I know: Hard to read. I am too lazy to fix it. I love computers. We are celebrating 27 Years of SL wrestling this weekend with a big alumni bash. We are also roasting coach Knorr who is retiring after this year. Bringing back alumni, Knorrs wrestling teamates at KSU, old coaches and old refferees. Should be fun!

Weight Name School State Rank State Placer KSHSAA Classification
103 Collin Hase Silver Lake 1 2 3A
103 Austin Atwood Wamego 4 4A
112 Nathan Price Atchison SQ,SQ 4A
112 Brendan Harshman Chase Co. 2 5 3A
112 Brian Caswell Louisburg SQ 4A
125 Aaron Ely Leavenworth 1 5,3 6A
130 Keaton Taylor Silver Lake 6 4,6 3A
130 Ray Olson Wamego 5 4A
135 Alden Isenberg Gardner- Edgerton 1 3 5A
135 Spencer Hinson Silver Lake SQ 3A
135 Kyle Smith Wabaunsee SQ,SQ 3A
140 Jordan Kolterman Clay Center SQ.SQ 4A
140 Levi Starkey Seaman 5 5A
140 Jacob Deiter Silver Lake 6,SQ,SQ 3A
140 Chris Scheidemann Wamego 3 4 4A
145 Chris Stirnaman Gardner-Edgerton SQ, SQ 5A
145 Kyle Vincent Louisburg SQ 4A
145 Cody Meier Silver Lake SQ 3A
152 Kyle Allen Clay Center 3 SQ,3 4A
152 Jason Corwin Silver Lake 2 SQ,3 3A
160 Brendan Lund Clay Center 1 SQ,2 4A
160 Aaron Berscheldt Gardner-Edgerton SQ,SQ 5A
160 Jason Mellies Silver Lake SQ 3A
189 Keith Curtis Garnder-Edgerton 5 SQ,SQ 5A
189 TJ. Lorson Seaman 2 SQ,5 5A
189 Drew Hawkins Silver Lake 6 3A
189 Josh Marrs Clay Center 3 SQ,2 4A
215 Kenny Smith Rossville 4 3A
215 Josh Atchison Chase Co. SQ 3A
275 Brandon Kush Louisburg SQ,SQ 4A
275 Duane Zlatnik Rossville 1 SQ 3A
275 Thadd Taylor Seaman 3 SQ 6 5A
275 Dave Demars St. Marys 3 SQ,SQ 3A

Appears that there are some pretty loaded weights. Should be a fun one to see.

Silver Lake Invitational.
Clay Center 243, Gardner Edgerton 204, Silver Lake 150.5, Seaman 128, Louisburg 100, Leavenworth 77.5, Chase County 77.5 Wamego 75, Atchison 63, Wabaunsee 45,
St. Marys 40, Rossville 18.

103
Hase SL wbf :38 Stokes GE
McGee CC wbf 2:41 Vaughn LB
Bartlett Atch wbf 4:05 Provencher Ross
112
Harshman Chco. WB 1:53 Price ATch
Huffman CC 5-4 Caswell LB
White SL wbf :17 Wehner Ross
119
Gile CC 15-4 Hess GE
Wessell Ch co 2:32 Hawkins SL
Jackson Wam wbf 2:53 Berve LB
125
Ely Leav 16-1 Bowser CC
BAca GE 12-0 Lesline Wab
Clark SM 15-4 Eidman Ch co.
130
Olson Wam 10-4 Taylor SL
Benz GE wbf :55 Elias Atch
Wallace CC wbf 2:53 Jacobson Ch. co
135
Isenberg GE 15-5 Willmann CC
Hinson SL 11-6 Bindi LB
Wold Ch.co def Smith Wab
140
Scheideman Wam 10-4 Franklin ATch
Kolterman CC 5-3 Deiter SL
Conrad WAb 12-4 Schlegel GE
145
Witt Leav 8-2 Davis CC
Kehler Seam wbf 2:36 Vincent LB
Stirnaman GE 15-4 Meier SL
152
Corwin SL 5-4 Allen CC
Clark GE and Conaway 3rd and 4th, (6th match)
Wingfield Wab wbf 2:27 Manning LB
160
Lund CC 10-1 berscheidt GE
Brown Wam Berve LB
Mellies SL wbf 4:20 Myers Leav
171
Rush CC 10-3 Abu-Ali LB
Rice SEam wbf 2:46 Ortiz Leav
Randall GE wbf 5:38 Glotzbach Wab
189
Lorson seam 3-2 Marrs CC
Curtis GE 19-3 Peters SM
Hawkins SL def wilk leav
215
McCullah Seam DQ Flagrant Misconduct
James CC wbf 4:59 Jasperse GE
Atchison ch. co wbf 4:52 Wilson Atch
275
Zlatnik Ross 3-2 Taylor Seam
Demars SM 18-5 Kush LB
Shakalord GE wbf 4:57 Patenaude CC
Outstanding wrestler: Ely Leav. 125.

great tournament, it's always run well and this year was no exception.

What was the deal with the Rossville 215 pounder?

he lost his mind.. i just feel bad for the poor guy he hit with his headgear

My friends, being from Rossville that was a huge embarassment. Speaking for myself and i would like to think community, the school, etc I'm sorry and embarrassed that that kid was wearing a Rossville Singlet. Rest assured that crap wont be tolerated. Again i just wanted to apologise to all who had to witness that.

Joe Zlatnik

Is he still apart of the team?

No!!!!! And as one of the kids club representative i do not want him back

Wow, what'd the kid do?

i wasn't close enough to hear/see what all happened, he did something though that was serious enough where he had to be held back by his coach and was thrown out of the tournament. then as he was leaving the gym, he yelled a rather nasty phrase directed at i believe the referee.

apparantly he didn't read the sportmanship banner that was hanging up at the top of the bleachers.

He acted horrible and his parents should be really upset for his behavior. And the person you refer to as almost being hit by his headgear was a wonderful coach,Coach Worley, from Atchison, who several years ago had a stroke and uses the electric scooter enable to attend ALL the tournaments. The young man should feel bad and should apologize not only to Coach Worley, but to the whole crowd, ref's and his own team mates.

Send him back to Oklahoma

Unfortantely the Kenny Smith Conversation is over shadowing some great final matchs.

Corwin's DOT win over Allen
Lorson's late last period win over Marrs
Zlatnik's 3-2 win over previously unbeaten Taylor (seam.

Smith used a clinched fist and was pushing it into McCollugh's eye socket. I have seen that a lot this year not sure were kids are learning it from. Clearly a penalty that the experienced ref called. Smith was up by 3 and clearly in control of the match. Smith then lost it throwing mutiple f bombs and slapping the mat in the following couple of minutes. His coach tried to calm him down but could not, he was dqed on his third f bomb. The Coach forced him to shake McColughs hand which he slapped then stormed off with on last F Bomb. His coachs lost track of him as they were coaching Zlatnik the next match and he then went and caused damage to the locker room.

He is a great wrestler that would have challanged for a state championship but I cant imagine KSHSAA allowing him to wrestle nor do I think Rossville will. His uncontrolled rage reminds you of Mike Tyson. Its just a matter of time before he hurts someone. Sad because he probably needs the possitive that wrestling provides.

How often does the KSHSAA get involve in things of this matter?

I'm not an expert but believe that any time there is a DQ for unsportsman like conduct the referee has to write it up for KSHSAA review. I believe then they can decide if a suspension is in order. My Guess is Rossville will take care of the situation maybe even prior to KSHSAA doing anything. I'm sure they were not pleased with that type of representation.

It seems like that a lot of top wrestler are resulting to dirty moves or not quite ethical moves this year when they run into a challenge.
Makes you wonder if this is being coached or if I am just getting more experianced at spotting it.

I'll assure you Coach Brech at Rossville doesn't condone illegal mores if thats what your implying.

Let me make it clear that I am not naming any coaches or schools that this is condoned at. Most of the coaches that I know do not condone it but when you talk to wrestlers in general the same names keep coming up as users of not quite such ethical moves to get out of bad situations

Give us an example of the moves in question so we know what to watch for.