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The Ohio High School Athletic Association approved the creation of a dual meet state tournament for wrestling programs to begin in March 2013 at its final board meeting of the school year Thursday.

The dual tournament will take place the week after the annual state tournament and was implemented after a recommendation from the Ohio High School Wrestling Coaches Association.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_167972.asp

by B.B. Branton

Compiling a top 10 best in this country is nearly as American as mom, the flag and apple pie.

From the 10 toughest guys in your neighborhood growing up, to rock-n-rolls greatest hits of the 60s to the best utube videos.

How fiting, on the Eve of the 50th of the state wrestling tournament (Feb. 18-20), to name Tennessees best prep wrestlers in the past half century.

Christmas means different things to different people.

Too often the real meaning of Christmas – Christ’s birth – gets lost, or at least shoved aside, by all the other activities and celebrations that accompany the holiday season.

For me, Christmas is first and foremost about giving; but before you jump to any conclusions, let me explain.

You see, the birth of Christ was the greatest gift ever given. So, giving gifts to others can be a wonderful way of celebrating the Father’s gift to us.

This is a past article by Matt Diano, LighthouseWrestling.com about one of HSWrestling’s favorite “dark horses” from the 2010 Senior class. Lenzi passed on several other elite colleges before picking Penn and is excited to continue his career at the next level.

Wednesday evening, right around the time that the New York Yankees were surging to a 2-0 Game 6 lead by virtue of a Hideki Matsui home run, Lighthouse Wrestling was in the process of getting it confirmed that two-time defending CHSAA Catholic State/2008 NYS DI champion Andrew Lenzi had indeed officially come off of the market.

Pat Galbincea / Plain Dealer Reporter, December 12, 2009 8:55 p.m.

Any sport with a referee will always have a moment where a controversial call angers the crowd, and the Walsh Jesuit Ironman — arguably the nation’s best high school wrestling tournament — was no exception Saturday afternoon in a semifinal bout involving 119-pound state champions Ty Mitch of Aurora and Monroeville junior Hunter Stieber.

Mitch, a senior bound for Virginia Tech, had a 3-2 lead late in the match against Stieber, the No. 1 rated 119 in the nation. With 20 seconds left, Stieber took Mitch down in a scramble by throwing in a cross-body ride.

From the Masters at TheOpenMat

Perhaps the deepest concentration of talent the high school wrestling world will see during the season, the Walsh Ironman Tournament annually kicks the action into high gear. Regardless of which rankings you use, an obscene amount of top teams are present here including at least six of the top eight in the country.

The field is also laden with some of the top individuals as tournament director, Bob Preusse, extends invitations to bring in guys like Brandon Rolnick, Travis Gallegos, Jesse Delgado, and other nationally ranked wrestlers.

In partnership with our parent site, TheWrestlingTalk.com, we’re building out “TWT Recruiting Central”, a college recruiting hub for all divisions of collegiate wrestling.

The database currently has 630 high school recruits from the 2008-2009 season. We implore you to take advantage of the recruiting submission form to notify the wrestling community of your college choice.

Stay up to date on the latest college signings for all college wrestling divisions. These divisions include NAIA, NJCAA, NCAA Divisions One, Two, and Three.

NAIA has no signing period and a National letter of intent can be signed throughout the year. All other divisions will have active signing periods and recruiting information will be obtained within those dates.

Andrew Lenzi hasn’t exactly mellowed with age.

Since winning a state wrestling championship in March as a sophomore, Lenzi hasn’t taken much time to reflect on his accomplishment.

Although he was the first wrestler from Fordham Prep – or any other New York City school – to win a state championship, the aggressive 16-year-old remains hawkish, almost to a fault.

During a match on Saturday, Lenzi built up a 4-1 lead over his opponent in the King of the Mountain tournament at Central Mountain HS in Mill Hall, Pa.

We just picked up the latest shoes released by Adidas for the 2009-2010 wrestling season.  They are expected to be released in July/August of this year.  What do you think?

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Pick up your copy of the 2008 Ironman results, right here.