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Tyler Lattin from Meade has a head to head win over Yingling from LaRue

Is anyone hosting any strictly JV events this year?

What were the results of these duals?

Hope this helps, couple of views from WCI. 106lbs Chapman is real deal he handles a really tough Oliveras who has some quality wins under his belt. 113lbs Really stinks we didn't get to see Fowler wrestle in the finals. He looked great all day. Herron from NH is friggin tough and notches his 2nd consecutive win over Morgan. 120lbs Mattingly is still impressive, Herron now at 120 has a great tournament but struggles against the Senior. 126lbs Hoppes now at 126 has a great tournament and beat Wells in a barn burner and Peyton beats Villums pretty convincingly. Connor Dutton wrestling here, don't think he is making it to 106. 132lbs Yost over Merrit, best match of the night. Yost looked like he suffered a dislocated shoulder early and puts on a gutsy performance. Rider beats Garcia twice was impressive too. 138lbs Insko looked impressive over Pierce, looks like his cardio is getting better. Dylan Preston at 138, I will be quite surprised if that kids gets to 126, he is massive. 145lbs Conner looked good that kid is dangerous and Hudgins was mean as hell and battled back to take 3rd. 152lbs 2nd best match of the night, Giannone is really something has a great motor, never out of position and comes right after you. Andreoni's conditioning is not where it should be, but that should be fixed come February. 152 should be interesting come state. 160lbs Coleman wrestled well the whole tournament but ran into a brick in the finals against a WV kid. 170lbs Stevens looked great, pinned Fuller and won a tight one against GA kid. 182lbs Abren and Blanton was a fun match, Abren had a couple of opportunities to win it but Blanton had some great defense to win a close one. Blanton I think could have ran away with it if he pushed the pace the whole match. Mason Hall looking good too. 195lbs Orneleas over Deasal really wasn't a surprise, there were several weird stalling calls in this match. These two wrestle a lot like each other, just good defense and waiting for someone to make a mistake. 220lbs Bussell looked great and was heads above everyone else at the tournament. 285lbs Shelton looked like a man here, great handfighting, great positioning, really offensive for a heavyweight and has several top ten wins recently. Christian County had an excellent showing, gonna be a dangerous tournament team in February, McCracken as well, Woodford still hasn't put there full team out there yet due to injuries.

170 is stacked, 7 state qualifiers and 2 studs at the top! All 7 of them could make the podium this year. It's a shame some won't even qualify.

If I may add something here, dual and tournament standings are two different things. In a dual format, you have to wrestle the team and coach in front of you. I have heard a lot of people say "so and so was missing" "things would be different" but what it comes down to is you wrestle the team in front of you. If a team fills their roster with decent to really good kids, that beats a half team of really good kids. Also it's about match-ups, a coach may bump up or down to get those match-ups that are favorable. A good tournament team, ie: Hoptown of the 90's can have 5-6 really good kids and make some noise at state. A good dual team, is usually a full roster with solid kids at almost every weight, ie: LaRue of late 90's to 2010's. Everyone is correct above, that's the exciting thing about duals anything can happen. Ranger I think you do a good job doing these rankings, you are very knowledgeable about this and do predict well come state. But ultimately this is forum board and people should lighten up about rankings. Rankings never gave anyone a medal at state tournament.