Originally Posted By: Cokeley
Originally Posted By: Ricky Bobby
Boaz Beard was the next wrestler to do this after Romero Cotton. Beard won at 152, 160, 171, and 189. Even more impressive is that Boaz was 40-0 as a freshman.


I believe Goddard only wrestled 321A opponents up until regionals that year. smile JK! That is REALLY impressive. What weights did Caldwell wrestle? I believe he might have made the biggest jump from Freshman to Senior year of any of the 4xers.



Ha, did Will just make a funny? I've never pledged a clear allegiance to any classification. As I remember I detailed two classifications' matches to watch on the front side of the state tournament. I do sympathize with 321Aers because it is very much an us against the world mentality it seems to me.

I like to envision that these predominately "farm boys" are out training Rocky IV montage style. You know like 321A people are Rocky (western heritage and ideologies like democracy ,freedom, folksiness, wholesome, blue jeans, flannel) and everyone else is Ivan Drago (eastern beliefs like Marxism, socialism, communism, hi-tech training and nutrient regiments, smoking hot girlfriends who later fall in love with Flava Flav). I'd like to think those 321A boys are out chucking bales, throwing down calves, chasing chickens in a pen, smashing rocks, squat thrusting a buggy filled with their coaching staff, and running up hills (may they be Gypsum, Blue, Red, Chautauqua, Flint, or Smoky) shouting out at the top of their lungs "Cokeley".

Goddard I believe attended the Bobcat Classic and Rocky Welton Tournaments that season so he could have met up with a few 321A foes, I'm not sure of that many quality 321A opponents he ever met. At Bobcat, Boaz might have met up with Jason Corwin of Second Lagoon (Silver Lake for forum noobs). Corwin was a pretty salty wrestler who took 3rd twice and was a state runner-up his senior year.

As for Tyler Caldwell making a huge jump which he did when looking at freshman to senior seasons, but it was at pretty even intervals overall. He wrestled 112, 125, 140, and 160.

I would like to note that year Boaz and Tyler spent in Rio Rancho really helped them prepare competitively for their success in Kansas and now at the collegiate level. Having to bang heads with the Ortegas and I believe some of the Adamsons of Bishop Lynch, TX were their too, has got to give you an edge. Didn't they win state titles in New Mexico as 8th graders? So in reality they are 4X Kansas state champions and 1X New Mexico state champions, 5 state titles in all.

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