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    from the Paducah paper in December:

    Paducah Tilghman’s Caleb Mays signed to continue his wrestling career at the collegiate level with Central Methodist University in Fayette, MO, on Dec. 15 in a ceremony held at Tilghman. The Blue Tornado began his career in wrestling at the age of five years old with the Anna-Jonesboro Junior Wildcats. He continued to wrestle with USA Wrestling’s Future Olympians in the seventh grade. While at Anna-Jonesboro High School, Mays wrestled in his first three high school years in the 132 and 145-lb weight classes. “We are grateful to have a young man as motivated and driven as Caleb is to be a part of our program,” head coach Seth Livingston said. “He’s been here just a few months but has made an immediate impact. The commitment that he’s made to improving is unmatched. He was a sought-after recruit because college coaches saw in him the love of doing the work and the love of the sport. “I am confident that he will take that commitment with him into college and do well.” Report an ad He qualified for the Illinois High School Association state wrestling tournament during his sophomore and junior years at Anna-Jonesboro. Mays transferred to Paducah Tilghman as a senior and is currently wrestling with the Blue Tornado

     

    There is certainly nothing wrong with a kid changing schools to find a better opportunity to wrestle in big matches.  did his dad Grover remain the coach at Anna Jonesboro? they had a good season too but probably wish they had their 145 

     

     

     

     

     

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    Reading through this I feel truly blessed that my era wrestled the 16 man, 2 day bracket at Frankfort Civic Center. It was the climax of state championship tourneys for our state.  That building was electric for semis and finals.

    That should be the goal for event planning the tournament.  How can we recreate that enviro and location?

     

     

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    Pushing the start of season until Spring seems like the only option that could salvage a season. Is this being discussed?  Sure wouldn't want to barge ahead ignoring the last two weeks of data and risk having it all shut down in January, costing another group of seniors their chance at one last state tourney.  Just one fan's opinion. Not a coach or parent.

     

     

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    On 6/19/2020 at 8:44 AM, coachteater said:

    Was telling someone about how Mark Hall took 2nd in Ky before he went on to win 6 state championships. That got me thinking, is he the only hs wrestler to be a 7x placer ? 7x finalist? Ive dont some googling, but cant find anything.

     

    Heck Hall had a close match in the semis if I remember. His time in KY wasn't a cake walk. But he was so young then.

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    On 3/4/2020 at 1:58 PM, grappler-of-old said:

    Pat White from Hoptown and Brandon Winkenson from Campbell County had some great ones 2 overtime matches and 2 matches decided by 1 point. They have 9 medals between the two and 3 state championships. 

    They only met at state duals or state tournament. 

     

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    3 hours ago, bluegrassbrawler said:

    When Woodford was the team to beat in the 90s and 00s they were rivals with every team.  While Union has replaced Woodford in terms of dominance, I do not think the rest of the state feels the same about both these teams.  Woodford was the ultimate heel of high school wrestling.  They were good, and they knew it, and the blonde hair was just enough to take it over the edge. The entire Frankfort Civic center would be cheering against the Woodford kids.  If a Woodford wrestler lost the place would erupt.  If Woodford did something to excite the crowd you would hear booing from every corner of the arena. Call is poor sportsmanship on the crowd's part, but Woodford really embraced that roll and ran with it.  I feel like the rivalries with Union are more on a friendly level than an adversarial one when comparing these two teams from different times. 

    I feel like some of the changes by the KHSAA to KY wrestling has had an influence on team rivalries. The move from the Frankfort civic center, which has been discussed ad nauseum by the old school guys, changed the way the crowd got into it the matches and the drama that happen on and around the mat. Enough has been said about the topic of the civic center, so I will move on.

    Another factor in my opinion was doing away with the district-region-state format. As mentioned above this post, some regional finals would almost be a dual between just two of the participating teams. The old Region 4 (district 7 and 8) was pretty much the Lexington area school against eastern Kentucky school.  Many of the schools would never see each other until regionals. You'd get Woodford, Sheldon Clark, and Wayne County all in an 8 man bracket tournament and it was a guarantee that a lot if not a majority of the matchups would be between these school. There were so many memorable rivalries that would not only meet up in the regional finals but potentially in the state finals. Michael Jackson vs William Farrington, Chris Floyd vs Joey Stepp, Chris Sanders vs anybody, just to name a few.  So many personalities, attitudes, backgrounds, and story lines...  I am getting nostalgic here!

      thanks for taking me back!! :)  and of course Woodford embraced it. They used it as fuel and motivation.  How bad do you fight for an escape when a gym full of screaming people just went crazy after you've been taken down?  Harder than you've ever fought before.  And the results speak for themselves.

     

     

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    Back in the 90s it felt like there was a good bit of rivalrying between Woodford Co and the Lexington teams.  I remember being in gyms where if a Lexington kid was in the finals with a woodford kid he had 80% of the fans on his side....even his own crosstown rival school would cheer for him to beat Woodford.  Don't feel like that's been the case for the last decade but I'd let those who are involved like Coach Teater speak on it more.