Biffmar4

Sorry Coach Hamblin for stealing your thunder! Logan is a workhorse and I'm so proud of the young man you've helped him become in the room and out of the room. His parents and family are top notch people too. Happy to see another D1 wrestling commit from small school TN! I had him on my duals team this summer, but couldn't get him to switch schools! LOL He is what they say he is, a Monster Truck!

Curious why no 195? Kendrick would be willing to do it for sure. Also, curious how Logan Heckert didn't make this at 170 or 182. From these current threads looks like Brenot at 182 for WNO and 160 for Super32? I know and like all four guys at these two weights, but Logan is on a tear rn and tough to see him left out of this opportunity.

106 - Tanner Tran 4-4 113 - JoJo Uhorchuk 8-0 all bonus 120 - Ethan Uhorchuk 6-0 wrestled w/torn pec 126 - Caleb Uhorchuk 8-0 all pins 132 - Easton Lipsey 8-0 138 - Ethan Lipsey 7-0 all bonus 138 - Keegan Seaver 1-0 145 - Dalen Kimble 6-1 145 - Alex Velazquez 1-0 152 - Riley Fort 5-3 160 - Tell Magness 6-2 170 - Jake Stacey 8-0 182 - Logan Heckert 8-0 all pins 195 - Kendrick Curtis 7-0 195/220 - Tanner Waxman 4-2 220/HWT - Noah Todd 5-1 HWT - Andrew Clark 3-2 6 State Champs, 4 Finalists, 3 3rd Place 10 small school, 6 big school, 1 private school 12 clearly middle TN kids, 5 borderline south central TN kids 10 kids from Wilson Central Fight Night room 17 kids that don’t stop wrestling at the end of February 2 TN teams in top 4 (Misfits). Another TN team won Silver Bracket (they lost quite a few kids last minute to injury and illness). 11 Deep South All Americans on Maulers Great group of young men who love to compete and win and great group of parents supporting them in a meaningful pursuit

I was going to take a team but it was the first week of dead period for our high schools and everyone was taking their vacations. I only had half a team coming back from VA Beach and couldn’t afford to make the investment and then try to find that many kids on short notice. Just bad timing. And there’s no off season for the wrestlers that have been wrestling with me and with Hamm at fight nights and with Pete at Summit, and the guys at Green Hill, they’ve been going non stop since individual state.

Half of these kids have been going to wilson central fight nights all summer and the other half have been going to camps and competing across the country. These guys are so committed to this sport and it’s an honor just to sit and the corner and watch them do their thing.

Team name is Mid Tn Maulers. We took a solid team to national duals in va beach too. I would say half of this team or more is wrestling in Fargo. These kids are just putting in the work and wrestling every chance they can get. Most wrestled cadet and junior national duals too.

Deep South Duals in Hoover, Alabama on Friday July 29 and Saturday July 30. Current team listed below, still need a heavyweight, contact me at 615-627-8708 106 Tanner Tran (1) 113 Uhorchuk(2) 120 Uhorchuk(1) 126 Uhorchuk(1) 132 Easton Lipsey (2) 138 Ethan Lipsey (2) 145 Dalen Kimble (1) 152 Riley Fort (2) 160 Tell Magness (3) 170 Logan Heckert(1) 182 Jake Stacey (3) 195 Kendrick Curtis (1) 220 Noah Todd (2) HWT

Had an injury at our 195 and need to find a hammer to replace him with for next weekend. I'm driving from middle TN and can drive the athlete up and back, they'd just need to find a place to stay. I'm happy to shuttle them to and from the competition as well. Shoot me a text to 615-627-8708 if you have someone that can go next weekend. Weigh Ins are Friday at 6pm.

We've got a really strong team headed up to Virginia Beach in a few weeks to wrestle in the HS National Duals. Great mix of hammers from big school, small school, and private school. Here's the lineup with state placement in (): 106 Aiden Chavez (FA Michigan) 113 Jojo Uhorchuk (2) 120 Ethan Uhorchuk (1) 126 Caleb Uhorchuk (1) 132 Casen Roark (1) 138 Steven Dindl (4) 145 Chancery Dean (3) 152 Dalen Kimble(1) 160 Logan Heckert(1) 170 Matt Oberlander (3) 182 Jake Stacey(3) 195 Thomas Stadel (3) 220 Miles Workman (6) HWT Keimel Redford These young men will represent our state well!

LOL, the kids that would be representing each division don't generally stop wrestling, some do, most don't, so the weight thing wouldn't be a huge hurdle. That's why I brought Shane up. He did a fantastic job with the Border Brawl and might have a gift as a promoter. And the implications for the wrestlers are that you get more regional exposure with college coaches on Rokfin, SEWrestle, etc. Not only that, but you get quality mat time in most cases. Oh yeah, and it would be fun. If I did the work, I would ban you from watching!

If someone put it together, I’d pay to watch it, just like I did the border brawl. I like what some of these guys are doing for wrestling in the state of TN.

Don't forget Morgan Lowery as a key returner for Greeneville. He was injured much of last season, but if he's healthy, he will provide additional depth for that Greeneville squad. Best thing for Division I A competition in traditional was the realignment. I think you will find coaches express the sentiment that perennial small school powerhouses found it harder to place as many kids in years past and I think you will find perennial big school powerhouses found it easier to place more kids last year. Nice balance, again IMO. The programs with kids putting in the spring and summer work will surely outshine the others come February and it takes more than 2-3 kids that are committed. One program that appears to have a higher level of spring and summer commitment than other squads is Signal. On another note maybe Shane can put together a televised D1A, D1AA and DII All Star dual the week after Individual States (yes I said states).

Have a team of studs (mostly state champs and all high placers) going to HS National Duals in VA Beach 5/28-5/31. Need a 106+3. This is folkstyle and I know a lot of guys are in FS/GR rn, but so are a lot of the guys on this team. They are just taking that weekend to go get in front of college coaches. Every young man on the team so far has goals of wrestling at the next level and this team should make it to the gold bracket on day 3, which would put them against some of the best kids in the country and in front of LOTS of college coaches. The kid can be a stud MS 100 or 105 too. biffmar4@hotmail.com 615-627-8708 Uniform orders going out today. Call or text for more info. Biff Curtis

We took the long way around to get there. Regardless who the coach is, the challenges remain. In this day and age you can’t just be a good technique coach, you have to be a marketer and a salesman. Someone that can cast a wider net and create a vision of the program that will get more higher level talent in the room. I have no idea if the current coach is that guy or some other guy is that guy.

But the perspective remains the same. Wrestling is much bigger and a more mature sport in the NE, Midwest, and some western states than it is in TN. I think some solid goals for UTC would be: 1. Win SoCon every year 2. Create a culture in the room of commitment and dedication to the program to keep kids all 4-7 years 3. Capture all elite talent from TN and throughout the SE by being more involved in youth and HS wrestling (camps, clinics, social media) 4. Consistently produce AAs I think by establishing themselves as the premier D1 school in the SE for wrestling, they can create a higher level room which will in turn create more SoCon Championships and more AAs, especially if the culture changes to where kids who start at UTC and become good enough to transfer to a higher level D1 school stay for the room and for the team believing the room they help elevate will also help elevate them.

There are 150 in Division 1 that have wrestling programs and roughly 30 in Division II. Classification (tssaa.org)

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Also perspective, PIAA has 1,250 schools and TSSAA has maybe 200.

Just some perspective, pulled from recent article on Flo by Andrew Spey. Unless the UTC coaches can pull some top talent from PA, I think they have some tough sledding. If you guys were coaches at UTC, what would you do to elevate the program? What would you define as success? You won’t be getting top PA talent, so would you recruit top talent in TN and try to manifest them into NCAA AAs knowing that if you find a diamond in the rough and worked them for two years til they were ready to compete at the national level, they would transfer to a bigger school with a tougher room? We also have some great talent in TN rn whose home state is not TN. I think we are maturing as a state, but have a ways to go. Worthwhile journey though. ”Next, everyone's favorite, National Qualifiers (NQs), All-Americans (AAs) and champs by Home State.” State NQs AAs 1st PA 45 12 1 IL 32 8 NJ 30 7 1 OH 22 7 MI 17 4 1 CA 17 4 NY 15 4 1 MN 14 5 1 IA 13 1 CO 11 4 1 IN 11 3 1 FL 11 2 OK 9 2 MO 8 2 VA 8 0 WI 7 4 1 KS 7 1 GA 7 0 NC 5 2 AZ 4 2 1 MD 3 1 1 WV 3 1 WA 3 1 ND 3 0 MT 3 0 UT 2 0 TN 2 0 NE 2 0 MA 2 0 CT 2 0 AK 2 0 NM 1 1 ID 1 1 WY 1 0 RUS 1 0 OR 1 0 NH 1 0 KY 1 0 HI 1 0 AL

I think UTC is headed in the right direction. It's difficult to compete with the bigger programs on so many levels, but if St. Peters can do it in Basketball, UTC can do it in wrestling. I'm sure the mindset of the coaches is to perform, evaluate, refine, perform, evaluate, refine over and over until they put out a program that everyone on Coach T can be proud of.

Agree that Gervacio is the cream of the crop at 182 rn. Chew has really impressed me how he came through sections and states, almost like he figured something out about himself that just makes him really hard to score on and he just picks up a point or two along the way. Omaury is a beast too. I've known him and watched him wrestle since he came to a Fairview tournament when he was probably in the 3rd/4th grade. He was built like a linebacker back then and just looks like a bigger version of that same kid I met way back when. Fun to watch all these kids and the sport of wrestling mature and evolve in TN.

I would like to see Chew and Gervacio wrestle. The way Chew finished his season, he might give Gonzalez a very close match or even pull out a 1-pt win. He's def gained my respect with his grit the last 1/3 of the season and finding a way to win several close matches.

The pendulum swings both ways. There is a FR kid on the dream team that my son pinned head to head. Is what it is. At the end of the day he doesn’t hang his hat on other coach’s recognition, nor should any other wrestler IMO.

Our sectional felt like an extension of the State Tournament, like a Sub-state I guess. I will tell you something else I noticed, seemed harder to podium in Division I A this year adding in teams like Munford, Halls, Page, etc. due to the realignment. I think it will help A get stronger with more competition and hopefully close the overall gap between top to bottom quality in A and AA. I already see more kids lining up to do more spring/summer work than in years past just to stay competitive and reach their goals of being a state qualifier, placer, or champ. At first glance, the realignment has seemed to already have a more competitive impact on A. I'm good with having the sectionals the week before so that we don't have 5 days at the Ag Expo, it brings more attention to the sport locally when you have a big event in town versus somewhere else in the state.