NATIONAL HS WRESTLING 'BIG 5' TOURNAMENT

[ngineer]

This weekend the National HS Coaches Wrestling Association tournament will be held at Easton (PA) HS. The other four teams participating will be:
Parkersburg South (West VA)
Bishop Lynch (Texas)
Sidney HS (Montana)
Blair Academy (New Jersey)

Any posters out there familiar with the WVA, TX, or MT schools??

[TxSt02]

This weekend the National HS Coaches Wrestling Association tournament will be held at Easton (PA) HS. The other four teams participating will be:
Parkersburg South (West VA)
Bishop Lynch (Texas)
Sidney HS (Montana)
Blair Academy (New Jersey)

Any posters out there familiar with the WVA, TX, or MT schools??

Bishop Lynch is from the Dallas area... thats all i know!!!

[blukeys]

No new info. ngineer. Blair is loaded as always. Will Alex Meade be wrestling for Easton? You have picked up a real talent there. As stated earlier, I can PM you the whole story if you are interested.

[Hansel]

This weekend the National HS Coaches Wrestling Association tournament will be held at Easton (PA) HS. The other four teams participating will be:
Parkersburg South (West VA)
Bishop Lynch (Texas)
Sidney HS (Montana)
Blair Academy (New Jersey)

Any posters out there familiar with the WVA, TX, or MT schools??
Sidney always used to wrestle in (and often win)the Bismarck ND Rotary tournament after New Years back when I wrestled. It was a huge tourney with most of the top teams from ND/SD and some from MT.

[Hansel]

No new info. ngineer. Blair is loaded as always. Will Alex Meade be wrestling for Easton? You have picked up a real talent there. As stated earlier, I can PM you the whole story if you are interested.
Iowa St has a starter from Blair (Backes) who I think is ranked top 5 at 184

[ngineer]

Sidney always used to wrestle in (and often win)the Bismarck ND Rotary tournament after New Years back when I wrestled. It was a huge tourney with most of the top teams from ND/SD and some from MT.

Lehigh's only national champion during the 1990's was a Montanian named Matt Ruppel. Won the NCAA in 1990 at 190 lbs. He was a tough stud.

[Tod]

Lehigh's only national champion during the 1990's was a Montanian named Matt Ruppel. Won the NCAA in 1990 at 190 lbs. He was a tough stud.

Montanan (no i), but nice to hear. I was told once, just from a guy in the Air Force who wrestled in HS, that Montana is frequently looked at by the big wrestling colleges and universities because they produce a lot of good HS wrestlers. Kind of a Northwest, Midwest thing, from what he said (he followed it religiously, kind of how we follow I-AA football). I'm not sure how accurate that is, but I like to believe it. :) :)

[ngineer]

Montanan (no i), but nice to hear. I was told once, just from a guy in the Air Force who wrestled in HS, that Montana is frequently looked at by the big wrestling colleges and universities because they produce a lot of good HS wrestlers. Kind of a Northwest, Midwest thing, from what he said (he followed it religiously, kind of how we follow I-AA football). I'm not sure how accurate that is, but I like to believe it. :) :)

:o --sorry--I think it was the first time I ever thought of how a Montanan is referred to..
Yes, the upper midwest and northwest had been a hotbed for years--unfortunately the sport has declined at the college level--don't even think Washington and Wash. St. still have--yet one of the greatest, if not THE greatest upset came from a Washingtonian--Larry Owings, when he beat Dan Gable in the NCAA finals and Gable's last match.
Due to $ and distance, we don't directly recruit out that way. The wrestlers we do get are due to interest by them because of reputation and academic interest or due to family/friend connections.

[TulsaBobcat]

Sidney (MT) is a very good team. They don't even wrestle in the highest classification in Montana (they are class A). It is a small town in the eastern part of the state. Montana has some really good highschool wrestling. It will be interesting to see how they do.

[Tod]

Sidney (MT) is a very good team. They don't even wrestle in the highest classification in Montana (they are class A). It is a small town in the eastern part of the state. Montana has some really good highschool wrestling. It will be interesting to see how they do.

I don't know how Butte is anymore, but back in the day, they won something like 13 straight state championships, and were unbeatable. I think Billings Skyview has been good in recent years. Good luck Sidney.

[Engineer91]

Lehigh's only national champion during the 1990's was a Montanian named Matt Ruppel. Won the NCAA in 1990 at 190 lbs. He was a tough stud.

Matt threw me around freshman year in a Judo class. Matt was in the 190's and I was barely 130. The instructor said I learned to fall quickly. :)

[ngineer]

When I saw the article in the paper the other day, I read it to mean THIS coming weekend--it's next weekend in our gym.
However, some interesting HS scores this weekend--Blair clobbered St. Eds of Ohio, 37-18 at a tourney at ESU.
In the Virginia Duals, one of our local Lehigh Valley powers, Nazareth suffered their first loss of the year to Great Bridge (Va.), 33-18, but came back to get third place overall defeating St. Mark's (DE) 46-9. To show you how good that makes Great Bridge, Kingsway (NJ) beat a decent Liberty (Bethlehem, Pa) team 32-27 and Whitehall (Pa.),33-28. Nazareth knocked off Kingsway, 68-0!!(and there were only two close bouts).