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Anyone watch the Campbell v Smith quarterfinal at 113? Am I the only one that thought the stalling calls against Campbell were very iffy?

East Carter is a first year program that got a state qualifier this year. I'm not sure if they had a program in the past though.

For the officials, you could run the 8 state qualifiers over 2 weekends. 4 on one weekend and 4 on another. And you could do it like Ohio does their junior high and not be set on which tournament you go to based on your region. You can go to any qualifying tournament the first weekend and if you don't qualify, you can go to one the second weekend. That leaves you with 4 tournaments to cover in 1 weekend, not 5 or 8

As far as the snags go, you could always add the extra weekend before the ones you have now, so you do not run into the high school season. The Venue is another thing that wouldn't be that hard to work around. I know it is a long way to travel, but I believe the arena in Pikeville is available and is big enough. That doesn't need to be the permanent venue, but it could be used until a better option is found. A 32 man bracket is already being used at the middle school tournament. It is just not full with only having 20 kids in it. I'm not sure what the exact rules are, but I don't think there are any restrictions as far as number of matches and time between matches since the middle school goes by USA wrestling. (I'm not 100% sure about that as I'm no longer involved with a middle school) These are just ideas to think about and work toward trying to grow numbers in Kentucky. As another thread stated, it's easier to get more kids involved when they see their friends or classmates having success. So having more State Qualifiers now will, in the long run, be better for the sport by getting more kids involved.

Just an idea to think about at the next coaches meeting, Ohio has 8 state qualifying tournaments for middle school. 4 on one weekend and 4 on a different weekend, taking top 4 each tournament for a full 32 man bracket. That helps with the situation of having 5 or 6 possible state placers coming from 1 region and leaving 1 or 2 of them not making the state tournament. No realignment needed, you would just need to decide who gets to host the 8 tournaments.

I'm glad you thought that the officiating was good and the tournament was ran well. But, when there are several missed calls and several bad calls, that does not look good for the officials. And when you get done at 9pm at night with 8 man brackets, the tournament was not ran well. There was way too much down time with empty mats.

I like that you have a system in which to place kids. But it looks as if the #5 seed will not face a kid that placed 4th in his or her region. If that is the way you have the other seeds, I would only think it would be fair for everyone if the #5 seed faced a 4th place region placer in the second round as well

And thank you for actually taking the time to try and get things right

Ok, let’s use the 86 pound bracket and the kids from region 4. The 2 kids who placed 2nd and 3rd in that weight class, wrestle in the 1st round and the kid who got 4th place in regions, has a bye. There are 12 byes in the first round. That’s enough for each kid that was in the finals in their region to receive a bye first round

It happened last year as well. It all boils down to the people in charge letting track randomly putting people in the brackets instead of putting the people in themselves

Dalton Lawson for Johnson Central wrestled at 3 different weight classes today. (113,120, and 126). Am I misinformed that you are only allowed to bump up 1 weight class and wrestle?

No, I am not.

Actually, you have the 75 pound state champ moved up to 80 pounds. So, that should leave that weight open to Colin Tucker of Wayne since he placed second, if he was interested. If not, that place should only be automatically filled if there was only one kid wanting to take that spot. And if you are wanting to take the best team possible from Kentucky, there should be wrestle offs for the open spots. And I’m not sure how Jake Cain can be left off the team. Even though he lost to Kinley and Walls in the Middle School tournament, he turned around and beat both of them in the High School state tournament. I think he should be offered a chance to make the team as well.

I have a wrestler interested in being the 75 pounder. Will there be a wrestle off for that spot? If so, when and where would it take place?