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good post cc -fire marshall warning -i have heard that tickets will be limited and required.- don't want 90 to show up late and get his feelings hurt again - jt

Patrick , you may already know this but Nate Rawlings former Baylor and Princeton heavyweight will be going back to Iraq for a second tour (currently Ft. Hood leaving I think Feb.) -I do know last go around he was stationed @ the Bagdad airport - Thank You and good luck!-- JIm T.

thanks for the additions, with as many kids as we have this year up in pittsburg - hard to keep up with all, and that's a good problem - JT

this has to be the best showing ever for tenn boys at a national level event of this caliber - i will probably miss someone but the ones i am aware of who will still be wrestling when wrestling resumes friday are -- randolph 103 wrestling for 7th , johnson 125 wrestling for 3rd , 145 toney wrestling for 7th -doster wrestling for 5th and felix wrestling in the championship for 1st (three all-americans in 145 for TN. WOW) 152 waddell wrestling for 3rd and 160 creagan wrestling for 7th in the sophmore nats119 mang wrestling for 3rd , 135 konz wrestling for 3rd cuthbertson although not a Tn. boy but close by -wrestling in the championship and Tolbert @160 wrestling in the championship for 1st. , @ 189 herrmann for 7th - what a great showing congrats to all place winners and all that chose to go up to pittsburg - great work! - JT

the tenn. kids have had what has to be a record day up in Pittsburg, with wrestlers still alive in the quarters tommorrow morning at 9:00 @ 103, 112, 119 , 125 , 145 x 3 , 152 , 160 and 171 - good luck to all, keep up the great representation! - JT

thanks ross , any way to view brakets and updates. i know they started this a.m. -jt

junior nationals starts tomorrow and senior nats friday - what is the web site to follow these tourneys and who all is going from across the state. I have heard there are quite a few going this year. Good Luck to All !! - JT

no doubt paul was meaner , i was slicker - but don't tell him i told you that - jt

AMEN - a pretty good decade to be a baylor wrestling groupie- but hey, with the Young twins , Goss, Perrin etc. - the nashville red on the rebound- a young father ryan group anything is possible - long way til november- can't wait -JT

no disrespect to any wrestlers in matches that are not going to happen , but i will say derek walker learned a valuable lesson last year and was not to be denied this year- he came out focused and wrestled as good as I have seen him wrestle in three years - whomever he would have wrestled in these hypothetical match-ups would have had there hands full- congrats to morgan , walker and all the other 89's and Buck your right same age , same weight, one division = wrestling at it's best - JT

good reply - you Smith boys have proven to be good competition over the past 7/8 years and obviously have a good perspective on things - good luck to you and congrats to your brother-JT

both come from a long line of wrestling brothers , both are good and yes that would have been a good one for the wrestling fans - are either or both going to SR. Nationals - JT

i liked him just fine in blue and gold - JT

thank you for your tireless support of wrestling and your efforts to promote tennessee wrestling - your still my favorite ---allie man , but i liked you better in red - JT

i'd have to agree with you on that, but more important than their rantings is the support group for ND wrestling( where they have brought many out of the closet).This will help their school's wrestling numbers and hey if you are gonna follow this great sport from nov. - feb. you might as well have fun - Congrats to N.D. and CLAN for a good year - JT

change that to who are the best wrestlers in TN. - you have to be impressed with Manson"s national accomplishments and the others mentioned here , don't forget Waddell - and yes Jake Young very impressive for a 9th grader @160 - Look forward to watching some of the others mentioned (especially those from other parts of the state) @ the round house this week - JT

you could have run for office til you said that, now you just lost all your new found friends - JT

How did Jed Hussein's twin brother (darlington ) finish.

Baylor beat McCallie McCallie beat Baylor Baylor beat Soddy Soddy beat McCallie Soddy beat Bradley Bradley beat Soddy Bradley refuses to wrestle Baylor or McCallie If teams aren't allowed to compete ????????? - JT

Anyone , who tries to taint the accomplishments of any of the teams that broght home the hardware , and then hide behind some screen name doesn't deserve a response. Again , congrats to all the teams that made it to Clarksville ! - JT

The people that have been involved with running the duals have been nothing but hospitable - my pet peeve - the D2 which sometimes can have some pretty exciting matches, even in the semi-finals, has always been on the far side(no seating) of the gym. If they must have certain matches in a harder to view area , why not rotate that situation. - JT

call and leave a message for coach jim morgan @ baylor High School - he possibly can help - 1-423-267-8505

they had great teams w/ mo trail , charlie moore(LSU)Chip Healy exact years i am not that clear - early to mid 60's --in 68 they had Alec Roberts arguably the best or one of the best to ever wrestle for Baylor , he wrestled varsity as a 7th grader and while at Ga. TEch -put Wayne Wells olympic gold medalist on his back twice only to later lose that match -69 rob healy two time national champion - in 70 they won the national preps up in Lehigh,Pa. vs. the likes of Blair Acadamy , Hershey , Lawrenceville , and many others - several other Baylor and McCallie teams brought back 2nd place trophies but 70 was the only year to bring back the team trophy- you have to mention 78 with the likes of Mark Lyle , Scott Kelly ,Bob bullard , Doug Dyer and others -you have to mention the late 90's early 2000's with the solid teams they had geismars , thompsons , dosters, wheland,matthews ( he really rose to occasion @ state duals vs. that purple team)oh yea there was Jordan Leen , a red headed wonder who put in 5 years of varsity time toward the end of that era -nate rawlings and james scott who are both recently deplored to Iraq-then the manson boys starting in - guess we could go on for a while - these are fun arguments we can have around the watering hole, the good thing about getting older is you get better each year you are removed from comp.- later JT

my bad , they are both good athletes - i was just very impressed w/ hussein's performance - jt