LSHAA State Wrestling today and tomorrow...

cant wait for the ric flair hulk hogan match.


seriously good luck to all these young athletes

It is a shame that high school wrestling isn't bigger. Negligible equipment costs, minimal space requirements, and as about as all-inclusive as a sport can be.

HS wrestling is pretty popular in the midwest but I think the lack of money to be made post-HS puts a cap on how big it can be nationally. The Olympics are cool but if you are a top athlete why would you focus on wrestling when you can potentially make millions in other sports? I recall that a few years ago there was an attempt to start a professional freestyle wrestling league but I think it fizzled out pretty quick.

Jesuit and brother Martin are big wrestling schools in New Orleans, have been some I was in high school in the early 80s.
LSU losing their wrestling program in the 80s didn't help things in Louisiana

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The two most famous Olympic wrestlers are guys who went/going to pro wrestling Kurt Angle and Gabe Stevenson. There are tons of pro wrestlers who wrestled in college, Brock Lesnar among them.

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Don’t forget about wrestling being a springboard into MMA

Joe Rogan talks about college wrestlers transitioning to MMA and says they are the most mentally tough sons of bitches he’s ever come across. Just tough, typically quiet, brutal human beings.

He had on a very accomplished wrestler from NJ I believe that’s been to the Olympics before and says when he went to Iran he was an absolute mega star.

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. The Olympics are cool but if you are a top athlete why would you focus on wrestling when you can potentially make millions in other sports? I recall that a few years ago there was an attempt to start a professional freestyle wrestling league but I think it fizzled out pretty quick.

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While I don’t think they are making millions there is money to made in wrestling. The wrestlers training for the Olympics now have Regional Training Centers and some programs like Penn State’s RTC can bring in $6 million annually to train and pay the senior wrestlers. The college benefits by having the college wrestlers practice with the pros. There are also a lot more endorsement opportunities and a lot of athletes are capitalizing on this.

Top 10 for each division going into tomorrow.

Div I


Division I Team Scores
1 Jesuit 171.5
2 Catholic, BR 167.5
3 Brother Martin 161.5
4 Holy Cross 143.5
5 East Ascension 132.5
5 St. Pauls 132.5
7 St. Amant 87.5
8 Zachary 78.5
9 Dutchtown 76.5
10 Fontainebleau 71.5

Div II

1 Teurlings Catholic 172.5
2 North Desoto 163.5
3 Archbishop Rummel 147.0
4 Brusly 117.5
5 Parkway 112.0
6 Rayne 95.0
7 Sam Houston Hs 88.0
8 Lakeshore 77.5
9 Comeaux 69.0
10 Terrebonne 54.0

Div III

1 Basile 119.0
2 Archbishop Shaw 107.5
3 DeLaSalle 96.0
4 Evangel Christian Academy 81.5
5 Archbishop Hannan 78.0
6 St. Louis 71.0
7 John Curtis Christian School 69.5
8 Kaplan 31.0
9 St. Michael The Archangel 30.0
10 St. Mary`s 24.0

I wrestled at Fontainebleau back in 2005. It makes me proud to see them in the top 10. I follow their Facebook page and it seems like they’ve got a lot of great wrestlers on that team.

They are wrestling well. Looking to have 2 champions for the first time.