When are these teams selected? And when are the wrestlers notified?

The team has been selected, the wrestlers have been notified (at least the coaches of those wrestlers) and it should be in the paper on Saturday

What is the all area team?

You can view the selections at: Salina Journal All Area Team

Wt. Wrestler, School Year Record State
103 Clay Madden, Norton Fr. 30-5 1st
112 Levi Younkin, Oakley So. 32-1 1st
119 Jake Kriegbaum, Abilene Jr. 35-0 1st
125 James Annon, Norton Jr. 32-1 1st
130 Mat Gilliland, Hoxie Jr. 37-0 1st
135 Lukas Zouzas, Salina South Jr. 32-0 1st
140 Danny Grater, Clay Center So. 39-0 1st
145 Eric Luedke, Colby Sr. 39-1 1st
152 Brett Hille, Trego Sr. 24-3 1st
160 Taylor Brack, Goodland Sr. 31-8 2nd
171 Bobby Dennis, Oakley Jr. 23-2 1st
189 Jake Strait, Concordia Sr. 34-1 1st
215 Jordan Bedore, Goodland Sr. 29-1 1st
275 Ryan Honas, Ellis Jr. 24-5 1st
Coach of the Year -- Kirk Baker, Hoxie

That is an incredible list of wrestlers!! I didn't know Goodland was so close to Salina?
I'm pretty sure we can get there faster then some of those teams?
Good luck to the kids going on to wrestle in College!!!

Hille over Taplin? That's an interesting choice.

Since they both took State, maybe they just picked the Senior?

Can someone list the 2nd and 3rd team? Let me know is there is a way to log on to that Salina Journal page. Thanks!!

ALL-AREA WRESTLING 2003
FIRST TEAM
Wt. Wrestler, School Year Record State
103 Clay Madden, Norton Fr. 30-5 1st
112 Levi Younkin, Oakley So. 32-1 1st
119 Jake Kriegbaum, Abilene Jr. 35-0 1st
125 James Annon, Norton Jr. 32-1 1st
130 Mat Gilliland, Hoxie Jr. 37-0 1st
135 Lukas Zouzas, Salina South Jr. 32-0 1st
140 Danny Grater, Clay Center So. 39-0 1st
145 Eric Luedke, Colby Sr. 39-1 1st
152 Brett Hille, Trego Sr. 24-3 1st
160 Taylor Brack, Goodland Sr. 31-8 2nd
171 Bobby Dennis, Oakley Jr. 23-2 1st
189 Jacob Strait, Concordia Sr. 34-1 1st
215 Jordan Bedore, Goodland Sr. 29-1 1st
275 Ryan Honas, Ellis Jr. 24-5 1st
Coach of the Year — Kirk Baker, Hoxie
SECOND TEAM
Wt. Wrestler, School Year Record State
103 Cole Farber, Hoxie So. 32-5 2nd
112 Nick Nothern, Salina South Fr. 32-4 2nd
119 Tyler Baker, Hoxie Fr. 36-4 1st
125 Jordan Close, Clay Center Sr. 24-5 1st
130 Tyler Bell, Herington Jr. 28-3 4th
135 Austin Pruser, Clay Center Sr. 32-3 2nd
140 Jeremy Morris, Beloit Sr. 33-2 1st
145 Shawn Drennan, Minneapolis Sr. 31-2 1st
152 Ross Taplin, Abilene So. 36-1 1st
160 Jake Gawith, Minneapolis Sr. 30-5 2nd
171 Ryan Augustine, Ellis Sr. 31-3 2nd
189 Tanner Schmidt, Atwood Sr. 33-1 3rd
215 Jeff Horinek, Atwood Jr. 32-2 1st
275 Michael Sprigg, Norton So. 29-4 2nd
HONORABLE MENTION
103 — Paul Ownings, Plainville; Trevor Richard, St. Francis; Mark Schultz, McPherson; Daniel Tibles, Colby.
112 — Dexter Deeds, Goodland; Dylan Loyd, St. Francis; Josh Peterson, Abilene; Luke Pfannenstiel, Norton; Colby Riffel, Chapman; Michael Schamberger, Hoxie; Levi Sides, McPherson; Matt Warta, Ellsworth.
119 — Blayze Bahe, Goodland; Chauncey Baxter, Stockton; Cory Dreiling, Salina South; Lance Roe, Norton; Ben Smith, Chapman; Tait Weatherbee, Hays TMP.
125 — Chris Curl, McPherson; Luke Geske, Abilene; Shawn Kuhlman, Oakley; Simon Orozco, Ellsworth; Tyrel Spillman, Hoxie.
130 — Tyler Bell, Herington; Mathias Goodley, Goodland; Tracy Jordan, Beloit; Trevor Lambert, Minneapolis; Brian Zey, Abilene.
135 — Kenyon Badsky, Oberlin; Kyle Castleberry, Herington; Matt Schippers, Hoxie; Matt Wright, Beloit.
140 — Chance Harman, Oberlin; Darcy Riley, Salina South; Jason Schippers, Hoxie; Josh Schweitzer, Phillipsburg; Trent Swanson, McPherson.
145 — Adam Eckert, Abilene; Matt Engelbert, Beloit; Logan Glaze, Oberlin; Eric Johnson, Norton; Austin Morris, McPherson; Kurt Schamberger, Hoxie.
152 — Austin Kingsbury, Smith Center; Jay Lewis, Hoxie; Sean Pietzyk, Salina South; Schuyler Sharpe, Colby; Blake Thibault, Osborne; Cody Younkin, Oakley.
160 — Mitch Johnson, Herington; Derek Ross, St. Francis; Casey Sanger, Hays; Derek Schumacher, Hoxie; Zac Sheets, Chapman; Tim Sprigg, Norton.
171 — Brett Keck, Oberlin; Jacob Marrs, Clay Center; Chance Mitchell, Belleville; Bo Pfannenstiel, Norton; Ryan Shipley, Hoxie.
189 — Russell Porter, Salina Central; Lucas Scott, Smith Center.
215 — Fred Pratt, Hoxie; Kyle Strait, Belleville.
275 — Jason Duffy, Salina Central; Heath Klein, Atwood; Danny Lavoie, Concordia; Tyler Muir, Stockton; Nick Sterneker, McPherson.

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I would like to state that the selection at 215, Jordan Bedore is only a junior not a senior as the Journal had posted in the paper. Congrats to all of the selections on all the teams for a great year. And good luck to any of the outgoing seniors.

i'd like to know how hille beat taplin out at 152...what was the criteria? i mean hill has 3 losses while taplin has 1? did hille beat sharpe from colby earlier in the year whom taplin had his only loss too? i mean taplin lost 1 match and stuck like 25 or more kids this year...i'd like to know how you picked 152 please..thanks

125 pounds - Annon deserves first team. I disagree with second team choice. Spillman had three losses on the year - all to Annon - and a win over Close in the finals at the Beloit tournament and defeated everyone on the honorable mention list this year too.

Usually there is a yearly debate about the Journal's choices. It's probably best to remember they do their best, but they also are trying to sell papers. At 152 pounds the two dominate wrestlers were Taplin and Pietrzyk - more so than Hille or Ibarra (the 4 state champs at 152). Both Taplin and Pietrzyk lost only one time at 152. But both are sophomores and have a few more years for the recognition. At 152 it would be close but Taplin probably should have been the top choice and Pietrzyk the 2nd team. But 152 was a tough weight to choose out of this year.

The selection process for the wrestlers and the coach of the year is indeed difficult, but some of these choices are no brainers. I have to believe that there is not much thought or time given to this, hopefully in the future, with a little input, more thought will be given to this.Does anyone know how many people sit down and figure all this out and how long it takes them. Age should not have a negative bearing on the choice if it is a younger wrestler. If the wrestler deserves it he should get it. I do think that the Abeline coach should have been the coach of the year. THis is why, he took a team that was not considered to win state let alone be ranked number one like Hoxie was all year. No disrespect to Mr. Baker, he is an awsome coach, year in and year out. I just think it is outstanding when someone does something that not very many people thought they could. When you are expected to win and do, then that is definitley good but when you are not expected to win and do, thats outstanding. Thanks.

True, but Hoxie's breaking the state record for team points in a state tournament and number of state medal winners would make a pretty strong arguement for Baker too.

Well you can't give coach Baker the award every year now can you! Coach Baker is awsome and everyoen from Hoxie shoudl be proud of what he has done there. But Coach Christner deserves an award like this after Abilene captures the state crown when they weren't even supposed to. As for Ross its hard to beleive they would select someone over him, but hey hes only a sophmore and its just a recognition. Im sure he is more happy with 2 state championships then someone's opinion

Then you got Chapman, Ks....the perrinial doorstop at times in duals for the NCKL shows strong in tournaments and gets 3 guys on the list all be it Honarable Mention, but still good to say the least!

Please refrain from using big words you don't know how to spell.

I have a question-- how is Goodland on the Salina all-area team? Wouldn't Junction City, Manhattan, and Topeka all be closer than Goodland? Or is it just that the Salina Journal has circulation in Goodland?

'Tis a puzzlement.

And congrats to everyone who made the team.

You know Aaron just had to get Chapman's name thrown in there, ha ha. Ya its funny how the Salina Journal picks stuff.