Attached are the brackets.
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KSWA State Tournament brackets
Topic ID: 10514 | 7 Posts
Are you going to post Team/Clubs scores as well. I looked at Kywrestling and it was not listed, only rosters. Thanks.
I will post a file later. Here are top 5:
Club
River City 125
Walton Verona 124.5
Union County 95
John Hardin 75.5
Shamrock 63
School
North Oldham 81
Twenhofel 81
Johnson County 78
East Oldham 71
Campbell County 68
A few thoughts about the tournament.
First off, I am amazed at the how the level of competition continues to jump every year. There were so many tight 1v4 matches this weekend. You have to bring your A game every single match or anything can happen.
Second, coaches need to do much, much more to stress and emphasize the importance of sportsmanship to our wrestlers and enforce it with severe consequences when they don't get it. Both school and club team championships were impacted by team point deductions for misconduct. We have to be gracious in victory and defeat.
Third, I have to thank all of those who help out and dedicate a lot of time and energy to help the KSWA continue to push toward our goal for this event. I always say my goal for the middle school state tournament is to make sure these kids are disappointed when they compete at the high school state because we have made our event an amazing experience for them. We try to push the envelope a littel more and more each year from awards to the hospitality room. And hopefully we can push this way of thinking on to the youth level as well.
A weight by weight review:
70 - As it seems every year, the light weights continue to amaze me at the level of technical mastery these kids have. Northern KY is so, so deep in the little guys. I saw Zeke a few times this off season and knew he would be hard to handle. With his training partners at Union that proved to be true. McCormack also turned it on as the year progressed and looked great in the post season.
75 - see 70. Same thoughts apply here. Gavin Brown put a lot of time in this off season and it paid off as Union went back to back to start the finals. N KY went 2 thru 4 here and KY's first (we think) female state placer, Hope Miracle was 5th.
80 - Ketchen-Carter was possibly the most dominant lightweight pinning into the finals and not being scored on all day. Region 2 was strong here with 3 placers.
86 - As expected Tucker was a hammer in this weight class with one of three pins in the finals. Region 4 has the top 4 in this weight class.
92 - In a much anticipated final, Roth wins his second title in a battle with Wheeler. A pretty tough weight class where returning state champ Holub finished 6th.
98 - A very interesting weight where Bender came through as expected beating 3 time runner up Kraeszig. Harris pushed Bender, but a hand injury limited him to a 6th place finish.
105 - As I said in another thread, everyone has to wrestle or anything can happen, and I almost saw it all. See bout 313. Moore persevered and won his second title in a close one with Brown who may be one of the most improved wrestlers in the state.
113 - Smith was very dominant with techs/pins throughout and earned his MOW award. Will be interesting to see how he fares in the high school post season.
121 - Great finals battle with Gray and Livers. Amazing run for Gray, beating 2nd through 5th in the same day.
130 - Johnson was probably my favorite wrestler to watch this year (not named Moore or wearing a purple singlet). As good a combination of power and technique as I have seen.
140 - Another great finals match between Gamble and Smallwood. A lot of discussion about who would win this battle and it was a battle. A very deep weight.
152 - Bratcher was a hammer here. Hated to see Thome get injured and not be able to compete in the finals.
168 - This weight was the most difficult to seed for the coaches; guess that explains Kulmer being the #4.
190 - Region rematch, 1-0.
240 - Big boy Spell with the pin.
Just for discussion (seeding meeting info), 11 of 15 #1s came out as champs. 8 number 2's were runner-ups, with 5 "unseeded" kids making the finals (4 region rematches, so second best kid was in region with champ).
A weight by weight review:
70 - As it seems every year, the light weights continue to amaze me at the level of technical mastery these kids have. Northern KY is so, so deep in the little guys. I saw Zeke a few times this off season and knew he would be hard to handle. With his training partners at Union that proved to be true. McCormack also turned it on as the year progressed and looked great in the post season.
75 - see 70. Same thoughts apply here. Gavin Brown put a lot of time in this off season and it paid off as Union went back to back to start the finals. N KY went 2 thru 4 here and KY's first (we think) female state placer, Hope Miracle was 5th.
80 - Ketchen-Carter was possibly the most dominant lightweight pinning into the finals and not being scored on all day. Region 2 was strong here with 3 placers.
86 - As expected Tucker was a hammer in this weight class with one of three pins in the finals. Region 4 has the top 4 in this weight class.
92 - In a much anticipated final, Roth wins his second title in a battle with Wheeler. A pretty tough weight class where returning state champ Holub finished 6th.
98 - A very interesting weight where Bender came through as expected beating 3 time runner up Kraeszig. Harris pushed Bender, but a hand injury limited him to a 6th place finish.
105 - As I said in another thread, everyone has to wrestle or anything can happen, and I almost saw it all. See bout 313. Moore persevered and won his second title in a close one with Brown who may be one of the most improved wrestlers in the state.
Zane Brown at 105 lived on the mats this past offseason! He wrestled the tough Garcia kid and handled him every time and made some progress in closing the gap against a very tough state champ. Only a 7th grader, too, so look for him next season.