Marvio has gone seven straight years without losing a state match. Has this been done before, if so who?

I dont know but highschool will be really tough at such high of a weight.

and I think the Kellers has alot of state championships under their belt

ya i was in marvio's bracket and watched all of his matches. This guy really earned it. He wrestled his butt off the whole tournament and didnt take it easy on anyone. Great job Marvio. And i talked to marvio and he said he was gonna try and go 145 next year. Im sure that wherever he is, he'll be able to handle his own!

Truly a remarkable feat! I am a fan of both Marvio and Marvin. I want to congratulate both of you on NO. 7. I mean that is just amazing. He has won it four times at the bottom of his age bracket.

If anyone has a chance to overcome the juniors and seniors at a higher weight, it will be Marvio. Good luck in high school next year we will all be following you with great interest.

Bo Maynes won at least 10 (ten) straight titles, and I believe eleven (11), from 6 yrs. to 16 yrs.

Marvio, you are in pretty good company now when your numbers are becoming comparable to Bo Maynes. No doubt someday they will be mentioning your name when talking about some future star's accomplishments.

I would like to thank everyone for the nice comments regarding Marvio's wrestling skills. It always feels really good to hear nice things being said about you after this kind of competition. Marvio is wrestling people he has never seen before, because he has grown bigger than those he used to wrestle. This State tournament was more like a National tournament because we had no prior experience with any of the other wrestlers in the bracket prior to this year's District Tournament, and this requires a wrestler to wrestle every match like it is the championship match, which you should always do anyway. It really makes a wrestler feel good when someone in his bracket like Todd Bell, whom we had never met before, speaks up in a positive way like he did here. There were many wrestlers in this bracket that could pin you at any time if you made a mistake. No scoring margin was safe to sit on with more than 3 seconds left. We didn't wrestle Bell, but we know he is tuff. Marvio did wrestle Mader, Stewart, Orosco and Wingers and he knew he could not make many mistakes. Going into the championship, Wingers looked very, very good. We couldn't remember if anyone had scored on him. There are some real quality wrestlers in all the brackets. Kansas is a very good wrestling State. If you can win in Kansas, you are in pretty good shape for Nationals.

Is Marvio going to Nationals

Salyer you beat me to the Bo Maynes stat....didn't he also compete when he was 5 and take 3rd or something...losing to his cousin in that tournament?

I heard Justin Ware won alot of state titles as a kid.

Marvio is not entered in Nationals. We couldn't find a page with an entry form until we got home from State and by that time he had given up on it. I found out that we can still enter and I offered to get him there, but he didn't jump up and down with excitement about trecking off to Iowa. He is, however, practicing Freestyle and Greco every night this week. He may decide to go, but I won't pressure him.
I would, also, like to mention that it takes a lot of luck to win a State Championship, and a lot more good luck to win several of them. Marvio has been pretty fortunate at State. However, a couple of years back he had the run of bad luck at the Tulsa Nationals and the USA Nationals that cost him the opportunity to win 2 National Championship. An official at Tulsa that did not consider it NEAR-FALL CRITERIA to take you opponent to his shoulder on one side and his elbow on the other, resulting in Joe Seay informing him that it was NEAR-FALL CRITERIA when a wrestler takes his opponent to his back, and the he was the USA Olympic Coach and he sure knew what NEAR-FALL CRITERA WAS. The little Minority race official from the suburbs of Chicago was offended and defensive and did not give Marvio 5 points that he earned in the match. Instead, it was tied at the end of the 3rd period, and Marvio called for an injury timeout to clear some bloody mucus from his throat. The official sent the medical staff to the opponents corner to help stop a bloody nose without even charging them an injury timeout, and came over to Joe Seay to smart-off at him. After Marvio washed out his mouth and was ready to return to wrestle, the little official asked him why he called and injury time out. When Marvio told him, he informed us that he believed that was unethical. He grabbed the other kid by the arm and took him to the center of the mat and told the scorers table to award a point for unsportsmanlike conduct to the opponent while raising his hand. Another official waiting by the match tried to inform him that he was making a mistake, but he would not listen. He hurried and started the next match before I could get the Head Official over there. When I did find the Head Official, he was so concerned about covering for the little official that he didn't even listen to what I was saying and they were both ignorant of the rule. Later, after contacting the Rules Book Committee, the Editor of the HS Rules Book informed me in an email that the only UNETHICAL THING about that situation was the officials obvious attempt to get back at Joe Seay by disqualifying the opponent he was speaking up for. He said that kind of official should be terminated and barred, and that the rules clearly point out that the official has no right to even ASK what an injury time out is called for. Each wrestler gets 2 injury time-outs, not to exceed 1 1/2 minutes and after the 2nd, the opponent gets choice of starting position. This was a semi-final match that if scored properly would have had Marvio wrestling Judd Schroeder for the Championship. Judd won the Championship.
A couple months later, the HS Supervisor of Officials from Chicago was officiating a close match between Marvio and an Iowa (undefeated for the year) wrestler who eventually won this USA Nationals Tournament. At the end of 2nd period Marvio was behind by 1 point. The Iowa kid took down. Marvio could not get him turned, so he cut-him loose...then he took him down and TURKED HIM with about 16 seconds remaining in the match. The 2 point takedown would have tied the match and any back points would have given Marvio a win instead of his only loss. Now, the NCAA television announcers have explained that a TURK is an automatic takedown. This official didn't award either a takedown or back points. The official even had to argue with the opponent to convince him he won. After the match, the eventual USA Champion from Iowa came right over to Marvio and told him that the
match should have been his, that he knew that was a takedown and backpoints. So, this has gotten to be a long post, but it does TAKE LUCK and skill to wind tournaments.

John Keller has 6 state titles and Jordan Keller has 7 state titles

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