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Madison Southern has a new team this year. I have no idea which Region they are being placed in. I'm assuming Region 7 since that is where Madison Central is.

It looks as though Madison Southern will have a team this year. I do not know the name of their new coach but I was told that they would be competing this season. I'm assuming they will be added in to Region 7.

Are you telling me that the heavier guys (I'm not talking about 200+ guys but say 150-200) wouldnt cut weight if they only had 5 pounds to cut to get in the next lower weight clas? Ranger- I understand your percentages. The point I'm trying to make is the strength and weight difference is the same in relation to the weights. Can you honestly say that giving up 5 pounds at 135 pounds is relatively the same as giving up 11 pounds at 170. If it is then, by that theory it should be as easy for a kid at 181 to cut to 170 as it is for a kid at 140 to get to 135. It appears to me (and I fully admit I could be wrong) that the side of the argument most people fall on lies with where their own 'little Johnny' or their own club seems to fall. Obviously the schools that are heavy on the smaller weights think this is ridiculous while schools with more bigger kids(full disclosure-my kid and the program I'm associated struggles to find the little guy) think this is a little more fair. Look at Rangers lower weight rankings. How many middle schoolers are there? Is it because of the exception number of phenoms at those weights? Or is it due to the lack of actual high school kids that are at those weights? I promise you I'm not knocking the quality of wrestling from those kids at that weight because my little 'Johnnie' was one of them once upon a time. But to knock the level of wrestling from larger weights when they aren't competing on the same playing field as smaller weights is as equally "ludacris". It's not comparing apples to apples. Not sure why it posted partially the first time. My apologies.

Are you telling me that the heavier guys (I'm not talking about 200+ guys but say 150-200) wouldnt cut weight if they only had 5 pounds to cut to get in the next lower weight clas? Ranger- I understand your percentages. The point I'm trying to make is the strength and weight difference is the same in relation to the weights. Can you honestly say that giving up 5 pounds at 135 pounds is relatively the same as giving up 11 pounds at 170. If it is then, by that theory it should be as easy for a kid at 181 to cut to 170 as it is for a kid at 140 to get to 135. It appears to me (and I fully admit I could be wrong) that the side of the argument most people fall on lies with where their own 'little Johnny' or their own club seems to fall. Obviously the schools that are heavy on the smaller weights think this is ridiculous while schools with more bigger kids(full disclosure-my kid and the program I'm associated struggles to find the little guy) think this is a little more fair. Look at Rangers lower weight rankings. How many middle schoolers are there? Is it because of the exception number of phenoms

I love how "the little guys" are getting screwed according to everybody. Explain to me how it is 'fair' for the smaller weights to wrestle guys that are at most 5 pounds different from them but the bigger guys have to wrestle guys that could be up to 15-20 pounds+ heavier than them. It seems everyone wants to bash the heavier weights for not being athletic or not quality wrestlers, maybe the smaller weights would look the same way if they had to give up 15 pounds to their opponents. I understand some schools have issues filling upper weights. Guess what? Some schools have issues filling smaller weights too. When you have a weight division such as 103- that a fairly high percentage of high schools have to use middle school kids to fill a HIGH SCHOOL weight- clearly their is an issue there. But yet everyone belly aches about not being able to fill a heavier weight unless they 'recruit' a HIGH SCHOOL football player. I know I'm generalising and this does not apply to everyone but at least at heavier weights we are 'recruiting' high school students for a high school sport and not middle school kids. If everyone is so up in arms about the new weights, instead of going back to the old weights, why not make the difference in weight from weight class to weight class the same across the board?

Scratch that. Found the PDF version to print off for him. Problem solved.

Why would the on-line registration be closed when there is still weigh-ins tonight? I've got a kid that will be riding with us to weigh-in at Lafayette this afternoon and can't register on-line because the site says registering on-line is no longer available. His dad can not take him to the weigh-in, so how is he supposed to get the parents waiver signed without the online-registration?

We had some really good matches today. The kids wrestled hard and most got 4-8 matches. Congrats to all the kids that are still working hard in the offseason!

Madison County Youth Wrestling is hosting a youth tournament on 5/21 at Madison Central High School in Richmond (about 20 minutes south of Lexington) See the flyer below for more information- however, there is a mistake on the flyer; You do NOT have to be pre-registered. You can register and pay at the door. youth wrestling.pdf

This was a GREAT clinic! I recommend any wrestler that gets an opportunity to attend next year-take it. Our guys learned a lot and got an outstanding work out in!

Is this clinic still a go? I've tried emailing the coach about reregistering but have not gotten any response?

Are there any remote weigh in sites available near Richmond or Lexington?

Is there a flyer anywhere for Bryan Station's tourney this weekend?

Thanks guys

Does anyone know about what time the Finals are supposed to start?

@ 152-#4 seed Storm Savage did not get cleared by the doctor today and is done for the season.

It's at the arena at Montgomery County High School

Franklin County has Bourbon and Dunbar listed as attending their tourney Saturday too.

Madison Central-39 Conner-42 103- Carrol(Mad) - forfeit 112- Badida(Conner) - forfeit 119- Wooten(Mad) fall :53 over Lawson(Conner) 125- Plumlee(Conner) fall:56 over Harvey(Mad) 130- Caskey(Mad) decision 14-8 over Spoonamore(Conner) 135- Marquise(Conner) - forfeit 140- Coleman(Mad) - forfeit 145- Williams(Mad) - forfeit 152- Savage(Mad) fall 2:32 over Madden(Conner) 160- Mosher(Mad) fall 1:32 over Fiorelli(Conner) 171- Fisher(Conner) fall 2:26 over Chris Couch(Mad) 189- Chatman(Conner) fall over Paul Couch(Mad) 215- Thompson(Conner) fall 4:19 over Fair(Mad) 285- Gripshover(Conner) fall 5:25 over George(Mad) Madison Central-21 Walton Verona-55 103- Brown(WV) fall :57 over Carrol(Mad) 112- Jake Higgins(WV) - forfeit 119- Patrick Higgins(WV) major decision 9-0 over Wooten(Mad) 125- Compton(WV) fall 3:00 over Harvey(Mad) 130- Logan Jones(WV) tech fall 18-3 over Caskey(Mad) 135- Tanpenbaum(WV) - forfeit 140- Schroer(WV) major decision 16-8 over Coleman(Mad) 145- Williams(Mad) fall 4:48 over Sterling(WV) 152- Lane Jones(WV) fall 5:46 over Savage(Mad) 160- Mosher(Mad) - forfeit 171- Davis(WV) fall 1:06 over Gregory(Mad) 189- Page(WV) fall 1:48 over Paul Couch(Mad) 215- Fair(Mad) fall 1:10 over Harden(WV) 285- George(Mad) decision 5-0 over Watkins(WV)

No, Madison Central will be there, at least as of yesterday, according to our coaches. Now I don't know about Sheldon Clark, only that Madison is planning on being there.

It's supposed to be Perry Central, Walton Verona, Harrison Co, Madison Central, Montgomery Co, and Boyle Co. - although I hear there could be a scheduling conflict with Boyle- no idea

It is my understanding that this is a Montgomery vs Madison dual that is a middle/high school event.

Oh, and practice is on Tuesday and Thursday's from 6:30-7:30 at Belvue.

You can also reach us on our Facebook Page- Madison County Youth Wrestling - we've got about 70 kids currently on our youth team and around 25 on our Middle School team. It's not too late to come out. Practices are held at the Belvue school gym which is about 3 blocks from Madison Central. If you've got any other questions you can PM me. I know the Middle School team is supposed to compete Saturday at Caudill Middle around 11am and I 'think' the youth are wrestling over there Friday night. Feel free to have them come check things out.

It should make for an interesting couple of days next week!