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Saul has the 7 seed, who got upset by the 26 seed

Ranger does an amazing job, my goodness. Trying to just put 8 kids in the semi state together and I still had the seeding way off in a few weight classes. Thank you!

2021 State.pdf

I do know he has spoken with former Coach Dennis Walls recently and told him his ideas were great, only to go this route. The coaches association needs to present the idea to the board of a joint wrestling commission this offseason to present ideas and ways to make not only state better, but how to expand wrestling. My nephews both got 2 seeds at semi state, but if they don't make it to state, at least they are only juniors and have one more year to hope for normalcy. I feel really bad for those seniors out there ranked top 5-10 that are third man out in those semi states with the very top kids in it. For some, it was their last chance to place. Instead of only meeting your regional opponents in the semifinals (or some chance earlier in consilations), they are meeting them two weeks in a row just for a shot to place. Several times recently the same region has put 3 kids in the semifinals. Hoping for normalcy from the KHSAA is a lost cause seeing how they continuously crap on wrestling just to slob all over basketball. There needs to be a wrestling guru on their committee.

The KHSAA website even acknowledges that more attendance is possible (with the 6 feet between families).

Anyone else pinned everyone they faced?

I do like the 1-4, 5-8 semi state idea. It really will help guarantee the best 16 kids to state when taking the top 8 from both. Some of these "semi-states" now have more than 5 kids ranked top 16. Taking top 4 still leaves some of the best at home if going to district, regional, state format. Split it to two semi states and roll that way. I also prefer the 32 man brackets, but if they do change, don't keep it how it is now evenly distributing the top 8 medals across the state. It's like a participation trophy for a few of these areas.

And possibly a team win the title that in a normal year wouldn’t sniff the top trophy. All due to this terrible set up by the KHSAA.

Top 8 with all Semi-State qualifiers. Semi-State (Region 1/2) school grade state place record Region 106/108 1 Jordyn Raney Union 7 msc 26-0 1 Win (pin vs Whorton, Campbell, Matt, Brown) 2 Breydan Whorton Larue 9 26-1 2 Win (dec vs Campbell, Hardin) 3 Amari Hardin John Hardin 10 7th 16-3 2 Win (McDonald) 4 JaRi Campbell Christian 10 19-3 1 5 Trushawn Matt Hoptown 10 18-2 1 Win vs Brown 3x 6 Jacob McDonald Taylor County 9 21-3 2 Win (Durbin) 7 Logan Brown Caldwell 8 30-5 1 Win (dec vs Matt) 8 Peyton Durbin Meade County 9 17-6 2 113/115 1 Leland Reeves Taylor County 9 msc/3rd 13-4 2 Loss (Beltran) Win (Beltran, Griffith) 2 Hunter Jenkins Union 8 msc 19-4 1 Win (Pin vs Harrod, Gross, Bailey) 2-1 vs Teutsch 3 Colin Teusch Caldwell 10 6th 32-3 1 Loss (Jenkins 2x) Win (Jenkins, Fulton) 4 David Griffith Meade County 12 15-4 2 Win (vs Beltran, Gross) 5 Maximus Beltran Central Hardin 12 13-5 2 Loss (vs Griffith, Harrod, Bailey) Win (Gross, Reeves) 6 Brock Gross Larue County 9 23-9 2 Loss (Griffith, Beltran) 7 Holden Schneider Hopkinsville 9 14-5 1 Loss (Jenkins) 8 Barrett Fulton Ohio County 8 20-15 1 Loss (Schneider) 120/122 1 Trayce Eckman Union 11 1st 23-0 1 Win (Nichols, Reeves, McKee) 2 Parker McKee McCracken 12 20-4 1 Win (Nichols, Ashur Jones) 3 Timothy Nichols Caldwell 9 32-4 1 Win (Portwood, Leavell) 4 Ryan Portwood North Hardin 12 26-4 2 Win (Metcalf, Beckley, Lattin) 5 Tyler Lattin Meade County 9 18-4 2 Loss (Reeves) 6 Connor Metcalf Larue County 9 20-10 2 Win (Beckley) 7 Daemeion Leavell Christian Co 7 10-4 1 Win (Ashur Jones via Injury) 8 Derrick Beckley Taylor County 9 10-7 2 126/128 1 Braedon Herron North Hardin 10 4th 28-2 2 Win (Frazier, Fowler) 2 Jayden Frazier Tilghman 11 15-2 1 Win (Fowler x2) Loss (Fowler) 3 Gage Fowler Christian 12 2nd 12-3 1 Win (Gerkin, Frazier, Walls) Loss (Frazier x2) 4 Charlie Tucker John Hardin 11 18-3 2 Win (Gerkin) Loss (Herron) 5 Cofy Walls Caldwell 10 25-5 1 (vs Cannon 2-1, vs Ricketts 2-1) 6 David Gerkin Apollo 12 21-7 2 Loss (Walls) Win (Cannon) 7 Lucas Ricketts Union County 7 18-6 1 Loss (Frazier) (vs Walls 2-1) 8 Devavion Armstard Central Hardin 11 8-10 2 Loss (Gerkin) 132/134 1 Thomas Hoppes Larue County 12 2nd 31-0 2 Win (Mayes, Herron, Raines) 2 Eli Peyton Tilghman 12 18-1 1 Win (Mayes, Johnson) 3 Riley Johnson Caldwell 11 7th 32-5 1 (vs Mayes 2-1, Hawthorne 1-1) 4 Glenn Mayes Union 10 14-7 1 Win (Arnold, Hawthorne) 5 Hunter Hawthorne McCracken 9 13-14 1 (vs Arnold 1-1) 6 Jacob Fulkerson Central Hardin 10 15-6 2 Win (Tolson) 7 Mason Raines Meade County 11 11-7 2 Win (Tolson) 8 Caleb Tolson Daviess County 10 19-6 2 138/140 1 Devin Herron North Hardin 11 1st 20-0 2 Win (Grant-Hall, Elliott) 2 Austin Grant-Hall Christian 12 4th 8--0 1 Win (Elliott) 3 Keaton Elliott Calloway 12 5th 30-4 1 Win (Ricketts, James) 4 Levi Stull Meade County 11 21-1 2 Win (Denneman) 5 Gavin Ricketts Union 10 18-7 1 Loss (Denneman) Win (James) 6 Jack James Tilghman 9 6th 15-6 1 Loss (Ricketts) 7 Mason Polston Central Hardin 11 7-6 2 Win (Brown) 8 Westin Brown Larue County 9 6-5 2 145/147 1 Malachi Rider Tilghman 9 6th 13-1 1 Win (Kellett, Craddock) 2 Mason Kellet Christian 10 9-4 1 Win (Stargill) 3 Gabe Fortier Larue County 10 27-3 2 Win (King) 4 Trayton Stargill Taylor County 10 21-6 2 Win (King) 5 JT King Bardstown 12 30-3 2 Win (Rodriguez) 6 Ronald McGee Hopkinsville 13 17-3 1 Win (Clark) 7 Caden Rodriguez Meade County 10 14-5 2 8 Caige Clark Ohio 11 29-13 1 152/154 1 Payne Carr Union 12 2nd 18-1 1 Win (Rider, Ball, forfeit vs Conner) 2 David Conner Paducah 12 5th 24-2 1 Win (Smallwood) 3 Ethan Futrell Calloway 12 27-3 1 (vs Smallwood 1-1) 4 Colton Smallwood McCracken 12 17-4 1 Win (Wilkins) 5 Nick Avery Owensboro 12 17-3 2 Win (Baumgardner) 6 Caleb Baumgardner Central Hardin 11 15-6 2 Win (Ball) 7 Matthew Ball Larue County 10 12-6 2 Win (Avery) 8 Austin Head Bardstown 12 24-5 2 (vs Wilkins 1-1, vs Baumgardner 1-1) 160/162 1 Quinten Cox Union 12 13-2 1 Win (Shaffer, Slayton, Poynter) 2 Seth Slayton Tilghman 12 15-3 1 Win (Newby) 3 Austin Shaffer Larue County 12 2 Win (Springs) 4 Jybari Springs John Hardin 12 2 Win (Sawyer, Monroe) 5 Conner Geise Meade County 11 2 Win (Sawyer, Jarvis) 6 Jacob Newby Christian County 11 7-4 1 Win (Poynter) 7 John Jarvis Central Hardin 12 8-4 2 Win (Monroe) 8 JJ Poynter Henderson Co. 10 12-9 1 170/172 1 Dalton Russelburg Union 12 1st 21-2 1 (vs Walls 1-1) Win (Mooney) 2 Dylan Walls Caldwell 11 8th 35-1 1 Win (Schlei, Baker) 3 Cameron Baker Apollo 12 22-2 2 Loss (Walls) Win (Hills, Mariscal Carter) 4 Christopher Mooney Tilghman 10 7-2 1 Win (Barnes, Schlei) 5 Benicio Mariscal Carter John Hardin 11 12-3 2 Loss (Baker) 6 Caleb Hills Meade County 12 16-7 2 Win (Barnes) 7 Landon Barnes Central Hardin 12 14-6 2 8 Alex Schlei McCracken Co 12 11-14 1 182/184 1 Stephen Little Union 11 1st 23-0 1 Win (Walls) 2 Colin Walls Caldwell 11 8th 29-6 1 Win (Redwine) State Placement 3 Spencer Redwine Tilghman 11 14-5 1 Win (Riggins) (vs Watters 1-1) 4 DJ Riggins Taylor County 10 20-3 2 Win (Riggins, Tolson) 5 Gabriel Ramirez Central Hardin 12 14-3 2 (vs Riggins 1-1) Win (Logalbo) 6 Connor Tolson Daviess County 11 21-3 2 Loss (Riggins) 7 Nick Watters Calloway County 10 19-10 1 (vs Redwine 1-1) 8 Tony Logalbo John Hardin 11 11-8 2 195/197 1 JT "Oscar" Adams Christian 10 7th 13-2 1 Win (Ervin) State Placement 2 Paxton Ervin Union 11 21-3 1 Win (vs Lambert) 3 Conner Lambert Larue County 10 28-3 2 Win (vs Adams, Mooney) 4 Jimmy Mooney Tilghman 9 12-5 1 (vs Bledsoe 2-1) Win (Serra) 5 Timarion Bledsoe Calloway 11 22-10 1 Win (vs James) 6 Marcus James Taylor County 9 18-9 2 (vs Ellis, Serra 2-1) 7 Austin Ellis Meade County 10 13-9 2 Win (vs James) 8 Seth Serra Central Hardin 10 7-8 2 Win (James) 220/222 1 Darius Moore Union 12 2nd 28-1 1 (vs Virzi 1-1) State Placement 2 Uriah Virzi Tilghman 9 5th 28-2 1 3 Thomas Boone Larue County 12 10-0 2 Win (Silva) 4 AJ Harvey Christian 11 6th 16-7 1 Win (Hawkins) State Placement 5 Austin Silva John Hardin 10 15-2 2 6 Clayton Hockman Central Hardin 11 12-11 2 Win (Leonard) 7 Zach Leonard Meade County 11 13-7 2 8 Rance Hawkins Henderson Co 12 15-6 1 HWT 1 Tydarius Kelly Christian 12 4th 13-0 1 Win (Pottle) 2 Andrew Pottle Ohio 12 33-3 1 Win (Mooney, Pike) 3 Mathew Mooney Tilghman 12 13-5 1 (vs Pike 2-1) 4 Che Smith Meade County 11 14-0 2 Win (Moe, Cart) 5 Davis Pike Union 12 14-6 1 Win (Hendricks) 6 Say Moe Daviess 12 17-3 2 Loss (Hendricks) 7 Blaize Cart Apollo 11 18-10 2 Win (Talbert) 8 Levi Talbert North Hardin 12 19-10 2

couldn't agree more.

TKC has been there and done that. Injured last year. Back to his normal ways leading the state in pins and being dominant.

The KHSAA is just showing their true colors now. Not going to be too many friends for them in the wrestling community. Such a terrible organization. No one will change my opinion of those buffoons in the KHSAA.

Who wants to bet it was the parent of a 145lb wrestler?

Region 3 and 4 can look ahead. Win no matches or even 1 match and you're in the finals of regionals.

You might be underestimating some teams out there.

Region 3, weigh in and make the finals.

A post on the Indiana forums got me thinking about how school's all time teams would look. I decided to use the "modern era" of 32 man state brackets as the cutoff. Kept the weight classes lined up, even though some overlap. Union: 103/106 Zeke Escalera Champ 112/113 Trayce Eckman* Champ 119/120 Saul Ervin 3x Champ 125/126 Jayce Carr 2x Champ 130/132 Brock Ervin 5x Champ 135/138 Bryce Sheffer 4x Champ 140/145 Caleb Ervin 3x Champ 145/152 Mitch Ervin 2x Champ 152/160 Dalton Russelburg* 2x Champ 160/170 Stephen Little* Champ 171/182 Micah Ervin 2x Champ 189/195 Thomas Buckman Champ 215/220 Darius Moore* 2nd 275/285 Mathias Ervin 3x Champ *Still in High School Champs left off: Jarvis (Rudd) Elam, Trae Blackwell, Aaron Carr, Isaac Ervin, Luke Ervin, Max Ervin, Jackson Oxford, Isaac Thomas, Jake Insko, maybe more?

What weight class did that epic quarterfinal match between Bryce and Trent Johnson take place?

Thanks for the rankings. 11 of the top 15 @ 126 are in that western semi state. 5 of the top 8. Only two move on. Shameful

I am doing the same with that semi state ranking. letting this weekends shenanigans ride.

David Conner is in at 152.

I already suggested this as well as Caleb Canter. The KHSAA just does not want to listen to our input.

Stephen Little to 170... joking. Hopefully brackets get released early instead of right as the tournament starts.

Congrats Nick. Florida wrestling has quickly been on the rise.

Yeah I imagine it’s obvious as to why.