devilblaze

2021 TSSAA Officials Rankings

1. Don Elsea

2. Jeff Ruffalo

3. Ken Mara

4. John Lane

5. Brett Selff

6. Andrew Hedges

Central beats Bradley head to head, places 2nd.  Bradley comes back through and places 3rd.  Bradley has been ranked above Central all season but then loses head to head.  Bradley is the better team.  Because theoretically they would win 2 of 3 if given the opportunity.

Makes all the sense in the world.

Blackman wins over Independence

Independence wins over Nolensville

Nolensville wins over Blackman 

Lebanon High School in Lebanon, Tn will be having Open Mats on Fridays from 530p-630p.  All are welcome to join.

The individual records of the Wildcat wrestlers would be different if their team was located in the Bradley/Cleveland area. They would also be better wrestlers come "Cow Arena" time if they faced tougher wrestlers during the season. They may actually have wrestlers with less than 5-8 losses during the season coming into the State tournament that don't place.

Can this argument be said for everyone not in Chattanooga? Would Garrison from Blackman be undefeated last year if he lived in the Chattanooga area? Better yet, would Tennessee State champs be state champs if they lived in Ohio?? Would murfreesboro football teams have great records if they lived in Knoxville? Would your name be HSDAD If your kid(s) were in college??

Now ranked at heavyweight is he there to stay?

I think if Raulston would've stayed at 195 and not dropped to 182 this year he would've had a good chance to win it. Lindsay Aragon should've won it his junior year(pinned the state champion that year in under a minute if I'm correct) Qauntal Langford definitely. Rex Shotts. Keegan Matlock possibly.

Some great names in this one. all have a legit case.

Jason Mccrosky

truly! this kid was amazing and should have gotten himself at least one.

Casey Brewster

casey is disqualified.  He won not only one but two tssaa titles.  he just fell short as a senior

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Shad coached for 2 years, Sommers.

wrestling usa has Kramer ranked too.  I don't know what, but he is in the top 15

rumor has it that last years top 3 in AAA will all be there (ravenwood, cleveland, wilson county)

Kiel Russell (Clarksville)?

Could it be that a wrestling match is 6 minutes long and one kid wrestled for 6 minutes and the other wrestled for only 5?

Both are great kids but unfortunately one will have to lose. It's gonna be great for one and very unfortunate for the other. It's how it is.

119 you seem to always root against Central because of the bug up your bitt, so I'm assuming you were against the stalling.

In response to your question, I'll answer with statistics.

 

After a closer review of only the unbalanced brackets with consideration given to the ranked wrestlers on the weaker side of the bracket it appears that several different teams from four different regions benefit.

 

Two from region 4 benefit being the favorite on the weaker side.

Two from region 5 benefit being the favorite on the weaker side.

Two from region 6 benefit being the favorite on the weaker side.

Five from region 7 benefit being the favorite on the weaker side.

 

These are the the top regions in the state. Regions 4, 5, and 6 all seem to get an equal amount of great draws due to the lop-sided brackets so I see this as a wash between these regions. Region 7 seems to benefit the most by getting 3 additional unbalanced draws in their favor.

This guy, who has been bragging the entire season on how great and wonderful region 4 is, and how no one other than them need to wrestle, now is bellyaching that they didn't get good draws.

If the region is as great as you have bragged all season, and they will be the only ones standing at the end, as you have said repeatedly, why cry about where you sit.  Just win as you predicted.

I would think that you would have bellyached so much last weekend, as they all were beating up on each other.  Now your wonderful kids get to beat up on everyone else, and you start your whine fest.

Kramer scores seven points. Shotts scored four.

you guys say that wilson county will never reach its full potential, yet they made the state finals last year.

you say they dodge the best mid tn has to offer, yet out of the 25 ranked teams last year they wrestled 20 of them.

you say they never schedule tough duals which is an outright disrespect to all the teams that they do wrestle, yet they have a big one that Coach Peck posted here with several of the tougher teams.

Why not just as men come out and say screw these kids and coaches;you cant stand them and will bash them online no matter what they do.

ScottMike,

1) there were 4 schools listed and you only singled 2 of the schools out as cheaters?

2) if there were actual cheating going on would these coaches not only be fired but made an example of in the media?

3) it seems that your stiffy for Soddy has lasted much longer than 4 hours and you need to seek medical attention.

No one loves the big guys? I wasn't there but i did notice Wells (Blackman) and Kramer (Wilson County) were in the same class. Sounds like a good one.

I mean consolation semis. But the consolation final works just as well.

Who was crowing about how good they are? Btw, I'm not in any way affiliated with WC. I'm a region 5 guy who suffered a beating at the hands of WC. Also have you noticed that the consolation finals were all teams that WC has beaten this year. I ain't from WC, I'm not crowing, but saying they haven't beaten anyone is disrespectful to about 30 or so other teams that they have beaten including Soddy.

Haven't wrestled anyone? Lets get this straight. You want this team to wrestle Soddy or Cleveland. They wrestle Soddy, beat them (with starters missing AS IF WC HAD A CHOICE IN THE MATTER) and you still trash them? This makes sense?

The same rankings that everyone constantly complains about? Maybe everyone got their wish and Bray is the only ranker in town now.

You lack the ability to comprehend what you are reading. Also you do not understand wrestling enough to understand that when you weigh in for a wrestling dual you are actually qualifying yourself for two weight classes. You are out of your element and a Moran.

To make it clear to you, he is eligible for 138, but did not wrestle Central there.

I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that the only person he could wrestle was Richard. Clearly one if us is an idiot and doesn't know what he is talking about.

Revised Predictions based on more research and tonight's results:

 

Who I believe will be representing Region 5 at State (bold are my predicted state placers):

 

*Members of Team Nemesis in '11 or '12

 

106

 

1. Devan Cyree - Tullahoma (my favorite to win a State Title)*

2. Lane Dickeson - Wilson Central <moved up from #4>

3. Dylan Coggins - Blackman

4. Hayden Hammonds - Eagleville

 

 

113

 

1. Christian Cerrito - Wilson Central*

2. Jesse Escue - Blackman

3. Cleveland Cyree - Tullahoma

4. Bronson Satterfield - Cookeville

5. Ellis Dodson - Eagleville*

 

120

 

1. Nick Insalaco - Wilson Central*

2. Jason Singleton - Siegel <moved up from #4>

3. Casey Dodson - Eagleville*

4. Jordan Kimbrough - Blackman

 

126

 

1. Kaleb Gonyea - Smyrna

2. Nick Grant - Siegel

3. Jesse Benson - Cookeville

4. Jonathan Hayes - Wilson Central

(removed Caleb Gentry of Riverdale)

 

132

 

1. Eddie Small - Wilson Central (has a shot at state title)

2. Glen Shoemake - Cookeville

3. Ayinde Bakari - Blackman

4. Stephen Thomas - Siegel

 

138

 

1. Austin Richard - Wilson Central* (has a shot at state title)

2. Josh Feuerbacher - Blackman*

3. Austin Cook - Mt. Juliet

4. Zach Valdez - Siegel

 

145

 

1. Byron Hutchison - Wilson Central

2. Kyle Coder - Siegel

3. Danyon Edens - Mt. Juliet

4. John Oliveiri - Blackman

 

152

 

1. Tyler Garrison - Blackman*

2. John Michael Davidson - Wilson Central

3. Andrew Solomon - Eagleville

4. Tanner Curto - Cookeville

 

160

 

1a. Blake Solomon - Eagleville*

1b. Tyler Sells - Blackman*

TOSS UP...MATCH WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR (either guy could win state)

3. Jonathan Ward - Wilson Central

4. Austin Hammons - Cookeville

5. Logan Stockton - Franklin Co

 

170

 

1. Sean Kennedy - Riverdale

2. Jacob Myers - Wilson Central

3. Dustin Holmes - Siegel

4. Robert Beaulieu - Lawrence Co

 

182

 

1. Perry Baltz - Wilson Central*

2. Jevon Brown - Blackman*

3. Chase Hodges - Riverdale*

4. Jordan Vaughn - Siegel

 

195

 

1. Scottie Boykin - Riverdale (my favorite to win state)*

2. Deonte Ewing - Siegel

3. Alex Weatherford - Franklin Co

4. Darren Houston - Cookeville

 

220

 

1. Johnny Kramer - Wilson Central (good shot at state title)*

2. Hunter Ingham - Mt. Juliet

3. Jordan Wilson - Coffee Co

4. Billy Woodward - Blackman

 

285

 

1. Jeff Benson - Oakland

2. Austin Wells - Blackman*

3. Derek Hammons - Cookeville

4. Lawrence Holcombe - Riverdale

Coach, i'm hoping that it is just an oversight that you left Zach Lusk off of your list at 138. He was the number one seed last year at the region tournament and is back this year. He beat the John Michael kid from Wilson Central last year and beat the Central kid again this year at his weight.