The 13 first-round matches featuring two ranked wrestlers:

103 Pounds

No. 1 Travis Sullivan (Wayne County) vs. No. 13 Robbie Vaughn (Simon Kenton)

112 Pounds

No. 8 Antonio Zeppa (North Oldham) vs. No. 14 Wes Bird (Fort Campbell)

No. 12 Steven Vaughn (South Oldham) vs. No. 13 Bryce Alexander (Henderson County)

119 Pounds

No. 8 John Chiu (Seneca) vs. No. 14 Kendrick Jones (Ballard)

130 Pounds

No. 2 Bryan Peace (Ryle) vs. No. 13 Trey Morelatt (Oldham County)

No. 15 Shane Carey (Anderson County) vs. No. 16 Bryan Wasson (Harrison County)

135 Pounds

No. 1 Jacob Murton (Lawrence County) vs. No. 6 Chad Scott (Woodford County)

152 Pounds

No. 11 Ben Greco (South Oldham) vs. No. 14 Ty Wolfe (North Hardin)

160 Pounds

No. 9 Josh Merideth (Southern) vs. No. 10 Hudson Rison (Scott)

171 Pounds

No. 5 Matt White (Seneca) vs. No. 13 Ryan Kelly (Sheldon Clark)

No. 6 Ryan Houchens (South Oldham) vs. No. 10 Sheridan Likoy (Paul Dunbar)

189 Pounds

No. 7 Zach Guiler (Henry Clay) vs. No. 12 Steven Benson (Dixie Heights)

215 Pounds

No. 4 Aaron Wise (Eastern) vs. No. 7 Joe Embree (LaRue County)

Yet more examples why the 32 man bracket, and lack of seeding is complete and udder bulls**t!

I would eliminate a few of those because of rediculous rankings, but here are a few others that deserve to be on the list:

103 Brownfield - Evans

112 Carmen - Lewis

112 Zarth - Shotwell

119 Leach - Pitcher

119 Smith - Toliver

125 McCain - Traylor

130 Butler - Skinner

135 Patrick - Tingle (has been hot recently)

140 Powers - Sheehan

145 Shearer - Walls (not currently ranked, but beat Rader at region)

152 Young - Tomassetti

160 King - Baumgardner

275 Ballinger - Dunn

i would think that shrinking the brackets would make you see more first round ranked vs. ranked, not less. not saying i'm in favor of the 32 man bracket.

wow, shotwell is wrestling a ranked kid first round...what a screw job! he had a very questionable call go against him in the regional finals that i think sort of turned the tide of the match....i'm not sure what the ref was thinking on that out of bounds take down!

go shotwell!

Yet more examples why the 32 man bracket' date=' and lack of seeding is complete and udder bulls**t![/quote']

Even if they were to seed the state tourney they would NOT seed the wrestlers that did not win their regional tourney.

The only reason these kids are wrestling each other is because they did not win thier region. They had their fate in their own hands.

wow' date=' shotwell is wrestling a ranked kid first round...what a screw job! he had a very questionable call go against him in the regional finals that i think sort of turned the tide of the match....i'm not sure what the ref was thinking on that out of bounds take down!

go shotwell![/quote']

I'm rooting for Shotwell myself, but I don't think the call was a bad call.

A takedown is having control and your toes in bound.

Blaming an offcial is a cop-out and I'm sure Mr. Bankemper would agree.

A wrestler needs to control the match so that one call does not make a difference in a match.

As I have told my son numerous times. "If the official was able to make a dicision in the match then you did something else wrong during the match and don't deserve the win. Plus there are other times when the call went your way. "

I want to see good matchups in the right rounds like everyone else, but some on this thread are making it sound like they want their favorites to have a free ticket to the finals. Each year there will (hopefully) be a higher percentage of quality wrestlers in each weight class.You'll never be able to please everybody with how it is setup.Being involved in Kentucky wrestling since the mid 80's I've seen great growth in the sport here.

Part of that growth is having parity in our state.

In years past I feel like someone could fairly easily pick the winners at the state tourney.Now, you're not able to as much, and that's a good thing.

I would have to agree.

A few people want to hand pick the semi's based on past performance.

I want to see good matchups in the right rounds like everyone else' date=' but some on this thread are making it sound like they want their favorites to have a free ticket to the finals. Each year there will (hopefully) be a higher percentage of quality wrestlers in each weight class.You'll never be able to please everybody with how it is setup.Being involved in Kentucky wrestling since the mid 80's I've seen great growth in the sport here.

Part of that growth is having parity in our state.

In years past I feel like someone could fairly easily pick the winners at the state tourney.Now, you're not able to as much, and that's a good thing.[/quote']

I hope that everyone in the State Tournament would be ranked so that we would have good matches for every session. Everyone needs to stop crying about the State Tournament and just enjoy it because it is not going to change.

I agree a wrestler should not blame a loss on an official, but that's not to say an official can't cost a match. I'm not saying Supe didn't deserve to win or that Shotwell deserved to win...I'm just saying...it was a questionable call that changed the tide of the match (IMHO). I don't recall who was officiating that match, they were mostly all good refs there, it just didn't seem like a takedown to me. I tell my son things like that too...a wrestler has to stay focused and not worry about bad calls and stuff...but in a tight match, a bad call can certainly cost a match...when you get to regionals & state...it's pretty serious.

About Mr. Bankemper, if I had a nickle for everytime I've seen him work refs over and get calls reversed!! He's better at it than any coach in the state, including Parks & Carr. When Bankemper questions a call, I'd guess 30% of the time he gets what he wants. The man is SMOOTH!

Pick89:

People also thought that the state tourney was never going to leave Lou.

They thought that the regions would never be re-drawn.

They thought the weight classes would never change.

We have went through many changes in a short time. I like Bodylock have been in here since the early 80s and have seen many changes that were brought about by discussions like these.

1986 We had District, Region, Semi-State, and the state tourney. They only had an 8 man bracket at state.

1988 we returned to the 16 man bracket.

1989 we changed the brackets to a 2 and out tourney not a follow your man in the 1st round.

1988 we changed the wt. classes.

1990 we developed the State Duals

1995 We changed the wt classes again

1996 we changed the wt. classes back with the 215 lb wt class added.

1996?? (Mid 90's) We moved the state tourney to Frankfort

2000?? we opened to a 32 man bracket

There have been several other changes also.

The point is that things can be changed or changed back.

i think it was 2002 when we switched to the 32 man bracket

i think it was 2002 when we switched to the 32 man bracket