March Madness...IKWF style.

[Kelly Green]

It’s finally here! The week of state. The most exciting time of the year for youth wrestling in Illinois.

"2...takedown"

The Biggest match in the state was held this weekend at the West Chicago Sectional final between Joey Uccardi(MFVE) and Andy Spangler(FV) and not one word has been mentioned about the match? Odd... The report on the match goes like this, Uccardi took down Spangler in the first period and then the boys "cut" each other and it ended 3-1.

The rest of the story...

It appears the sectional letter assignments for the State pairings were compromised at one of the sectional tournaments over the weekend. A certain powerful club was made aware early in the day of the sectional letter assignments. The letter assignment for the sectional tournaments should NEVER be released before the end of the tournament. Even if someone offers you that information, you should refuse it. I don’t think this issue is over. Let’s see, what’s that word I’m looking for...ahh, yes,...

INTEGRITY: firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values.



State brackets...here we go again

Doesn’t look like the state brackets will be posted on the IKWF web page anytime soon. And even if they are, they will be password protected. I don’t understand why the sectional directors feel like the brackets should be a secret, but I do understand the "system" we have with the IKWF. If you don’t like it...go to the IKWF board meeting and voice your dis-pleasure(is that a word?)./your opinion! Let your sectional director know how you feel. Email the entire IKWF board. Run for sectional director next year and try to make the change.

The brackets were done around 3:00pm Sunday. Clubs do have them. In fact, I have my son’s already And I did not get it from our club coach. It’s a secret that can’t hardly be kept. I truly think it takes a little something away from the sport when they are not posted for public viewing. I don’t have an IHSA wrestler yet, but I love looking at their brackets before the State tournament. The IHSA post them. The IESA post theirs. Why doesn’t the IKWF?

FYI: The bottom half of the Senior115 is brutal.