Taplin vs. Sharpe may never happen. Justin Johnson may very well spoil the party.

I think Pietrzyk from south can give both sharpe and taplin a match. he pinned johnson at newton in the finals.

Drennan will handle the colby kid, NOWAY will he lose this one. And that's not a COLBY biased prediction, like the others I have read on here!!!! Pyle will be Drennan's only Great match of the year!!!!!!! Although I will say the colby kid is a great wrestler, but not in Drennan's class yet!!!!!!!!! If it's not a fall, I say Drennan 9 -1

swade 41 you must be forgetting about Eric Johnson from norton only one point his freshman year has gotten in his way from making this season an attempt at his 4th state title and you say that pyle will be drennen's only tough match???

Taplin was definitely THE MAN at 152. Drennan & Luedke had a good match, but Luedke had clearly been the full 6 minutes more often than Drennan. Still impressed with Drennan, though. In the first period, I would put him up against any 145-pounder in the country. In 4 years, I have now seen him lose 3 times (Bryan Miller at Beloit, Pyle at State, and now Luedke at Beloit). Each time, he showed a lot of class --- just as he did when he beat Pyle last year at sate. He's a good kid, and so is Luedke. Hopefully they both win state this year.

Luedke will get tore apart by drennan. Ludke will lose 9-1 or get pinned he cant handle drennan. Those were good guesses yeah right. Colby Wrestling is the best

Swade 41 you really know what your talking about huh.

MY VOTE GOES TO THE VERMIN AT 152!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to Ross Taplin on dominating the 152 pound bracket at Beloit - he literally toyed with the competition.

My bad on the picks - I knew Taplin was good, but had no idea that he had developed into such a talent and poised competitor. I'm a believer now!

Kudos to those of you insightful enough to pick that one - especially gwalz.

Congrats to Luedke on an upset win. All you folks that think Pyle would be his only tough match. This was the first of many. Whoever wins at state had better bring some cahonies and a little luck.

Do you really call Luedke's win over Drennen an upset?? I bet those Colby folks don't. In fact, I bet they expected it.
I don't see anyone touching Taplin. He paid his dues last summer. He will dominate a tough field at 152lbs.

Luedke's win an upset??? I guess if you had limited knowledge and were bold enough to say Luedke was going to get destroyed, then I suppose the only thing left to fall back on is the "upset" excuse. Yes, the Colby fans, and I would say most of the North West Ks. following also, expected Luedke to step up to the challange. It was a great match, Drennan is a quality wrestler, (and a very good sport) and Luedke obviously proved himself as a favorite, not an underdog. Congratulations on O.W. Eric - you earned it. (Just like you did in Denver)
Others I felt were impressive @ Beloit:
Bingham 103 Nothern 112 (quality Freshman)
Hadn't seen Taplin in person before - nice!

I was surprised as anyone else to see Luedke win over Drennan. I was there to witness the match and as far as I'm concerned Drennan was out of shape and had no emotion. Drennan gave up somewhere in the mid second period and it was sad. That was not the same kid I watched wrestle Pyle in the semi-finals at state last year. Although kudos to luedke I don't mean to take anything away from him.

I guess I did not - even remotely - feel that Drennan folded. Appeared to me as though he was a victim of his own extraordinary success - as he just has not had to go the distance with anyone capable of pushing him yet this year.

Feel free to disagree, but what I saw was that as Drennan fatigued his tremendous speed and his ability to continuously attack - ie his ability to use three or four shots as decoys to set up the takedown he was hoping to score with - were negated.

And, at that point, Luedke was able to use his own extraordinary skill to set up his scoring opportunities.

Shape is a weakness that can be cured before regionals. And, having heard of Drennan's relentless work ethic and desire to win, I suspect that Luedke's win will cause Drennan to reach a little deeper each day in the practice room.

Congratulations to Luedke on his well earned championship and OW award. You are certainly impressive and a joy to be around.

And kudos to Drennan for showing the sportsmanship that true champions do - even when things do not go their way.

Leudke worked the edge of the mat perfectly early in the match, and Drennan flat out ran out of gas about the middle of the second period. That's the first time I've seen Drennan struggle getting off the bottom. Leudke earned a great victory.

Also Taplin was awesome, Spillman showed great heart and Kreigbaum was brutal.