I'm trying to pick BP's brain. I asked your question in an E-mail to him.

He's written already on Ohiowrestlig.net that he thinks Taylor is "wedded" to Cael.

What will Taylor and Clark do? What do you think about Bobby Douglas retiring early to move over for Cael??

BT has been doing some posting on Justin Kerr's site, Ohiowrestlingsite.com, after a long hiatus (first I've seen him since his site went down). He had some kind of problem with Dan Cosimi, which he used to rag about on his site. Dan Cosimi along with Dan Ransick, run Ohiowrestling.com where some really good posting goes on. I post on both.

Wow Steve, sounds like I missed some good wrestling. I went back on Flowrestling and watched Caldwell/Metcalf 1. You couldn't tell if he was stuck or not from the angle the match was filmed. I trust the ref made the right call.

Billytickets, now there's a blast from the past. Haven't read anything posted by him in about 4 years. I have TWT, Themat, and Flo. Hard to keep up with the numerous wrestling sites..

BTW-that was interesting having Brands and Martin of ODU (formerly Great Bridge) in the gym together. And yes, they had "words" for each other in the rough and tumble of the Iowa-ODU match.

I actually broke the pin story on here in a thread started by jensen dedicated to those duals. I hadn't checked themat, but assumed it was on there already. I opened Jensen's thread and casually noted the Perry match and put an oh-by-the-way Metcalf was spladdled and pinned by Caldwell. The first responder was Bambam who asked a two word question "say what?".

I realized I hadn't broken the story correctly, having forgotten BillyTickets' lessons on breaking stories. I was supposed to start a thread of it's own for it in big letters and failed to do that. When I checked themat, there was nothing there yet either. That all changed but it took a good 6 to 7 hours after it happened. Pretty slow for the internet.

Sorry for the delayed response, Ken. I had forgotten. Things have been hectic. What a difference a weekend makes, as Caldwell proves the pin wasn't necessarily a fluke. Yes I was in the gym for that and Perry's meltdown. Metcalf had been hitting his fireman's (that's what we called it back in the day) all day, but seems to get much more tentative in the opening half of the first period against Caldwell. When he finally attempted a shot, Caldwell did a Wade Shalles on him going right into the standing spladdle. I had a bad angle on it, and Brands certainly protested. I went across to the other side of the gym, where Bob Preusse and Tony Armelli (state level ref) were comparing notes and they said that Metcalf was definitely pinned.

TWT has smacked my hand telling me that my message is too long so I'm splitting it.

How strange is it that the last time Metcalf lost it was in St. Ed's Gym?? If I'm not mistaken defending NCAA champ Perry got his ass kicked that same day. Weren't you there for that, must've been somethin to see..

Sorry Ken, didn't see your request right away.
Baum's page has it. Padua won, with Kilroy and Fickle champs, and 4 others getting out.

Do you know where I can find Fostoria District results?

I don't think so, the name doesn't ring a bell.