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  7. Posted · Report reply

    If go back four years in time and look at Fern Creek's Middle School team, you would have believed that this years High School team would have been unstoppable.  Members of the 2003-04 Fern Creek Middle School team included Tommy Warren, Josh Burkett, Grant Ohlman, Trent Kelley, Josh Lewis, Ben Barger, Jarman McNiel, John Wolsiefer, Deon Chaney, Eddie Lee, Antoine Lee, Curtis Gages, Myron Bradbury, Erin MaCauley, Brad Hitchings, Brent Hitchings, Tyler Ford, Derrick Branch and other talented wrestlers.  This list includes seven Middle School State Champs (some of them multiple champs) and many runner ups and placers. 

    If you were to fill in this past seasons Fern Creek line-up with the kids from the past middle school team, this is what it could have looked like:

    103  -  Myron Bradbury

    112  -  Daniel Wexler

    119  -  Tommy Warren

    125  -  Josh Burkett

    130  -  Grant Ohlman

    135  -  Derrick Branch

    140  -  Tyler Ford

    145  -  Ben Barger

    152  -  Cody Mann

    160  -  John Wolsiefer

    171  -  Brad Hitchins

    189  -  Kyle Hardin

    215  -  Deon Chaney

    Hwt -  Eddie Lee

    This Team could have won state with possibly 11 or 12 kids placing.

    So What happened????

    103  -  Myron Bradbury  --  Wrestles for Trinity, placed  3rd

    112  -  Daniel Wexler      --  Fern Creek, placed 6th

    119  -  Tommy Warren    --  Quit

    125  -  Josh Burkett      --  Quit

    130  -  Grant Ohlman      --  Wrestles for Trinity, placed 5th

    135  -  Derick Branch      --  Fern Creek,  placed 5th

    140  -  Tyler Ford          --  Wrestles for Manual

    145  -  Ben Barger          --  Quit

    152  -  Cody Mann          --  Fern Creek, placed 8th

    160  -  John Wolsiefer      --  Quit ( Sad, Sad, Sad)

    171  -  Brad Hitchins        --  Wrestles for Trinity, placed second

    198  -  Kyle Hardin          --  Fern Creek, Did Not Place

    215  -  Deon Chaney        --  Quit

    285  -  Eddie Lee            --  ?

    Oh what a great team this would have been if they would have stuck together...

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    There will be a meeting Thursday night at 7:00 in the KCD wrestling room for anyone who is interested in joining the G-Force wresting club.  The club will be coached by Frank Gercak and will practice at 6pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thusdays nights in the KCD wrestling room. Practice will start next week and will continue through July.  The G-Force wrestling team will also compete in local, regional and national tournaments.  This is a great opportunity to sharpen your wrestling skills.

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    I hate seeing the direction this thread has taken.  My original post was meant to pay tribute to what I believe is the best wrestling program in this state.  Some may disagree, but it's hard to argue with the numbers.  I meant no disrespect to any other programs or that of my own.  I just wanted to express that while sitting in the stands at the state tournament, I found my self thinking about how different my wrestling career might have been if I could have wrestled at a school like Woodford Co.  Having Coached for a few years now, I have had the pleasure of talking with both Coaches Parks and Carr, both of whom I have grown to have the highest amount of respect and admiration.  I know that there is a lot of animosity towards Woodford Co. out there, I'm not exactly sure why, but it was not my intention to stir the pot.  I wish everyone could wrestler at a school with outstanding coaches, huge well equipped wrestling rooms, Supportive administration and a extremely loud and loyal fan base.  Since thats wasn't the atmosphere I wrestled in, or now coach in, all I can do is keeping working day by day to bring my program up to the level that will fulfill the potential of all my wrestlers.

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    Ahh, the Doss kids at 125 & 130.  Sad to see them transfering.

    I truly hate to hear that Doss is dropping their program, this is heartbreaking.  When I grew up in PRP, Doss was a very competitive team that always took 5 or 6 kids to state(back when getting to state meant something).  The Administration at Doss needs to be publicly denounced for it's lack of support and sabotage of their wrestling program.  Truly a shame!   

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    Here is my best shot for PRP right now.

    103: Travis Mulloy or Dylan Hamilton

    112: Jared Colston

    119: Anthony Wood

    125: Wes Lewis

    130: Alex Hacker

    135: Daniel Sauer

    140: Camryn Fields

    145: Mark Childers or Lamont Calloway

    152: Dusty Stengel

    160: Dakoda Choate

    171: NajJah Savery or William Northington

    189: William Northington or NajJah Savery

    215: Cody Jaggers

    285: David Cowen

    Solid line-up, The red and black should have a good season next year.  Good luck PANTHERS!!

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    stand-up makes a valid point.  I think there's something to be said for schools where wrestling is a top-priority sport. Where I wrestled (it's so weird putting that extra 'd' now), like stand-up, we never had more than a few fans and the team numbered in the single digits.  I grew so much with my small school's even smaller wrestling program and I wouldn't trade all that I learned and experienced for the world, but clearly I would have done better to have had a larger team with a more committed membership, where wrestling was a bigger deal (a function of the school).  This is indeed something that a school like WC dominates in.

    What about your coach 125kid, where's the love man.  I'm sure your coach wouldn't have traded you for five WC wrestlers.

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    I would not trade my team or coach for the Woodford Co. program.

    I sure hope that your friends, family, team mates, and coaches don't see the post you just made.  You have just disrespected all of them in one swoop.

    I glad for you that you feel that strongly about your team, coach and school, but many of us wrestled and do wrestle at schools where no cares about wrestling.  Where I went to HS in Tennessee, football was everything, and yes I was Captain of the football team.  We had 10.000 people in the stands for every home football game (this was before video games, cable TV and the internet), we had the best coaches, equipment and support; little kids would stop us in the mall to ask for our autographs.  Wrestling was different, we had a coach that never wrestled before, we had to pay for our equipment and only 20 people ever showed up to watch us wrestle.  Trust me, the guys on my team would understand how I feel, they knew how much I loved wrestling and they too would have liked to have wrestled at a school that valued wrestling like the way my school valued football.

    As a coach, I won't feel disrespected if I heard one of my kid say he would rather be at Woodford.  Some athletes want to be challenged, they want to be given all the tools necessary to succeed, in those situations winning is expected and some athletes like that pressure to win. 

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    After everything is said and done I can't help but envy the Woodford County wrestling program.  Who wouldn't want to wrestle at Woodford, the best coaches, best facilities and best community support.  I know that if I had it all over to do again, thats where I would choose to go.  Wrestling isn't just another sport that short kids do in the winter at Woodford, it's a way of life.  Nowhere else in the state will you find the type of passion and dedication to the sport of wrestling like that of Woodford Co. The rest of us watch and ridicule when a Woodford Co. kid struggles with his emotions after a loss, but I think winning means more to them.  Every kid on that team believes that he should be able to bring home a state title like the many wrestlers before him.  Winning is what Woodford does, they train to win, they drill to win and they expect to win.  While most teams struggle to fill their line-ups, Woodford Co. dominates year after year.  In what was considered to be a down year, Woodford still put 4 kids in the finals.  That is the type of program that I wish everyone had the opportunity to participate in, especially me.

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    I believe that the wrestlers today are technically better and more intelligent than wrestlers of the past.  However, old school wrestling was much more brutal, the state tournament was often decided by who could survive the season with the fewest injuries.  Matches weren't stop for trickles of blood and I don't remember hardly any potentionally dangerous calls.  It was accepted that it was potentionally dangerous to walk on the mat.  Everyone on my team dropped 20 pounds in three weeks, we would run for hours after practice in rubber suits to maintain  our weight.  Every school had a full line-up, there were no forfeits.  At my weight class (145) we had three guys that I had to wrestle-off every Monday, reguardless of what tournament I had won that weekend.  There were fights on the mat, fights in the stands and fights in the parking lots.  We were warriors back then, winning was everything and losing was a strike against you manhood.  I don't know if things are better today than yesterday, but I know that the guys I wrestled with were some tough hardnosed SOB's.  What we lacked in talent and technique, we made up for with grit and determination.

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        The state tourney is not about putting on a good show for the spectators in the finals.  It's about the wrestlers finaly benifitting from their hard work all year.  It's also about learning about sacrifice and defeat, and in some cases learning to take things in stride when they don't go your way (Bad call, or bad draws).  These are all the things they will have to face in real life when they become adults.  I know I am a better person because of wrestling, and my coach.  I learned some hard lessons from both.  Mostly life is not fair and roll with the punches. 

        I hope that I have been able to pass these things on to my wrestlers. 

    I completely agree coach,  the lessons learned on the mat and in the practice room will be with these young men for the rest of their lives.

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    140lb State Bracket

    Grim          J.C.

                                               

    Sparks        Sou

                                                  _____________                 

    Walton    Har.Co.

                                                 

    Brack        Hen. Co.

                                                                            ________________

    Shotwell      CC

                                             

    Hull            LC

                                                ______________

                   

    Bale          St.X

                                           

    Mitchell        SO

                                                                                                            _________________

    Cahill            Doss

                                             

    Moreman        J.T

                                              ______________

    O'Brian      Con

                                           

    Pitcher      JC

                                                                          _________________

                                         

    Grubbs        WC

                                             

    Young        UC

                                            ______________

    Ray            SC

                                           

    Thomas      Cen

                                                                                                                                                                                     

    Kiper      Oh.Co

                                             

    Ott            SK

                                              _____________

    Smith          Way

                                             

    Bennett      Bu.Cn

                                                                        _______________

    Watkins      Tri

                                             

    Bollman        OC

                                              _____________

    Berry          HC

                                             

    Erbelle        CH

                                                                                                        ______________

    Peace        Ryle

                                             

    Beto            D

                                              ____________

    Medley      Me.Co

                                             

    Hendren      KCD

                                                                      ________________

    Rigsby          AB

                                             

    Wright        Sen

                                              ___________

    Reg. 1        4th

                                           

    Davis          PD