How does a school like Marist not have a backup kid who can make 113? Granted they may still get pinned, but there's always a chance you can get lucky or maybe give up less than 6 team points.
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How does a school like Marist not have a backup kid who can make 113? Granted they may still get pinned, but there's always a chance you can get lucky or maybe give up less than 6 team points.
I said the same thing. That's on the Coach. 113 is not one of MC's strong weights. JV guy probably would have lost but I don't think he would have been pinned
I’m not entirely sold on the unsportsmanlike penalty for the headgear being thrown. The head coach was pointing his finger while walking towards the ref and yelling something as the wrestler tossed his headgear. That being said, quite a bit happened during and after the match to warrant the penalty, but I’m not sure I want to post actions of a kid on social media.
Correct. Matches won is next, then most pins. Them having to forfeit 113 is really went wrong and not having a reserve wrestler ready is on the Coach, especially if you know the kid is going to be close. Never forfeit in a a state dual meet.
he lost a point for the unsportsmanlike as well, final would have been 35-34 and not gone to tiebreaker
I was told Marist got a -1 because of the unsportsmanlike. So if this had not occurred they would have won by 1 point and the tiebreaker would not have even gone into affect so Marist would have won. I saw video of head gear toss and it seems like a weak call by official. Kid was off the mat at his bench and threw headgear on ground. It was not thrown at anyone. Hard way to end high schools kids career by ref putting things in there hands.
As bad as the kid from Marist feels how bout this kid from NJ, he is the the 3 time state champ with a 139-1 record and the #1 ranked wrestler in America at his weight. The dad looks like a total meathead in the video going into the stands to fight another fan and the kid goes into the stands and starts throwing punches also. Sadly this isn't first time the dad has got into a fight in the stands.
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3-time NJ high school wrestling champ Anthony Knox barred from tournament over bleacher brawl involving his dad, other fans
“I did not make this decision lightly. I am fully aware of the consequences to the student-athlete. He is a senior and this disqualification effectively ends his high school career.”
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I absolutely love the sport but in my kids few years of involvement in the sport I saw some of absolute worst parents. Lot of kids just getting their butts chewed in the hallways after matches. Makes football Dads look tame!As bad as the kid from Marist feels how bout this kid from NJ, he is the the 3 time state champ with a 139-1 record and the #1 ranked wrestler in America at his weight. The dad looks like a total meathead in the video going into the stands to fight another fan and the kid goes into the stands and starts throwing punches also. Sadly this isn't first time the dad has got into a fight in the stands.
3-time NJ high school wrestling champ Anthony Knox barred from tournament over bleacher brawl involving his dad, other fans
“I did not make this decision lightly. I am fully aware of the consequences to the student-athlete. He is a senior and this disqualification effectively ends his high school career.”
Worst parents. I’m a wrestling dad who at times can lose his cool in the heat of a tough match but man! There are some who go absolutely insane! Dads screaming in their 7 year olds faces are the worst.
Maybe because in football you don't get that immediate access to the kids until after the game and maybe they settled down a bit but yeah, same thing, saw these bantam wrestlers just getting destroyed by Dads that don't look they wrestled a day in their lives. But then you see that one Dad in the stands with the cauliflower ears being completely silent because he knows....or their son just pinned his guy 😀
Nothing like going to a youth tourney and seeing parent lose it. This weekend with the trips to the IKWF state championship series on the line I’m sure the people watching will be amazing.
Maybe some of you were the younger brother who always lost to the bigger brother in wrestling. I was the older brother who always won. My little brother grew up to be a bruiser, an enforcer on MC's hockey team, while I remained slight of build. And once I had a girlfriend with two sons, ages four and six, who exhausted me with their demands for wrestling. There is something elemental about wrestling.
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Ever hear of youth athletes needing to "make height?" The International Small Fry Basketball program has a max height limit and, at the time my son competed, the players had to literally lie down in a box of the prescribed length before the tournaments. It was not uncommon to see kids close to the threshold wearing layers of weighted coats and remaining vertical to compress their height prior to official measurement. I kid you not.
1000% the old NCAA D1 wrestling dads are the most calm at these things. They've been at the highest level and the 37th annual Bubba Smith Kids Open isn't going to get them nervous.
