I am as neutral to politics as I am to the rankings

why is garry wilson 285 pounder ranked 6 when he has lost 5 matches this season? he hasn't won a tourney this season.

I am not familiar with any of these guys outside of BJ but you don't have to win a tournament to be ranked 6th. That is basically say that Ole Horsebeater thinks he is going to finish 6th at 4A state. Pretty simple.

from the looks of his performance last night im not sure how picking is ranked.

Rank heavyweight for me will you. I don't have a clue as to who's out there, obviously. Wilson's coach told me that he has five losses (some not so good) but he has beaten the kid from Caney twice who is a 321A medalist. I know he lost to the Anderson Co kid, who beat he Holton kid, who beat the Osaw kid. I am sure there is a heavy kid out west somewhere who will be a bracket buster. The problem here is that it is hard to rank a bunch of kids who like to "get one to one and see what happens."

New Rankings
285 BJ Finney Andale 11
285 Tank Burns Columbus 11
285 Tyler Gjerstad Abilene 11
Get 1 to 1 and see what happens

oh sorry sorry. i was referring to cody picking at 152;
sorry about that redstorm. he got manhandled by a concordia kid last night.

as to your heavyweight situation, your on your own there

I will look in to those results from last night, do you have them by chance?

i found myself without a pen last night, so no im sorry i dont. although i can tell you concordia wrestled there butts off and pulled out a big win over abilene.

PIN TO WIN!!!!

Concordia remains unbeaten in NCKL
Last Updated: January 23, 2009

Avenging an earlier loss to Abilene, the Concordia High School wrestling team remained unbeaten in the North Central Kansas League by knocking off the Cowboys 40-32 in a dual, Thursday night, in the Concordia Junior-Senior High School gymnasium.

Concordia had lost to Abilene 45-27 in the Wamego Invitational, back in December.

Winning six matches by fall, the Panthers turned the tables on the Cowboys in a league dual.

�This was a very exciting dual. Both teams won seven matches; however, the turning point for us was we scored bonus points through pins,� Concordia coach Kevin Brown said.

The Panthers are now 11-5 overall in duals and 3-0 in the NCKL.

�I am proud of these young men. We are coming together as a team,� Brown said, �We had some young men who fought hard in a loss to be sure and not give up the fall.�

Concordia fell behind 6-0 when Derek Mead lost by fall to Luke Cole in the 103-pound class.

The Panthers then posted four straight wins.

Taelor Mendenhall pinned Marcus Ruiz in the 112-pound class.
Wyatt Brichalli, 119, pinned C.J. Millard, and Concordia had a lead it would not relinquish.

Dalton Fraser won a 9-1 major decision over Cody Neff in the 125-pound class.

�Our lower weight classes got us started on a roll by picking up falls in three out of the first four matches,� Brown said, �This really helped to create some momentum for the rest of the dual.�

Dylan Moore, 130, lost by technical fall, 15-0, to Courtney Strauss.

Concordia then won the next two matches.

Alec Champlin pinned Ryan Daly in the 135-pound class.

Brandon Anguish, 140, stuck Hayden Karraker.

Lex Deal was pinned by Quinton Wuthnow in the 145-pound class.

The Panthers got those points right back when Brice Loeffler pinned Cody Riffel in the 152-pound class.

Concordia was open at 160, and Chase Champlin dropped an 11-5 decision to Jordan Ward in the 171-pound class.

Tyler Hasenbank secured the victory for Concordia by pinning Casey Dickerson in the 189-pound class to put the Panthers up 40-26.

Levi Kindel, 215, lost a 6-3 decision to Taylor Wuthnow.

Jordan Brown, 285, was beaten 3-1 by Tyler Gjersted.

Concordia is competing in the Beloit Invitational today and Saturday.

A small amount of research or even listening to the announcer would have given you a clue that Colten Picking was not even in the line up last night.

Thank you Richard!

im man enough to admit if i would have done extensive research i would have indeed known he didnt wrestle last night. guess i was just blinded by the big win. thanks for pointing that out greatplns, i can now sleep tonight.

thanks Richard, your the man.

by the way!!! colby has 8 in the semis and are still behind clay centre by 3 points!!!