Final Predictions and Thoughts

[WrestlingGod]

Holy crap. That literally took me almost two whole days to get through. Hope y'all enjoy them. I threw together some final predictions and some numbers based off my predictions on here.

 

Top 5 teams

1. Cleveland (10 medals, 3 finalists but I didn't have them winning any weights. I'm sure that will end up being wrong)

2. Wilson Central (6 medals, 1 champ)

3. Beech (5 medals and 3 champs)

4. Science Hill (5 medals, no champs)

5. Knoxville Halls/Summit/Soddy Daisy/Bradley Central (4 medals and 1 champ each)

 

I'd bet my team scores are probably a little off.

 

Best Match:

All of the finals I have are great matchups. If I had to narrow it down to one lightweight and one upperweight I'd have to pick..

 

106-

Trey Bates (Beech) vs Trae McDaniel (Cleveland)

and

195-

Devon Gibson (Bradley Central) vs Nathan Walling (Mt Juliet)

 

 

Most Outstanding Wrestlers:

Lower:

120-Brayden Palmer (Beech)

Upper:

Hwt: Michael Kramer (Wilson Central)

 

 

I'm ready for some wrestling. I'm positive most of my picks will be off but hey, that's what makes it fun. Anybody can win on any given day! See you at the cow palace! Side note, if anybody disagrees with me and wants to yell at me to my face for past events ill be in the Summit section probably chasing around my two kids. Come on over!

Edited February 13, 2018 by WrestlingGod

[fooseball95]

Thanks for taking time and awesome effort to do these bro. It’s gonna be a fun weekend

[Bump11]

I agree with your team race and MOW’s WG. Best match I’d say either Bates-McDaniel, Horst-Martin, or Brown-Milasauskas (based on my finals picks)

[MatWiz]

Does anyone know if the rankings will be updated to reflect region results before this weekend? 

[FargoStrut]

Think Hamm said something about giving his final rankings on Saturday night.

[FargoStrut]

Another HS wrestling season has came and gone. That being said, I saw several GREAT finals matches on the AAA mat. The "worst" finals match that I remember right off the top of my head was Fowler- Grayson at 170 and I think the score was around 10-5 or so, maybe 12-5. Most of the DII and A-AA finals matches were a little more lopsided or resulted in pins, which SHOULD BE the case with a smaller pool of talent to choose from at the smaller scholls and some of the states' elite wrestlers being enrolled at private schools. I said that to say that SOME, NOT ALL of the medalist in the large school weight classes should be thankful as well that there is large/small school split bc I saw some A-AA kids tonight that would have earned a medal regardless of their schools classification. A few that come to mind are Uhorchuk 106, Gross 126, Bennett 126, Knight 182, Evans 195 and Lynch 220. Yes, they are all champions in A-AA (Bennett runner up) and I'm DEF not saying All them would have been champions in AAA, but they could/would have placed in large schools too. I also believe that some of the A-AA and DII medals were "handed out" to some of the lower placing kids in some of the weaker brackets, but that's the setup we have. Congratulations to all the Champions and medalist regardless of your schools classification!