Much like AA, this seems to be mostly a race for second.
Round 1-
Soddy over Munford
Station Camp over Anderson
Pigeon Forge over Millington
Signal over Tullahoma
SF-
Soddy over SC
Signal over PF
Consos-
Anderson over Munford
Tullahoma over Millington
PF over Anderson
SC over Tullahoma
Finals/3rd-
Soddy over Signal
PF over SC
1. Soddy
2. Signal
3. Pigeon Forge
4. Station Camp
well that is extremely disrespectful. can’t wait to tell my 14 yr old that his wrestling dreams are a joke to you. real cool guy you are. your parents must be so proud.
i didn’t say they were scared lol i said that dual streak is a big case of stat padding. which it is by definition. 95%+ of those are wins are against lesser competition. that’s stat padding. i also said that they don’t venture out to bigger dual tournaments elsewhere, which they don’t, and that they are content staying home and wrestling instate teams mostly..which based on my last 2 points, they are. i told no lies.
this is wild lol idk if ive ever seen a bigger case of "stat padding" when they dont venture out and face better competition. theyre perfectly content staying home and beating up on lesser teams in state
that’s my thought process as well. going from projected to miss the tourney all together to handling #3 and then getting this draw…they have to like their chances. and we all know from experience, a confident Bradley squad with momentum is dangerous.
if i was to seed this years, this would be my bracket. Flipped the 3/6 and 4/5 matchups to avoid region foes meeting before the finals.
1. Cleveland vs 8. Arlington
3. Brentwood vs 6. Halls
4. Dobyns vs 5. Bradley
2. Summit vs 7. Bartlett
the sad part is, they fork out the big bucks for football to play at Finley, for basketball to play at Murphy, for baseball to play at Smith Field (MTSU). Track and tennis both use MTSU.
But wrestling, we can only go where it’s free.
Let’s get this out of the way now…does the bracket suck? does the seeding process need to be changed? Yes.
Does T$$AA give a rats @$$ what we think/want? Absolutely not. So while we can all talk about how T$$AA is a joke and cares nothing about this sport, it’s not gonna change anything. So let’s get into it.
R1-
Cleveland over Summit
Brentwood over Arlington
Bradley over Dobyns
Halls over Bartlett
Semi-Finals-
Cleveland over Brentwood
Bradley over Halls
Consos-
Summit over Arlington
Dobyns over Bartlett
Summit over Halls
Brentwood over Dobyns
Finals/3rd-
Cleveland over Bradley
Summit over Brentwood
1. Cleveland
2. Bradley
3. Summit
4. Brentwood
i just really hope Summit can stay focused the rest of the day with a loss. It can be really easy for kids to see that draw and then throw everything you have at Cleveland, and then not have much left in the tank to have to go fight through consolations with a loss.