D2 Sectional E Preview

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Welcome to the Wisconsin Wrestler Podcast with your co-hosts Teak Fenwick and Steve Lurquin.
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another edition of the Wisconsin Wrestler Podcast.
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I am your host, Teak Fenwick, coming to you live from Holman.
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Joining us, as always, from Koshkinong, my co-host, Steve Lurquin.
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Steve, great to be here.
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Always pumped to be here talking some wrestling.
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Triple banger this week.
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Three episodes going on.
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Lots of wrestling.
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How do you feel about that?
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How do you feel about doing three in one week?
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I well, we did have a double header this week, which was already a change from what we were talking about, but I don't mind the three in a week.
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It's necessary.
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And with all the sectionals, you know, like it's not as much work with not as many teams.
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So I don't mind it.
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I guess short answer, but I'm bad at giving short answers.
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Any night I can talk, wrestling is a great night.
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It is a great night, and I figured it out last night, T, with doing all the sectionals, and I was about ready to make my point with why I made the team pick that I did, and then it totally forgot.
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A lot of that has to do with playing football without a helmet.
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But it also my head switched to a different sectional, and I forgot my point.
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But do you remember that, T?
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It was about three minutes later, and it came back to me.
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It snapped right back in there.
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So I was pretty pumped about that.
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We we got it on air, and that's what matters.
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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Well, as folks can surmise, we are doing a D2 sectional E this evening.
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And these guys almost need no introduction because they are Wisconsin Wrestling YouTube celebrities at this juncture.
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Got the Evansville boys here.
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And formal introductions, we have the brain of the Evansville Wrestling YouTube channel, John Fry.
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And right next to him, the mouth of the Evansville Wrestling YouTube channel, Mason Brownschwig.
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Fellas, happy to have you back.
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We are delighted to be back.
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This is a fantastic experience once again.
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We absolutely enjoy and appreciate what you do for uh wrestling here in Wisconsin.
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And I was gonna say, when um when you had talked about all the sectional previews you have to do, you know, that that started last year, whereas before that you pretty much had 12.
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And so things have changed dramatically.
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I wonder if the WWA and the WIA had any idea the impact of the amount of more work that you would have to do by making that decision.
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I I think that was in their discussion.
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They they were there was uh section F, Article 6, Clause 8.
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They were talking about how's this gonna affect Teague and Steve when they do their podcast?
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I believe the the the the pair in one was work em like an old mule.
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Rented mule.
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Latent effects, unintended consequences, whatever you call it.
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Hey, we're we're here for it, though.
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Um what was I gonna say along with that?
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Oh man, I might have already forgot.
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Tough start, but that's okay.
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It's fine.
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We got four people on tonight, so if I forget something, someone can just pick up my slack.
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But fellas, we got D2 sectional E tonight, which is the southern southwest portion in Division II.
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And if I could pull this up quick enough, I'll be happy.
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But we always talk about how which sectionals are tougher, and you know, usually just people go off of state champs or or finalists or whatnot, and that's great.
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But USA bracketing, shout out Justin Tritz for coming out with the new stat this year.
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If you go to team scores, and then you go to sectional scores, D2 with sectional E was the highest scoring sectional with 443 points.
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The next highest scoring one was 356.
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Interesting.
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Out of the 28 qualifiers, there was it looks like seven that did not place.
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So 21 out of 28 made the podium.
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Wow.
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That's that is impressive.
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And just to jump on that, yeah, this is uh preseason rankings coming out by the grappler.
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This is what I found.
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34 were total ranked in this section.
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Teague, there are five number ones, four number twos, 20 in the top five, 190 has 190 pounds, has number one and number two.
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And uh digging into the weight classes just a little bit, 126 pounds has five ranked wrestlers, 144 has four ranked wrestlers in the preseason.
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So yeah, just that that 34 that we've done so far, and I'm sure it's probably gonna be the top, but that's the most ranked wrestlers we've had in a in a sectional preview so far.
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And and speaking uh of how tough it is, too.
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I mean, I'm sure we're gonna talk a lot tonight with the third and fourth place sectional finishers.
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Like, hey, that's kind of tough.
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Uh, this guy just had a bad break in front of him.
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Otherwise, he's a great wrestler.
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Yep.
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I know you can usually count on like one or two hands, the guys that miss state in tough brackets, and like, oh, maybe they could have podiumed at state or won a match at state they made it.
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A good handful of those came from this sectional.
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And hey, I remembered what I was gonna say earlier.
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Evansville guys, are you perhaps uh doing your uh doing your preview tonight from the Night Owl Sports Pub and Eatery?
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Not tonight, but we are doing that.
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Uh wait, what is it?
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November Monday the 23rd, I think.
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Yeah, Monday, November 23rd.
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We will do our live sort of team preview from the Night Owl Sports Pub and Eatery.
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It is fantastic.
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It's a fun time.
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We get a lot of our fans uh down.
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Uh it's just good stuff.
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Do you guys have any special guests on this year?
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Last year I was Florida.
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I was watching.
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I didn't watch it live, but I went back and you had Curtis Feeler on as a special guest.
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That was I I literally had to pick my jaw up off the floor when I saw Curtis walk in.
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I thought I thought Mason talked a lot, but man, Curtis, we call him the mouth of the cell for a reason.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We were very thankful to have him there.
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That was awesome.
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Uh it it we'll see.
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What we'll we'll pull out of our uh our hats this time, but we'll have guests.
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We'll have uh we'll have a thing.
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Nice.
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I'm looking forward to it.
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Me too.
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Appreciate it.
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You know, I'm looking forward to even more that we're gonna be doing right now.
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Uh looking at the 16 teams in D2 a sectional E tonight.
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The individual sectional is Evansville.
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The team sectional will be uh right off of Exit 69 at Mawson High School this year.
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Love to see it.
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And we got Jason here in the chat.
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He said he's just here for the beaver talk, fellas.
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So looking forward to some Readsburg talk.
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Nice.
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Oh, the innuendo out of Readsburg.
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When will it end?
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I will, yeah, you know, I the phrasing never gets old.
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It's great.
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Well, hey, we are gonna talk about uh speaking of Readsburg, the first school we're talking about is a Badger Conference team.
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We have Bearboo, who was 11th in the Richland Center sectional with 64 and a half points.
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They returned four of their seven starters and six points.
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They do lose Desmond Severson, who had uh one of the most fun state runs last year.
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11th seed, who was the runner up at 126.
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And this year they're returning top eight sectional finisher Caden Mars.
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Yeah, so Barabu again, this is uh one of those teams where uh they they lose some some valuable seniors to their program, but you know, like every other team in this section, they'll reload.
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I will note uh in looking at their roster last year, uh Baraboo had a boatload of freshmen on that roster.
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Now, I don't know if they maintain the whole season and if they'll matriculate to this season, but the Baraboo team has bodies, they have numbers.
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It's just a matter of, and and right here, I think they have like it's 10 freshmen between 120 and 144, which as you all know, that that's five weight classes.
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That doesn't do you any good.
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You need to kind of they need to grow or cut, move around a little bit.
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But um, I did have an opportunity to talk with Baraboo's coach at the team sectional, and he was very interested.
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He he watched all of the duels, and he was very interested in what other teams were doing.
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So uh I see them, you know, maybe bringing some of those uh some of those extracurricular things that maybe some of the other programs have been doing into place.
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And I'm excited to see what Barabu brings.
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Traditionally a great program.
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Well, that's exciting to see if a coach is a coach is out there growing, trying to steal what other, I shouldn't say steal, incorporate some of what the successful programs are doing.
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That's that's the start, right?
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That's how you take that next step.
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Uh, as Jason mentioned in the comments, uh Baraboo does have an in you talk about freshmen.
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Uh Baraboo does have a ranked incoming freshman, and Grayson Stenberg uh is number 14 at 106 pounds.
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Always fun to see how the freshmen end up fitting into the postseason mix by the end of the year.
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Well, and it's real interesting to see which freshmen that we don't even know about until February.
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You know, those are the fun ones.
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But I will say uh last year I noticed that we were the longest podcast uh that that you guys did in your uh sectional previews.
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So I just I want to let you know that we're gonna try to keep it down.
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And I personally have admonished John to keep it down, not speak too much.
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You know, let's keep this going, stay focused.
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So we'll see if he can stay on point.
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All right.
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We were at two hours last year.
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I I think if we cut John off enough, we can get down to a buck fifty-five.
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Sounds about right.
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Well, fellas, moving on to the next team.
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Oh, I was gonna say, yeah, we'll have to we'll we'll call John Monty.
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So if you guys know that that movie reference, uh there was a Monty reference last year.
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Yes.
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Oh, was there?
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Oh shoot, I should have gone back and listened.
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Once again, I was in the head too many times.
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But hey, Doug is on the show, and uh Brew crew is up two to nothing already.
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Nice job, Brewers.
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I'm gonna enjoy the ride now until until the playoffs.
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Let's just enjoy the good regular season stuff.
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Yeah.
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Well, the next team would probably qualify as a team that Mr.
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Steve Lurk would call a team on the rise, and that is uh Sugar River.
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Seventh in the Richland Center sectional with 111.5 points.
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They returned 10 of their 13 starters and 67 points.
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Oh.
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They're bringing back Maddox Mao, who was a runner-up at 106.
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Fourth place sectional finishers, uh, Keen Lentz and Brady Bear.
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And one more top eight sectional finisher, all name team, Bronco Bear.
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Bronco Bear, that that was a fun one to say last year.
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That was great.
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Uh, very much enjoyed that.
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Sugar River is one of those teams.
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They they always bring in kids.
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And again, it the nice thing about having a co-op is you got three communities and you can bring in some more kids, and it also makes it a little more difficult for us to prognosticate because we don't a hundred percent know where those freshmen are gonna matriculate.
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But in any event, I always look for Sugar River.
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They're a solid, solidly coached team.
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I look for them to make an impact, and they'll certainly have people that will uh cause some problems uh in the finals for some other kids.
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Yeah, I just think of them as far as those 10 guys returning.
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Six of them, think about this guy.
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Maybe I'm using uh program on the rise too much like you use Barnburner, not quite sure, but uh 10 wrestlers returning, six were freshmen, three were sophomores.
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You just think about that for that this program for the next couple years.
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Uh looking pretty good.
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Maddox, as you talked about, uh had that finals loss with Drake Kren.
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Uh, he's number two ranked at 113 pounds coming on in.
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And Tig, you already mentioned it, but if you have uh two guys by the name of Brady Bear and Bronco Bear, that's just good coverage right there.
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I'm glad they're in your conference.
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Are they in your conference?
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No, they're not in your conference, are they?
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Capital.
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Oh, that would be awesome calling a match with uh Brady Bear and Bronco Bear.
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You get to say over and over again as they're out there.
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We did have the Bears when we were at the mineral point quad last year.
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That's true.
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We did.
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We had a good time with that.
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I'm just happy they're not playing basketball.
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That's true.
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Bronco Bear, it's got alliteration, it's got two animals in the name.
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It doesn't get much better than that.
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Yeah.
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Doesn't it tough to beat Deputy Douglas from Lincoln Academy still.
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And if you if you lose to a kid that's named Bear, you can say, I wrestle the bear.
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What do you what do you expect?
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Right on.
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Natural disadvantage.
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Uh moving on to uh Belmont Plattville, the our favorite postseason tournament, darlings.
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They were third in the Richland Center sectional with 143 and a half points.
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They beat Reedsburg 49 to 29, lost to Mount Horror Barnevel 39 to 38, and lost to Lodi 39-32 at team sectionals, returning eight of their 13 starters and 65 points.
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They are losing Dylan Weigel, who was a runner-up at 144, but they're returning Briggs Weigel, who placed third at 132, along with third place sectional finisher James Kastner and three more top eight finishers.
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And fellas, if this were five years ago and I saw the returning numbers with guys lost and total points coming back with Belmont Plattfill, I'd be asking myself, all right, how much can they recover from this?
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How much can they rebuild?
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But now after the last few years, I think the the real question is is just how good is Belmont Plattville gonna be?
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Because they've shown as a program that they can maintain consistency pretty well.
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Yeah, I don't think Coach Williams rebuilds, I think he reloads.
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And he he's got he's got good feeder programs down there that are great.
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One guy that you didn't mention that will be a uh junior this year is Oliver Harkas.
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And he was injured at the end of last year.
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He got injured, um, but he was 24-8 until the injury.
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That kid went to state as a freshman, as you may know, and I think he was JV until towards the end of the season, his freshman year.
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So that kid's gonna be tough too.
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I'm looking out for Oliver Harkis to make some noise this season.
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That's a good find.
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I we love it, right?
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We love to see those guys from the beginning of the year to the ending of the year progress.
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Like, where'd this kid come from?
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That's what the practice room's all about, guys.
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Uh Briggs, as you mentioned, third place last year, had that nine to six semifinal loss to a guy that John and Mason, you guys are pretty familiar with, Brady Collins.
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Uh, but uh Briggs is number four at 144 pounds coming into the season.
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Next up is Broadhead Judah, who was 16th in the Richland Center sectional with 20 and a half points.
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They were turning both of their starters, third place sectional finisher Thomas Lomar and a top eight sectional finisher Todd Hall Jr.
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Yeah, so Broadheads, you know, it's it's it's a tough situation.
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They they've got obviously the two guys, uh Lomar and Hall, that you mentioned, they have a pile of other kids.
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I'm not sure where they were at the end of the season last last year.
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Obviously, wrestling's a very long season, and that can wear injuries, illnesses, all those other things that happen.
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The the things that come into your mind that say you don't want to do this anymore, you know, those those bad thoughts.
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But um, I I will tell you, Coach Hosley is a heck of a coach, and um I think he's doing the best he can down in Broadhead, but they really there's just not a lot of kids there.
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And and that's the reality that some programs face.
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Right, yeah, right on.
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Right on.
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Well, Thomas Lomar, I know we talked about him already.
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He's number eight preseason at 126.
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Uh 35 and 9 last year.
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Indeed, at the beginning, you talked about these guys that took third place and just uh probably in a different sectional, maybe could have gone on to state and made some noise.
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Well, take a look, listen to these two names as who Thomas was behind.
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Uh guy with the name of Balag and Rashawn.
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So if uh, you know, that's kind of one of those things where if you're behind those, you can be like, ah, okay.
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That was last year, and the year before, he he fell behind a fry guy.
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So yeah, he's he's he's had a tough goal.
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Love it.
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Oh, how much fun do you guys have with fry guy?
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Is that uh yeah.
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He's got he's got three three sons, and it's you know, it's it's large, medium, and small fry, you know.
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Oh, that's great.
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Beautiful.
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All right, next up is Cuba City Benton Southwestern, who was 10th in the Richland Center sectional with 87 and a half points.
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They were turning six of their nine starters and 49 points, bringing back state runner up Bronco Garcia at 113 and Evan Curtis, who qualified at 138, along with top eight sectional finisher Kayla Burntkin.
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They got uh freshman Abraham Navarette uh coming in.
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He's ranked number 12 at 144 per the Wisconsin Grappler.
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I believe he was the Folkselle WWF Folkselle State champ last year.
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I think, I think that's Bronco's brother.
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Don't quote me on that, but when Bronco was wrestling as a youth, his his last name during youth was Navarrett, and then it became Garcia when he went to high school.
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So I'm not sure what's going on with all that, but I'm pretty sure they're family.
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So it'll be that that similar style.
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Just let it fly, then.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Well, which is which is a fun style to watch, right?
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Uh Cuba City, Ben Southwestern, three-ranked wrestlers.
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Abraham, as as uh you guys already mentioned, Evan Curtis, who had that tough 7-6 loss, Antonio Savo of Amory in the quarters.
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He's number four at 150, and Bronco Garcia.
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Imagine this, folks.
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Number one at 120 pounds.
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All right, we got a familiar team up here.
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You guys might know a little bit about them.
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This is Evansville.
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They were first in the Richland Center sectional with 246 and a half points.
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At team sectionals, they beat Lodi 52 to 20, and Mount Horror Barneveld 45 to 36.
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Man, I sure hope someone picked them to win sectionals in the preseason.
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And at Team State, they beat East Troy 56 to 19, St.
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Croix Falls 38-32, and Coleman 39-29 at two capture a Team State title.
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They are returning nine of their 14 starters in 156 points.
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They do lose the big man, Tanner Zastopil, who plays sixth at 285.
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But they are returning.
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Let me take a breath here.
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Colin Fry, who plays fifth at 113, Colton Balick, who was state champ at 120, his second state title, Liam Crandall, who was fifth at 138, and Tommy Heiser, who uh won state at 175, along with third place sectional finisher Benny Brownschwig, fourth place sectional finisher Hunter Worrell, and one more top eight finisher.
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Wow.
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The first question for you guys I mean, you spent a long time being a part of this community helping build up the program and whatnot.
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And was it cooler seeing that team win a state title or being recurring guest on the Wisconsin Wrestler podcast?
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Oh, yeah, that's a tough one.
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Um it that was amazing.
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Uh, I'll let John speak to that.
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Uh yeah, that was a great, great run.
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Give me some uh give me some talking points here, but a great run.
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We had a great group of seniors.
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Um, we lost seven in total, five contributors in the lineup.
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Those guys were solid wrestlers.
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They gave you the best that they could at the time, and they they came up with clutch wins down the stretch in that tournament run, and and certainly we'll miss those seniors.
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They they did a great job.
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I think the important thing about the seniors in the loss was there was a lot of leadership in that senior class, and uh that so that's gonna be a little bit of a vacuum for this Evansville team, and we'll see who steps up.
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Um, we've got uh uh seniors coming back, uh Colin Fry, of course, John Sun, um Brandon Staver, and Logan Islandfeld.
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We'll see what they can bring as far as leadership goes.
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But of course, uh, you know, you have you have our guys that did really well at state, and and and they'll be fine.
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Um we have a couple of kids and and they got one of them, or two of them, I think, got some action at Team State, which we look to uh put into the lineup and and have uh hopefully a seamless transition to a couple of our seniors from last year, but Uh I I think you know every year for Evansville, it's like is it a rebuild or reload?
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And there's a little bit of both happening all the time.
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So um we got a couple, I think, pretty good freshmen coming in.
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One has a last name Heiser.
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You guys may have heard of that last name.
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He's coming in.
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So we we should be uh we should be okay.
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I and I hope I wasn't you know showing our hand there a little bit, but in any event, I I think you know the lineup's kind of looking like something that can we can work with.
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So I I think it'll be I think they'll have a fun time this year.
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Just to clarify, this is the last Kiser, right?
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Unless they start adopting, I believe so.
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All right.
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That's good.
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Yeah, Jason in the chat.
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Evansville set a record for the most forfeits given up while winning team state.
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And uh not because of lack of spots in the lineup, but uh it was it was just pure pure dominance.
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And yeah, that that was one of the more dominant from team sectionals to team state.
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I think that was one of the more dominant runs I've seen.
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And I think you guys can attest to this.
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Like the teams you guys went against weren't slouches, and I'm sure there was worst case.
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Well, Kent even said it.
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Like there were scenarios where those could have been really close duels, and it never shook out that way, never even got close.
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And and I think that you know, when when you look at it in those terms, like how you were saying it, this team wasn't built to have a pile of individuals that do really well, and I think Coach Weiler does a really good job of maintaining that team concept, and that can get lost a lot in wrestling.
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And uh I believe that team concept will be there.
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I mean, our kids last year that I mean, even when they were in a tournament, take individual sectionals, for example, when kids didn't didn't have a chance anymore, you'll see a lot of kids on a lot of teams hang their head and just sort of bow out.
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But our kids were fighting and scrapping for every point on the backside that they could get, knowing the importance that was to the whole team.
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So I think you know, if and and the kids have all proved they can buy into that mentality, and I'm just hopeful that this team will do the same thing.
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And if you can do that, there really is, you know, potentially no limit as to what you can accomplish together.
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Beautifully said, yeah, it was very nice, very nice.
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Well, no, no, you should write greeting cards.
00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:41.519
Well, you got the card stock, we couldn't start a company.
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We could, we could.
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Let's talk about the plans later.
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I I was a little um we could talk more about Evansville as well.
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I'm sure we will see if they make our final six.
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Not quite sure yet.
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Um, but John, I didn't see you at Team State.
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I I saw like I don't know if it's twin brother or distant cousin, but guy had hair and it was blue.
00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:05.599
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Could find that prop here, maybe.
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Yeah, so um, you know, I think every team, every community sometimes needs an energy guy, and hopefully um I can bring some energy and get people rallied and and have a good time uh cheering on these student athletes.
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Um we had a we had a raucous crowd there in Lodi.
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That that was intense, that was amazing.
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Um lot of fun, right?
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We we stepped away from the broadcast booth there in Lodi, and we we had some Hall of Fame type guys.
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So legends.
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We had legends on the on the call at for that last duel against Mount Horror, Barnville, and then uh yeah, then at Team State, um just trying to bring the energy, be the the cheerleader, I guess, what what have you be so John?
00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:59.359
I was floored because like I you regularly your your heartbeat is at like 60 beats per minute.
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When you're excited, we're pushing 61, it might get to 62.
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But that guy I saw at Team State, that guy was, I mean, we're talking like 90 beats per minute.
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That's all cranked up.
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Yeah, that was that was super fun.
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Uh, just again, bringing the community together.
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We had a real nice, you know, real nice community showing there and at the lacrosse center for Team State.
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It's so much fun.
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And we just got to, you know, it was a good thing for the community of Evansville all around.
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.079
Yeah, and then Evansville is a is a is a huge sports town.
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I mean, they they love all the sports, have a lot of support for all the sports, and and has a long tradition, but they've never won a WIA Team State Championship before.
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So that being the first Team State championship in any sport ever, it was huge for Evansville.
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And there were a lot of uh there's an anecdote I heard from uh Dave Schultz, who was a football coach way back in the day and uh helps out with the training program that a lot of the student athletes use in the summer.
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They call it popular positive, uh, what was it, power of positive athletes program.
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But um, you know, when he when he was able to put, because he paints, you know, conference champs and sectional champs and all that stuff on the wall in the weight room.
00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:20.400
When he was able to put in gold the you know 2026 for wrestling, um, he's like, I can retire now.
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:27.759
And it that it felt good hearing that story from a guy that's been around, he's been looking for this forever, and it was just really cool.
00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:28.880
Wow.
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I I you know it's just uh when I um surprised to hear that because when I went became a southerner and moved down to this area, it's like all I remember was Evansville football.
00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:46.799
Like Evans Evansville football had some amazing programs in there, and then that's just I I'm you when you said that, that's uh I I'm very surprised to hear that.
00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:51.440
But uh great for great for you guys for breaking that um and giving him that story.
00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:52.720
That's fantastic.
00:27:53.599 --> 00:28:03.519
Hey, we got Mike in the chat here talking about how good leaders make a huge difference and giving the lacrosse center some props on hosting, which I agree with Mike on that one.
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:10.000
And yes, Jason, Evansville is a team state semi-away from going to D1 next year.
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:19.440
I believe in other terms, we like to uh we like to call that being victims of their own success, which speaking of that, let's talk some Fenimore wrestling.
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They were eighth in the Richland Center sectional last year with 105 points.
00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:29.039
They were turned five of their nine starters and 56 and a half points.
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They do lose Ryder Zan Chavez, who uh qualified for state at 190, but they're bringing back Jaron Glassbrenner, who qualified for state at 157, Carson Bassett, who plays third at sectionals, and one more top eight sectional finisher.
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:50.160
Yeah, I mean it it's it's gonna be a it's a different Fenomore, right?
00:28:50.720 --> 00:29:00.319
It it is what it is, but you know, every program goes through this, the the the ups and downs, and it might be you know a couple years down and then a pile of years up.
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:02.079
Um Fenamore will be back.
00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:12.559
That area of the state is is not lacking for wrestlers or uh you know wrestling academies or any of those types of opportunities for kids that want to be good at wrestling.
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:13.440
They'll be back.
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:17.039
It'll be interesting to see what freshmen they bring in this year.
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:21.119
Um, but yeah, other than that, they they've lost a lot of numbers.
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:23.039
Um, so we'll see.
00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:33.599
Well, and it correct me if I'm wrong, guys, but I believe after this year, assuming you know something's happening that we don't know of, that they will drop back down uh a division.
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:35.359
Uh you guys can correct me if I'm wrong on that.
00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:37.920
Uh Glassbenner, two ranked last players coming in.
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:39.680
We already talked about Glass uh Renner.
00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:42.880
He's number five at 165, up away class.
00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:46.319
Uh Bassette, he was a state medalist as a freshman, was he not?
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:47.359
At 106?
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:49.920
Uh yes.
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:50.480
Yep.
00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:51.759
I believe he was.
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:54.720
He's uh up uh 138 last year.
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:56.720
The fella's really growing.
00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:59.039
So 106, 138.
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Now he's ranked number eight at 157.
00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:06.480
Maybe he'll do a uh Vito Massa and hit every weight class on his way up.
00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:16.079
All right, we have a Lodi up next, the the model of consistency, as we like to call them.
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They were fourth in the Richland Center read sectional with 143 points.
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:32.960
At team sectionals, they beat Stoughton 40 to 33, lost to Evansville 52 to 20, beat Belmont Plattville 42 to 39, and then lost to Mount Horror Barneveld 50 to 29.
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:38.480
They are returning 11 of their 14 starters and 98.5 points.
00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:45.519
Losing state qualifier Alex Binig, who great wrestler, even greater dude, friend of the show.
00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:50.079
They're returning Briar Caves, who played third at 126 pounds last year.
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:57.599
Owen Dortchorst, who played third at sectionals, and six more top eight sectional finishers.
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And I'll say this I think Steve and I both did not have Lodi making the semis last year for team sectionals, and they uh they they exceeded our expectations and then some, and they were turning a lot of starters, which makes the Blue Devils a little scary coming into this year.
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:17.119
That's what Lodi does.
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.039
Lodi exceeds expectations.
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.880
They do it year in, year out.
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:24.880
Nothing's changed since Coach Andrus has taken over the program.
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:39.039
Um coach Andrus is uh incredible when it comes to utilizing all of his resources and all the all the good uh contributors, coaches, and all of the like that have always been around Lodi Wrestling.
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:42.240
And Lodi is tradition, they're tradition based.
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:44.960
It says it right on their mat about tradition.
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:51.440
And um, and he keeps all those people around, and uh, he's got such positive messages for those wrestlers.
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:54.319
They're a tough team, they'll reload every year.
00:31:54.480 --> 00:32:01.519
They have a great youth program, they have uh incredible parents that support all of their kids.
00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:06.880
There's really not a bad thing you can say about Lodi wrestling, not one bad thing, honestly.
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:14.319
And uh yeah, they are they are scary, and they're definitely a team that um I have in my top six for sure.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:15.359
Absolutely.
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:16.319
It's tradition, right?
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:22.319
I mean, it's kind of like you you talk wrestling and you mention Lodi, and everybody's brain starts to go, man, not that team again, right?
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:31.279
Exactly why you know last year I would say they very much overperformed based on what they had returning, and Teg and I should know better, not to you know, the pick against them.
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:33.440
Uh Lodi, three ranked wrestlers coming in.
00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:42.960
Everett uh Dorschorst, number 12 at 126, Briar Caves, who took third last year, had that 40, uh 42 and 7, had that loss to the Shemin, which was pretty good.
00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:48.559
Um he's ranked number two at 138, and then Owen Dorschorst, 113 last year.
00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:53.119
Um we talked about that third place guy at sectional, right?
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:55.039
Wasn't at the state tournament, but here he is.
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:56.960
Garcia and Fry ahead of him.
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:01.440
You know, that was a heck of a weight class, but he's coming in number three at 120 pounds.
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:03.440
And uh, and I do have to give a shout out.
00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:11.200
Uh Teague, you and I didn't talk our merch, but I do have a low-dye shirt on, and I wore this one specifically for a reason to give my good friend Bo Lane a shout-out.
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:18.640
This one uh at a meet last year we were supposed to go to, but it got uh, I think it was a freeze day to uh it got too cold that day.
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:20.960
It was supposed to be a Friday, they're supposed to wrestle Beaver Dam.
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:34.319
Teague and I were gonna go call the action, and they uh Bo Lane, who I wrestled with in college, he um he retired this past year, and uh so I have my bow nose low-deye wrestling shirt on to give uh give my good buddy uh a shout-out.
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:36.480
I'm glad he got your schmedium.
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:37.359
Fits great.
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:42.160
Well, this is uh this is actually as I was coming down here, I know it's a little tight there.
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:43.759
Uh this one's the large.
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.160
As I was looking at the tag, I grabbed it.
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:48.559
Well, it has, I can prove to you this.
00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:49.680
Where'd it go?
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.240
I have a tag on it, it says Teague's name on it.
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:54.160
So mine's up in the closet.
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:55.759
This is one when Teague gets in.
00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:59.039
This is this this one.
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:01.599
This one's gonna be uh uh Teague's.
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I was hoping you guys wouldn't notice that.
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:09.599
So when I gave it to Teague, he's like, what's that uh what's that ruggedly handsome cologne that already has a fragments on?
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:10.719
I can't find the tag now.
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:14.000
I don't know what I did with it, but uh yeah, so anyway, that's the story behind this.
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:19.360
I'll I'll Steve, I know you got this one nailed down.
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.159
First of all, hi Nikki, glad to see you back in the show.
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:27.920
Jason said, Is it true that Loneye has won their conference tournament like 20 times in a row?
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:32.639
And I believe that is incorrect, but not in the direction you'd expect.
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:34.559
Yeah, it is incorrect.
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:35.599
It's gotta be.
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:42.880
I'm gonna text my sources right now, but I think it's it's it's it's very much approaching 30 if uh if I haven't pertained.
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:45.280
If not already at 30, right?
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:52.239
Uh, I don't think it's quite 30 because you gotta remember, um, well, 30 would be that's taking into the late 90s.
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:53.039
Yeah, right?
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:54.320
So close.
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:55.280
Yeah.
00:34:55.519 --> 00:35:00.159
So before we go on to the next team, though, John, don't you want to mention something about it?
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:01.440
Yes, well, yes, hold on.
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:02.880
I've got a couple things, right?
00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:14.159
So um our Evansville Wrestling YouTube channel, uh, we broadcast the uh the team uh sectional there, Lodi, and Lodi did great um supporting our needs.
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:21.119
Uh they get they got us uh hardwired internet and uh supported whatever power we needed, space we needed.
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:27.679
Um there was a few other asks we had um of the AD Sum Effort there, and she was great to work with.
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:37.519
So we appreciate um the Lodi wrestling staff and the AD there to get us um access for to bring the the the team sectional live to folks.
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:38.880
So thank you to Lodi.
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:42.000
What about uh your favorite wrestler from Lodi?
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:51.440
Yeah, so then um at um as you well know uh we have the woo Ric Flair Hair of the Sectional.
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:54.159
Yes, which is beautiful, by the way.
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:55.440
Yes, yes.
00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:02.880
So uh a shout out to Lodi's award last year.
00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:07.360
Oh guys, that's not you you cut out right as you said the name.
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:08.960
Yeah, gotta do the name again.
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:11.199
Lodi Austin Brown.
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:21.920
He uh I mean uh Walner graduated, but it was I was interested to see who was gonna take over the Adams guy from from the last two years.
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.920
So shout out Austin Brown.
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:26.000
Do we know if he's a senior or not?
00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:32.800
He spoke very highly of his teammates, and that's and that's all you know, that's low-eye wrestling.
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:33.840
That's what they do.
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.039
Pretty pretty emblematic of them, I would say.
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:38.239
Yes, yes.
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:46.480
Well, fellas, we got our next team, and uh I have I actually have two pizza gear tonight.
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:54.400
I'll talk about the other one when we get to that team, but we got Moss and the seed up next, and Steve might know what I'm gonna be rocking for this one.
00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:57.840
Uh we'll we'll give the the crowd at home a show.
00:36:58.159 --> 00:36:58.880
You go with that.
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:01.679
Well, he's gonna be talking about the city of dreams, but I will tell you this.
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:02.960
I was wrong wrong tea.
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:04.159
I mean, I admit this a lot.
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.519
I mean, I seem to be wrong a lot, but uh Lodi has won.
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:10.880
Oh, you're talking what you're still talking, Lodi?
00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:12.559
Well, I gotta go back.
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:13.039
Hold on.
00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:17.360
While you're transitioning, hold on, let's transition to what go take.
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:19.119
You know, don't be showing your chest here.
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:19.840
It's too late.
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:20.719
You just talk now.
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:21.840
Nope, you go.
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:26.159
They have won conference since 1992 or three.
00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:30.239
He's not sure, but uh um that is over 30 years.
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:31.039
You are correct.
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:33.599
So, anyway, I just wanted to answer that question.
00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:35.519
But Teague, City of Dreams, here we go.
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:37.199
Most of the Cedar, what do you got?
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:44.559
Just so you guys know, this year is the singlet and build of a four-time regional qualifier.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:46.559
That's awesome.
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:48.800
And and team state finalist.
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:54.800
Don't ask me how many matches I won on that team run, but so team, you stole your school singlet.
00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:56.559
Is that kind of what you're saying?
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.119
No, I just have it.
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:02.800
He acquired it, Steve.
00:38:03.679 --> 00:38:05.039
Oh, good stuff.
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.079
Nikki with the great callback comment, by the way.
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:11.360
We are all taking turns being blue shirt, dude.
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:13.760
Love it.
00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:16.480
Well, lost to the C now.
00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:18.719
Let's talk about the Golden Eagles, fellas.
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:22.639
They were fifth in the Ossio sectional with 153 points.
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:37.519
At Team Sectionals, they beat Arcadia 41 to 39, lost 46 to 30 to West Salem Bangor, and 39-35 to Ellsworth at Team Sectionals, returning at nine of their 13 stars and 104 points.
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:42.880
They do lose state qualifiers Espen Pitts and Jaron Hansen.
00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:46.320
They made it at 144 and a 215.
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:49.440
And they are, oh my lord.
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:54.639
Well, I have Landon Miller in the notes, but I have they more, they have more third and fourth place finishers than that.
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:57.360
But Steve, pick up my slack.
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.440
Well, shoot, this is where Mason takes over.
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:02.000
What do you got?
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:02.639
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:05.360
Well, uh, so Moss and Nasita, right?
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.960
One of the three new teams to the section this year.
00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:16.079
Uh, we lost River Valley, we lost Dodgeville, and we lost Stone, who placed fifth out of the section last year.
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:20.159
I think they Stown goes to F, Dodgeville goes D3.
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.119
Um, not sure where River Valley is.
00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:25.199
Um did they go D3 as well?
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:28.159
Uh I don't know that.
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.559
Uh I don't think so.
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:32.960
I have uh I can pull the assignments up quick.
00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:35.280
I think they might have just gone somewhere else.
00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:40.400
Well, in any event, um, which is kind of weird because they're right in the thick of our section.
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:44.719
But they've they've always been in this area of sectional, it seems like.
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:45.280
Right.
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:50.639
So, well, anyway, Mosson being one of the new ones, they had a they got a pile of good kids.
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:54.960
Um, you'd kind of mentioned uh Landon Miller, he'll be good thirded sectionals.
00:39:55.280 --> 00:40:06.320
Uh Joseph Bellak, you already mentioned those guys, but uh once again, you know, they lost their state qualifiers, which is kind of a theme with a lot of the teams in this sectional.
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:10.000
There's a lot of senior state qualifiers, and a lot of teams are losing them.
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:12.400
So, I mean, someone's gonna step up and take those spots.
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:13.519
It'll be interesting.
00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:27.119
We haven't seen uh Most and Nasita a lot as as you know, Evansville commentators, but you know, historically they've always had some really tough kids and some really good coaches and obviously some incredible alums.
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:28.559
I mean, look at the guy.
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:36.800
But uh in any event, um, they're they're one of those teams that we'll be keeping a watchful eye on during the course of the season.
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.639
River Valley is in D3, by the way.
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:41.280
They are.
00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:42.239
Go ahead, John.
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:45.519
Yeah, and hosting uh the team sectional.
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:47.360
That is true.
00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:48.000
That's true.
00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:50.639
Just off highway, what is the teague?
00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:52.480
Highway 69.
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.079
Exit 69.
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:55.840
69, there we go.
00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:57.679
Um, wait, just a couple shout-outs.
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:00.000
He threw three ranked wrestlers on the team.
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:02.480
Joseph Belleck, who's not ranked, which was surprising.
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:06.880
He was in the finals at sectionals, had 28 last uh 28 and 10 last year.
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:09.840
Uh Landon Miller is number 14 at 132.
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:18.639
By the way, Landon Miller was the one uh who got that first round win from Austin and Sita over Arcadia uh with a tech fall in the final match.
00:41:18.719 --> 00:41:23.679
They were behind at that point, and then they got that first round win, which I think is huge for a team, right?
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:24.800
You owe that team sectional.
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:28.239
Maybe you know you're not gonna win it, but your team battles and you get a you get a win there.
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:30.079
I think that's a huge momentum builder.
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:33.199
Uh Landon Miller, like I said, number 14, 132.
00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:35.599
Daniel uh T, let me know the last name.
00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:38.960
I wasn't listening before, but he is uh number 13 at 215.
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:40.719
How do you pronounce his last name?
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:42.480
I don't have the name in front of me.
00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:43.280
Uh Mirit.
00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:49.840
Oh, and then Owen Lebinsky, number 10 at 106 pounds.
00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:54.480
Also Austin Hunter, number 8, the big fella at 285.
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:58.480
So four ranked wrestlers for the city of dreams.
00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:03.840
Mike, did I just I did actually flex and my shirt exploded?
00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:04.960
That was not AI.
00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:07.840
That's that's exactly what happened.
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:10.000
And yeah, Jason, I think, is right.
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:12.159
I think there is another Miller boy coming in.
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:17.039
So Tommy Miller's second son, thinking to be a freshman this year.
00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:19.599
Maybe he'll correct me on it, but yeah.
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:22.239
That's all we got for the Golden Eagles, fellas.
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:23.199
Anything else?
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:31.360
Yeah, plug for our YouTube channel, Evans and Wrestling YouTube will be at uh broadcasting the team sectional there at Moston.
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:38.480
So we'll be working closely with them on all the logistics and all that good stuff to get uh to bring that action to you live.
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:39.840
I don't know, fellas.
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:42.400
I hear alumni have first dibs on streaming right.
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:50.320
So uh wow, no, no, you guys gotta take that one because we'll be doing a stream somewhere else.
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:53.360
So the more sectionals we can get out there, the better.
00:42:54.000 --> 00:43:05.920
And uh, we did want to say uh before we move on to the next team that we are we are gonna be uh broadcasting up in your neck of the woods, uh Teague.
00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:10.719
Uh I believe it's second or third weekend in January.
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:13.599
It'll be a Friday night 15th.
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:15.440
January the 15th, I think.
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:16.480
A Friday night.
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:21.679
It's a quad that will feature uh Aquinas hosting.
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:23.760
Evansville will be there.
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:25.840
Um who's the other one?
00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:28.400
Is it Sparta or Wyowega Fremont?
00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:28.559
Maybe.
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:31.119
Wyowiga Fremont, and then I think Sparta.
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:33.760
So that'll be a lot of fun.
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:35.840
That that will be fun.
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:38.159
Teague, feel free to join us.
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:40.000
Oops, you might have to do that on again.
00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:41.119
That's what, yeah.
00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:47.199
If if I'm not if I'm not somewhere else that night, then uh I I might just hop on the mic for that.
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:53.920
Well, Steve got the experience, so you know you should you should also get that experience, not just on the phone.
00:43:54.239 --> 00:44:04.480
Why go why go somewhere else to set up a stream that might not even work when I can just go to a when I can go 20 minutes away and and just talk.
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:05.599
I don't even need to do anything.
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:06.079
That's right.
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:07.280
Just show up.
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.719
Just show up and shake hands and kiss babies, T.
00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:12.400
Alright.
00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:14.239
We'll we'll wait until we get to Reed Virginia.
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:16.480
Probably don't do that in the outfit you're in now, though.
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:17.440
Right.
00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.239
I don't think I'd be allowed in schools after that.
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:20.880
Yeah.
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:25.360
Oh, that's good stuff.
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:26.880
My word.
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:28.239
Well.
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:30.400
Let's move on to the cheesemakers.
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:30.960
Yeah.
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:36.960
Cheesemakers of Monroe were 12th in the Richland Center sectional with 64 points.
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:48.639
They returned seven of their 11 starters into 43 points, bringing back two fifth place sectional finishers and Patrick Harms and Joel Wellman, along with two more top eight sectional finishers.
00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:55.679
I'm glad to see that Monroe still has a wrestling team because I think they were on the referendum chopping block a couple years ago.
00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:00.079
So I'm glad they got the some community support to pull through for now.
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:06.639
So yeah, Monroe, uh the Whip brothers, they're fantastic, a lot of energy.
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:08.559
We love we love wrestling them.
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:09.840
They they bring it.
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:12.960
You know, they they don't care what kind of team they have, they bring it.
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:16.320
Um, they're gonna have some really good kids coming back.
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:19.440
Uh Noah Shoes, very good.
00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:24.480
They got a couple others, but um, they they actually, I'm not sure if we're on here.
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:25.360
Can you hear us?
00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:26.639
Yep, I can hear you guys.
00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:29.360
Video's a little laggy, but we can hear okay.
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:36.800
The video's laggy, but so I think uh one of the freshmen that we had last year that was really good for us, Caleb Schmitz.
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:40.559
I think he went back to Monroe, so they'll have him, hopefully.
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:42.719
Uh hopefully he still wrestles.
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:44.880
Um, but but I'll tell you this.
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:47.599
Uh Connor Eckdahl was a senior last year.
00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:48.320
They lost him.
00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:49.440
He was a great wrestler.
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:51.199
Obviously, he's got two sisters.
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:57.039
You've covered this in the other thing, the Eckdahl sisters that were incredible for Monroe last year.
00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:12.559
But during our broadcast, we would we would we loved we love the Monroe like championship round cheese singlets, those are fantastic, yeah, and they're yellow, and they have like those traditional Swiss cheese holes in them.
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:21.119
And so on one of the broadcasts, I said, like, yeah, I've never seen yellow cheese with a hole in it, you know, like Swiss cheese, you know, kind of making a little wise crack like I do.
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:47.119
And Eric Echtdahl last year at Girls Regionals, which was in our house, uh, brought us up a bag and brought up like four pounds of this really incredible Swiss made uh ethanol Swiss cheese that is has a yellowish tinge with the holes, and we very much enjoyed the cheese.
00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:55.360
But he's like, see, you can have holes in yellow cheese, and hey, prove us wrong, prove us wrong all the time with food, and we'll love you forever.
00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:00.559
Four you had me at four pounds of cheese.
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:01.519
Yeah.
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:03.519
That's good stuff right there.
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:09.360
Well, that being said, I don't believe that it's real, so I want this cheese brought to me in real life.
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:11.599
Yeah, I don't think it's real either.
00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:13.119
So uh throw in some beef sticks.
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:18.800
Um, talking about Noah Shu 33 wins last year.
00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:21.440
Patrick Harms swayed nine wins at 190.
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:26.639
Uh, their their team, six of the eight returners last year were sophomores.
00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:29.440
So they're gonna have a good nucleus of junior juniors coming back.
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:32.639
And uh, I know this isn't wrestling, but I'm gonna give a shout out to Monroe.
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:43.760
I have um in my five-year varsity career, five-year uh refing career of football, I have had Monroe four times now, three times varsity and one time JV.
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:45.039
JV just the other night.
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.280
And I'm gonna tell you what, they are very well coasted.
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:49.920
They're always a good, you know, uh a strong tradition.
00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:51.199
But you guys know this.
00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:56.719
Uh, high school kids, when you ref football, they tell you there's holding on every single play.
00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:02.719
I'm sorry, there's holding on every single play, and they tell you every play, this guy's holding me, this guy's holding me.
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:04.480
I go, the other teams tell me the same thing.
00:48:04.719 --> 00:48:06.880
Monroe kids say nothing.
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.840
They play football, they're gritty, they're hard-nosed.
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:12.639
If something bad happens, they come, they're coached awesome.
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:16.400
They come back to the huddle, you talk to them, they're respectful, yes, sir, everything.
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:24.800
So I'm just gonna give a shout out to the Monroe programs because they uh um whatever they're doing, coaching those kids to be to be gentlemen, it's it's fantastic.
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:26.800
And as official, I appreciate it.
00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:30.960
They shut their mouth, they bring their lunch, they shut their mouth, they bring their lunchbox, and they go to work.
00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:32.239
That's exactly what they do.
00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:39.440
And I think Tom Witt, who coaches with his brother uh for wrestling, I think he's one of the coaches, if not the head coach for Monroe.
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:42.880
So yeah, that the programs are very much the same.
00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:44.079
A lot of respect.
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:48.079
They do it right, they make their they make their comments on the mat.
00:48:49.280 --> 00:49:10.480
I think I think since we brought up Monroe football, I think it's only appropriate that we give a shout out to a man currently in his senior season uh for the Navy midshipman as an offensive lineman, by state champion, state place winner, Cacero Gigante himself, Isaac Bunker.
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:12.880
Oh, I'm so glad you threw that in.
00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:14.239
I missed that.
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:18.559
I tell you what, that was a great kid, and his dad was fantastic.
00:49:18.719 --> 00:49:20.239
A really, really nice guy.
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:21.679
Good family.
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:30.559
Fellas, up next we have uh Mount Horova Barnaval, who was second in the Richland Center sectional with 205.5 points.
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:42.960
At team sectionals, they beat Belmont Plattville 39 to 38, lost to Evansville 45 to 36, then they beat Lodi 50 to uh 29 and a placing second.
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:47.360
They returned 10 of their 14 starters in 138.5 points.
00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:56.639
They are losing two state champions in Hunter Stevens and Eli Leonard, who qualified at 150, or won at 150 and 190.
00:49:56.800 --> 00:50:19.199
Uh they're bringing back Bryce Madden, who qualified at 106, Maxon Stevens, qualified at 132, Easton Cameroon, who was the runner-up at 165, Eli Meyer, who was the runner-up at 175, and Leland Havens, the big man, freshman who plays fifth at 215, along with three more uh top eight sectional finishers.
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.400
Man, what a group coming back.
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:44.320
And I know last year, guys, like it was Mount Horeb's first time in a while being in a team sectional hunt, and I think it was uh they got some valuable, uh whether it be at the sectional or team sectional, they got some valuable team wrestling experience, and I'm excited to see how they they look this year at the end of the year with that experience.
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:52.159
Yeah, so Mount Horeb's one of those uh programs where you know like they're gonna bring in someone.
00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:56.400
I don't know if that'll be a freshman or a transfer, but they bring in kids.
00:50:56.639 --> 00:51:10.639
Um, we don't know who they are yet, but I'm sure they'll I'm I'm sure Coach Starbacher's doing everything he can to fill out uh the holes left by the seniors that graduated last year, the tremendous seniors that graduated last year.
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:16.880
Um they're gonna be tough, and you'd be remiss if you didn't have them in your six.
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:20.800
But uh they're the you know, you always gotta keep an eye on them.
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:24.159
We'll talk more about these guys.
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:28.239
Obviously, they have ranked wrestlers all over the place, so I won't go through them all.
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:29.920
But Tegan, you might know this.
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:34.880
Has there ever been a program that's had four, think about this, four freshmen at state?
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:38.480
That's uh that's a I mean you think about that stat right there.
00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:39.920
That's that's amazing.
00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:45.360
Oh man, I actually now that you say that, I have no idea.
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:48.559
Five returning state qualifiers, four of them freshmen.
00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:51.119
I mean, just let that sink in, right?
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:59.519
I'm waiting for Mike to comment Stoughton, Wisconsin Rapids, because I think those are his go-to answers when when you ask those types of rhetorical questions.
00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:01.440
So we'll see if that if that comes.
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:08.880
All I can think of is the Rapids crew from uh like Ryland Luback's freshman year, maybe.
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:17.360
Because you have to be so talented as a freshman to make it like that's the only uh individual class I could think of that could pull that off.
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:21.920
That's I mean, well we'll have to pose that question to uh to a larger crowd, too.
00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:30.880
I think I that's I I would like Since we Since we are on Mount Horace before does anyone else have anything before we move on?
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:36.239
We got uh I've loved this show because we've given shout-outs to a lot of good people tonight.
00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:38.880
And uh man, this guy might be one of the best.
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:44.079
I think one of my favorite, like not just wrestling parents, but overall people that I met in my career.
00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:49.519
But Matt Leonard of Mount Hora Barnevel, he's Eli Leonard's dad.
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.880
And get this, you guys, he drives bust for the team too.
00:52:53.039 --> 00:53:02.480
Like he is one of the all-time, like most genuine, kindest dudes ever, like just overall awesome human beings.
00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:07.360
And like when I think of him, like I can't help but smile, because like he's just such a light in this world.
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:09.440
And like, I don't know if he's listening to it.
00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:10.719
I hope it gets back to him.
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:14.800
But yeah, that that dude, you can you know why Eli Leonard's a good kid?
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:19.440
Because his his dad is a top-notch dude.
00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:22.800
Yeah, can I jump in there?
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:24.159
I I would second that.
00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:43.519
Um, when you know, early on in our um broadcasting uh journey here with the Evansville Wrestling YouTube channel, uh we we broadcast a marathon at uh Bellville, and um that was my go-to guy to kind of get us in the door, and he was super helpful and talked to the right people.
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:48.800
And so I built up a relationship you know that season to help us with the broadcast.
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:58.079
And uh every time I see him, you know, it's always good luck, or you know, good luck to Eli or you know, shake a hand and uh say hello or a nod of a cap.
00:53:58.239 --> 00:54:00.559
So yeah, uh I would ditto that.
00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:02.719
Matt Leonard.
00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:08.719
We got a great video that we didn't post last year, Steve, but Matt watching Eli at Cheesehead.
00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:16.800
He wasn't like obnoxious or anything, he was just sitting in a chair, but he was basically all the movements Eli was doing, he was doing in that chair.
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:19.119
It was it was epic.
00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:22.079
Every dad knows those moves.
00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:22.880
Yep.
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:28.719
Steve Steve's not even a dad, and he does that when we commentate finals.
00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:30.800
I do that sometimes, yep.
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:34.159
Well, you're a dad, Steve, because not of the kids on the mat.
00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:39.840
Tiga's been victim of a uh right forearm shiver to the back of his head a couple times.
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:43.199
Oh, okay.
00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:44.559
Let's talk Portage.
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:48.719
They were 15th of the Richland Center sectional with 25 points.
00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:54.960
They return two of their seven starters, uh, returners, a Dash Ludwig and a Vance Beckett.
00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:57.760
A familiar name in Portage Wrestling lore.
00:54:58.159 --> 00:54:59.280
Definitely.
00:54:59.920 --> 00:55:01.760
So, yeah, portage, right?
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:05.840
They're two out of out of seven at sectionals.
00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:15.599
But if you look at their whole roster uh that they had out there last year, they have a pile of freshmen and sophomores on there.
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:27.519
Hopefully, for Portage's sake, they matriculated, they all got a good JV season in and are ready to make that jump to the varsity level and and help uh the program fill a lineup.
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:31.039
Um, but again, it's not for a lack of numbers.
00:55:31.199 --> 00:55:44.000
They have them there, and I'm just hopeful that that coach is mindful enough that knows that rather than you know throw them into the the fire baptism, uh developed them the right way and see if they're ready to go this year.
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:45.440
That's that's a good way of putting it.
00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:47.599
I do, I do like how that you said that, right?
00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:51.519
I mean, protect them, save them a little bit for so they're with you next year.
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:56.480
Um Vance Beckett, who you mentioned, 215 pounds.
00:55:56.800 --> 00:56:00.000
Coach Mitch Beckett, I don't know if that's gotta be cousins or whatever.
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:07.440
If that's his kid, I think uh Vance is uh because Mitch is not a big guy, I think Vance might be taking all the food from his dad.
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:09.280
Just like I'm throwing around there.
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:11.119
Who was it?
00:56:11.199 --> 00:56:13.920
Was Chase Beckett a state champ reported, Steve?
00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:15.360
He was, yeah, Chase.
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:16.400
Oh, yeah, and that's a good point.
00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:19.280
Chase, and then there was another Beckett who was in the now of the rankings.
00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:35.440
And and T you and I, when we started doing the podcast and sectional previews, I think it was about four years ago, back when only the top two teams went to Team Section, though, Portage was was in there, or we were talking about them every year being one of those first teams, you know, first teams on the outside look it in.
00:56:35.519 --> 00:56:37.840
So they're not far off team success.
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:42.320
So as uh Mason said, maybe they got the numbers there.
00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:49.039
Hopefully they're they're ready to put those guys who who were learning the the lower tier up in the uh up in the higher tier wrestling.
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:51.119
There's a there's a path there for sure.
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:51.920
There is.
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:53.199
Trust the process.
00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:57.039
I put my gear back on for this one, and it hurts a little bit.
00:56:57.199 --> 00:57:07.599
I mean, thank you, Rob Bouch, for uh for the Reedsburg year, but man, I I I just put it on during Holman versus Reedsburg week in the Mississippi Valley Conference.
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:10.639
That kind of kind of burns me a little bit.
00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:15.280
But I see Rob every year at state at the same establishment.
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:17.360
It won't say what it is, right?
00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:19.360
Uh we'll just call it the library.
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:22.320
Uh, and it's usually before the semifinals.
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:30.719
And he always, I every time I walk in, he's got that same smile and that grin on his face, like, yeah, you didn't pick us again, because at some point he proves us wrong.
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:34.880
We don't pick him, and then he's got that grin of, yeah, yeah, nice pick.
00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:44.480
You know, and then he, I won't say what word he says after that, but I've been on the inverse where either I've picked Readsburg and they didn't win, or I don't pick them and they win.
00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:48.480
So I I guess we'll see it, and we'll talk more about that later, too.
00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:55.920
But see, we also have to, I know it's conference weekend and there's so much going on in life, especially during wrestling.
00:57:56.159 --> 00:58:01.360
We have got to go to the Reedsburg Wrestling Smelt Fry the Sunday after conference.
00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:04.960
Put it on, put it on the calendar, man.
00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:05.760
Come pick me up.
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:07.280
I think we can make it happen.
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:08.800
Come pick me up.
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:11.199
Right?
00:58:11.360 --> 00:58:13.440
Can't be too far out of the way, right?
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:19.039
Reachburg might be the the center point for you and I, T.
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:20.960
It's close.
00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:24.800
I think we've talked about it before because Richland Center is pretty close.
00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:27.679
And Reachburg isn't far off from Richland Center.
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:29.440
But let's talk about this.
00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:30.000
Hold on.
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:32.239
Someone someone's pumped here for the Beaver talk.
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:32.960
It's Jason.
00:58:33.039 --> 00:58:34.800
Jason, here you go, buddy.
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:37.039
Talking the Beavers.
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:41.840
Reachburg was sixth in the Richland Center sectional with 128 points.
00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:47.760
They lost 49 to 29 to Belmont Plattville at team sectionals, which that's just a brutal draw.
00:58:48.000 --> 00:59:08.320
They returned 12 of their 14 starters and 116 and a half points, bringing back Hudson Jablonski, who qualified at 150, fourth place sectional finishers, Jaden Vanderhoof, Braden Hale Toomey, who was a state place winner, mind you, and Taven Johnson, and six more top eight sectional finishers.
00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:13.440
Fellas, Reedsburg, just like Lodi, I'm kind of echoing the sentiment here.
00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:15.599
A model of consistency.
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:21.679
And I think since Steve and I have been covering the show, this is the most returners I have coming back.
00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:31.039
And I gotta keep that in my head because there's not many coaches or programs better developing like their middling kids than Readsburg.
00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:32.320
100%.
00:59:33.039 --> 00:59:38.480
Um Readsburg is a team that's going to be in the in the top six.
00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:45.280
They're gonna be there in Moston uh four team sectionals, and they're definitely a team that we're watching out for.
00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:48.400
Um lot of starters coming back.
00:59:48.719 --> 01:00:14.639
Um I hope, I hope when when we get to that point and you're making your picks that we start thinking about, you know, not just how many starters and how many you know different qualifiers for state or whatever else, but also like who what teams like to score big points as opposed to incredible team and and frankly as they sit right now.
01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:16.400
Yeah, time out, Mason.
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:16.960
We lost you.
01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:24.800
We lost you what you said, not just qualifiers and points, but big but teams that can score big points and then cut out.
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:25.679
So go from there.
01:00:26.400 --> 01:00:33.599
Is what I'm talking about, but um Reedsburg's they're gonna be another another year with more experience.
01:00:33.760 --> 01:00:41.760
They didn't really get hit by the the graduating senior bug as hard as most of the other teams in the section.
01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:43.519
So they're in a really good spot.
01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:48.239
We'll see what uh what they bring and what kind of dual meet uh team they bring.
01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:51.679
Because that's also a lot different from those indie tournaments.
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:59.920
I think that's uh I think that's what got Reachburg last year, and like this doesn't take away from Braden, because like really good wrestler.
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:06.480
Their depth not questioned last year, but there was just so many hammers in all the teams at team sectional.
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:11.599
Like, I just don't know if Reitsburg had the firepower to match that points output last year.
01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:13.599
Yeah.
01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:17.840
But uh last thing, you guys got anything else for Reitsburg?
01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:19.679
Nope.
01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:35.039
Uh oh yeah, I do want to say for I asked that because uh I do have to give an extra shout out to uh Braden and uh Reitsburg wrestler uh Luke Redner, who uh we had an event in Reitsburg last weekend on Saturday.
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:46.800
Long story short, we had a loss in the family a few years ago, and my brother started this event that raises funds for mental health awareness and kids going into mental health fields for scholarships and whatnot.
01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:58.719
And one of the things in there is a little like mini triathlon where you bike, kayak, and run, and Braden and Luke competed in it, and uh they brought their family with.
01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:02.880
There's a couple friends that came along, and that that just means the world to me.
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:13.039
Like, I don't know, I don't know why they like whether they just wanted to go do a run or what like they supported the cause, and I think that speaks a lot to them as people off the mat.
01:02:13.360 --> 01:02:20.239
So thank you to Braden and Luke, and uh thank you to the Reachburg Wrestling Program for raising two good kids.
01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:22.400
It's good stuff.
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:27.360
Hey, we got hey, speaking of Richland Center, we brought them up a few times.
01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:32.960
They were at Richland Center was 13th of the Richland Center sectional with 29 and a half points.
01:02:33.199 --> 01:02:41.679
They return a six of their seven starters and 12 points, bringing back a top eight sectional finishers, Kamani Gullins and Brock Barrett.
01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:43.599
Love the alliteration.
01:02:45.519 --> 01:03:00.639
So pursuant to the research, and I and I have to I have to give a big thank you to uh one of one of our broadcast team, John Bolik, who helped me out with this research, and this in particular, this is where he's really strong.
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:10.400
But uh apparently they have three incoming freshmen coming in, and Aiden Ewing, Landon Kajewski, and Cashton Larson.
01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:17.760
Last year, WWF, they all made the WWF State uh tournament for youth wrestling.
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:25.519
They all scored points there, their studs, and they were like 100, 120, 130, where coaches that's exactly where they want them, right?
01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:38.320
So we may we may see a a youth brigade in Richland Center and uh and and see some some names pop up in finals matches that you know we haven't seen in the last couple of years.
01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:42.239
So keep keep an eye out for the Richland Center freshmen.
01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:55.599
I don't know how deep your guys' knowledge of Richland Center sports history goes, but I do know if there's an E-wing in Richland Center that they're probably gonna turn out to be pretty good.
01:03:56.239 --> 01:03:56.880
Yep.
01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:06.079
Hey, got Sparta, the penultimate team in this uh sectional preview.
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:13.679
Sparta was eighth in the DeForest sectional with 130 points, returning nine of their ten starters and 103 points.
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:36.079
They do lose uh Landon Connolly, who qualified for state at 120 last year, but they're bringing back Pierce Matheson, who will play sixth at state at 113, along with third place sectional finishers Alexander Couderer, Matthew Cooterer, Lance Greeno, and fourth place sectional finisher Hunter Huntington, who is also an excellent football player.
01:04:36.239 --> 01:04:39.039
Got to see him on the gridiron last week.
01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:44.880
And Pierce Matheson, you know, you got a couple of guys, Steve, that like you can just josh around with.
01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:46.800
Like you kind of like they're your boys, right?
01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:48.880
Pierce Matheson, I'd say, is one of my boys.
01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:52.800
I don't know if he'd say the same, but saw him at a few track meets this year.
01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:55.360
We got to talk wrestling, talk some track.
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:59.440
I got to uh watch him pole vault and uh yeah, pretty cool stuff.
01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:01.599
So that's awesome.
01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:06.880
I know they're MVC foes, but but room for Pierce for sure this year.
01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:09.519
You think uh Hunter's dad hunts?
01:05:11.199 --> 01:05:12.559
He'd hope so, right?
01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:13.599
Right, right.
01:05:14.000 --> 01:05:16.079
I think everyone in Sparta hunts.
01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:17.599
Um right.
01:05:18.159 --> 01:05:20.639
Did you already go through your spiel, Teague?
01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:22.480
I got my spiel, yeah.
01:05:22.639 --> 01:05:23.920
Yeah, he's got it in, yeah.
01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:30.880
Sparta, I mean, you know, this is uh uh one of the three new pro programs to this section.
01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:34.480
They're coming down from D1 somehow.
01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:36.000
I'm not sure how that worked.
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:52.400
If it was uh I think it was their their population, but then because there were ones going up with the competitive balance, they come down, however that they were I think they were like at the top or the second from the top of the cut line of coming down.
01:05:52.559 --> 01:05:55.679
So replaced by D one powerhouse Coleman.
01:05:55.920 --> 01:05:56.800
Yep, continue.
01:05:57.039 --> 01:05:59.760
Yeah, so um so yeah.
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:03.840
I mean, uh from history, we know what 300 Spartans can do.
01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:04.800
What can 14?
01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:06.079
Yes.
01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:07.440
So love it.
01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:08.880
That one's for you, Steve.
01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:11.360
But uh, no, they got some tough kids.
01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:18.400
Uh they lost, I think they're one state qualifier uh last year, but they're gonna be tough.
01:06:18.480 --> 01:06:22.239
Uh Matthew Kuterer, 32 and 19 last year.
01:06:22.559 --> 01:06:29.840
Tough kids kind of sticks out uh to me, but then they got a couple of you know, again, Hunter Huntington, fourth at sectionals.
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:41.840
Now they do also have a freshman coming in, Guadalupe Soto, and he was a freshman at 190, got fifth place at WWF State.
01:06:42.079 --> 01:06:52.480
So again, we're we're we're somehow in this land of having like 190 and 215-pound freshmen come in and do really well.
01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:53.599
It's so weird.
01:06:53.679 --> 01:06:56.159
That was never the way it was back in the day.
01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:58.639
But nowadays you gotta watch out for those.
01:06:58.719 --> 01:07:09.519
I mean, if you know, back in my day, if you were in the heavier weights like 160 and above, and you had a freshman, you're like, ah, don't have to worry about this kid, you know, and that's not the case anymore.
01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:19.599
So, and and of course, he's coming into a section with a couple, at least at this particular point, couple, I think what ranked one and two at 190.
01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:21.679
So good luck, uh, Mr.
01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:22.400
Soto.
01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:23.679
Right.
01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:25.599
Guadalupe Soto.
01:07:25.760 --> 01:07:26.480
That's epic.
01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:28.079
That is awesome.
01:07:28.239 --> 01:07:35.199
So uh, you know, hey, six of those guys that are of the nine that are returning, six of them were sophomores last year, obviously coming up to upperclassman.
01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:35.920
That's pretty big.
01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:38.079
Uh four ranked wrestlers for the Spartans.
01:07:38.159 --> 01:07:44.000
You got Kudener, uh Alexander, but I have a little trouble with the double uh ERs.
01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:47.920
Uh, and I I teach with a multiver, who's actually from Evansville, by the way.
01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:52.159
Um, number five at 106 again.
01:07:52.320 --> 01:07:54.960
They also have Kai Jacobson, number 11 at 113.
01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:58.880
Hunter, as we mentioned, the alliteration, number six at 190, the big fella.
01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:05.360
Uh, Pierce Teague, this is uh kind of a little interesting, and I know it sounds like I'm uh his two losses at state.
01:08:05.519 --> 01:08:07.199
He lost twice to Mason Moody.
01:08:07.519 --> 01:08:16.159
Sudden victory loss in round one, and then it was a uh uh uh it was also a 12-5 loss.
01:08:16.319 --> 01:08:17.359
It was close towards the end.
01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:19.680
There was a seven-point feet to back.
01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:24.399
So, how often do we see a seven-point sudden victory uh feet to back?
01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:34.800
I I think you and I covered it and we saw it one other time, but um Pierce looking tough, six-play medal, sixth place medalist, number four at ranked at 126 pounds.
01:08:35.600 --> 01:08:37.680
Josh, glad to see you in the chat.
01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:38.960
Appreciate the love back.
01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:44.319
And yeah, Mike bringing up Evansville's loss to Sparta at team sectionals in 2016.
01:08:44.479 --> 01:08:48.000
And Sparta was built like that in the 2010s.
01:08:48.159 --> 01:09:01.279
They they the collection of talent that they had for a decade, uh, and and don't give me they still have good guys come through, but the collection of talent that they had at one time and the amount was ridiculous.
01:09:01.439 --> 01:09:06.159
They were a nightmare, like to to duel against or compete against.
01:09:07.439 --> 01:09:09.760
Mike, is that the one we went to in Lodi?
01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:19.119
I think that's the one where maybe Jordan Meyer got disqualified on what they call the slam, which we didn't believe was a slam.
01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:22.640
Oh, maybe.
01:09:22.800 --> 01:09:26.720
I can't believe I can't believe I'm expecting him to answer, but he he will eventually.
01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:28.000
That'll be delayed.
01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:32.079
It it is a 30-second delay, so so we'll get at that.
01:09:32.159 --> 01:09:32.560
Uh yeah.
01:09:33.039 --> 01:09:35.199
30-second think time, 30-second delay.
01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:37.359
So he'll respond about a minute, minute and a half.
01:09:37.680 --> 01:09:44.319
I guess uh Sparta, great in the 2010s, lost to the Mauston Golden Eagles at regionals in 2013.
01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:49.760
Which you guys might not know this, but Mawson ended up making it to the team state finals that year.
01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:51.119
Wow.
01:09:51.439 --> 01:09:52.319
First I heard that.
01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:52.880
Yeah.
01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:54.239
Yeah.
01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:56.159
The more you know.
01:09:57.279 --> 01:09:59.760
Polk Polk High, four touchdowns, one game.
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:01.119
1988.
01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:06.239
And the last team in this nobody will get that reference.
01:10:06.560 --> 01:10:08.880
We got John and Stitches over here.
01:10:10.159 --> 01:10:10.800
Yeah.
01:10:13.199 --> 01:10:15.039
John's really excited.
01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:19.520
Mike did confirm that was that was the one we saw, yeah.
01:10:21.119 --> 01:10:29.840
And uh the last team in this sectional, Wisconsin Dells, 14th in the Richland Center sectional with 16 points.
01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:37.840
They return eight of their 10 starters and 10 points, led by eighth place sectional finishers Anthony Eckle and Gideon Verbonick.
01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:48.079
Yeah, they they're um they're probably not happy to be in this section.
01:10:50.399 --> 01:10:52.640
Yeah, that's what I'll say.
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:56.479
Yeah, because they're one of the are they one of the newcomers into this one?
01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:00.159
Yeah, it's yeah, them, Sparta, and Moss and Acida.
01:11:00.640 --> 01:11:01.279
Yep.
01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:09.840
Uh yeah, a couple of T mentioned, uh Anthony Echtal, 157, uh Verbonic, the Big Fella, 228.
01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:13.520
Uh, you know, I guess the good news for them, eight starters return it, right?
01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:15.680
So that's uh that's something that's something to build on.
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:23.359
And uh Jay Wade says, yes, that was a uh to answer your question, yes, that was a married with children reference.
01:11:23.680 --> 01:11:30.479
Thank you for clarifying that for T because that show was not on when I think it came on when he was born.
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:31.680
Probably.
01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:32.319
Yeah.
01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:32.960
Yeah.
01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:36.159
I think it didn't start in like the late 80s.
01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:41.600
I thought it was early 90s, but I thought it was like 88, 89 when that show started, anyway.
01:11:42.319 --> 01:11:45.119
I'm gonna be four touchdowns, one game.
01:11:46.239 --> 01:11:53.199
Steve, I'm proud of myself because I only typed in regional like three times out of 16 on this one.
01:11:53.520 --> 01:11:54.239
That's not bad.
01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:54.800
Good job.
01:11:54.960 --> 01:11:56.399
I'm I'm getting better at it.
01:11:56.960 --> 01:11:59.039
John just pointed it out to me.
01:12:01.119 --> 01:12:02.239
As you said that.
01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:04.960
Guys, you go from I was gonna let it slide, T.
01:12:05.439 --> 01:12:11.920
You go from uh six years of covering uh regionals and uh switch to just sectional points.
01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:14.159
Old habits die hard.
01:12:14.319 --> 01:12:19.199
Well then you're still doing regionals with the girls wrestling, so it's yeah, you're that's right.
01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:24.159
Well, it's about that time, fellas.
01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:33.920
It is my favorite time, and uh, since you are now a recurring guest on the show annually, it's it's the one time of year we gotta bring this puppy back.
01:12:34.239 --> 01:12:35.039
Picture it.
01:12:35.279 --> 01:12:37.119
The year is 2019.
01:12:37.439 --> 01:12:38.800
I can't believe you're doing this, T.
01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:47.760
You're you're a fledgling podcaster, and you're you're about eight or nine podcasts deep with your horrible audio and edits and intro song.
01:12:48.159 --> 01:12:48.800
But you know what?
01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:54.079
You're enjoying life, you're enjoying the predictions, you're enjoying uh the people interacting with it.
01:12:54.319 --> 01:13:05.760
You put out the D2 sectional C podcast, and you get this comment for the audio faults, dumb podcast, commenting on regions you didn't even see.
01:13:05.920 --> 01:13:10.399
Anytime you want to wager on your prognostications, just let me know.
01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:14.319
It does not get old.
01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:15.600
I'm sorry.
01:13:17.119 --> 01:13:18.560
You're not apologizing to me.
01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:21.920
I think you guys have improved vastly since getting my notes.
01:13:22.720 --> 01:13:27.439
Not in predictions per se, but just we've gotten better as a product.
01:13:27.760 --> 01:13:31.199
I well, let the record show I was not part of Teague at that time.
01:13:31.279 --> 01:13:34.079
That was uh that was PS, that was the PS period.
01:13:34.319 --> 01:13:35.920
The before Steve era.
01:13:36.239 --> 01:13:50.239
It was we have to bring it up every year because I think about it whenever I'm doing picks, but also just to think of how far we've come, and now you guys have your own YouTube channel, and now you're on our show.
01:13:50.399 --> 01:13:56.079
And for reference, everyone, that was a comment that 2019 Mason put on my podcast post.
01:13:56.319 --> 01:14:03.279
I mean for whatever reason, I I must have been like especially offended that evening.
01:14:04.319 --> 01:14:07.279
In hindsight, I shouldn't have taken Edgerton.
01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:10.000
So you were you were right on that.
01:14:12.960 --> 01:14:13.760
It's great.
01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:17.920
I see like a thousand worse comments on the internet like a week.
01:14:18.079 --> 01:14:19.920
So that's yeah.
01:14:22.399 --> 01:14:25.359
I hear this from you, you know, every year.
01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:33.439
So I I just think of the uh frozen song every time he brings it up, and I just tell him to let it go, man.
01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:43.840
I think the fun the funny part of bringing it up now is just like how I felt in the moment reading it, where I was like, oh, well, that's the end of my podcasting career.
01:14:43.920 --> 01:14:44.880
Thanks, everybody.
01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:47.119
Yeah, poop.
01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:49.760
Well, clearly I didn't have that effect.
01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:56.560
I've I've motivated you to turn this into the awesome podcast that it is now.
01:14:56.640 --> 01:15:09.279
And really, I mean, again, that that you know, that comment aside, you you guys both do way more for Wisconsin wrestling and high school wrestlers than you think.
01:15:09.840 --> 01:15:24.399
And it's appreciated by all of us people that understand and believe in the values and attributes that young uh student athletes get from wrestling and not so much from other sports.
01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:27.119
So we we appreciate the heck out of you.
01:15:27.439 --> 01:15:28.239
All right, mates.
01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:31.920
You can't make me cry before we before we get into our picks.
01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:32.800
Thank you.
01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:35.840
No, your picks will make everyone else cry.
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:41.920
Oh Mike says, Mike says, you took Ederton?
01:15:42.079 --> 01:15:42.720
Question mark.
01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:44.399
You deserve that comment.
01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:46.319
Okay, Mike.
01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:48.239
Mike's always got my back.
01:15:49.600 --> 01:15:50.560
That's awesome.
01:15:50.800 --> 01:15:52.479
Prognostication, beautiful word.
01:15:52.560 --> 01:15:55.840
I need to use it more outside of just the context of that.
01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:59.279
So uh it is prognosticating time, Steve.
01:15:59.359 --> 01:16:05.039
And uh while we're full screen, let me pull the pull the notes out here or the coin.
01:16:06.640 --> 01:16:07.359
Here we go.
01:16:07.520 --> 01:16:10.239
I think he was buttering us up because he knows picks are coming.
01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:10.880
What do we got?
01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:11.600
I don't think he.
01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:12.560
Yeah, right, right, right.
01:16:12.640 --> 01:16:14.319
I was thinking of the same thing.
01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:15.039
What is it?
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:16.079
Heads.
01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:18.239
Yeah, T, I like the old coin better.
01:16:18.319 --> 01:16:19.600
I can't that one I could see.
01:16:19.680 --> 01:16:22.479
This one, you could tell me it's heads every time, and I'd believe you.
01:16:22.640 --> 01:16:24.239
The old coin was a donkey, too.
01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:25.680
So that was, right?
01:16:25.840 --> 01:16:28.399
And I was the back end of the donkey on that one.
01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:30.159
Sad donkey, yeah.
01:16:31.119 --> 01:16:34.960
Which sad donkey is like the opposite energy that you bring.
01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:37.920
I am going to pick.
01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:41.119
I'm gonna pick first.
01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:41.840
Okay.
01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:43.279
You would.
01:16:44.800 --> 01:16:45.199
Yeah.
01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:46.800
Let me pull the bracket up.
01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:50.880
I was thinking, no, I I have to bring up Reedsburg again.
01:16:51.359 --> 01:16:58.479
Guys, we might be playing Holman might be playing Reidsburg in a rainstorm that's gonna get three inches.
01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:02.239
And like, this is a triple option versus a double-winged team.
01:17:02.399 --> 01:17:07.119
I think on an 80-degree day, the ball might get passed three times.
01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:14.159
We are gonna see like football in its purest form on Thursday or Friday.
01:17:14.319 --> 01:17:14.800
Yeah, I'll be back.
01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:16.880
Uh squash bucket.
01:17:17.680 --> 01:17:23.680
That'll bring me back to like the movie Best of Times with uh with Kurt Douglas and Robin Williams.
01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:24.720
Yes.
01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:28.159
Teague's nodding because he has no idea what you're talking about.
01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:28.960
Yeah, I know.
01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:30.560
Great movie.
01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:32.720
Teague, I'm with you.
01:17:32.800 --> 01:17:33.680
I don't know what you're talking about.
01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:35.279
Oh, come on.
01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:37.039
He doesn't get any of my references.
01:17:37.199 --> 01:17:37.520
No.
01:17:38.000 --> 01:17:43.199
It will be a swashbuckling if I think that might that game might be the opposite of a barn burner.
01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:46.399
Like it will be exciting, but not a barn burner.
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:51.680
All right, let's let's get down back to business here.
01:17:52.079 --> 01:17:56.159
Yeah, I will I yeah, I do my top six because you're going.
01:17:56.399 --> 01:17:57.920
Oh, I know what I have to do.
01:17:58.159 --> 01:17:58.479
Yep.
01:17:58.640 --> 01:17:59.119
Hang on.
01:17:59.359 --> 01:17:59.840
My bad.
01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:00.960
My bad.
01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:03.680
Sorry, John.
01:18:03.840 --> 01:18:06.239
We rehearse this, and okay, where we go.
01:18:06.479 --> 01:18:06.640
Okay.
01:18:12.800 --> 01:18:14.159
You and I are gonna have the same top five.
01:18:14.239 --> 01:18:16.079
We're not, you and I are gonna have different numbers six.
01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:17.520
I'm gonna predict that right now.
01:18:17.760 --> 01:18:27.760
So on the outside looking in, I have uh Sparta just with their numbers, and uh maybe you know my other seventh, eighth place team on the outside looking in.
01:18:27.840 --> 01:18:29.359
Let's just get this out of the way now.
01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:30.960
I got Moston.
01:18:31.199 --> 01:18:37.680
It's just uh I think almost every other sectional Mostin can make the top six, just not this one.
01:18:37.840 --> 01:18:42.000
We can talk more about it uh when Steve's done with his top six.
01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:48.239
But my 3-6 matchup, I have Sugar River as my sixth seed.
01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:56.560
Taking on uh third seeded Reedsburg interesting four.
01:18:57.520 --> 01:18:59.600
Have you been watching the shows, Mason?
01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:01.359
Is that why you said interesting?
01:19:01.600 --> 01:19:02.399
Hang on.
01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:05.439
I need to see, yeah, okay, I see your face.
01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:06.479
Yep, you said.
01:19:07.039 --> 01:19:08.239
Oh, that's good, buddy.
01:19:10.159 --> 01:19:12.319
Okay, Mason.
01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:14.239
Four versus five.
01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:20.399
We have Lodi versus Belmont Platville.
01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:26.880
Notice there is a slash in there, so that is not the inferior gas station chain.
01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:28.399
That is Belmont Platville.
01:19:29.920 --> 01:19:30.800
Love it.
01:19:31.039 --> 01:19:45.199
The winner of Reitzburg and uh Sugar River will be taking on Evansville, the two seed, and the one-seed Mount Horror Barneveld.
01:19:45.439 --> 01:19:48.159
Oh, I was hoping you'd type that whole thing in on that little line.
01:19:48.399 --> 01:19:50.800
T Steve, your top six.
01:19:51.119 --> 01:19:52.239
My top six.
01:19:52.319 --> 01:19:52.720
All right.
01:19:52.800 --> 01:19:56.880
I have uh on the outside looking in, just a shade out of there.
01:19:56.960 --> 01:19:58.880
I have Evansville looking.
01:19:59.039 --> 01:20:00.000
Uh I was just kidding.
01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:01.840
That's me messing around with you guys.
01:20:02.079 --> 01:20:04.079
I can't, I can't even see your faces.
01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:09.920
So I was like hoping you were bigger and I could see your you know scene coming out of your skips joking.
01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:13.039
Yeah, no, that's messing.
01:20:13.119 --> 01:20:14.239
Um, that's not even funny.
01:20:14.319 --> 01:20:15.520
I shouldn't joke around like that.
01:20:15.680 --> 01:20:19.600
Uh, I have a so my six team, so Teg, I like what you said.
01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:21.680
Sparta, um, I considered them.
01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:25.520
They were in a different sectional, D1, the four sectional, pretty tough one, right?
01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:29.520
Um, but the only thing that the reason why I kept them out is to have a nine of ten.
01:20:29.920 --> 01:20:33.199
Uh, traditionally, over the last few years, have not had a full team.
01:20:33.359 --> 01:20:38.399
Uh, Belmont Platte actually um a returning.
01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:49.840
The thing, the reason why I let them out teak uh is only two, I know it's very, it's a swashbuckler, as you say, of a sectional, but only two wrestlers returning placed in the top five.
01:20:50.159 --> 01:21:04.800
So that uh that uh stat right there propelled me to go with the number six seed, City of Dreams, who traditionally has nine returners traditionally has a full team.
01:21:05.039 --> 01:21:09.119
I have Mauston Masida as my number six.
01:21:09.520 --> 01:21:13.279
My number five is up top, is Sugar River.
01:21:14.960 --> 01:21:18.399
My number, and they will be facing the Blue Devils of Lodi.
01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:21.840
I think number three, we have the same.
01:21:21.920 --> 01:21:23.680
I think we have the top three exactly the same.
01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:32.640
We have Reedsburg as number three, Evansville we have as number two, and then I have Mount Horror Barnaville as well as my number one.
01:21:33.439 --> 01:21:34.560
Reedsburg.
01:21:35.359 --> 01:21:36.399
Evansville.
01:21:42.800 --> 01:21:48.399
My big thing with the Most and Belmont Plattville argument, and I know I have Belmont Plattville.
01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:52.560
Like Sugar River will see how their freshmen develop.
01:21:52.640 --> 01:21:56.399
They could be a wild card team, they could be as high as the four, I think.
01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:00.800
Uh I hate to say this from Austin and Sparta.
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:08.800
I just took uh sectional strength with their returning numbers too, and it's not necessarily a knock on their sectionals.
01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:16.960
It's just that Belmont Plattville's numbers came in a sectional where you if you're a top five guy, you are really good.
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:22.239
I'd argue that if you're a top eight guy, you're also pretty solid in most brackets.
01:22:22.479 --> 01:22:29.920
So that's kind of that's kind of where I ended up with that one, where we had our difference in who was left in, who was left out.
01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:41.279
And yeah, seating-wise, again, we know uh all the all the fancy ways that the seeding happens, but we we're just kind of we just gotta get our top six out there.
01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:45.359
So I'm sure we'll flesh out our top three a little more.
01:22:45.840 --> 01:22:46.159
Right.
01:22:46.319 --> 01:22:47.920
Well, either way, I picked first.
01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:52.640
So um that sixth spot doesn't really matter because I think you and I both are gonna have it the same way.
01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:58.560
Doesn't uh the Berg is gonna advance to face Evansville in the semifinals.
01:22:58.800 --> 01:23:04.159
And then up top, um, numbers, I couldn't really, it was hard comparing numbers.
01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:07.600
So what I did is I went back to last year.
01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:17.359
I don't know if you guys know this or not, but these two teams are in the same conference, and we know that uh stat just in Lodi has won this conference since 1993, maybe 92.
01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:28.479
My source wasn't exactly sure on the year, but um Lodi won this duel last year 46 to 31, and they both returned the same number of starters.
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:32.880
So, with that reason, I'm gonna go with Lodi advancing to Mount Horeb.
01:23:37.840 --> 01:23:44.880
And then on the bottom side, I have uh Reedsburg versus Evansville.
01:23:45.199 --> 01:23:46.960
Um seven to five.
01:23:47.039 --> 01:23:49.199
Evansville has uh seven guys.
01:23:49.279 --> 01:23:51.680
I my my big number is placing in the top five.
01:23:51.840 --> 01:24:00.239
Evansville leads seven to five as far as sectional qualifiers and four to one as far as having more state qualifiers.
01:24:00.479 --> 01:24:05.600
Um and I think what's gonna happen here, we talked about Readsburg and they've given them mad respect for the program.
01:24:05.680 --> 01:24:10.720
They developed consistency, and I think what hurt them last year is the same thing that's gonna hurt them this year.
01:24:10.880 --> 01:24:16.399
Evansville is gonna be able to move some studs around for matchups where Readsburg is just not gonna be able to counter that.
01:24:16.560 --> 01:24:20.319
So I have Evansville uh moving on to the finals.
01:24:22.239 --> 01:24:29.600
And then up top, um Mount Horror Barneville last year won this one at sectionals 50.
01:24:29.680 --> 01:24:30.479
I believe it was 20.
01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:32.079
I can't quite read my writing.
01:24:32.239 --> 01:24:40.560
Um, and they return the same amount of starters, and they return the same amount of starters as Lodi, but just more firepower.
01:24:40.720 --> 01:24:45.840
So I have Mount Horror Barnaveld beating Lodi up top.
01:24:48.560 --> 01:24:58.000
Okay, so you got Mount Horror Barnaveld versus Evansville in your first place match, third place match.
01:24:58.319 --> 01:25:04.399
John, I'm so sorry you have to like watch me try and snap these like the bracket does not look pretty.
01:25:06.000 --> 01:25:08.000
I'm sorry that I'm putting you through this right now.
01:25:08.239 --> 01:25:12.239
Mason is is John's leg shaking underneath the table, or is he is he calm?
01:25:12.720 --> 01:25:14.319
He's he's managing.
01:25:14.560 --> 01:25:17.119
Is he at 60 beats per minute or 61?
01:25:17.439 --> 01:25:20.239
Yeah, it might be it might be increased just a tad.
01:25:22.720 --> 01:25:23.279
All right.
01:25:23.520 --> 01:25:24.000
All right.
01:25:24.079 --> 01:25:29.039
Well, my Mike sent us a short story on Facebook, so I'll read that after brackets.
01:25:29.119 --> 01:25:33.520
Um, Lodi at Belmont Platville.
01:25:33.920 --> 01:25:36.159
Uh close duel of last year.
01:25:36.399 --> 01:25:37.279
Lodi won.
01:25:37.359 --> 01:25:45.439
Obviously, results could flip individually, but with Lodi returning more, I I have no doubt Belmont Plattville could put up a fight.
01:25:45.680 --> 01:25:51.359
And uh watch me pick Lodi and watch Belmont Plattville win this duel, I guess.
01:25:51.439 --> 01:25:54.479
Um seems to be the theme with them.
01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:57.119
Reachburg, Sugar River.
01:25:57.359 --> 01:26:02.720
Sugar River, Steve, this could be a huge year where they could take a big step forward.
01:26:02.800 --> 01:26:10.239
I think making team sectionals will be a step forward, and a competitive duel would be the cherry on top.
01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:18.159
I just don't know if they have it with their squad this year to win a duel, especially in a grouping of this caliber.
01:26:18.319 --> 01:26:20.479
So I have Reidsburg moving on.
01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:25.279
Steve, you kind of talked about the Reedsburg-Evansville duel already.
01:26:25.520 --> 01:26:30.880
And I guess just to add on to that, just not flex-just not only flexibility of lineups.
01:26:31.119 --> 01:26:34.640
Can can Reedsburg uh can Reedsburg win the matches?
01:26:34.800 --> 01:26:41.760
Yes, but we saw last year when Evansville is on a heater, it is tough to stop bonus points against them.
01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:46.159
And uh I don't know if Reedsburg will be able to do that per se.
01:26:46.640 --> 01:26:50.479
So I have Evansville moving on to the finals.
01:26:50.800 --> 01:26:53.680
Mount Horeb Barneveld and Lodi.
01:26:54.880 --> 01:26:56.479
Lodi bringing back 11.
01:26:56.560 --> 01:26:57.359
It could be dangerous.
01:26:57.439 --> 01:26:59.920
I know it was 50 to 29 last year.
01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:07.359
Could this be the year for a big Lodi blue devil win against a vaunted Mount Horeb team?
01:27:07.600 --> 01:27:10.880
I'm saying no, but I think it's in the picture potentially.
01:27:11.039 --> 01:27:20.560
I do have Mount Horeb Barneveld moving on, which sets us up with a familiar sectional final.
01:27:21.439 --> 01:27:24.800
So my third place match, Reedsburg versus Lodi.
01:27:27.439 --> 01:27:32.319
And uh my first place match, Evansville versus Mount Horror Barneveld.
01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:34.800
I gotta get Lodi down in this bracket.
01:27:35.039 --> 01:27:35.920
Get him down there.
01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:37.520
And you keep going, right, team?
01:27:37.760 --> 01:27:39.279
I uh I do keep going.
01:27:39.680 --> 01:27:41.920
Steve, we just have the same thing right now.
01:27:42.159 --> 01:27:42.479
Yeah.
01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:43.279
We do.
01:27:43.520 --> 01:27:43.840
Okay.
01:27:44.319 --> 01:27:45.840
Lodi Reedsburg.
01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:47.199
Was this a duel that we saw?
01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:49.119
Let um I'm sorry.
01:27:49.279 --> 01:27:52.319
I should have just don't have my notes up right now.
01:27:52.479 --> 01:27:54.800
No, they did not see each other last year.
01:27:54.960 --> 01:27:59.600
I don't think there's even much off of a transitive property to work off of.
01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:01.279
With this one.
01:28:01.760 --> 01:28:08.079
These are two teams that we talked about, fellas, that are our models of consistency year in and year out.
01:28:09.119 --> 01:28:18.399
And I am wearing a Rietsberg shirt, but it is also Holman Reeds, which by the way, Reedsburg's in the MVC for football and Badger for wrestling.
01:28:18.479 --> 01:28:24.079
It just grows so weird, but it's like not like their fault or anything.
01:28:24.159 --> 01:28:25.359
I just think it's weird.
01:28:26.640 --> 01:28:33.520
I think since it's Rietsburg Football Week, and also I think maybe Lodi exceeded expectations last year.
01:28:33.680 --> 01:28:38.319
I think their expectation is maybe even to place higher than where we have the mat, Steve.
01:28:38.560 --> 01:28:43.600
But I have a Lodi beating Reedsburg in uh the third place match.
01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:47.359
I'm gonna jump in just so we can focus on the the match.
01:28:47.520 --> 01:28:49.439
I think that is gonna be a great one.
01:28:49.520 --> 01:28:52.079
Uh I'm gonna take just the opposite over on the other side.
01:28:52.159 --> 01:28:59.439
I'm gonna take uh I'm gonna take, I think it's gonna be one heck of a third place duel, but I'm gonna go ahead with Readsburg taking third place.
01:29:00.399 --> 01:29:04.000
And I think we can agree, I mean that could be like a 50-50 duel too.
01:29:04.159 --> 01:29:04.399
Right.
01:29:04.560 --> 01:29:08.079
You guys ever look at a word so much that it just starts to not make sense?
01:29:08.159 --> 01:29:10.319
Because I'm I'm getting that with Lodi right now.
01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:14.399
I think I've heard and said it so much tonight that it just, yeah.
01:29:14.800 --> 01:29:18.239
Like I I questioned if I spelled it wrong for a moment.
01:29:18.399 --> 01:29:21.680
Um Okay.
01:29:22.720 --> 01:29:25.600
Mount Hora Bardeveld and Evansville.
01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:39.279
Uh I know the score last year, there it's a little deceiving in that well, it's double deceiving because Evansville did forfeit the rest of their guys um in the duel because they got out to such a lead.
01:29:39.760 --> 01:29:49.439
Also, I actually don't know how much the score would have changed because the rest of Mount Hora Bardeveld's guys were absolute hammers in that.
01:29:50.239 --> 01:29:52.319
And uh I don't know.
01:29:52.399 --> 01:30:03.439
I think this is gonna be a different Mount Hora Bardeveld team, and that uh last year, yes, they had really good guys, but they they learned a tough lesson in team wrestling.
01:30:03.600 --> 01:30:09.920
Like, not often do you see teams collect such talent and then just go and win everything right away.
01:30:10.079 --> 01:30:16.640
And I think uh the coach, the wrestlers learn from that, and I think we're gonna see a lot better team wrestling from Mount Hora Barnavel.
01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:19.760
Mason even brought up the bevy of talent.
01:30:19.840 --> 01:30:23.359
Uh like whatever talent they could be bringing in that we don't know about yet.
01:30:23.520 --> 01:30:26.159
I guess we will find out at some juncture.
01:30:26.560 --> 01:30:34.399
Uh fellas, uh, there's a big lesson I've learned in podcasting, and there's a lot of teams in this where we've been burned by mistakes one way or another.
01:30:34.640 --> 01:30:38.479
And eventually you have to learn from your mistakes.
01:30:38.720 --> 01:30:48.159
And uh I think this is the year that I learned from my mistakes, and uh I exercised demons from prognostication seven years ago.
01:30:48.640 --> 01:30:55.680
And uh, Evansville has such a good thing going right now, and it's not just the the Team State title last year.
01:30:56.000 --> 01:31:01.760
This is a program that I've been following since like the Lucius Reinhardt days of 2014.
01:31:02.479 --> 01:31:07.600
And they made to Team State and they've been in the team's sectional picture consistently.
01:31:07.680 --> 01:31:18.319
And I think I don't know who their coach was before Kent, but man, Kent Weiler, the people person that he is in getting this collection of talent to wrestle as a team.
01:31:18.399 --> 01:31:28.560
It's like Evansville's in their Magnum Opus era right now, and I I I don't I don't think a team is gonna stop them in this iteration.
01:31:28.720 --> 01:31:39.520
And I know uh Evansville guys, Mason John, I can't totally see you at the moment, but are there are there teams that could have the talent to beat you guys?
01:31:40.000 --> 01:31:54.319
Maybe, but I just think the cohesion and the team wrestling, everything that you guys bring to the table, it's why Evansville won a Team State title last year, and it's why I have them at least winning team sectionals this year.
01:31:54.479 --> 01:31:59.199
And trust me, it's not a pandering pick, because if I had a reason to pick against Evansville, I would.
01:31:59.279 --> 01:32:02.000
Like I trust that.
01:32:02.640 --> 01:32:07.039
Everything had to come together for this to happen, folks, and here it is.
01:32:07.920 --> 01:32:12.000
Uh, you talk about who can't replace, I can't remember the other guy's name, but Andy.
01:32:12.159 --> 01:32:13.039
Andy, what was the other guy?
01:32:13.119 --> 01:32:14.000
They were were they Cole had been?
01:32:16.000 --> 01:32:21.760
Yeah, were they Cole or were they um Rob was the head and Andy was the assistant technically?
01:32:21.920 --> 01:32:23.199
Oh, I thought I had it the other way around.
01:32:23.279 --> 01:32:29.119
Those two guys are great guys, and they they had brought, I know it's a it was it's a tough gig when you're replacing two legends like that.
01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:31.439
So Kent's done a Kent's done a good job completely.
01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:32.880
Sorry to interrupt you, Steve.
01:32:33.039 --> 01:32:34.159
Yeah, I wasn't like doing it.
01:32:34.399 --> 01:32:37.600
I was I didn't I didn't want to make it seem like those guys did anything wrong.
01:32:37.760 --> 01:32:39.600
Like obviously they did really good things.
01:32:39.840 --> 01:32:45.520
Kent just seemed to have something else too, like like a perfect guy at the perfect time deal, you know?
01:32:45.760 --> 01:32:46.319
Right.
01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:55.039
Well, every great leader wants any a program, his family, his kids, they want them to do better after uh after they're gone.
01:32:55.119 --> 01:32:56.960
So they obviously laid that foundation.
01:32:57.119 --> 01:33:05.119
Uh T, you nailed my point with the uh um, you know, the forfeits you can take a look at the score, but obviously Mount Horror Barnabill had some studs there.
01:33:05.279 --> 01:33:08.399
But and you guys would know this, and Mason, feel free to chime in.
01:33:08.479 --> 01:33:15.600
And John, how pumped were you guys when that coin flip got drawn and it was Cown Fry as the first wrestler, right?
01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:28.319
I mean, it's like you look at that lineup, Fry, Bali, Braunschweig, Staver, uh uh, Crandall, Howlett, it's like you look at those and you're looking at your chops thinking, this momentum, we we gotta get on, get this momentum and hold on to it.
01:33:29.279 --> 01:33:30.239
Any comments on that?
01:33:30.640 --> 01:33:42.479
I think in that duel, the the plan was kind of bumping them up, and when when the weight came down the way it came down, and the flip came down the way it came down, we we felt pretty good.
01:33:44.399 --> 01:33:46.560
Momentum is is huge.
01:33:46.720 --> 01:33:49.439
Um, I look at this and I I I did a couple different things.
01:33:49.600 --> 01:33:53.840
I looked at last year's score uh 40 45 to 36.
01:33:54.159 --> 01:33:56.880
Um Evansville loses six points.
01:33:56.960 --> 01:33:58.960
They lost, uh I believe I can't read my writing.
01:33:59.039 --> 01:33:59.680
Is it Wessels?
01:33:59.920 --> 01:34:02.319
Is that uh Wessels got a win?
01:34:02.560 --> 01:34:07.680
Um and then um Moan Horror Barnefeld loses 12 points.
01:34:07.760 --> 01:34:12.960
So they lose Leonard and uh Stevens, who score 12 points for them, obviously, by pins.
01:34:13.119 --> 01:34:17.439
Here's here's the bottom line is uh does Mount What's scary is this?
01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:24.000
Evansville, we've proven this every year, and you know, obviously they have another little Heiser coming in, which we're all thrilled about who's got to go against them.
01:34:24.079 --> 01:34:25.840
I don't have to, so I'm thrilled to watch it.
01:34:26.560 --> 01:34:34.159
When you say we're all thrilled about it, I don't think other teams in the Socks Valley Conference are thrilled about it, but we're we're thrilled as fans, right?
01:34:34.319 --> 01:34:38.560
And there's I've I've heard I've heard uh this is the best heiser yet coming, so we're we won't go there.
01:34:38.640 --> 01:34:40.640
We don't want to always put any putting any pressure on the young fella.
01:34:40.800 --> 01:34:43.840
But I'm pretty sure they said that about every hyzer that came in.
01:34:44.560 --> 01:34:44.800
Right?
01:34:44.880 --> 01:34:46.640
They just keep billing on each other.
01:34:46.720 --> 01:34:50.800
Um we're excited as as podcasters and and guys who get to watch it.
01:34:50.960 --> 01:34:52.239
Other other folks not so much.
01:34:52.319 --> 01:34:53.520
They're happy when they're gone, right?
01:34:53.600 --> 01:34:55.520
And then they can just reflect on it.
01:34:55.760 --> 01:34:59.680
But uh Evansville always has solid freshmen coming in.
01:34:59.760 --> 01:35:00.239
We've known that.
01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:02.640
I've seen that years after years when I coach against them.
01:35:02.720 --> 01:35:04.720
It's like, who are these middle school kids?
01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:06.239
They're they're they're amazing.
01:35:06.319 --> 01:35:08.960
Uh Evansville returns 20 on their roster.
01:35:09.199 --> 01:35:12.159
Mount Horror Barnaveld won more, they return 21, right?
01:35:12.239 --> 01:35:14.000
So they have a little bit of edge there.
01:35:14.159 --> 01:35:19.359
Uh, here's the question Does Mount Horror, we know Evansville has a solid freshman class coming in because they do every year.
01:35:19.439 --> 01:35:23.920
Does Mount Horror Barneville have another freshman class coming in like they did last year?
01:35:24.079 --> 01:35:29.840
I mean, if if they have another four-state qualifiers coming in, good night, sweetheart, it's time to go, right?
01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:36.319
But without that being said, is I just think Evansville, T you talked about it, um battle test it.
01:35:36.399 --> 01:35:38.880
They've been there, they've done that, they know how to get matchups.
01:35:38.960 --> 01:35:40.880
It's like we talk about a lot with St.
01:35:41.039 --> 01:35:42.560
Croix Falls Teague when we cover them.
01:35:42.640 --> 01:35:45.680
They just they just kind of know how to wrestle team wrestling.
01:35:45.760 --> 01:35:48.479
And some programs have to develop that, it takes time, right?
01:35:48.640 --> 01:35:50.720
Um, but I think Evansville has that.
01:35:50.880 --> 01:35:55.600
And uh um last year I sat here and I picked against them, and we saw the smoke coming out.
01:35:55.680 --> 01:35:58.399
And and maybe these guys don't want us to pick them with them sitting right here.
01:35:58.479 --> 01:36:03.439
They want a little bit of the bulletin board material, but I don't pick based off of guys sitting in front of me.
01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:07.199
I pick with the facts, and that's what my three sheets came up with of notes.
01:36:07.359 --> 01:36:10.000
So I'm going with Evansville to win this one.
01:36:10.159 --> 01:36:20.159
Uh, and I do oh, go ahead, T, put pop them on up there, and I do have a wrestle back or a team wrestle back, so to speak, and that would be Mount Horror Barneveld versus Reedsburg.
01:36:20.239 --> 01:36:23.840
Uh, and I do have Mount Hor Barnavelt winning that one, which I think is huge, right?
01:36:24.000 --> 01:36:30.399
We thought last year Mount Hor Barneveld or the second place team out of this team sectional could have been the at-large team, right?
01:36:30.640 --> 01:36:33.600
Um is that this year from this sectional?
01:36:33.840 --> 01:36:36.560
And and it very well could be Moon Horror Barnabelle.
01:36:36.720 --> 01:36:41.520
My my early prediction is no, but you'll have to tune into a later episode to find out why.
01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:43.119
Ah, gotcha.
01:36:43.199 --> 01:36:44.479
Nice little cliffhanger team.
01:36:44.640 --> 01:36:44.960
I love it.
01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:45.520
Yeah.
01:36:45.760 --> 01:36:47.760
Well, that's the bracket.
01:36:48.159 --> 01:36:48.720
Appreciate.
01:36:48.960 --> 01:36:51.840
Oh, I guess I'll I'll fill in the the third place real quick.
01:36:51.920 --> 01:36:54.880
You you said you have Mount Horror Barnavell beating Reedsburg.
01:36:55.119 --> 01:36:56.000
Yes, for a second.
01:36:56.159 --> 01:36:57.199
True second.
01:36:57.520 --> 01:36:58.159
All right.
01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:02.880
Uh, Mason and John, while I'm fiddling with this, if you guys want to get your thoughts.
01:37:03.600 --> 01:37:13.119
Yeah, I mean, uh, I think, well, not to get into what you have as the top four, because I think that very well could probably be the top four.
01:37:13.359 --> 01:37:21.840
And how that how that gets mixed up, well, there's a lot of uh there's a lot of unknowns still, uh, including health.
01:37:22.000 --> 01:37:30.159
Health can always always throw a wrench into any team's plans, and we know we had that a couple years ago uh happen.
01:37:30.319 --> 01:37:35.920
But uh as far as like your five and six on there, uh interesting picks.
01:37:36.159 --> 01:37:44.720
I personally I in line more with uh teague, I I do have Belmont Platville making the top six.
01:37:45.039 --> 01:37:47.600
And I also have I also have Sparta.
01:37:48.960 --> 01:37:56.800
And uh I I think that they're bringing over some kids that uh are pretty tough and they got a pretty good team.
01:37:56.880 --> 01:38:05.760
And I think that they're you know, some teams come into a new section and they get overwhelmed by it, and some teams come into a new section and they're licking their chops.
01:38:06.079 --> 01:38:08.560
I think they're licking their chops, so we'll see.
01:38:09.039 --> 01:38:19.600
I did have my sugar river pick before uh before I I knew about Guadalupe from Sparta, which freshman could be a game changer.
01:38:20.640 --> 01:38:23.039
But Sugar River also has the Bears.
01:38:23.359 --> 01:38:24.319
That's true.
01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:25.840
The Sugar Bears.
01:38:26.079 --> 01:38:29.760
Yeah, Guadalupe, the Bears, uh, you know, yeah.
01:38:31.920 --> 01:38:32.640
Good stuff.
01:38:32.880 --> 01:38:33.199
Nice.
01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:35.439
John, what do you got?
01:38:36.399 --> 01:38:37.920
John, close us up.
01:38:38.159 --> 01:38:39.359
I can't top that.
01:38:39.600 --> 01:38:53.119
Um, all I would say is that that's you know, switching to a Saturday team sectional, um, the environment there, um, getting more teams to to a Saturday event, getting more families and fans to event.
01:38:53.199 --> 01:38:55.920
I I think I think that was a great environment.
01:38:56.079 --> 01:39:05.119
I always would say, oh, the my favorite event was the Tuesday night um team sectional, and there was four teams, you know, at least for Division II here.
01:39:05.279 --> 01:39:12.000
There's four teams in each corn one in each corner, and and that was my favorite one, you know, after the you know, the state tournament.
01:39:12.239 --> 01:39:16.720
And um uh this this past uh year, the Saturday one was great, right?
01:39:16.800 --> 01:39:19.760
You had more more of the casual fans coming, right?
01:39:19.840 --> 01:39:24.640
Whereas those Tuesday nights, you had to travel far and you wouldn't get those casual fans.
01:39:24.720 --> 01:39:43.279
And I and I felt like uh Evansville brought a nice crowd there, you know, so you got the um fans, and then I guess I would finish it up with uh uh the lacrosse center and what happened there for Team State was you know, there was a lot of energy, fireworks, smoke, the band, the the drum core, all that good stuff, right?
01:39:43.359 --> 01:39:46.159
The the video hype videos, so uh kudos there.
01:39:46.239 --> 01:39:47.359
So that I'll end it up with that.
01:39:47.520 --> 01:39:48.560
Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
01:39:48.720 --> 01:39:57.600
I I the the one the one thing when the WIA made the you know monumental change to the postseason for wrestling.
01:39:57.760 --> 01:40:02.239
Um that that Saturday, I I can't remember who it was who said it.
01:40:02.319 --> 01:40:03.680
I th uh what was it?
01:40:03.840 --> 01:40:10.960
Uh anyway, one of the WWA guys said this is gonna be a game changer, these team sectional Saturdays.
01:40:11.039 --> 01:40:13.600
And I was kind of like, all right, let's see.
01:40:13.920 --> 01:40:17.760
And then we went to one and it's it's bananas, it's wild.
01:40:18.159 --> 01:40:21.680
And I think if more teams buy into it, it's gonna be better too.
01:40:21.840 --> 01:40:22.960
Yeah, oh yeah.
01:40:23.600 --> 01:40:25.760
Well, and don't don't forget, folks.
01:40:25.920 --> 01:40:34.319
T, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this year at the coal or not the coal center, at the lacrosse center for team state, that girls are gonna be there, right?
01:40:34.640 --> 01:40:35.520
Wrestling the same time.
01:40:35.600 --> 01:40:36.800
And I'm gonna tell you this, guys.
01:40:36.960 --> 01:40:39.680
I know we've we we cover a lot of girls.
01:40:39.840 --> 01:40:47.600
Like when we go to that duel tournament up in Stevens Point, which is that was the unofficial girls' dual state championship.
01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:52.640
That gym, we we love covering it because it is so loud.
01:40:52.800 --> 01:40:58.399
The girls are intense, they're loud, they're cheering, and that is gonna bring a whole new energy to that lacrosse center.
01:40:58.479 --> 01:40:59.359
It's gonna be fantastic.
01:40:59.520 --> 01:41:01.279
It's contagious, yeah.
01:41:02.479 --> 01:41:08.319
I think the guys sit around, the guys sit around, they're kind of like, uh, yeah, you know, they don't they don't necessarily cheer.
01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:10.960
The girls, like they just get done wrestling, they're right back mad side.
01:41:11.119 --> 01:41:19.279
They're you know, there's I I've I've been refereeing finals matches, and the whole mat is surrounded by girls and they're all screaming, and I'm like, gosh, am I doing something wrong?
01:41:19.359 --> 01:41:22.880
No, they're just screaming because they're they're pumped up, right?
01:41:24.239 --> 01:41:25.920
Okay, a couple of comments here.
01:41:26.000 --> 01:41:27.279
Uh Mitch, thanks for the love.
01:41:27.439 --> 01:41:28.560
Glad to see you tuned on.
01:41:28.720 --> 01:41:29.840
Stayed on for the whole show.
01:41:29.920 --> 01:41:31.359
Appreciate you, Josh.
01:41:31.520 --> 01:41:35.279
And I'm glad, I'm glad Jay Wade said something.
01:41:35.600 --> 01:41:38.239
How did we miss when Bear Boo came up first?
01:41:38.319 --> 01:41:40.800
How did we miss saying the Thunderbirds?
01:41:41.039 --> 01:41:42.399
Oh, sorry about that.
01:41:42.640 --> 01:41:44.399
Epic mascot name.
01:41:44.720 --> 01:41:46.239
You don't have to apologize, Steve.
01:41:46.479 --> 01:41:46.960
Yeah.
01:41:47.680 --> 01:41:49.119
Go, Thunderbirds.
01:41:49.279 --> 01:42:02.239
Uh fellas, Mason, I know you you you gave us our uh our flowers earlier, but thank you for coming on, taking the time to come on the show and you know making sure we're we're running smooth and all the time you took to research.
01:42:02.399 --> 01:42:04.800
And uh thank you guys for what you do.
01:42:04.880 --> 01:42:14.000
I really think uh like what you guys set the standard in production value and uh what you do, like doing it all day.
01:42:14.079 --> 01:42:27.119
Like it is Evansville Wrestling YouTube is is top-notch in what they do, and like the amount of non-Evansville fans that you guys have, like it really shows like how effective it is, like how good it is at the what you're doing.
01:42:27.359 --> 01:42:29.439
So keep up the great work.
01:42:29.760 --> 01:42:30.960
Love having you on.
01:42:31.199 --> 01:42:32.479
Always love the banter.
01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:35.439
So yeah, appreciate that.
01:42:35.600 --> 01:42:36.319
Appreciate that.
01:42:36.399 --> 01:42:38.000
That that means a lot, obviously.
01:42:38.239 --> 01:42:56.560
John, with uh with the technical aspect and everything, we we we try to keep it a very pleasant, you know, viewing experience, and then of course take all of those pleasantries away and then throw a bunch of content in there that's just absolutely ludicrous and ruin it.
01:42:56.640 --> 01:43:00.960
But you know, we we we work well together in that regard, it balances it out.
01:43:01.600 --> 01:43:07.920
Well, and I think Steve and I agree too, like with what we like the more the more wrestling media out there, the better.
01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:12.720
Like, I don't I don't care about competition or it because like there's so much stuff in the wrestling world.
01:43:12.800 --> 01:43:17.439
There's 29 sectionals, like like the rich the Richland Center boys.
01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:21.920
I don't know who does it, but Richland Center has a wrestling podcast that they do and put on YouTube.
01:43:22.319 --> 01:43:27.279
Like, yeah, that's pretty cool stuff because I am not a Richland County wrestling expert.
01:43:27.359 --> 01:43:30.720
I'll talk about it, but like those guys know their stuff down there.
01:43:30.880 --> 01:43:32.640
So I'm I'm glad to see it.
01:43:32.800 --> 01:43:43.680
I think you guys have definitely inspired other groups and people to start their own thing, and I think that's truly how you help grow the sport is the more we can get it out there, especially on the web, it's clutch.
01:43:43.760 --> 01:43:46.800
So I'm glad we can make this collaboration happen tonight.
01:43:47.520 --> 01:44:03.039
Absolutely, and we we love uh the relationship we have with you guys and the Wisconsin Grappler, and uh we've got all of our uh broadcasts this year will be dual broadcast on the Wisconsin Grappler uh website.
01:44:03.199 --> 01:44:04.720
So uh looking forward to that.
01:44:04.800 --> 01:44:21.520
And again, uh as I mentioned before, uh maybe, maybe uh the the people that usually watch the Evansville Wrestling YouTube page will will get to uh hear uh Teague behind the mic up in uh Aquinas on Friday, January 15th.
01:44:23.359 --> 01:44:24.880
I'll have to keep note of that.
01:44:24.960 --> 01:44:25.279
Yeah.
01:44:25.600 --> 01:44:27.279
Put it put in the calendar.
01:44:27.680 --> 01:44:30.720
Putting it in my calendar as we speak.
01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:32.960
Steve, oh you got anything?
01:44:33.279 --> 01:44:34.000
No, I'm good.
01:44:34.079 --> 01:44:35.680
That's uh a great great show, fellas.
01:44:35.920 --> 01:44:39.039
Appreciate having you on and uh look forward to a great season.
01:44:39.279 --> 01:44:50.000
Well, fellas, if you're in the neighborhood, uh I don't know what you're doing conference weekend, but conference is at our house this year, so we can actually take you to the night owl after.
01:44:50.159 --> 01:44:50.720
Just a thought.
01:44:51.680 --> 01:44:52.319
Oh man.
01:44:52.479 --> 01:44:53.920
Twist owl ow.
01:44:54.720 --> 01:44:56.960
Conference conference weekend.
01:44:57.199 --> 01:45:02.960
If we uh hypothetically get a tournament and then get burned and they go with another stream or something, I don't know.
01:45:03.199 --> 01:45:04.000
Um conference.
01:45:05.119 --> 01:45:09.439
Conference weekend, we could do the Rock Valley conference.
01:45:09.760 --> 01:45:15.600
We could go to the night owl for some snacks and and free cheese curds for the free advertising.
01:45:15.920 --> 01:45:21.279
And then Sunday, Steve, we go to Reedsburg for the smelt fry.
01:45:21.439 --> 01:45:23.520
And fellas, you can take along.
01:45:24.239 --> 01:45:27.920
Ooh, that that just sounds like a fantastic weekend.
01:45:28.079 --> 01:45:30.000
That's that's a full weekend right there.
01:45:30.560 --> 01:45:32.560
Oh fried food paradise.
01:45:32.640 --> 01:45:33.600
Let's go.
01:45:34.079 --> 01:45:42.399
Well, for the for everyone, for you guys, I know you love good sectionals for the Wisconsin wrestler fans, for the D2 fans.
01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:55.119
If you love good wrestling, you better tune in on Sunday because we have D2 sectional C with two teams meeting coming from D1 and D3 for competitive balance purposes.
01:45:55.279 --> 01:45:59.119
And I'll tell you what, it is going to be a barn burner.
01:45:59.359 --> 01:46:01.520
So stay tuned in for that one.
01:46:01.920 --> 01:46:04.399
Thank you everybody for tuning in for the long haul tonight.
01:46:04.479 --> 01:46:07.119
And until next time, we'll catch you on the flip.