State Wrestling Tourny

**imported_Skeptical** · March 4th, 2006, 10:06 PM

Congrats to Patrick Bolling for finishing 3rd, tanner mccowan for finshing 6th and Jeremy meade for qualifing(sp)
and for all lpd wrestlers that did great up there

**Unchained** · March 4th, 2006, 10:19 PM

Jeremy Justice from JJK wrestled all year with a bad shoulder and shot knee, yet placed 5th today. I am proud of him as well as the rest of our LPD wrestlers.

**imported_Skeptical** · March 4th, 2006, 10:30 PM

yeah i watched jeremy today he is a great wrestler i watched him i think twice today and he wrestled great

**Unchained** · March 4th, 2006, 10:33 PM

He drew Smoot correct? That's a [censored] tough first draw. Smoot is a multi-time state champ.

**imported_Skeptical** · March 4th, 2006, 10:35 PM

im not sure but you can get on mattalkonline.com and find out
yeah smoot is a beast he is very good

**Shoe** · March 4th, 2006, 10:55 PM

Smoot is a chump, lol. Naw he is a good kid. Him and my nephew are pretty good friends.

**truesportsfan** · March 4th, 2006, 10:59 PM

how many group a schools participate in wrestling

**SWVA-Football** · March 4th, 2006, 10:57 PM

3rd place is great, especially for a state tourney. congrats Patrick! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

**imported_VHSLhelper** · March 6th, 2006, 06:22 PM

Don't forget about Aaron Crabtree - he placed 8th.

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I was matside last year for Coles' opener (his match was beside the young lady from Wytheville) and was impressed with his arm strength. He caught some breaks on. Fri. when both Regional champs in his half of the bracket lost the match before they would have met him, so he didn't have a #1 seed until the finals (it always surprises me how often a Regional champ loses their opener at state - we had 2 "A" & 5 "AA" #1 seeds lose their opener this year.)

Then I NEVER expected him to beat Ortiz after losing to him by Major at Regionals 2 straight years. But when you get 4,000 people cheering for you after an ESCAPE (which also put him just a takedown away from tying the match up), that HAS to give you a BIG ol' boost of adreneline. The only other time I've heard a state champion cheered like that was the last match in 2000, where the winner of the AA HWT match would give his team enough points to win the team title. Grundy's Albert Childress had his hands full (literally) with E.G. McDaniel. But our Freshman came through, delaying Christiansburg's first title for another year.