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To wrestle a weight class at nationals, you must wrestle at that weight once during the year, not just make the weight.

I know Ibrahim from overton is planning on going. He wrestled one match at 112 to qualify for that weight, but may still go 119.

Another senior that finished his career on a sour note was Ari Ibrahim of Overton. he has been a great wrestler and has accomplished a ton, in only his fourth year of wreslting. He will be a very succesful wreslter at the next level. He was very upset at his loss on saturday. There should be no shame losing to Cordell, becuase he is a x3 state champion. Ari is a class act and one of the best kids I have known. He is a strong individual who has gone through a lot and has made a great person out of himself. I want to congratulate him on his accomplishments and wish him good luck at the nationals in April.

in response to Ibrahim not being active in neutral. he is one of the states best in that position. The only reason that he lost to Fuller was that Fuller stayed away from contact the whole match. Yes, Ibrahim did make a mistake, but Fuller masde no attempts at takedowns. he did not get called for stalling, and for some reason, they never do against Ari. He pushes too hard in neutral and never sees the benefit of a stall call. it has been happening all year to him. Unfortunately, he won;t get to see Fuller again, because Fuller would have to beat Cordell to get to the finals.

I agree with most of your predictions except a few. Rudas will not make it to the finals, someone will upset him. I don't know who will do it, but he will be upset along the way. coleman over Ortiz. Ibrahim over Cordell. Holliman over West. HAyes of Overton will be in the finals at 215 and will beat Inman of Smyrna.

After last year's awful showing in state ( only two place winners), I think this region will have more than 10 this year. 103 is very tough in our region, along with HWT. There could be more than one state place winner coming from those weight classes. We could get two place winners from 160, and 171 along with a few in some other weight classes. Good job with improvement this year coaches, and good luck this weekend and at states next weekend. Let us go out and get some high place winners at the state next weekend!!! Coach Pozdol

Were Eric and Derrick Jordan of overton both state champions?

OVerton is only graduating 2 seniors. We will have 7 juniors next year. The only two wrestlers that we will lose are Ibrahim (big loss) and our 152 lbs. The strength of our team will return!!! We will still be young, but with way more talent than last year.

the argument about the best 8 teams being their is absurd. I believe Kenwood and Rossview could beat at least one or two of the participants in this weekends tourny. What about last year. I have no doubt that Clevelan was the second best DI school in the state, but were not able to wrestle in the state duals. It does us no good to complain unless there is something we, as coaches, can change about the state duals. Personally, I see nothing wrong with letting one winner from each region to the duals, but if you are going to place the top four, then the top four teams in the state should be in attendance. I believe that they are this year, but last year they were not. Even this year, if we go by TN USA rankings, then the fourth ranked team in D1 is not particpating in the duals.

Dragon Wreslter, I don't think you need to find a pin, I think you will need to pin at all three of those weight classes. Clarksville is very good at knowing their roles and not giving up pins to opposing teams studs. As for the other question, I think coach Cobb (CLK) showed he knows how to change his lineup, and I think coach Gabriel is great at adjusting his (up or down), but does not have the bodies to do that as much this year.

Is Collierville completely healthy? We have seen them in two or three tournaments and they have not had all of their wreslters. Collierville will have to get some pins in the light weights (103, 112, 119) to win.

I'm impressed!!! I guess I was wrong. The KKW HWT must have done some improving since the beginning of the year. Who was the backup HWt at Clarksville, and is their starter a senior?

Did Clarksville's HWT win that match?? I'll bet he did. The reason the normal HWT dropped, was because KKW 215 is better than their HWT. The KKW HWT is not very good. That was just good coaching, put your better wrestler on the other teams better wrestler if you can.

Will Johnson be there next year or will he gain weight. Noman is so light right now that he will return next year at 103 and be one of the strongest in the state. He still has a lot of technique to learn, but isn't that what summer wrestling is for. He also has a pretty good teaching partner in Ibrahim.

Will Johnson be there next year or will he gain weight. Noman is so light right now that he will return next year at 103 and be one of the strongest in the state. He still has a lot of technique to learn, but isn't that what summer wrestling is for.