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Cleveland over Clarksville Blackman over SC Indy over Arlington* DB over Maryville Centennial over Houston Oakland over Halls* Bradley over Heritage Wilson over SH *The two stars were done on a coinflip, I think each team would follow the same route in the bracket win or lose though Quarters: Cleveland over Blackman DB over Indy Centennial over Oakland WIlson over Bradley 1st round cons: Clarksville over SC Arlington over Maryville Halls over Houston SH over Heritage 2nd round cons: Bradley over Clarksville Oakland over Arlington Halls over Indy Blackman over SH 3rd round cons: Bradley over Oakland Blackman over Halls Semi's: Cleveland over DB WIlson over Centennial Consolation Semi's: Bradley over DB Blackman over Centennial 1st Cleveland 2nd Wilson Central 3rd Bradley 4th Blackman Not sleeping on DB- have them making to the Semi's, and getting their losses from Cleveland and Bradley. Also, I remember reading somewhere someone made a comment about WC not wrestling anyone- they are about to change that (Science Hill and Bradley rounds 1 and 2)!

It always sounds great in theory, but never has been able to be put together for every weight class. There are several reasons why a kid may not be interested: Making weight again, wanting to go to a bigger post season tournament, moving on to a spring sport, not wanting to keep training/practicing for another 2ish weeks in preparation, and also for anyone that won it as an "under dog"- if they just accomplished their career goal with a state championship, why not just hang your hat on that? I thought the idea of the 4 person tournament last year would be odd for a kid that wasn't supposed to win AAA. He just won a state title that nobody predicted him to win, why would he want to go wrestle a 4 person bracket of the A/AA champ, D2 champ, and the guy he just beat at state.

They wrestled?!?!

If you win a tournament that has #1, #2, and #3- and if you yourself beat 2 of the 3, then I think you have a strong argument to be number 1 after that performance. I have seen him wrestle several times over the last couple of years and will admit his career, including this year, has had several highs and lows, and a lot of close matches filled with plenty of losses. However, I think he proved this weekend that he does have the ability beat the best kids in the state and could do it again at state. I've always thought he looked like a tough kid and had great abilities (even in matches he's lost) in the past, so I am happy to see him get some big wins, and hope this means he's really turned a corner to be a top kid himself. And for any of you that want to argue with me, please re-read what I said and notice some specific word choices. Did I say I think he will win state? No, I said I think he could. Did I say he is the top guy and deserves to be #1? No, I just admitted that logically you could make a good argument given his last performance. I personally believe this weight class may be wide open, and there really isn't a clear cut #1 right now. Additionally, I have always made a point to never sound like I am insulting a child or speaking bad about them. By saying I don't think he is a clear cut #1, I think I may be flirting with that territory. So to be perfectly clear, Hunter- or his parents, if you read this yourself, let me first tell you congrats on the big wins! Also, I hope you can keep the momentum rolling for the rest of the season and prove you are #1 by winning the state tournament! I live in Knoxville- Fountain City, and do not have any connections to any specific programs, but have always rooted for Knoxville/Knoxville area kids at state, and if you make the finals this year I will be there rooting for you! Edit: And bump, not trying to argue with your opinion on him either, just felt the need to comment since its a kid I've seen a lot of in the past.

Put a * beside this years results in the record books if they decided to do so.

Austin East probably is the worst for kids leaving. Carter, Halls, Gibbs, and some years South Doyle struggle to keep their top kids at home also. Its amazing the difference in how competitive those programs can be when they keep their kids at home. Its like they struggle to get to 500 most years, but when they keep 1 or 2 key players from transferring they may go 7-3 or 8-2 (and usually those 2 or 3 losses are competitive games rather then blow outs).

So I think I may drive down to Bradley Saturday 106: #1. AAA Ethan Wilson (Bradley) #1 A/AA Caleb Uhorchuk (Signal Mountain) #2 AAA Bentley Ellison (Cleveland) #3 AAA Chaz Stokes (Oakland) #3 D2 Ellis Haney (McCallie) #4 AAA Owen Gobel (Franklin) 113: #1 A/AA Connor Leffew (Hixson) #3 AAA Glenn O’Daniel (Bradley) #4 AAA Tenario Thomas (East Hamilton) #6 AAA Arlo Laxton (Cleveland) 120: #1 AAA Jackson Bradford (Cleveland) #1 D2 Jack Braman (McCallie) #1 A/AA Daniel Uhorchuk (Signal Mountain) #2 AAA Luke Belcher (Bradley) #3 AAA Alex Rose (Blackman) 126: #1 AAA Trae McDaniel (Cleveland) #1 D2 Emory Taylor (McCallie) #1 A/AA Trevor Lewis (Hixson) #2 AAA Trey Bates (Beech) 132: #1 A/AA Kale Albritton (Signal Mountain) #3 A/AA Jeremiah Shackleford (Hixson) #4 AAA Gavin Hughes (Bradley) #6 AAA Charles Randall (Cleveland) 138: #2 AAA Kenny Harless (Stewarts Creek) #3 AAA Landon Fisher (Jefferson Co) #4 AAA Seth Gregory (Bradley) #6 AAA Burns Meagher (Cleveland) 145: #1 AAA Christian Isbell (Clarksville) #2 A/AA Kevin Muschel (Signal Mountain) 152: #3 AAA Mason Smith (Beech) #4 AAA Cael Laxton (Cleveland) #5 AAA Logan Fisher (Jefferson Co) #6 Anthony Lynn (Bradley) #3 A/AA Kobie Smith (Hixson) 160: #1 D2 Alex Whitworth (McCallie) #1 AAA Matheson Meade (Bearden) #1 A/AA Preston Worley (Signal Mountain) #3 A/AA Kaleb Mayes (Hixson) #5 AAA Nate Schilling (Cleveland) #6 AAA Owen Zuckerman (Houston) 170: #1 D2 Gavin Cagle (McCallie) #1 AAA Josh Pietarila (Hardin Valley) #3 AAA Cade Meeks (East Hamilton) #5 AAA Zach Brezna (Cleveland) #6 AAA Tyrone McDonald (Bradley) 182: #1 AAA Brooks Sacharczyk (Blackman) #2 AAA Cooper Palmieri (Northwest) #3 AAA Cade Young (Houston) #3 D2 Chase Looper (McCallie) #5 AAA Tito Boyd (Cleveland) 195: #1 AAA Jason Brumlow (East Hamilton) (only one ranked from TN) 220: #1 AAA Ashton Davis (Cleveland) #1 A/AA Parrish Paccetti (Hixson) #2 AAA Ryver Sheltson (Jefferson Co) #4 AAA Brandon Elkins (Halls) #5 AAA Kameron Bingham (Oakland) 285: #1 A/AA Devotis McGurdy (Hixson) #2 D2 James Howard (McCallie) #4 AAA Bowdy Boyce (Blackman) AND THATS ONLY THE TENNESSEE KIDS

That was me! Yes I'm aware Maryville, Alcoa, and some years Catholic play. I live between the other two schools I listed and would like to see them jump in that mix.

I don't have a dog in this fight at all, and haven't seen Maryville wrestle in several years. But, any team that is qualifying for state duals is not "below average". You can argue that they may only be there because they have an easy region, but they beat somebody else at the dance.

Powell vs Maryville vs Knox Catholic vs Alcoa vs Knox Central Basically any combo of those 5.

Byes no, forfeits yes. If you are scoring points for your team in a dual it counts as your record. Yes, any scrub can go out there and get their hand raised, however, with the 3 guys mentioned I doubt that was the case. I would be willing to bet there was several times that these teams were in a dual, and the opposing coach forfeited to these guys by choice. These guys shouldn't take a no contest when they are ready to compete and the opposing coach chose not to wrestle. They were going to get an easy win, and opposing coaches do not have the power to keep them from getting W in the stats column.

At Catholic: Shelton (Jeff County) beat Cummings (Anderson County) in OT. Cummings beat Elkins (Halls) in the semi finals in, what I was told, a very close match that could have gone either way.

Each coach picks what kids make "All-Region" on their own team. This is not a real award in Tennessee. Have you never thought it was odd that there are 7 all region quarterbacks in a region with 7 teams?

Elkins (Halls) is in the 220 bracket at Catholic. Should be a good one for that tournament between him Cummins and Shelton.

Wins/Losses and some schools pins.... That's really the only stats I believe most schools keep

I agree that rules need to be changed. Its odd how every sport makes small rule changes on the national level every single year, yet bodies that govern those sports on the secondary level won't make necessary changes for decades. I don't know if I agree with you on the 1 free transfer for all, as I think that could potentially be taken advantage of, but I believe I would agree with you on most.

Do they want to? Or does an adult (other than a parent) want them to? That's one of the main reasons why the majority of transfer rules exist.

In a similar fashion to a the early season math-ups thread created last week, I am creating this thread for people to share results of any notable matches for this week. Whether it be dual or individual, please share results you may believe are significant. Example: Non ranked wrestler majors #4 ranked wrestler of same weight class. Non example: Defending state champion shuts out a team that has 7 kids in their wrestling room. (Congrats on the win- but the rest of the state safely assumed you would get that W). In my time on Coacht, I have noticed a yearly ritual argument on rankings and their validity. I hope weekly threads such as this can help Hamm, or anyone else interested in starting their own rankings (please do if you constantly criticize Hamm). And yes, I am aware that the majority of this information is on track, however, I believe this will help speed up the process of digging through match results on track by simply high-lighting results that may be significant.

up-vote times 100 I would argue that removing all transfer rules would be very harmful to the "student athletes".

You're starting to sound like a Tennessee football fan from the mid 2000s. Why bother being a top 10 team every year if you can't win it all? Be careful what you wish for, things can be a heck of a lot worse!

Agreed completely.

What the ****?!?!?! People are talking about the football game Friday night? When did this happen?!?!

Actually, not publicly announcing an offer is the last thing you want to do. That is true for ALL sports. Most schools, specifically at the NCAA division 1 level, do not want to be the only school to offer a recruit. And in most cases, kids may be receiving letters and attention from dozens of schools for months (and sometimes years), but an offer seems to never come. But once the first offer comes, the recruit will usually receive several more in the following days. I am not sure if wrestling has an equivalent- but for sports like basketball, football and baseball there are recruiting websites (rivals, scout, espn) that offer a star rating system. The number of stars you have depends solely on what schools, and how many schools, have offered you a scholarship. Now do these kids need to get on Coacht and list for all us nobodys who has offered them? No... not saying that at all. But they shouldn't be keeping that information private at all either.

Needs to be done, if not smaller. I get that a lot of decisions are money related, but teams automatically making the playoffs is a joke of the sport.

Unless there is more to come? .... Okay, I'll admit that comment is made simply just to stir the pot.