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So seems Janiya is taking the next step in her high wrestling career and transferring to Wyoming Seminary. I commend her for wrestling up against the best with Piper the past year instead of taking easy way and winning a state title at a lower weight.

Yes, 2 time state champion in Montana and state RU as a freshman, before heading to Iowa as a senior. Got beat 6-1 and 6-2 to the kids that placed 3rd and 4th.

That’s awesome, I’ll have to ask him about it!

I didn’t know you went to Hixson, not sure when you wrestled there but my Uncle wrestled there Wes Arnold, he’s the reason I wrestled to begin with. Good stuff Soms

Yeah, I’m not a fan of his, however if he actually wanted he could buy and sell Mark multiple times over, he just doesn’t choose to do so. of course it’s not often you find an area with that many millionaires that want to pour money into high school sports. I just wished Forrest would have pushed some to a school since he could buy and sell AJ lol. You would figure in a measuring contest AJ would try to win it at all costs so it surprises me he lets Mark beat him.

They don’t seem to have any issues with the admin when it comes to wrestling as they have put a ton of money into that program just like they have the football program. Seems to me they just need the coach and not a carnival barker Ala Butch Jones at UT

Pretty sure Hixson filled their position.

Bella the elite one was a senior so she’s done in high school, Clover is a sophmore. I like you question why even take a chance. Could have waited till sectionals which were 2 weeks out and that would have been plenty of time to get residential requirements in place and T’s crossed and i’s dotted. I hate it for the Cleveland girls, they worked hard for everything and earned it! also I looked and it seems that neither of the Williams girls went back to actually wrestle at Edmond North. So they went back but didn’t continue to wrestle. Wonder if they ran into eligibility issues themselves back in OK.

Yeah, it was very weird to see them not have a soul as a TN wrestler in the team part of sophomores. I mean we had TN wrestlers in every other division including middle school and the girls. Thanks for the update!

Since it doesn’t seem anyone wants to talk about it on here I’ll start. got Jojo vs Samuel Comes in the Junior bracket at 120 in the semis. So at least one TN kid into the finals. Tanner Tran in semis at 106 in junior bracket Ethan U at 132 into the semis in senior bracket Jay Eversole in semi at 182 in senior only 1 TN kid in the semis in freshman division and that is 285 Dewantae McMillon we have no TN kids in the sophomore division. we have quite a few still alive throughout conso in the 3 brackets. Senior- Jonathan Davis, Mason Butler, Wyatt Howard junior- boogie Cosper Freshman-Tristan Collier, Noah Watkins

We all know the TSSAA is a crap show, however, not sure whose bright idea it was to even use the 2 girls that couldn’t have been there for more than 3-4 days to begin with and had not actually moved to Cleveland. Let them practice with higher calling while they waited on the appeal for their school in Oklahoma to be completed and all their resident requirements to be completed. At that point they would have been eligible most likely for individuals. Of course that announcement only says one, so almost makes you wonder if it was someone else.

Yes, just read this on their Facebook page also. I still don’t understand why they did what they did, that team was going to win it without the Williams girls so I just don’t understand the reasoning of having them wrestle at the State duals and having any chance of it being taken away. Hopefully this was why Josh got suspended and he can get back to his usual duties.

I think the whole team took a step back, finished 27th and 1 AA isn’t going to get it done at a school like Iowa State. So either the team, coaches and wrestlers didn’t click or they had some overhyped wrestlers. I like David Taylor so I do hope he ends up at Okie State and Cody can AA his remaining years there.

Boone is a beautiful place, very nice campus and nice people to boot. I kind of wished UTC would drop to D2 and they would do well there. They don’t have the same alumni base and they are the little brothers to most of the other schools in the UT system, so with UT getting most of the states NIL budget and only being FCS in football, UTC would do best to drop. I mean plenty of basketball programs are doing so, heck, 2 that made NCAA tourney are announced to drop to D3 in sports due to the new money climate.

If you are good enough schools overlook a lot to take you(see any of the Ferrari’s and their traveling circus). I’m sure he will end up at like Okie State in the end.