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Brackets are up.
Sandy Valley leads with 12 qualifiers, Barnesville and Martins Ferry each with 10.
Look at most of the projected top kids. Most come out of Barnesville and Sandy Valley sectional. The last time that they sent Central schools to those sections to "even up" ended with the result of around 75% of the state qualifiers coming from Barnesville and Sandy Valley. There is no benefit to having only 11 schools in the sectional. I'm sure those kids would rather have some extra wins instead of only wrestling a couple of matches against the other top ranked kids. The best will come out at the district tournament regardless of how many teams were at their sectional. Sectional tournaments are supposed to be exactly what they are, a sectional. Teams that are closer to each other. Districts bring those 4 sections together. It doesn't make sense to have kids traveling past a closer sectional to wrestle in one that is hours away. In the end, you are either good enough to make it to State or you aren't. If you can't make it out of your sectional, you certainly aren't making it to state, so the rest is pointless.Sandy Valley, Barnesville, and Martins Ferry are awesome squads.
It'll be interesting to see how the team race plays out. IMO, there has to be some sort of small advantage to having come from one of the sectionals with just 11 participating teams (SV & BA) rather than those with 20+ (AL & MP). Feels to me like the state needs to do a better job to avoid such discrepancies. Aforementioned teams would've still qualified a slew, just thinking aloud.
Exactly dont get me started about the 11 team thing, I went to Garaway and had to wrestle sectionals at licking Heights in pataskala almost 2 hrs for a freaking sectional.Look at most of the projected top kids. Most come out of Barnesville and Sandy Valley sectional. The last time that they sent Central schools to those sections to "even up" ended with the result of around 75% of the state qualifiers coming from Barnesville and Sandy Valley. There is no benefit to having only 11 schools in the sectional. I'm sure those kids would rather have some extra wins instead of only wrestling a couple of matches against the other top ranked kids. The best will come out at the district tournament regardless of how many teams were at their sectional. Sectional tournaments are supposed to be exactly what they are, a sectional. Teams that are closer to each other. Districts bring those 4 sections together. It doesn't make sense to have kids traveling past a closer sectional to wrestle in one that is hours away. In the end, you are either good enough to make it to State or you aren't. If you can't make it out of your sectional, you certainly aren't making it to state, so the rest is pointless.
Nelsonville York, Northmor, West Jefferson, Ready, Pleasant and a few more. How is your memory? I witnessed a couple of up and coming teams from Southeast a few years ago. Has that area become that good?Look at most of the projected top kids. Most come out of Barnesville and Sandy Valley sectional. The last time that they sent Central schools to those sections to "even up" ended with the result of around 75% of the state qualifiers coming from Barnesville and Sandy Valley. There is no benefit to having only 11 schools in the sectional. I'm sure those kids would rather have some extra wins instead of only wrestling a couple of matches against the other top ranked kids. The best will come out at the district tournament regardless of how many teams were at their sectional. Sectional tournaments are supposed to be exactly what they are, a sectional. Teams that are closer to each other. Districts bring those 4 sections together. It doesn't make sense to have kids traveling past a closer sectional to wrestle in one that is hours away. In the end, you are either good enough to make it to State or you aren't. If you can't make it out of your sectional, you certainly aren't making it to state, so the rest is pointless.
Before second session yesterday I did a quick scroll and saw I think 3 sectional Champs go 0-2 and at least 2 go 1-2. Sometime this week I plan on going through a little more and seeing if I can find interesting stats etc.Believe there were 12 sectional champs that did not Place 1-5 at Coshocton this weekend, a lot of good wrestling
Before second session yesterday I did a quick scroll and saw I think 3 sectional Champs go 0-2 and at least 2 go 1-2. Sometime this week I plan on going through a little more and seeing if I can find interesting stats etc.
How many will be state champs?Finally broke down the placement by sectional. Barnesville and Madison-Plains sectionals had 8 finalist each but Barnesville had 6 champs to MP's 5.
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Other interesting facts:
12 of Barnesville sectional's 14 qualifiers came from 3 schools (Barnesville 6, Martins Ferry and Shenandoah 3 each)
10 of Sandy Valley sectional's 14 qualifiers came from 2 schools (Sandy Valley 7, Newcomerstown 3)
11 schools are represented coming out of Madison-Plains sectional
Bidwell River Valley (4) and Alexander (2) were the only schools with multiple qualifiers out of the Alexander sectional.
I'm no predictor, but Bucksman I think had 1 in Palmer, I personally think 2-3 because it's high school and anything is possible.How many will be state champs?
Good deal, but the goal should be 5. That will make the district top notch. Small steps, but every program needs to build. Steel sharpens steelI'm no predictor, but Bucksman I think had 1 in Palmer, I personally think 2-3 because it's high school and anything is possible.