rideOut Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) TSSAA released the 2021-2023(2024?) classifications this afternoon. Currently the A-AA has 49 schools and AAA has 92 schools. The new proposed split is 75 A-AA and 75 AAA. This has bumped the enrollment cutoff to 1,233. Several top tier AAA teams will now find themselves scrapping with the A-AA darlings (Pigeon Forge and Greenville) for the state title. Interesting development. Division I: https://cms-files.tssaa.org/documents/tssaa/2020/2021classification.html#di-wrestling Division II: https://cms-files.tssaa.org/documents/tssaa/2020/2021classification.html#dii-wrestling Edited October 23, 2020 by rideOut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachDFreeman Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 Any idea when they will do any realigning of the regions / districts? I'm sure these new classifications will shake up some of the regions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rideOut Posted October 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 From what I've read on TSSAA.org it appears that they will release the proposed regional alignments the last week of October. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachDFreeman Posted October 22, 2020 Report Share Posted October 22, 2020 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontstopbelieving Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 19 hours ago, rideOut said: Several top tier AAA teams will now find themselves scrapping with the A-AA darlings (Pigeon Forge and Greenville) for the state title. Interesting development. I'm not sure "several" is the right word here, the only teams I see that have are considered top tier are halls tennessee high and you could possibly throw page in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHSBLUE Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 Looks like Soddy Daisy is moving down in classification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rideOut Posted October 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 @dontstopbelieving you're right maybe "several" is a little bit of an overstatement, but there are a few teams that could make some noise at A-AA. There are 5 teams that finished in the top 25 at AAA traditional state in 2020. 1. Knox Halls (13th) 2. Soddy-Daisy (19th) 3. East Hamilton (21st) 4. Page (22nd) 5. Munford (25th) Knox Halls is the only team moving from AAA to A-AA that qualified for team state in 2020. There were also 7 state placers from the AAA schools in 2020 that are moving to A-AA. 0 - State Champs 3 - 2nd place 2 - 3rd place 0 - 4th place 1 - 5th place 1 - 6th place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapdown91 Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 Also noticed they made an AAA and A/AA for DII Dual Wrestling. Kept it all one class for traditional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatCoach09 Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 On 10/22/2020 at 5:29 PM, CoachDFreeman said: Any idea when they will do any realigning of the regions / districts? I'm sure these new classifications will shake up some of the regions. I imagine there will be somewhat significant changes in region 1/2 as region 1 would be losing 4 teams to reclass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleveBear Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 Soddy will be glad to be getting out of the Bradley County region. They were a very good team many years but were the third wheel in that region and didn't get to go to state. Knoxville area wrestling just got a lot more interesting with Halls dropping down to A-AA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontstopbelieving Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 1 hour ago, CleveBear said: Soddy will be glad to be getting out of the Bradley County region. They were a very good team many years but were the third wheel in that region and didn't get to go to state. Knoxville area wrestling just got a lot more interesting with Halls dropping down to A-AA. This is true, hopefully if they keep the current state team duals format they will have Halls in a separate region from pigeon forge. It would stink to only see one of Halls, Pigeon Forge, and Gibbs go to state team duals while Alcoa gets to cake walk in and go 2 and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverpie Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 One thing to keep in mind: schools can opt to play up. We really won't know much until we see who does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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