rlwest40

Calling individual wrestlers or their parents is a sure-fire way to get the team 'you' want but setting up a booth at the state championship and contacting each of the HS coaches seems to be a better way to get the word out to potentially more wrestlers. Calling certain wrestlers is basically a 'select' team. If we want to form a state all-star team then I suggest awarding an invitation to each of the state medalists along with their medals inviting them to participate in the one of the sponsored Team TN all-star dual teams. Hopefully enough would be interested to send multiple teams. Wrestle off for the first team spots at the end of the training before leaving for the tournament. State medalists could then leave the podium with their medal and invitation to represent Team TN.

How many teams from TN are going?

Congrats to the 6 champs from our region! Go Blue Raiders!!

Its clinched!

Not for long, the Blue Raiders go up with the next match and stays on top!

Over 450 points from Bradley schools, around 600 points from our region! 3 in the top 4 so far with Soddy stepping up again.

IMO this says more about the coaching staff that committed the 'error' than it does the coaching staff that didn't report the error in a timely fashion. Seems like the Summit coaches are the ones catching all of the heat on this board while the more relevant issue is being ignored. Was this simply a clerical issue?

Stalling has been a serious issue in TN wrestling for a while. Especially on bottom, can't tell you how many times I've watched a wrestler lay on bottom for the majority of the match making no effort to improve his position while the top guy constantly works for a turn just to be called for stalling himself. The wrestlers use this strategy all the time even at state and the refs allow it.

The 220 match didn't decide the dual and that was CHS's 2nd win against WC this season.

Some neighboring states do not allow forfeits at region or state duals, if you have wrestlers at that weight they must wrestle. Prevents teams from forfeiting at weights they expect to be pinned. In a tie breaker number of pins can decide the dual.

WC has gotten respect for being a state finalist three years in a row, no doubt. EVERYBODY had BC and WC ranked over CHS most of the season, glad to see Cleveland finish at the top once again. Great job to Yost and staff and all of the Blue Raider Wrestlers!

Congrats to the Raiders! Blue and Red.

The last week or so I felt like WC matched up with BC better than they do with CHS. All three teams are very close this year and since the first CHS/BC match this season it seemed to me as though BC may have peaked a little too soon. I still think CHS edges WC in the finals. Congrats to both teams for making the finals three years in a row!

Go Blue! ReMatch in state finals. CHS three-peats!

Currently Archer leads the KC Stampede, Baylor is tied with Thompson AL for 16th and Collins Hill is 30th. Powell was runner-up in his pool Friday advancing to the Gold Bracket (Top 16). Sutherland won his pool advancing to the Gold Bracket (Top 16). Seagraves won his pool advancing to the Gold Bracket (Top 16). Parker won his pool advancing to the Gold Bracket (Top 16). Schmissrauter won his pool advancing to the Gold Bracket (Top 16). Reiniche won his pool advancing to the Gold Bracket (Top 16).

Looks like McCallie (14) and Cleveland (12) are neck and neck as well as Bradley Central (14) and Father Ryan (13).

1st - Bradley Central - 14 - 161.5 points 2nd - Father Ryan - 13 - 151.5 points

Results going into the semi-finals: 1st - McCallie - 14 - 123 points - 7 semi-finalists - 5 in consos - 1st in team pins 2nd - Cleveland - 12 - 116 points - 6 semi-finalists - 4 in consos - 3rd in team pins

Cleveland, McCallie, Pope, Woodland, Alexander, and Hillcrest should all do well depending on how many each team entered in the tournament.

Solid tournament!

Good luck at KC Mike.

You've already added them, the list I saw had 5 ranked.

It is very difficult to schedule in January as many neighboring states are involved in area, sectional, and state duals. Tournaments will mostly be made up of TN teams at this time so it's extremely difficult to have more than one strong tournament on the same weekend.

The list of teams reflects last year's GP West and this years FR, that's why a couple of teams are on both lists.

You have Jonathan Martin HM @ 160 after a win over Morrice but he is at 170. I agree 220 is crazy but I would compare quality wins for each wrestler. Gaither has wins over both Schmissrauter and Kramer. He did lose a close match to Stacey on a controversial call. Schmissrauter has a win over Stacey and Stacey has a win over Gaither but does Schmissrauter or Stacey have any other wins over top 6 opponents? I'm not sure if they do or not but with each losing to each other it's helpful to compare the number of quality wins against other ranked opponents. I would expect to see a couple more Baylor wrestlers on the list.