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Apple Valley has done it again. The High School Wrestling Season is complete and for the entire 2010-2011 season, Apple Valley held on to the No. 1 National Ranking. Finishing the 2011 season undefeated with dominant performances week after week, Apple Valley can claim the title of a National Championship. 2011 HSWrestling National Champions The...
When you are expected to win state wrestling team championships the day before the three-day tournament ends, you know you’ve got something epic going on in your program. Eventually, though, you are going to run out of amazing performances. Yet the (No. 5) Graham wrestling juggernaut set sail for virgin waters yet again Friday night,...
What’s worse than having to wrestle a battle-hardened Graham wrestler at the state tournament? Having to wrestle one who has a chip on his shoulder. That scorned group includes all four of the 10-time defending state champion St. Paris Graham (No. 5) seniors. When wrestling’s annual big show gets underway this afternoon at 3 p.m...
Randy Couture remembers the path his life was supposed to follow. He would put his foreign language and literature degree to good use as a high school teacher, and his background as an All-American wrestler to work as a coach. Those were the days before mixed martial arts, back when something called the “Ultimate Fighting...
Joe Ziebold still remembers when a third-grader named Felipe Martinez always showed him his wrestling trophies during show and tell days. At the time, Ziebold, a third grade teacher and the Genoa wrestling coach, thought it was a cute gesture that always gave him a chuckle. Little did the Comets coach know, that kid would...
St. Paris Graham has a chance for redemption this weekend after losing a heart-breaker last Saturday against in-state rival St. Edward. The loss dropped S.P.G. from #2 to #5 in The National Team Rankings as they get ready to go to Blair Academy this weekend, the new #2 team in the country. How will St....
What could go down as 2011′s “Match of the Year” came right down to the end as St. Ed’s Anthony Stanley (103) scored a takedown in the final match with less than 10 seconds in overtime giving his team the victory, 27-25. Each team won 7 matches Saturday night, with two of Graham’s wins coming...
Doc Buchanan 2011 – Weight by Weight Preview DOC BUCHANAN – WEIGHT BY WEIGHT PREVIEW Using Coach C’s December 2010 State Rankings **rankings used were the only available state rankings at the time of writing** (correction: please see below as the Official TCW State Rankings were overlooked) The 34th Annual Doc Buchanan Invitational is loaded...
The 2010 Walsh Ironman was a battle to the end, with St. Paris Graham holding on to claim the title of one of the toughest high school wrestling tournaments in the country. Blair Academy had plenty of chances in the end to take the lead, but was unable to win any of their final 4...
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...
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