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So watching the nky news last night, they showed a regional basketball game in which St. Henry beat Cov Cath, the seats were packed almost full to capacity from what I could tell. And we as parents/coaches are being limited to watch these athletes from home if we’re lucky. Players and some fans stormed the floor, it looked exciting, as if we were back in time. But I guess those COVID rules don’t apply like most have said here. Good luck young men this weekend. And God bless you coaches for putting up with this insanity

Simply follow the dashboard, when the match pops up that you want to watch click watch live. You will have to follow the dashboard to keep up though

My dark horse is going to be Riley Johnson 113

14 106 Spencer Moore 13 120 Cole Thomas 12 182 Micah Ervin 11 285 Matthias Ervin 10 152 Payne Carr 9 195 Daulton Meyer 8 220 Niko Bussell 7 170 Steven Little 6 160 Dalton Russelburg 5 145 Jackeron Merritt 4 132 Gabe Adams 3 138 Chase Yost 2 126 Devon Herron 1 113 Gage Fowler Dark horse Tom Ketchen Carter ( hey he’s unranked) In all seriousness, can’t really play this game without final rankings. I’m sure Ranger is shifting rankings just from this past weekend results.

Yes

Now if we did just make it a one day youth event then you could hold it in March. Still would need a huge facility to host it in.

Financially, having youth the day after middle school works because you already have the venue and the setup is already complete. As an organization it’s the best setup you can do to minimize cost. If you want to get technical every middle school team in this state is a youth team since we are not sanctioned through KHSAA. We wrestle under USA wrestling. We’re all club teams that some Middle Schools help fund. Keeping Middle School State and Youth state together saves for many. The parents can combine their trip for one weekend. Most coaches coach both Middle and Youth. Honestly to get a facility to hold youth state in March in Kentucky would be virtually impossible. Remember it’s about 1000 to 1500 wrestlers for youth. And with all the basketball going on in those first couple weeks of March you don’t have a chance finding a big enough Facility. Just my two cents.

This forum isn’t the forum for most information, www.kentuckyusawrestling.com , is where anyone that’s involved with coaching/running any youth/middle school organization. And as far as travel expenses go, that’s what fundraisers are for. Any organization at this level has to have that in order to pretty much go to any event in this state that is worthwhile. Unfortunately you’re correct in this “basketball state”, wrestling is a bottom tier sport. I coached for five years at this level and had too raise money throughout the year to be able to go to tournaments throughout the year across the state. Yes we didn’t make it to all of them. But we planned/funded most of the money to go to the state tournament wherever it was held.

The funny part about all of this is that no matter where they have it, someone will complain, They (the board) who actually keep the middle school/ youth going in this state, searched for weeks for places that actually had a date open and a facility big enough to do the two day event . This is what they found. They post and gave ample time for teams/state to know. Do you know how hard it is too find a facility in this state during quote “basketball season” to give up a whole weekend for wrestling. One, I would be thankful they found a place to have the state tournament during wrestling season. Options in this state for arenas in February are really sparse. Do a search yourself and you’ll see

Simon Kenton High School will be hosting open mats on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7-8:30 for middle school and high school wrestlers for free. Only thing needed is a USA WRESTLING CARD. Spread the word and fill this room up. Thanks again.

He deserves to be on that list as well!!!!

Jonah McCloskey can be added to that mix as well

Yes she was

Here’s mine 70- 1st- Raney 2nd-Evans 3rd-McCloskey 4th-Condi 5th- Knight 6th- Blevins 75- 1st- Vega 2nd- Johns 3rd- Gardner 4th- Brown 5th- Herbest 6th- Britt 80- 1st- Raney 2nd- Meyer 3rd- Trumble 4th-Luttrell 5th- Harrod 6th- Cano 86- 1st- Spaulding 2nd- Brown 3rd- Jenkins 4th-Butler 5th- Teutsch 6th- Pinkston 92- 1st- Isaacs 2nd- Lattin 3rd- Lampe 4th- Ricketts 5th- Speaker 6th- Nichols 98- 1st- Powell 2nd-Fortier 3rd-Walton 4th- Benner 5th- Schweitzer 6th- Mattingly 105- 1st- Gilbert 2nd-Bandfield 3rd-Giompalo 4th- Zinser 5th-Strayer 6th- Dowdy 113- 1st-Ross 2nd-Herron 3rd- Vilums 4th- McCoart 5th- Nardelli 6th- McCubbin 121- 1st- Beane 2nd- Roberts 3rd- Vlach 4th- Mckune 5th-Harward 6th- Kellett 130- 1st-Mayes 2nd- Yost 3rd- Botts 4th-Krebs 5th- McElroy 6th- Potts 140- 1st- Conner 2nd- Richmond 3rd- Watts 4th- Barney 5th- Mills 6th- Brumfield 152- 1st- Adams 2nd-Dawn 3rd-Scarborough 4th- Kiser 5th- Church 6th- Silva 168- 1st- Velasquez 2nd- Richmond 3rd- Mettling 4th- Price 5th- Cones 6th- Sherill 190- 1st-Virzi 2nd- Long 3rd- Driskell 4th- Lewis 5th- Riggins 6th- Blair 240- 1st- Lambert 2nd- Brown 3rd- Kinman 4th- Castillo 5th- Hicks 6th- Boak

My thoughts on this is simple, isn’t every team at youth a club team? From our bylaws there isn’t anything saying that you can’t combine youth teams and make a bigger club. As long as it’s chartered through USA Wrestling and has USA qualified coaches I don’t see the issue. Youth State Duals is an anomaly since at the youth level we don’t have youth dual tournaments all year except at state Duals. Every youth tournament you go to all year is a bracket tournament. Also, youth kids can technically wrestle for any club they want to all year as long as they are chartered. One week he/she wrestles for one club for example the next week he/she wrestled for another club. As long as he/she is on their chartered roster I don’t know of any limitations. So from what I see there is no limitations on where your kid at the youth level can wrestle. As long as your kid is on that teams roster and it’s chartered and paid for by January 1st. I will say that these by laws need to be addressed for that situation.

Seeding has always been the Monday night after regionals. State Duals has truly nothing to do with the seeding of state. But if it were held in season and not in between 2 postseason events it would help dramatically. I personally don’t agree with having it in between the post season tournaments of regionals and state. Have it the last weekend of regular season and do it like high school. Have 2 divisions and invite 12 teams each division. Teams lose kids after regionals. Just my 2 cents

The only people who can change that for the better is the board and the five coaches representing the five regional winners at this point. I am neither, it would come down to them

This is why State Duals would be great to have during the season, teams actually get to see other teams from across the state. Already see a couple of upsets and that helps with rankings and seeding. And they missed the seeding at 152 pretty badly of the regional champs. Hopefully they will change that bracket for the kids at that weight classes sake.

Rankings are out

Looks good, great job Mike

They fixed that problem already from what I looked at

We went to 5 regions this year because of the travel situation for teams. Not enough teams to support 8 regions. With teams showing up one year and dropping the next it’s rough at the middle school level to be honest. My suggestion would be (6)regions and (5)qualifiers. Would get us up to 30 kids at State with only 2 byes, thus allowing balanced brackets with an even number of regions in which need to create balance when seeding.

Yes, I’m voting we could move State Duals to the regular season and get it more centrally located so that more teams can come. I think it would be neat to do a two day State Duals in the beginning of February. Have pools the first day and then bracket it out the second. I wonder if that would spark interest?

And looking at 121, it’s one of the more balanced brackets out of all of them. Every one seed and every 2 seed has a bye in the first round. 4/4,3/4,3/4,3/4 is what I’m seeing in the rat tails. 1/4 or 3, 2/2, 1/3,1/3,1/4or3,2/2,2/3,1/4 or3 is what I’m seeing in the round of 16. No other way of balancing it out other then that.

The 3’s Wrestling 4’s are the rat tail rounds. Once again that’s going to happen with the way the brackets are formed. 2’s vs2’s have to happen as well. Take in mind that the (1)’s have earned the easier draw and their first match unless it’s a bye should be against the lower seeds (a 3 or a 4). The 2’s battle it out for a chance at a 1 seed in the quarter final round.