are posted here: http://www.kentuckywrestling.com/smf/index.php?topic=3968.msg37656#msg37656

Here's the results that I have for now. I will also post them at the middle school site probably tomorrow. Congrats to everyone, heard it was another stellar tournament!

gotcha...hadn't thought of that...that was the same case at Conner Middle.

any particular reason they enter as a club team then?

There is not an "overall" champion. The 2 aren't combined to crown an overall champion because they play by different rules (i.e. club teams can have members from out of district). But it is human nature to look and want to compare the club vs school team divisions, it's just not comparing apples to apples.

Here are the state brackets in word & pdf formats as well as the advance flyer for state in word. State Brackets html: http://www.kyswa.org/portals/0/brackets/2008statebrackets.htm State Brackets pdf: http://www.kyswa.org/portals/0/brackets/state%20Brackets%202008.pdf 2008 Tourney Flyer: http://www.kyswa.org/portals/0/forms/KSWA_2008_Advance_Flier.doc Good luck to everyone. Any spelling corrections or mistakes on the brackets should be reported to Jay Yenter at kswapresident@hotmail.com

Well, if he's a senior, i thought the rules said he couldn't compete...so i agree with you there. But since he took 2nd, it's hard to argue that he was too good to be there. I would think if that was true that he would have dominated his weight class.

they will be posted at www.kyswa.org and at this site as soon as I receive them in html format. it should be monday at the latest. Pat

6-3, Brown

as far as fs/gr wrestling goes, there is a league in Cincinnati, and there are tournaments there almost every weekend. i think they get started in april. they don't advertise them very well, other than through emails. they also have weekly scrimmages. the catch is they combine schools to form a club since the numbers go way down in the off season. for example harrison ohio had the "cornhuskers" club, and they combined Harrison, Ross, and like 3 other schools. i have talked to some of the coaches over there, and they will welcome out of area teams in their league. i'm sure if some louisville area teams were interested, they could combine a couple of schools and join that league. the really nice thing about usaw & fs tournaments is they do not have a 5 match rule, and they run their brackets "oddly". I don't fully understand how it worked, but it was based on a point system....the net result is....every bracket is potentially round robin. if you show up and have 8 kids in a bracket you may get 7 matches. enter multiple brackets, and you may be able to do this twice. you will get a LOT of matches in each tournament. the matches are quicker though, and they have mandatory rest between periods so it's not like you're going to drop dead after 10 matches. kdsmith or coach g probably know of the cincinnati league and how to get started there....if they do not, and you are interested, pm me and i will try to find a contact.

fyi - i'm not sure if your cut and paste didn't work, but i believe darrien wolnitzek from Conner won the 185 lbs weight class? not 100% sure, but i heard he took 1st in a weight class there.

lol....i must be the easiest target in the world on here! if i was drafting 1 kid...it would depend on what grade my team is going to peak at. if i had a strong 9th grade class..i'd probably go with Caleb Ervin....(and hope he'd bring all his brothers, sisters, cousins...etc). If i had a strong 8th grade class...probably John Fahy - get a 2 for 1 deal, because his younger brother is pretty daggone slick himself. 7th grade, i'd probably go for Darrien Wolnitzek....just to lure his parents away from Conner. HAHA - just kidding, no one get their panties in a wad over that.

i wouldn't say so, a lot of them are legitimately the best in that spot. josh johnson was a runner up as an 8th grader, Matt Sloan took 3rd as an 8th grader.

we've had this discussion at the coaches meetings many times....and it's been a thread on this site before. the reason it is not a rule is because most people feel it is a coaches decision on what is best for the kid. 1 h.s. coach will say "I'm not risking a possible injury - the kid is too valuable to my h.s. team" another h.s. coach will say "you only have 1 chance to be a m.s. state champ, let the kid compete". It's a judgement call. Personally, i feel it's an honor to be a m.s. state champ and it's important to the kids...let them compete.