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It’s never too early. It doesn’t say who are the favorites..at each weight. Just who the guys are you are looking out for. A kid dropping a weight doesn’t make him 100x less of a favorite. If Isbell or Whiteside dropped to 26, they’d still be a favorite. Maybe not THE favorite but still 100% a threat. Same with Borders or Shires going to 106..probably not THE favorite but still a top guy. I feel like p4p the top guys and the favorites to podium don’t change much with what weight they are. We can talk about who the top guys are without them qualifying yet

With state duals in the rear view, it’s time to look forward to traditional state. Without a copy and paste of rankings, who are the favorites, dark horses, and relative unknowns to look out for the next couple of weekends? When I have time later this evening, I will take a look and share my thoughts.

Yup! All good though. Didn’t bother me one bit.

Someone did this to me a couple of years ago. Made a bump 12, 13, and 14. Must say I got a good chuckle out of it.

Congratulations to Cleveland, Pigeon Forge, and Baylor on their state titles. On to individuals!

I was wondering the same thing.

Centennial beats Science Hill and will make the podium! Congrats to Pelkey and his boys. All the hard work is paying off.

As a Cleveland fan I would think you’d agree? I know when these 2 meet you can throw everything else out the window..but outside of Baylor, maybe McCallie, Bros, Ryan (depending on which forms of the teams show up) no one is touching Cleveland. Bradley does seem to have shown up for the big time today so hopefully it will be a competitive and entertaining match.

Bradley may be peaking but they still get trucked by Cleveland tonight.

Wilson Central beats Arlington 44-30. Arlington out before top 6. Cleveland rolls as expected. The other semi however is pretty good so far. Centennial and Indy neck and neck as well

On what? I didn’t pick Greeneville to win... though my pick also lost.

Yeahhhh.. about that

Wilson pins Mercante. Bradley takes out Wilson Central Science Hill beats Arlington. Cleveland/Blackman Bradley/Science Hill semis tomorrow. Nolensville rolls Signal Mountain. Will meet Pigeon Forge in the final tomorrow.

Pigeon Forge beats Fairview to make the A/AA final. McCallie takes out the Bros for a spot in the D2 final. Wilson and Bradley coming down to 106 and Arlington/Science Hill will go down to the wire as well

Fairview beats Hixson and Nolensville beats Greeneville. Looks like some were way wrong on A/AA. Including myself.

Signal runs through Alcoa. PF cruising. Nolensville and Greeneville are neck and neck. And Hixon/Fairview is coming down to heavyweight with arguably the top 2 in A/AA going at it. How exciting!

I’d say it definitely makes him the favorite! I wonder if there’s any chance we see Cannon vs Borders this weekend

Those 4 plus Nolensville are the ones I think could all end up on top. Gonna be a fun one!

Agreed. I see 5 or 6 that I think if they get rollin could win it.

Tomorrow is the big day. As I’m sure there will be lots of conversation over the next couple days, let’s try to keep it all centralized here and not on multiple threads. Any updates, big matches, upsets...anything to do with the state duals. Good luck to everyone competing! May the best teams stand tall Saturday evening!

Right the rules are different for D2. And you’re right it is what it is. Which is what I said in my original post. And it’s not fair. But we can’t do anything about it. It seems my bad assumptions got everyone off track. My apologies

This is very true. TJ is one of the best to ever do it in the state of Tennessee. My point was that had he been D2 he wouldn’t have ran into Brayden. Or TJ for that matter and would be a 4 timer. Aka I don’t think he beats Brayden at all, so my assumption (yes I know I’m sorry!) was that he left to go D2 to get more exposure and have a better shot at winning. Just like these other kids including Horst and Bates, will go to these big schools to “get better” and have a better chance at winning. And I’ll say it again, I don’t think it mattered with Horst and Bates because they would both win 4 no matter where they were.. UNLESS Horst went somewhere else in D1 and had to go through Brayden..then I don’t think he wins 4.

Very true. Cleveland has and will continue too. Same with Science Hill getting kids from Tennessee and Wilson Central getting kids from mt. Juliet and Lebanon. Now while I honestly believe that Horst and Bates would’ve been 4 timers no matter where they were, it’s obvious that teams will do what it takes to make their team better, kids will go where they think they have better opportunities/exposure, and parents will do what it takes to send their kids where they have better opportunities and exposure. I don’t agree with any of it. And if the bowers moved for personal reasons then I apologize for using their name, but it still shows that studs move around a lot and Baylor shouldn’t be singled out. If the Bowers moving weren’t Christian Brothers choice...well Horst and Bates moving wasn’t forced by Baylor either. The kids and the parents wanted it. And of course Baylor is gonna welcome those 2 with open arms 10 out of 10 times

I think you misunderstood. I didn’t mean I’d take bowers on my team over both Bates and Horst. I meant if we lined up bowers vs Horst and Bowers vs Bates I would pick bowers to win both. Meaning I just think that he’s a better stud individually that both. Not put together lol

The point wasn’t that they just got a D1 state champ..the point was they get transfers from D1 schools too. I’d take Garrett Bowers p4p over Horst and Bates. Had he not run into Brayden Palmer, arguably one of the best light weights we’ve seen since I can remember, he’d be a sure fire 4 timer. I wasn’t trying to start anything..just saying that you can’t really complain about Baylor getting D1 transfers when they aren’t the only ones