Dake

[Dake]

That guy is special. I watched him his senior year at senior nationals and would have never predicted this.. congratulations to a class act!!

[Dake]

He has tried that the 2 previous times. Dake is just so good at not getting out of position if he does somehow speed it up dake will find a way to turn it in to a scramble.. Lets go kyle!! 4x

[NCAA qualifiers from southeast (stolen from coacht)]

I think leen was from soddy daisy high school.

[Stieber Oliver]

Well I will agree to disagree with your opinion of dake, and I agree that should be in the rulebook but its not that I know of. But having wrestled my whole life, over 24 years from middle school thru college that's the way I have always seen it called. Is it fair depends on who you ask I guess.. I guess the best thing to hope for is a rematch next year.

[Dake v St John (Iowa fans)]

Yeah he did seem to get more physical when he figured out he couldn't do anything with dake.. but the best MAN won for the 3RD straight year..

[Dake v St John (Iowa fans)]

I love watching kyle dake wrestle have since I first saw him at senior nationals, and I really don't believe he stalled in his finals match. If you want to see stalling watch his semi s match. Dake is just really good at defending everything. He was far and away the aggressor until his contact was knocked out.

[Stieber Oliver]

Dake is my favorite wrestler of all time.. the reason Oliver wasn't awarded a takedown was he didn't get his head out and climb to the hips, in order to get a takedown in the middle of the mat you gotta cover the hips, the out of bounds line you can get it by covering the ankles.. heck of a match either way, good job stieber..

[Best wrestler to never win state]

Banks senior year Ervin was a junior.. mitch's senior year he was unbelievable.. His junior year he just kinda came out of nowhere..

[Best wrestler to never win state]

Pat banks was one of the guys I was thinking about, along with Luke troxell. He was a runner up as a freshman and ended up being a 5 time placer also Cant forget Shawn hull either. The year banks lost to Ervin in the finals josh Cooper was also a senior, a multiple time state placer and runner up as a 8th grader..

[Best wrestler to never win state]

I know this has been done before, but we had some really good kids that are seniors this year that never won a title..

[This year's champs vs. champs of the past]

152- caleb ervin vs mitch ervin 2007

160- john lampe vs johnny wolseifer 2007

[This year's champs vs. champs of the past]

here some more interesting match ups

135- kevin cooper vs luke metzker 2002

140- zach salyers vs scott cooper 2003

145- joe whalen vs steve lovwell 2003i think thats the spelling..

152- caleb ervin vs craig cooper 2002

160- john lampe vs nick fiser 2003

171- jj jude vs eric slugantz 2002

189- thomas buckman vs ben vessels 2002

[This year's champs vs. champs of the past]

jude may be hard to match physically but is he athletic enought to do a standing back flip and land on his feet?? mason reid was a freak..

[STATE FACE OFF]

the old way was far more exciting/intense

[This year's champs vs. champs of the past]

112-myron bradbury trinity 2009 vs brock ervin 2011

brad cooper would make kevin cry..

[past teams]

just wondering what happened to some of the teams that used to be up there in the state tourney? like mccreary middle, do they still have a team?

[171]

i heard that zack troxell is out for the rest of the season, torn mcl or something, hope its not true but if it is i hope for a speedy recovery. couldnt have happened to a better kid..

[region 8 predictions]

unbeaten, this is region 8 predictions.. i was simply giving my predictions.. i hope salyers did cut to 140 that will make for a great region finals match with him n troxell.. possibly a state final preview..

[region 8 predictions]

103- brad auxier

      zach bray

      cecil nevels

      cody staphens

112- robert wyatt

        justin gross

119- jude

        chazz maynard

        nate clark

        brad williams

125- chris corey

        jeff couch

130- ??

135- stephen back

        jordan young

        larry sammons

140- luke troxell

        josh caudill

        josh phillips

145- zack salyers

        duncan caddell

        aaron dodd

152- avery ray

        jimmy preston

        aaron simpson

        scotty partin

160- aaron back

        john conley

171- jj jude

        zack troxell

189- soloman vanover

        austin stepp

        korey smith

        sam preston

215- trent hardy

        samuel vanover

        johnson cent kid

        cody hollon

hwt- cody mink

      vince staten

      jared deaton

  notes..like to commend coach brown at whitley county for a job well done, he seems to be building a program the right way, and they keep getting more and more competitive.. also region 8 is most likely the most competetive region in the state for 215s this year.. i see jones as the most likely to get upset..

[285]

staten is a good wrestler and maybe the biggest heavyweight that ive seen this year, the one thing that i think holds him back is the ability to last 6 mins. every match that goes the distance seems to be the ones he comes up short on.

[region 8 predictions]

no zack salyers? pretty sure he will place top 2 at 145. the 215 from johnson beat jones at region duals so im pretty sure he will be in the mix also. this year will be a interesting regional 8 tourney for the 215s.. 5 good wrestlers at that weight, somebody is going home dissappointed

[189]

barnett and ray are easily the top 2 in this weight class, lets just hope they are on opposite sides of the bracket at state..

[140]

yeah he beat him 7-1 at region duals.

[285]

after watching some of the top guys i think house is likely to take this home, mink from wayne could play spoiler, he beat staten at region 8 duals

[140]

that was also LAST year.. most of these kids put alot of work in in the off season, im willing to say that all of the top 8 are far different wrestlers than they were at this time last year..