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So the already unbalanced AAA regions are going to become even more unbalanced. I realize that because of geography that it is difficult to move schools to balance them but it would seem that there was no effort to do so at all. I don't follow A/AA much but it looks like no effort was made there to...

Bridgeport is moving down to AAA. Not surprising but ridiculous. Princeton has well. How will wrestling do it? Will they have a AAAA, AAA and then AA/A together? Hope somehow it stays to two classes. Quad and triple in one class and double and single in the other. The state isn’t deep enough to hav...

Keyser was not part of the 4 teams that competed to represent region 1 for the state duals. It was Fairmont Sr., East Fairmont, OG and Tyler. East Fairmont backed out last minute due to kids being sick. Had Keyser been able to step in, they could very well have made the top two given their line up....

One of these is easy: Your coaches and wrestlers purchase USA Wrestling cards. WVSSAC will allow them unlimited contact for the entire off-season if the practices/competitions are freestyle and greco. Anticipating the next excuse: we can't afford the cards. An annual membership is about the price o...

New topic. Other than changes in classification/region (this includes 1 state tournament, or the qualification process) WHat changes could be made to make High School wrestling better or even better than that, what will make the sport better in WV. HS wrestling in general. I know College out of bou...

New topic. Other than changes in classification/region (this includes 1 state tournament, or the qualification process) WHat changes could be made to make High School wrestling better or even better than that, what will make the sport better in WV. HS wrestling in general. I know College out of boun...

Ok, it has been determined that Region 1 is by far the hardest region to qualify in the last couple years. Enough said. This has not always been this way. First, they screwed up the regions on the last realignment. Roane going to Region 2, Berkeley Springs going to Region 1, etc. etc., Don't even w...

The regional seeding criteria is as follows: 1. Head-to-Head 2. Common Opponent 3. Previous Season High School State Placer (Higher Place gets Higher Seed) 4. One season removed from previous season High School State Placer (Higher Place gets Higher Seed) 5. Previous Season Regional Champion 6. Pre...

Is the 50% weigh-in rule actually enforced? Now that regional brackets are being posted, there sure does seem to be some suspicious changes in weight class. Seems like wrestlers are checking the talent in their region and then jumping to "weaker" brackets. Does this stuff actually get che...

Individual rankings typically show up 2nd or 3rd week of January. fan rankings happen all the time. Bear, Sam both do their rankings if you are looking for a fan poll you, or someone would need to organize it. Sam hasn’t done a ranking in a loooooooong time … you got me... i'm old, and apparently d...

Individual rankings typically show up 2nd or 3rd week of January.

fan rankings happen all the time. Bear, Sam both do their rankings if you are looking for a fan poll you, or someone would need to organize it.

The regional locations are now posted on the Schedules main page. Jenny to the rescue. Interesting question. The schedules page and some AA schedules have Fairmont as the location for R1 A/AA (this would be expected) but also noticed some have St Marys as the location. Including St Marys's (st Mary...

Any surprising losses tonight? And changes in predictions? I see AA/A 175, Clark beating Davis. Might it be a surprise to some but the score was shocking ? State finalist, multi regional champ vs a multi time place winner meeting in the first round and anything is surprising? Going into this weeken...

Feel bad for the Sissonsville kid, feel bad for the FS kid who is very young and got his hand raised with so many boos.

Hope he knows the decision was what was getting Booed. Not him.

10% of the season (As already Mentioned) the the SSAC rule for all sports In Wrestling each team gets 18 weigh ins. so 10% of that is 1.8 (Round up to 2) if a team participated in the State Duals and if that doesn't count toward the normal weigh in count of 18 but instead increases to 20. then that ...

I see on the results that there are some kids that are on middle school teams that are wrestling in open/youth tournaments. Is this allowed? §127-2-10. Non-school Participation. During a WVSSAC established sport season and while a member of a school team, a student shall neither participate, which ...

So most of these plans are based on seeding the 4 regional champions but what about the season that has the top 2 or even 3 ranked wrestlers in a weight class in the same region? If the champs are seeded the Pill format is still used to fill in the rest of the bracket. 2 and 3 from a specific regio...

It doesn’t matter when the seeding meeting is. All the wrestlers half to have more then 50% of there weigh ins in the weight class they wrestle at regionals Correct me if I am wrong but anybody can go UP at any time they want. Please advise. Yep. A wrestler can go up to a class where he or she has ...

It doesn’t matter when the seeding meeting is. All the wrestlers half to have more then 50% of there weigh ins in the weight class they wrestle at regionals Not exactly. You have to have half of your weighins at the lowest weight class you want to participate in. You can actually go up 2 or 3 weigh...

"The Robert Dutton Award is sponsored by The Parkersburg News and Sentinel and given annually to the Mountain State's best wrestler by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association" Per the description of the award, The Dutton award is to be given to the "BEST" wrestler in the st...

This has to be one of the biggest concerns for any coach or athlete.

If they are only taking the top 2 placers at regionals to the state, are they going to wrestle for the true 2nd place if the 2nd place finisher did not defeat the 3rd place finisher earlier in the brackets? This would help remove any issue with the seeding of the top 4. I have not heard anything ab...

Will there be any regional brackets full enough to require a kid to go 6 actual matches? I don't see that happening but I am not totally familiar with the A/AA side of things For sure. 10 is the magic number. At 10 -athletes in a bracket the two who win in the round of 16 then lose the quarterfinal...

As things are planned now, it appears all sports that are done in the spring season are planned to end in mid-May. So with the news from Monday/yesterday regarding start of practice it should look like this: winter/spring sports practice starts Feb. 14 first competition can be had on or after March...

Campion wrote:Is that plan?

No
Return to practice Feb 15th
Competitions can start on March 3rd (Assuming county not red in new map formula to be released today)
Regionals and States in April (I think regionals 4/9 &10 weekend but not sure) State 2 weeks later no clue on the format or split for that.

I don't mean to harp but on today's wvde covid map only 8 out of 55 counties could compete during the upcoming week. I don't think you are harping. this is important information we all need to understand. on the weekly map 8 counties would be in the green-gold categories. However Lewis and Calhoun ...

Is the Covid map being maintained and communicated as before now that football season is over? OR.............since winter sports have been canned until January 11th (I might be wrong on this date), has the map been canned also? I think it would be interesting to see how the map changes between now...

Now somebody help me get this $h!t straight. If a county is red, then the football team cannot play? True or false? However, if none of the football players are positive for Covid 19, they still cannot play. Is this true? True During regular season County is Green or Yellow sports can go on as norm...

Since you asked about father/son Steve Clark - State Champ from Berkeley Springs '64 & '65 Adam Cark (Steve’s son) State Champ from Berkeley Springs '91 Matt Canady (Steve’s Step-son) State Champ from BS '91 & '92 Josh Clark (Steve’s son) State Champ from BS '03 Other state champion family m...

This year's freestyle state tournament will be held at Huntington High School on Saturday, May 2nd. Please make every attempt to pre-register. Same day walk-ins will be able to register as well. If you have any questions, my contact information is on the flyer. The flyer can be found in the open se...