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WOW! TALK ABOUT A GREAT MATCH! Woodfored's Shane White and Conners Lane Jones. Back and forth in a very close match. White winning by 2 points with just a few seconds left and Jones on top tryint to turn White and cant when white comes out for a reversal and wins 11-7. Great match, very fast paced with both kids on their back at one point! Was a pleasure to watch it

110:Shane White, John Stout, Lane Jones, Kevin Cooper.... NOt sure about Brent Hitchings

110 lbs weight class will be very tuff at state

Will 6th grade kids be eligable to compete again this year?

I see some of the kids in the lower weights are heavier than listed here. Anyone else care to put their predictions or rankings on here?

Can anyone tell me if 6th grade kids will be eligable to participate in Elementry School State again this year?

Thank you. Good chioce imo!

Bigcoach: You are right. I forgot about the kid at 96 from Wayne Co. Depending on what side he is on, a really good kid wont make it out to the finals. Is he on the same side as Lonkard or Hitchings?

She Hate Me: at 89 you mentioned a few kids, "Paden, Holtsclaw, White, Jones or Edens" Any idea how these guys have done competing against each other this year? My picks are 70: Yenter or Ervin. Slight edge to Yenter 75: Fahy 82: Fahy 89: who knows? Supe, Holtsclaw, Jones or White 96: Hitchings in a squeaker or Lonkard 103:Salyers 110? Jude Not familiar with the classes above that enough to make picks. Good luck to all wrestlers!

UNLESS you used to wrestle for him. ....Just kidding

Anyone have the resultrs from the northern Ky region? Individual, team, OW?

Kentucky 10: Not sure about that. Obviously I havent seen any of these kids wrestle all of their matches, but I am thinking you may have Lane confused with his younger brother..

Age divisions going off of their age on the day of the tournament. Is this going to stay consistant from year to year? Last years age requirements were in line with highschool rules, meaning that a kid with a birthday after Aug 1st or 5th, not sure which wrestled his age last year......example. A kid that is 11 now with a Sept, Oct birthday wrestled 10 and under last year. I just hope the requirements stay consistant from year to year. Also, it is unfortunate that this "miscommunication " happened. Hopefully this will not happen again and we will build on this tournament, and in years to come if can you say you are an " Elementry School State Champion" this statement has alot of meaning. Good luck to both tournaments and all kid who participate.

OLDMAN 52: i am not firmiliar with the heavier weights, but i go along with alot of your picks at the lower ones. 70: Garth Yenter vs Brock Ervin 75: Matt Fahy vs Logan Wedding 82: John Fahy vs TJ Ruschel 89: Lane Jones vs Nick Paden or Wade Holtsclaw 96: Brent Hitchings vs Kevin Cooper or John Stout 103: Zack Salyers vs Luke Troxel 110: JJ Jude vs Shawn Hull Beyond these weights I am not firmiliar enough to make any predictions. Good luck to everyone and lets hope for a well ran tournament , with alot of exciting matches as well as good sportsmanship!

Congrats to all the Ky kids that placed at this National tournament held in Cincinnati this weekend( Dec 15-16). These are the ones that I know of. John Fahy 2nd Lane Jones 3rd Matt Fahy 4th Wade Holtsclaw 4th I may be leaving a few out. Not sure, but, if so I apologize. If anyone knows of any other boys from Ky placing in this tournament, please post. Congrats Guys!

oldman: I totally agree!

Mathound: I disagree. I would love to see rankings. Thats just my opinion. My son is a 6th grader and has been wrestling for 6yrs now. I see more kids starting at a young age. This would be something fun to kick around.

"At seventy there is a kid named ryan norbury he wrestled all summer long and took home a lot of first place medals he's been wrestling with mark cooper the assistant coach of twenhafell as you all know has the amazing children who have all won state but this kid is gonna be somethin to be reccond with he's whooped on some kids from ohio too he's going to be wrestling for the new summit view middle school team and will probably be there first state placer or state winner ever so just saying beware" Skwrestling:has this kid that you are telling everyone to beware of wrestled anyone that placed at state last year at 65 or 70? If so how did he do against these other kids? Just curious.

I would love to see our state have a requirement like Ohio has. They have a course for new officials. You have to attend 25 hrs and pass a ohsaa test. Then each year afterwards, it is required that you attend one state rules meeting as well as 4 district meetings. This is 5 rules meetings every year! I inquired to the khsaa about this and was told "we are so short of wrestling officials now, we are afraid that if we make the requirements harder it will be even worse"..Just a thought here. Would we rather be somewhat short on officials but alot of the ones we do have, not be updated on rule changes and miss alot of calls. Or be even more short than we are now, but all that we do have be very up to date and make good calls? Sort of a double edged sword here.

Does this club still meet for practices in Indy?

Besides the "attendind school in this state" issue, my other main concern in just being consistant from year to year on the age guidelines for each division. I just don't want to see it change from year to year so that a kid is at the bottom of the age division one year , then come back the next year to find out it has changed and he will be at the bottom of the division again.

TWC COACH; Will this club's practices be held in Indy?

Mrs. Clark.. I am sorry to say the meeting is too far for me to attend, but my main concern is that we don't have a situation occur like last year, with kids that attend school in another state(Ohio) taking away championships from two of our own kids. I hope this issue will be addressed and some sort of requirement put in place to prevent this from happening again. I understand that there will be some growing pains with getting this tournament going but I am optimistic that after a couple years of tweaking to make for better competition it will turn into something big,like the Middle School State Tournament.

dscicle: about Nick Paden placing. Guess that depends on what weight he will be going. He went 82 I believe, last year. I assume he will be at 89? If so, I am going to say 3rd or 4th. If 82, I think he could be 2nd , behind John Fahy.

I think it is a fairly safe bet that Matt Fahy will win 75...Even safer that John Fahy will win 82..I am not firmiliar with Trevor Frietsch but I really think the odds are against a kid winning 70 lbs( even if it gets approved to have a 70lb class)only weighing 50 or so. 89lbs..This has quite a few kid capable of winning. If Hitchings goes 89 he has to be the favorite. If not Watson or maybe Jones from Conner depending on who goes what weight. Paden from LaRue..Hitchings at 96 if he goes this weight followed by Troxell from McCreary Co.