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Thanks for your support. Your comments were passed on to the guys. Sorry we missed you at State, but your influence was definately there. Seems that they picked up a huge amount of C-C-C from their previous football coach.

One thing that would help our refs is involvement with USA wrestling. To be qualified as a ref, you must take a 6 hour course and be involved in refereeing as part of a 3 ref team. There are 3 officials per match - one on the mat, one at the table, and one across the mat. All call the match and can be overruled by the others. Additionally, emphasis is placed upon mat position. You are taught to anticipate and get to the place where the judgement must be made. This team approach takes the burden off a particular individual and allows for discussion afterwards to review calls and compare the reasons for awarding points. When you are overruled, you get another refs perspective. The result is more consistency in calls.

North Hardin Trojan Invitational 103 - Elliot Martin (Seneca) 4-0 dec. over Arthor Ohmes (Fort Knox); Ben Joseph (Anderson) pinned John Taylor (John Hardin) 112 – Mason Bradbury (Central Hardin) 7-0 dec over Jeff Warra (Seneca); John King (North Hardin)11-0 dec over Houston Lindy (John Hardin) 119 – Justin Pitcher (John Hardin) 7-2 dec over Jon Chiu (Seneca); Clayton Stocker 3-0 dec over Ross Engle (Central Hardin) 125 – Ben Warner (Oldham) 11-3 dec over Matt Eck (North Hardin); Michael Seeders (Fairdale) 3-2 dec over Crayton McCain (Moore) 130 – Zach Poulton (Seneca) pinned Shane Carey (Anderson); Shane Warren (John Hardin) 11-0 dec Forest Rehrig (Nelson) 135 – Darren Jennings (Seneca) 9-2 dec over Chris Range (North Hardin); Nate Rousseau (Oldham) 8-4 dec over Steven Rivera (Central Hardin) 140 – John Golsby (Holmes) 15-8 dec over Jerry Ledford (North Hardin); Jacob Spaulding (Anderson) pinned Justin Johnston (Moore) 145 – Sammy Isaacs (Anderson) 24-11 dec over Beau Gadegaard (Seneca); Anthony Felli (John Hardin) 4-2 dec over Johnivon Oggs (North Hardin) 152 – Joe Collin (Central Hardin) 14-10 dec over Shandon Hooper (Seneca); Ty Wolfe (North Hardin) pinned Kendrick Shaw (Fort Knox) 160 – Bryce Barrientos (Fort Knox) 5-4 dec over James Schneider (Moore); Chris Pitcher (John Hardin) 6-0 dec over T J Overmeer (Trinity) 171 – Mark Jones (North Hardin) pinned Matt White (Seneca); Robert Dilhoff (Anderson) pinned Peter Golemboski (Oldham) 189 – Alex Wenninger (Oldham ) pinned Jordan Whiting (Trinity); Terry Turner (Central Hardin) 6-3 dec over Matt Franklin (Anderson) 215 – Daniel Martinko (Oldham) pinned Jordan Dockery (Seneca); Steven Dow (North Hardin) by forfeit over Zach Burford (Anderson) 275 – Josh Young (Oldham) 8-6 dec over Robby Brown (Fairdale); Anthony Bailey (Fort Knox) 2-0 dec over Matt Ballinger (North Hardin) 219.5 Seneca, 191 North Hardin, 177.5 Anderson, 177.5 Oldham, 125 John Hardin, 118 Central Hardin, 79.5 Fort Knox, 60.5 Fairdale, 58 Moore, 56 Trinity, 50 Nelson, 48 LaRue, 32 Holmes, 25 Danville, 14 North Hardin B, 4 Iroquois

Results of 5-Star Classic 103 Eades (Corydon) 6-0 dec over Hines (LaRue) 112 Zarth (Henry Clay) 5-4 dec over Jared Applegate (Corydon) 119 Fraley (Huntington WV) dec over Murner (S Oldham) 125 Scott (S Oldham) 6-1 dec over Warner (Oldham) 130 Parker (LaRue) 12-2 dec over Wasson (Harrison) 135 Griggs (Tates Creek) dec over Miller (LaRue) 140 Coomer (Lafayette) & Moore (Upper Arlington) in finals. Not sure who won. 145 Banks (LaRue) 4-2 dec over Wilson (Campbell) 152 Ward (Corydon) dec over Wheeler(LaRue) 160 Hildreth (Campbell) over King (Dixie Hts) 171 Runyon (Huntington) over Doyle( Harrison) 189 Wenninger (Oldham) 9-3 dec over Camp (Corydon) 215 Scherer (S Oldham) over Martinko (Oldham) injury forfeit 271 Cook (Huntington) Pinned Murdock (Harrison)

Unfortunately, wrestling follows football. After putting everything on the line during the football season, he has some part of his body that has suffered. Freshman and Junior year it was shoulders (resulting in operations) and the other years it was muscle tears in his lower back.

Martinko had his first match on Wednesday. He's been recovering from a back injury during football. Wenninger is 28-1 with his only loss to Richard Starks (State Champion). Wenninger won the Jeffersonville, In tourn. which was loaded with some of the top 189 wrestlers in Southern Indiana. Drew Robinson was ranked, but is out for the season from a neck injury during football. Matt Martin is starting again, but over-analyzes everything and doesn't trust his instincts. He's at 12-13 right now. As a whole, the team is really banged up. 103 - quit 112 - Hasn't made weight 119 - Knee injury, only has 6 matches 125 - 130 - Dislocated elbow, should be back in mid-Jan 135 - Moved out of district 140 - Ringworm 145 - Neck injury, out for season 152 - 160 - Bleeding polyp in Colon 171 - Parents took him on "vacation" for two weeks, so he needs to get back to form 189 - 215 - Just back from injury 275 - Kid that's wrestling here only weighs 206, and his knee is injured. In spite of all this, the team has placed high in tournaments and hung in close in most of the dual meets. Thanks for asking. Hope all is better than you hoped for in your new location. Best wishes for the New Year.

In the Oldham schools, it depends upon the SBDM. Oldham, South, and maybe North have a policy that does not allow a middle school athlete to compete at the high school level if there is a middle school team. It was put in place several years ago after several track members competed for the high school (and actually qualified for State), but the middle school team did not have a great year. The coach felt that the team was jeopardized by allowing for individual accomplishment. With the emphasis on Middle School State titles, the middle school wrestlers have not competed at the High School level for the past few years at Oldham and it has hurt the team and the wrestlers. When they get to high school, they are not prepared for HS level competition. If they had been allowed to compete in MS, they would have the experience to move up to the next level when they enter HS. Experience does not have to mean starting for the Varsity - it could be as simple as getting 1 or 2 Varsity starts or competing in a large HS JV tournament.

It was Woodford's A team, but they were a little thinned out by injuries and academic issues.

Results of Oldham Super Duals Overall Places 1st LaRue 2nd Woodford 3rd Seneca 4th North Hardin LaRue 65 North Oldham 6 LaRue 76 Valley 6 LaRue 53 Seneca 14 LaRue 57 Paul Dunbar 13 LaRue 36 Woodford 30 Woodford 56 Simon Kenton 16 Woodford 35 North Hardin 21 Woodford 66 Central Hardin 9 Woodford 66 Jeffersontown 18 Seneca 39 Oldham 33 Seneca 66 Moore 15 Seneca 57 Christian 18 Seneca 40 North Hardin 31 North Hardin 57 Eastern 21 North Hardin 72 Franklin 8 North Hardin 72 Holmes 6 North Hardin 50 Paul Dunbar 21 Eastern 45 Paul Dunbar 42 Eastern 48 Simon Kenton 33 Eastern 66 Franklin 16 Eastern 55 Holmes 6 Simon Kenton 42 Oldham 39 Simon Kenton 51 Jeffersontown 21 Simon Kenton 54 Central Hardin 9 Central Hardin 46 Christian 31 Central Hardin 49 Jeffersontown 10 Central Hardin 70 Franklin 12 Oldham 45 Christian 34 Oldham 60 Moore 18 Paul Dunbar 32 Oldham 25 Paul Dunbar 50 North Oldham 21 Christian 51 Moore 27 Christian 48 North Oldham 18 North Oldham 48 Valley 24 North Oldham 45 Franklin 25 Jeffersontown 39 Holmes 20 Jeffersontown 42 Valley 30 Franklin 42 Holmes 28 Moore 31 Valley 30