State wrestling

Anyone watching tomorrow team competition? Wife teaches for Sebeka who is joined with Menahga to make UNC. They made it as a team for the fourth consecutive year but they drew Staples, who is a powerhouse. Gonna be a tough morning for them tomorrow. They also sent 6 individuals. I wrestled all through high school and some JC. Use to hate watching wrestling when I was in it but really enjoy watching good matches. Can watch the whole tournament on prep spotlight.

2 of my boys wrestle for Royalton. Their team is not as good as it once was but we are sending 3 to state for individuals. My oldest(senior) got 3rd at sections at 160. Had the number 2 and 3 ranked kids in his bracket. My youngest a freshman got 5th at 107. We got our butts kicked by staples at sections and stayed for them against holdingford. That was a good match. Staples won by 1 point. By the way staples 160 is a 19yr old junior.

My kids and I have been following individual entrants. It been fun seeing kids I know from when my youngest was in youth wrestling and competed against advance to state.

Its Great to see Staples back doing well in Wrestling. I went and watched the sectional finals in Holdingford. That was a incredible match. To bad only 1 team got to advance to State. I believe both teams are probably one of the top 3 teams in class A in the State. I see all 13 wrestlers placed in the top 3 in sectionals and 9 advanced to the State individual tourney. I was a member of 2 state championship teams at Staples. The were a powerhouse in the 80’s and early 90’s. I believe some of those years they would have beaten the class AA champions. There was only 2 classes back in those days.

Yep ‘96 was first year with 3 classes.

fishthumper wrote:

Its Great to see Staples back doing well in Wrestling. I went and watched the sectional finals in Holdingford. That was an incredible match. To bad only 1 team got to advance to State. I believe both teams are probably one of the top 3 teams in class A in the State. I see all 13 wrestlers placed in the top 3 in sectionals and 9 advanced to the State individual tourney. I was a member of 2 state championship teams at Staples. The were a powerhouse in the 80’s and early 90’s. I believe some of those years they would have beaten the class AA champions. There was only 2 classes back in those days.

Staples is ranked 2nd and holdingford 3rd. Staples lightweights are beasts. Ranked top 5 or better all the way to 139 including a last years state champion.

Stanley wrote:

Staples is ranked 2nd and holdingford 3rd. Staples lightweights are beasts. Ranked top 5 or better all the way to 139 including a last years state champion

Ya Chatfield who I believe is ranked # 1 is the opposite, They have lots of wrestlers ranked high and mostly in the upper weights. It seems like Staples has always been better in the lower weights than the upper weights. This was the case during their long run of championship years.

Stanley wrote:

2 of my boys wrestle for Royalton. Their team is not as good as it once was but we are sending 3 to state for individuals

For such a small town, Royalton use to always have some great wrestlers and a strong team back when I was Wrestling. It was always a shame that Camby was always one of the top teams in the State and almost never made it to state because they were in Staples Region and only 1 team advanced. I remember when I was a 10th grader our Jr. varsity got invited to a Varsity tourney and finished 1st. 2 of the teams we beat at that tourney ended up qualifying for State that year. People often joked that Staples JV most years could probably beat most of the teams that qualified for State back then.

Have some cousins over the years who have wrestled for Staples with the last name Becker. Grew up hunting by where the hospital is now. My friend coaches where I grew up not to far away and I think it was five years ago they Won back to Back State titles and placed 4th the year before. They were loaded those years and were a blast to watch. Even though I prefer to watch basketball.

orve4 wrote:

Have some cousins over the years who have wrestled for Staples with the last name Becker

There were a lot of Becker’s living in that area when I was in HS there. I think there was 2 of them in my graduation class.

This years sectional Match was the 1st wrestling match I’ve attended in many years. The scoring is a little different with more points on Takedowns. The team scoring is a little different as well. The style is a little different as well but lots of the same move’s

I wasn’t sure what to think about the new scoring this year but I think it’s been a positive. Tech falls can be easier as well as comebacks. In one move a wrestler can get 7pts real quick.

Staples-Motley was an absolute powerhouse back in the day. They have been working on a comeback for a while.