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Just a Fan wrote:South will make a solid run at it this year. They will have a lot of top 8 finishers. By rankings, my big prediction is Brady Roberts at 106 will win his weight. It's a very weak weight class and he is tougher than he'll get credit for up there. Freshmen Ford and Jones will be 2 more to watch throughout. Beaver Local, Oh will again have a solid tournament I'm sure. They have a lot of returning placers/finalists. The bonus points and 8 or 9 finalists helped them a lot last year. They were impressive. Adding Wheeling Park to the mix will make it interesting. I'd love a good team race.

Just a Fan wrote:When do the seeds and brackets come out? I am assuming it will be on that ovac website?

Just a Fan wrote:Looking at the new rankings on that ovaec website, I'd assume Beaver Local's westlers moving up and down is more of a matter of getting all their kids in their lineup at OVAC. Like someone hinted at earlier, it doesn't make much sense to have a returning runner-up on the bench if they can avoid it. However, I could be way off. Just best guess. For Kellar, he may be going to 145 for the year? Don't know how much he knows about WV or the ovac? Similar to Beaver, I don't know much about his team, but aren't they new to the ovac tourney?

What does the point spread look like with the current rankings? Obviously rankings are not of most importance and not always accurate. Just good to get a guage. Am hoping a WV team can win it!

KDunbar wrote:

Just a Fan wrote:Looking at the new rankings on that ovaec website, I'd assume Beaver Local's westlers moving up and down is more of a matter of getting all their kids in their lineup at OVAC. Like someone hinted at earlier, it doesn't make much sense to have a returning runner-up on the bench if they can avoid it. However, I could be way off. Just best guess. For Kellar, he may be going to 145 for the year? Don't know how much he knows about WV or the ovac? Similar to Beaver, I don't know much about his team, but aren't they new to the ovac tourney?

What does the point spread look like with the current rankings? Obviously rankings are not of most importance and not always accurate. Just good to get a guage. Am hoping a WV team can win it!

No, there was no change to get anyone in the lineup, only switching 152 and 160. Would seem a strategic move to avoid Peyton Hall. I'm guessing Lasure will return to 152 to compete for the state tournament. Nothing wrong with that.
However, unfortunately by switching the lineup at the Park match the Park kids at 113, 120, and 126 didn't get the opportunity to meet the Beaver Local wrestlers that avoided them. Don't know if this will come back to haunt the for seeding since they avoided wrestling those in their weight class. Might have to seed all 3 below those they avoided. We'll have to wait and see if the committee frowns on that.

Just a Fan wrote:

KDunbar wrote:

Just a Fan wrote:Looking at the new rankings on that ovaec website, I'd assume Beaver Local's westlers moving up and down is more of a matter of getting all their kids in their lineup at OVAC. Like someone hinted at earlier, it doesn't make much sense to have a returning runner-up on the bench if they can avoid it. However, I could be way off. Just best guess. For Kellar, he may be going to 145 for the year? Don't know how much he knows about WV or the ovac? Similar to Beaver, I don't know much about his team, but aren't they new to the ovac tourney?

What does the point spread look like with the current rankings? Obviously rankings are not of most importance and not always accurate. Just good to get a guage. Am hoping a WV team can win it!

No, there was no change to get anyone in the lineup, only switching 152 and 160. Would seem a strategic move to avoid Peyton Hall. I'm guessing Lasure will return to 152 to compete for the state tournament. Nothing wrong with that.
However, unfortunately by switching the lineup at the Park match the Park kids at 113, 120, and 126 didn't get the opportunity to meet the Beaver Local wrestlers that avoided them. Don't know if this will come back to haunt the for seeding since they avoided wrestling those in their weight class. Might have to seed all 3 below those they avoided. We'll have to wait and see if the committee frowns on that.

Is their 152 that's in there now normally in their lineup for tournaments? I am sure no one is eager to wrestle Hall or Roberts as both are very elite wrestlers on the mat. I enjoy watching Roberts, especially, as I see him a lot more. But, if getting an OVAC runner-up into the lineup that normally isn't in the lineup for tournaments can happen and the other can possibly win a title at 160, it sounds like a smart strategic move. I get why they're doing it. The website says they won the dual vs Park 43-23. Have the 120 and 126 been down at all this season for them? I looked through the dual results and have not seen them down. I don't like to use the term avoiding if it's not warranted. I think Park is a very good, young team. They are going to make some noise. But, I give respect where respect is due and this Ohio team impressed last year.

KDunbar wrote:

Just a Fan wrote:

KDunbar wrote:
No, there was no change to get anyone in the lineup, only switching 152 and 160. Would seem a strategic move to avoid Peyton Hall. I'm guessing Lasure will return to 152 to compete for the state tournament. Nothing wrong with that.
However, unfortunately by switching the lineup at the Park match the Park kids at 113, 120, and 126 didn't get the opportunity to meet the Beaver Local wrestlers that avoided them. Don't know if this will come back to haunt the for seeding since they avoided wrestling those in their weight class. Might have to seed all 3 below those they avoided. We'll have to wait and see if the committee frowns on that.

Is their 152 that's in there now normally in their lineup for tournaments? I am sure no one is eager to wrestle Hall or Roberts as both are very elite wrestlers on the mat. I enjoy watching Roberts, especially, as I see him a lot more. But, if getting an OVAC runner-up into the lineup that normally isn't in the lineup for tournaments can happen and the other can possibly win a title at 160, it sounds like a smart strategic move. I get why they're doing it. The website says they won the dual vs Park 43-23. Have the 120 and 126 been down at all this season for them? I looked through the dual results and have not seen them down. I don't like to use the term avoiding if it's not warranted. I think Park is a very good, young team. They are going to make some noise. But, I give respect where respect is due and this Ohio team impressed last year.

Let me clarify, I'm not an expert on Beaver Locals lineup. I also am not meaning to imply anything negative about their team or tactics. It appears I was in error about the switching at 152/160. It was an inserting and bumping up. I agree, nothing wrong with that. In fact there is nothing wrong with anything that they did or are doing. At the lower weights in using the word avoiding I didn't mean running, just that the match-ups that could have helped with the seeding at 113, 120, and 126 didn't get to occur. At 126, Emmerling was there at the Ironman, but is in the OVAC rankings at 120 and wrestled up at 126 at Park. At 113, Salsibury is ranked at 113, but wrestled up at 120 at Park. Because of that, Taggert did not get the chance to improve his ranking for the tournament. I'm not implying that anything wrong or devious happened. Just stating an observation that by avoiding these match-ups no possible changes in the rankings could occur. It certainly wasn't a move needed in order to win the dual. I'm guessing it was done primarily because Ours at 132 was out of the line-up. He certainly wasn't out in order to dodge anyone. The point that WP1992 made in the above post about getting Woodbury into the lineup echoes the comment I made earlier about how good he looked at the Park dual. For me, the better the wrestlers are in the tournament, the better the tournament. I don't care what school they're from.

KDunbar wrote:Most shocking (although it is frequently being talked about in wrestling) info out with the OVAC Tournament is as follows:
The possibly biggest conference wrestling tournament (maybe it was east of the Mississippi, I don't remember) has 44 "teams" or actually schools entered.
Unfortunately, there are only enough wrestlers entered to make up 31 teams.
Unfortunately there are about 10 schools entered with less than or only half a team.
Unfortunately there are only 12 schools entered with full teams.

All told, we're missing 175 wrestlers from the tournament. That's over a 26% deficit.

Bearhugger wrote:

KDunbar wrote:Most shocking (although it is frequently being talked about in wrestling) info out with the OVAC Tournament is as follows:
The possibly biggest conference wrestling tournament (maybe it was east of the Mississippi, I don't remember) has 44 "teams" or actually schools entered.
Unfortunately, there are only enough wrestlers entered to make up 31 teams.
Unfortunately there are about 10 schools entered with less than or only half a team.
Unfortunately there are only 12 schools entered with full teams.

All told, we're missing 175 wrestlers from the tournament. That's over a 26% deficit.

It sounds like it is time to add JV wrestlers and also implement a "Less Than" division.

Gator wrote:Braxton Amos won an award for being the only wrestler in OVAC history to end his career undefeated.

Braxton is now 126-0 and has not gave up an offensive point to any opponent.

Let that sink in for a bit.

KDunbar wrote:

Gator wrote:Braxton Amos won an award for being the only wrestler in OVAC history to end his career undefeated.

Braxton is now 126-0 and has not gave up an offensive point to any opponent.

Let that sink in for a bit.

Well not exactly ending his career undefeated, as he has a few more matches to go. But he has ended his "OVAC career/participation" as an undefeated wrestler.
He also won the "Bierkortte Award" (OVAC version of the most outstanding wrestler for the tournament) and the "Hercules Award" for the least cumulative time wrestled with first period pins in all 5 championship round matches wrestled. This totaled 4 minutes 31 seconds, or about 54 seconds a match.

Studcradle wrote:Lasure had a sudden unexplained weight gain to 160 and Kellar ran to 145. 152 is clearing out. Love that the wv boys are skeering ‘em

Studcradle wrote:All apologies. Figured the ranker still ovaec got the information from someone on the coaching staff. He doesn’t usually just guess. You think he would beat Hall and Roberts?