Middle School Wrestling

[Southern_Hospitality]

With the middle school season starting in less than two weeks, I want to get a debate going about local middle school teams. This should be an exciting season with new teams (i.e. Alton) added to the frey, with some teams having new coaches (i.e. Edwardsville Lincoln and I think Granite City Coolidge), you have teams that lost alot of solid wrestlers (i.e. Triad, Collinsville, and Edwardsville Liberty), and you have traditional powers in the area (i.e. Granite City Grigsby). Did Collinsville and Triad finally let 6th graders wrestle on thier middle school teams, which plauge these teams with forfeits last year? Is O"Fallon Fulton still an IESA affilated team or did they switch over to IKWF? Who are some of the tougher guys to watch this season (i.e. Greggerson for Grigsby)?

[tada]

I was at Triad vs. Litchfield, Triad's team was 3 times the numbers as last year. They had enough to supply most the Litchfield team with 2 matches.

[grapplnfan1]

what was the score? any standout matches? have any other middle schools had matches?

[tada]

Sorry don't know the score, I'm sure Triad won pretty big. Litchfield's numbers are down this year. Triad has a good team, but I don't remember the weights or names of the kids that were exceptional, I think the 100pounder was a buff little kid and much improved on his technique from last year. The Graumenz kid was at 84.

[RAMbunctious]

How many middle schools in Southern Illinois have school sponsored wrestling teams? I have approached our middle school in Mt. Vernon about starting one & they seemed totally disinterested. Our IKWF club gets very few kids from the city schools. Almost all of our kids come from the small county schools. The Mt. Veron district 80 admins seemed to think that middle school wrestling was something that just doesn't exist in Southern Illinois outside of IKWF Clubs. I'm pretty sure there are several in the Metro East area

[tada]

In Southern Illinois it exists for the most part IN ADDITION to IKWF with most of the middle school teams NOT being linked to the IESA. Central Illinois has a LOT of the strictly IESA teams. Either way does build the high school team. If you have many kids just getting started then sometimes IESA is very beneficial. IF you have a lot of studs in your IKWF club, they probably wouldn't be satisfied wrestling for an IESA middle school team, but Edwardsville, Triad, Bethalto, and Granite City, and many more schools have middle school teams that are free to participate in both.

[JonDavis]

How many middle schools in Southern Illinois have school sponsored wrestling teams? I have approached our middle school in Mt. Vernon about starting one & they seemed totally disinterested. Our IKWF club gets very few kids from the city schools. Almost all of our kids come from the small county schools. The Mt. Veron district 80 admins seemed to think that middle school wrestling was something that just doesn't exist in Southern Illinois outside of IKWF Clubs. I'm pretty sure there are several in the Metro East area
I think their are 16 Middle / Junior high school teams in the SOUTH . Their are over 30 IKWF teams.

[Southern_Hospitality]

Here are the schools I know that have teams:

Granite City Grigsby
Edwardsville Lincoln
Granite City Coolidge
Mascoutah
Collinsville
O'Fallon Fulton
Edwardsville Liberty
Triad
Alton
Bethalto Trimpe
Litchfield
Cahokia Writh
Roxana
Murphysboro

[grapple44]

The Middle School wrestling season is finally getting ready to kick off. I see Triad has already wrestled, but I think the majority of the area teams will kick off there season Wednesday. Don't have everybody's schedule, but if anyone is interested here is Grigsbys.

Wed. Jan. 3rd Roxana at Grigsby
Thurs. Jan. 4th Grigsby at Alton
Tues. Jan. 9th Bethalto at Grigsby
Thurs. Jan. 11th Coolidge at Grigsby
Tues. Jan. 16th Grigsby at O'fallon
Thurs. Jan 18th Mascoutah at Grigsby
Tues. Jan. 23rd Liberty at Grigsby
Thurs. Jan. 25th Cahokia at Grigsby
Tues. Jan. 30th Grigsby at Roxana
Wed. Jan. 31st Alton at Grigsby
Tues. Feb. 6th Grigsby at Coolidge
Wed. Feb. 7th Lincoln at Grigsby
Thurs. Feb. 8th Grigsby at Collinsville
Tues. Feb. 13th Grigsby at Bethalto
Wed. Feb. 14th Triad at Grigsby
Thur. Feb. 15th Grigsby at Liberty

Tournaments:
Jan. 20th Jon Davis Tournament at Edwardsville
Jan. 27th George Nemeth Tournament at Grigsby.

[injun_joe]

2007 MASCOUTAH MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHEDULE

1/4 AWAY EDWARDSVILLE LINCOLN
1/9 HOME CAHOKIA
1/11 AWAY BETHALTO
1/16 HOME COLLINSVILLE
1/18 AWAY G.C. GRIGSBY
1/20 AWAY EDWARDSVILLE TOURN. @ Lincoln
1/23 HOME O'FALLON
1/25 HOME TRIAD
1/27 AWAY COOLIDGE TOURNAMENT
1/30 HOME G.C. Grigsby
1/31 HOME EDWARDSVILLE LIBERTY
2/6 AWAY COLLINSVILLE
2/7 AWAY ALTON
2/8 AWAY CAHOKIA
2/13 HOME ROXANA
2/17 AWAY O'FALLON TOURN.