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Agreed, great tournament for Moktani. Would have been nice to see Pullen from Collierville who beat him in region finals in this bracket as well. Shame he had issues with first opponent, the scale.

Surprised no mention of Brown (Blackman) over Cockman (Arlington) at 160 in here yet.

Going to be some very good finals this evening. Not sure what others think but i know I look forward to the following in terms of match quality: 126, 152, 160, 182 Many kids I am excited to see close out their careers this evening.

He is very solid, went OT with Bowers at regionals as well.

Yeah that was the biggest upset in R1 for sure. Unfortunately a lot of this 220 group struggles to stay consistently on their offense. I think whichever one stays offensive the most today will likely walk away on the top step.

Rolling back to the streaming discussion on this. Does anyone know if there is a good way to stream multiple matches at once? I am not seeing a split screen option and if I bring the stream up in two browser tabs the NFHS feed tells me I can only stream in one place at a time. Had really hoped to be able to have multiple mats up at one time.

Working from memory but I think most of those dates are good with two exceptions. The state tournament could change and Bluff City Brawl is March 27th (Sat) not the 24th. The date for the state is current being evaluated by the board as it now conflicts with when Prep Nationals are scheduled. I believe the TWF schedule should be formally posted by the start of the TSSAA state tournament.

Pretty sure teams were told what the deadline was going to be before the TSSAA opened the tickets up to the public. I know it was publicized for our parents. If they didn't take care of getting their tickets before that point that is unfortunate, procrastination is a killer. Don't know that there is anything this board could do unless they find someone on here who bought the publicly available tickets and is willing to give them up.

My understanding is that teams have been given until a set date to have wrestler's families buy the two per athlete allotment. If after that date there are still some tickets available then they are going to be opened up to the general public.

Keep in mind people, the tournament is separated / placed, not seeded.

You are talking about an A/AA wrestler on a thread about DII... hence you won't see him on the list. Not too many thoughts there.

Probably also worth noting that just because the government lifts a regulation that it doesn't mean it is a good time to go back to doing things full bore. It just indicates that the government doesn't feel things are at a point where they need to control it. Local health departments actually overrode the governor in some areas already. This would still come down to what local agencies and the state governing body think is right. I could almost guarantee you that there is no way the TSSAA takes a step back from their current plans / protocols because that could in theory open them up to scrutiny / liability.

Its interesting as there are no such statements on a timeframe in the TSSAA Handbook. I would have thought it to have been a little better publicized if they were doing it with that intention.

The TSSAA apparently changed that rule at some point. There were also a couple of kids from Lakeway Christian Academy that competed in-season at an event not as part of their team that got me to looking at the handbook again. Not going to go search through the handbook now but the gist of it was that they have removed the "all-star" event restriction from sports with an individual championship. There is even a FAQ that covers that exact scenario for golf and then mentions it would be the same for other sports and names wrestling. Certainly interesting to me because it seemed like that was the type of rule change that would have received a little more visibility in the past.

Kaleb Baker also placed 2nd at Tulsa as well as an 8th grader, so likely 15U (I would have to go back and look). You could say he didn't make the finals since he lost in quarters or semi's (I can't remember which) to eventual champ and wrestled back to true 2nd. Always good to celebrate success, but hate to misrepresent the past with statements too broad. Was good to see the success of the BoomRanch / Higher Calling guys this weekend. Tulsa is a very tough event and certainly worth celebrating any level of success there. Interesting weekend for national tournaments with several very good teams / kids ending up in Gattlinburg for the NUWAY events. Hate to see those types of scheduling conflicts. For example, I know some very tough PA kids ended up in Gattlinburg.

Good to see what the plans are going to be.

My understanding it that Cody Chittum will be wrestling for Cleveland this year and will not be back at Blair Academy for this year.

Saw this, certainly sad news for the TN wrestling community. BB was a genuinely great person from all of the interactions I ever had with him.

You sure about those two statements? I have no clue on first item but I know we had some kids who didn't get in because they missed the state tournament due to health reasons and would have gotten in otherwise. I just have no clue what National Preps opinion would have been. On the 2nd item, I have been around DII a pretty good while and don't think athletes from TSSAA schools have been attending continually for 30 years. I can pretty distinctly remember the first few years in recent history when TN schools started getting approval to attend within the last 5-10 years. There may have been some time in distant history when some schools sent guys, but I would be willing to bet you some food at the state tournament that TN hasn't sent kids for 30 continuous years.

I agree with this and unless the situation has changed, which it may have, TN teams needed to get approval to enter the National Preps. That approval had recently adjusted so that state finalists were automatically in and other placers could petition to be let in and might get in based on other spots filled in the tournament, resume, etc. I think that the relevant clause in that is the one that speaks to needing to participate in qualifying zone tournaments. Perhaps something has changed as I am not that close to the process anymore and was never that close to begin with. However, seems to me that thanks to the way the calendar falls this year, all TN private schools would miss the National Preps.

Father Ryan is probably on a similar level to the team they had last year. CBHS was a stronger team than Father Ryan last year. CBHS will be without about 3 starters this weekend, at least one of which is a major contributor at this level as a 2x state finalist. That said, they did just add a returning state champ back to their lineup for the first time this year. I would expect them to be in the mix at this year’s event but may be tough to push for the top spot with a few of their guys out.

You say Anthony was “somehow” ranked 3rd behind Manella but aren’t those your rankings?

BCB, good to see an old face. There are a few folks around who may carry some similar input on but no t truly like the group that used to be involved in the, as you say, good ole days. Sad that I am speaking like that now too... been around too long. Had a good laugh on your Marchetti comment. Hope all is well old timer.

Weight Summary CLEV FARY 106 Bentley Ellison (Cleveland) over Joseph Jones (Father Ryan) (Fall 0:00) 6 0 113 Arlo Laxton (Cleveland) over Matt Oberlander (Father Ryan) (Fall 0:00) 6 0 120 Hudson Sims (Cleveland) over Unknown (For.) 6 0 126 Trae McDaniel (Cleveland) over Calvin Eason (Father Ryan) (MD 19-6) 4 0 132 Thomas Wesnofske (Father Ryan) over Charles Randall (Cleveland) (Dec 5-1) 0 3 138 Sean Pitts (Father Ryan) over Burns Meagher (Cleveland) (Dec 2-0) 0 3 145 Andrew Laden (Father Ryan) over Garrett Stevenson (Cleveland) (Dec 8-1) 0 3 152 Robert Laxton (Cleveland) over Benjamin Marchetti (Father Ryan) (Dec 6-2) 3 0 160 Lawrence Madson (Father Ryan) over Nate Schilling (Cleveland) (Dec 8-1) 0 3 170 JaCorey Miller (Father Ryan) over Zach Brezna (Cleveland) (Dec 10-7) 0 3 182 Tetoe Boyd (Cleveland) over William Rodgers (Father Ryan) (Fall 0:00) 6 0 195 Parker Peterson (Father Ryan) over William Harris (Cleveland) (Fall 0:00) 0 6 220 Ashton Davis (Cleveland) over Antonio Wrigth (Father Ryan) (Fall 0:00) 6 0 285 Growin Wilson (Cleveland) over Elijah Wilson (Father Ryan) (Fall 0:00) 6 0 Team Score: 43 21 Box score from trackwrestling

Only issue there is that they may not be allowed into National Preps without the state placement.