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

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

I think leen was from soddy daisy high school.

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.

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..

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.

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..

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

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

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..

152- caleb ervin vs mitch ervin 2007 160- john lampe vs johnny wolseifer 2007

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

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..

the old way was far more exciting/intense

112-myron bradbury trinity 2009 vs brock ervin 2011 brad cooper would make kevin cry..

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?

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..

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..

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..

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.

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

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..

yeah he beat him 7-1 at region duals.

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

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..