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nutcase, wrestling and tryingto throw kids and everything,because when youre young-er, thats all you needed todo. Now I have to start wres-tling this year, settle downand learn more moves insteadof a headlock and things likethat.Q: Are you surprised byyour success?A: Im really surprised actu-ally. I was hoping to comeback and be like a .500 wres-tler, just anything to help theteam. Now that Im doingmore than just helping theteam, I dont even know how

to put it in words. Im reallyhappy I came out.Q: What makes Doug Cas-tellari such a good coach?A: His attitude. Everythingabout that man is positive.Everything is, get back at it,dont hang your head. Hes

just such a positive guy. Hisspeeches are the best speech-es Ive ever heard in my life.Q: What do you think ofthe Eagles hiring ChipKelly?A: I like Chip Kelly as a coach.Id like to see how wed dowith that offense. I think itllgive us something a littlemore to complain about thanAndy Reid.

Buena Regional High Schoolsenior Ty Warren is off to a13-4 start to the season de-spite not having wrestledsince he was in sixth grade.The 220-pounder has been abig reason why the Chiefs arecurrently 8-0. Warren, who isalso a starter for the footballteam, recently spoke with The

Mat Pack about wrestling, histime away from the mats anda little football.QUESTION:Why didnt youwrestle before this year?ANSWER: Growing up, mydad was a big supporter ofme wrestling, but we stoppedtalking and everything, so I

just fell off of the sport. Then,Id go out (to watch matches),I knew every move, and it justinspired me to go out for mysenior year.Q: What, ultimately, madeyou come back?A: Im close to all the wres-tlers, and they were all has-sling me. I told coach Brett(Aretz) right before I told my

mom and he said, Youdbetter sit her down beforeyou tell her. And I told herand she started crying.Q: Youre a senior, butyoure a first-year wrestler.What is that like?A: I think some of the kidslook up to me as a Billy Wardor a Dillan Berghof, a leader,because thats who I am. Onthe football field and on themat, Im a vocal leader. But(as far as) learning newthings, in practice, like newdrills, thats about it.Q: Whats been the mostdifficult part of returning?A: Probably nerves. (Before),Id go out and Id be a total

THE INSIDE STUFF

Vinelands Tiawahn Cosby wrestles at 182 pounds against Buena on Jan. 8. It was thefirst time Cosby weighed in at 182. He slowly dropped in weight according to astate-mandated weight loss schedule. Matside weigh-ins could be an alternative forweight management. STAFF PHOTO/CODY GLENN

Its an all-too-commonscene that has left ablack eye on the sport

of wrestling for decades.Immediately following

weigh-ins, wrestlers breakout jugs of Gatorade oreven Pedialyte and chow

down on whatever theycan find like theyre a rav-enous animal that missedits feeding time by days.

Once a wrestler has of-ficially weighed in for hismatch, these athletes typi-cally have upwards of twohours to rehydrate and filltheir stomachs in hopes ofbeing better prepared tocompete. The problem is,most wrestlers were cut-ting weight for days be-fore, practicing and walk-ing around the hallwaysseverely dehydrated andhungry.

While the NJSIAA hastaken steps in recent years

to help limit the extremeweight-cutting with hy-dration testing andweight-descent plans, onesolution has remained offthe table, yet is a topic ofconversation in the wres-tling world the matsideweigh-in.

The idea is, if wrestlersweigh in at the scorers ta-ble immediately beforestepping onto the mat for amatch, extreme weight-cutting would likely beeliminated. Wrestlerswould want to be hydratedfor matches to achievebetter performance, sothey would be less likely to

shed the extra five poundsthe night before only to putit all back on in the shorttime before a weigh-in.

I think its better forthe kids health, Vinelandcoach Dave Homiak said.I think its going to stop alot of stuff where kids arecutting too much weight. Idont see anything wrongwith weighing in right be-fore matches.

Dehydration is the big-gest risk with any extremeweight-cutting method.When wrestlers are certi-fied before the season,they must pass a hydrationtest, but thats the onlytime an athletes hydrationis checked all year. Theidea behind a matsideweigh-in is that wrestlers

would police their own hy-dration because the fear ofbeing severely dehydrat-

ed would hinder their per-formance.

I think kids are goingto drop less weight, Ho-miak said. A kid is goingto be losing 10 pounds rightbefore the match then hehas to get up on the scaleand he cant rehydrate.Theyll be forced to (loseweight) in a way that Ithink is safer.

But dont expect a moveto matside weigh-ins anytime soon.

As much as its beendiscussed, theres neverbeen a lot of movement onit, NJSIAA executive di-rector Steve Timko said.

Not everyone agreesmatside weigh-ins wouldhelp the sport. In fact,some believe it could have

the opposite effect.Youre just going to

have two sucked-downkids wrestling each other,Millville coach Scott Staysaid. I think it wouldmake the sport worse. In-stead of having kids losinga little bit of weight andthen eating and wrestlingthe match comfortably,youre going to have kids

wrestling tired. Youre go-ing to have more injuriesand less exciting matches.

Wrestling is the oldestsport in the world. Theyneed to quit messing withit.

According to Stay, themajor change in policywouldnt make a major dif-ference in the sport.

I know they want tokeep kids safe, but I dontthink it would changemuch, Stay said. Insteadof losing 10 (pounds),theyre going to lose fiveand itll be the same thing.The kids that dont do itright arent going to. Thekids who do do it right andare successful, its not go-ing to change anything.

Stay also thinks the in-

stitution of weight cuttinghas changed over theyears and is continuing toevolve into something saf-er.

It falls on the coach-es, Stay said. And I thinkyoull see a little bit of achange as you start losingsome of the older coachesand start getting more ofthe guys who grew up with

hydration testing.The NJSIAA is happy

with the results of hydra-tion testing and other mea-sures that have been inplace over the last few sea-sons.

I think the hydrationand the weight manage-ment program our wres-tlers (have) is a majorstep, Timko said. Beforehydration weight manage-ment, I think we had seen adecline in wrestlingthroughout the state andthroughout the country.Now, since we put in thesemeasures, the numbershave bounced back.

Patrick Buganski covers high schoolwrestling for The Daily Journal.Contact him at (856) 563-5255 orpbuganski@thedailyjournal.com.

Could weight loss be cutby moving up weigh-ins?

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1. Camden Catholic 6-1

2. Timber Creek 7-5

3. Delsea 15-0

4. Clearview 12-4

5. Shawnee 11-0

6. Paulsboro 9-2

7. St. Augustine 6-5

8. Millville 11-2

9. Clayton 11-1

10. Buena 8-0

11. Cherokee 10-2

12. Cinnaminson 6-0

13. Collingswood 12-4

14. Northern Burlington 5-0

15. Woodstown 9-2

*Records through Wednesday.

The New Jersey WrestlingWriters Association StatewideTop 20. First place votes inparenthesis follow by totalpoints.

1. S. Plainfield (16-0) (17) 34Last week: (1)

2. Bound Brook (13-1) 321 (2)

3. Berg. Catholic (9-1) 305 (3)

4. Phillipsburg (5-0) 291 (5)

5. Toms River S. (10-2) 263 (17)

6. Brick Mem. (11-2) 243 (4)

7. St. Peters Prep (5-2) 240 (6)

8. Delbarton (5-2) 222 (8)9. Camden Cath. (6-1) 200 (10)

10. Southern (3-4) 183 (7)

11. Kittatinny (9-1) 177 (11)

12. Jackson Mem. (9-3) 162 (9)

13. High Point (8-3) 128 (13)

14. Howell (13-1) 122 (12)

15. Warren Hills (8-3) 114 (14)

16. Timber Creek (4-3) 75 (15)

17. Deslea (14-0) 67 (16)

18. Long Branch (4-2) 46 (19)

19. Don Bosco (4-3) 30 (18)

20. Hunterdon Cent. (6-0) 24(20)

Others receiving votes:Roxbury 9, St. Joseph-Mont-vale 4, Voorhees 2, Shawnee 1,Watchung Hills 1.

Points are awarded to teams indescending order with 20 pointsgoing to the No. 1team and onepoint to the No. 20 team on eachballot. Teams are ranked basedon the total number of votesthey receive from the associa-tions 17 members. Recordsthrough Wednesday.

1061. Patrick DArcy, Holy Spirit 18-3

2. Tyler McBride, Camden Catholic 11-5

3. Ferdinand Mase, Eastern 16-0

4. Louis Arensberg, Audubon 14-3

5. Griffin Bonner, West Deptford 14-1

1131. John Amato, Timber Creek 15-1

2. Ronray Harris, Middle Township 6-0

3. Jake Forsman, Eastern 17-1

4. Zach Firestone, Clearview 15-1

5. Mike Van Horn, Washington Twp. 18-2

1201. John Genti le, Paulsboro 15-1

2. Tom Gattinella, St. Augustine 16-3

3. Marcus Miraglia, Del ran 15-0

4. Nick Virgilio, Timber Creek 6-1

5. Alex Baider, Cherokee 13-4

1261. Bil ly Wa rd, Bue na 15- 3

2. Sam Morina, Paulsboro 16-1

3. Col lin Mitchel l, Eastern 5-1

4. Anthony Racobaldo, Williamstown 15-2

5. Dylan LaPalomento, Washington Twp.17-1

1321. Isaiah DeGuzman, Timber Creek 14-4

2. Juan Rivera, Paulsboro 13-3

3. Joe Lemerise, Cherokee 14-0

4. Aaron Lambert, Burlington Twp. 11-2

5. Steve Passarella, Washington Twp. 7-0

1381. Brandon Keller, Timber Creek 8-2

2. Ron Genti le, Paulsboro 13-0

3. John Van Brill, Clearview 16-0

4. Sean Pryzbylkowski, New Egypt 15-2

5. Brennan Humphrey, Shawnee 16-1

1451. T.J. Miller, Camden Catholic 14-1

2. John Van Brill, Clearview 16-0

3. Maaziah Bethea, Trenton Central 9-1

4. Dil lan Berghof, Buena 14-2

5. Branden Virgilio, Timber Creek 10-1

1521. Chad Walsh, Camden Catholic 14-1

2. Wayne Stinson, No. Burlington 13-3

3. Ed Lenkowski, Clearview 16-04. Dom Ruggerio, Timber Creek 16-2

5. John Hennelly, Delsea 19-3

1601. Bryce Shade, Timber Creek 14-1

2. Connor Donahue, Clearview 16-0

3. A.J . Nicholas, Cherokee 13-2

4. Kellen Whitney, Hammonton 14-2

5. Sonnieboy Blanco, Burlington City 13-1

1701. Dylan Dobzanski, Delsea 19-0

2. Austin Wetterau, Shawnee 16-1

3. Nick Elmer, Penns Grove 16-1

4. Tyler Sentman, St. Augustine 16-2

5. Steffen Rodriguez, Vineland 11-2

1821. David Williams, Hammonton 19-0

2. Brad Schwarze, New Egypt 17-0

3 . B il ly Leo ne, K in gs way 9 -2

4 . A lex Fo ley, Shawn ee 1 4-3

5. Tiawahn Cosby, Vineland 14-2

1951. Rory Bonner, West Deptford 13-02. Joey DeChristofaro, Hightstown 17-0

3. Michael Robinson, Clayton 11-0

4. Ed Shockley, Mil lv il le 18-1

5. Cory Damiana, Lower Cape May 13-5

2201. Bryan Dobzanski, Delsea 21-0

2 . Roy Lucas, S t. J os ep h 1 7-0

3. Nigel Toussaint, Egg Harbor Twp. 16-1

4. Jared Alwan, Camden Catholic 5-2

5. Cylas Dorety, Woodstown 14-1

HWT1. Alex Thompson, Haddon Heights 14-0

2. Jeff Miller, Camden Catholic 10-1

3. Robert Frederico, Hammonton 17-0

4. Allan Westenberger, Gloucester 14-2

5. James Dever, Moorestown 19-2

106

Tom Car ne y, De lse a 14-6

J os h P in ed a, Vi ne land 7 -2

Hector Marrero, Cumberland 7-4

113

Zach Goranson, Mil lv il le 5-1

Collin Donahue, St. Augustine 11-8

Joham Garcia, Mil lv il le 10-4

Luis Rivera, Buena 11-9

Andrew DiJoseph 6-5

120

Tom Gattinella, St. Augustine 16-3

Sal M aran di no, Buena 1 3-6

Danny DeTetta, V ineland 9-8

126

Billy Ward, Buena 15-3

Ed Donahue, St. Augustine 13-6

Ch ad Kah n, Mil lvill e 9-8

J oh n Gal lo, Sch al ick 1 3-5

132

J oh n P ie rs on , D el sea 1 8-2

Newt Richardson, Schalick 11-3

C haz B ramb le, Buena 1 4-5

Jarred Hodges, St. Augustine 13-5

138

Rian Lamanteer, Delsea 18-2

Keith Mahoney, Millville 17-2

J aret t P ie ro tt i, Buena 8 -1

Tayron Davis , V ineland 9-8

Joe Roman, Cumberland 6-5

145

D il lan Bergh of, Buena 1 4-2

D eo n H en ry , Sch al ick 1 3-5D om D eM arco, D el sea 8 -4

152

J oh n H en ne ll y, D el sea 1 9-3

R ico R iv era, M il lv il le 1 6-3

Dylan Manno, Schal ick 10-7

160

D avi d G res k, De lse a 18-4

Kris Albert, Buena 6-5

Carl Hitzelberger, Schalick 8-7

J ose So to, Mi llvi lle 7-7

170

Tyler Sentman, St. Augustine 16-2

Steffen Rodriguez, Vineland 14-2

Victor DeFrance, Delsea 16-6

Connor Dixon, Mil lv il le 10-6

J oe Py fe r, S ch ali ck 13-5

E lij ah Br own, B ue na 8-8

182

Dylan Dobzanski, Delsea 19-0

Erik Porch, Delsea 16-3

Tiawahn Cosby, Vineland 14-2

C od y Rup pert , D el sea 9 -3

Javier Colon-Rivera, Millville 12-7

James Bennett, St. Augustine 12-7

195

Ed Sho ck ley, M il lv il le 1 8-1

220

Bryan Dobzanski , Delsea 21-0

Obi Kali, Millville 17-3

Benjamin Henderson, Vineland 11-5

N ick C ap oral e, Buena 1 0-6

Nick Crisafu ll i, Schal ick 5-4

Justin Welsh, St. Augustine 7-7

HWT

Tom Lynd, St. Augustine 16-2

Ty Warren, Buena 14-4

Fred DeMary, Mil lv il le 10-6

Ryan Cartwright, Schalick 12-6

*Wrestlers must have at least a .500 recordand a minimum of eight bouts.All the records and rankings are based on in-formation through Wednesday.

TYWARRENBUENA

SeniorWeight: 220

Collingswood celebrated its programs 700th victorywith a 43-22 upset over previously unbeaten Audubon onMonday. The Panthers are just the third team in South Jerseyhistory to reach the milestone number behind Paulsboro (1,066)and Highland (725).

Vineland is closing in on becoming a member of the 600-win club. The Fighting Clan beat Winslow Township Thursdayand will wrestle Cedar Creek and Oakcrest on Saturday. IfVineland sweeps those meets, it will go for No. 600 on Wednes-day against rival Millville.

Haddon Heights heavyweight Alex Thompson is 14-0with 13 pins and one forfeit. Nine of his pins are in the firstperiod, including an 11-second fall on Wednesday againstCollingswood. Hightstown 195-pounder Joey DeChristofaro is17-0 with 16 pins, including 15 in the first period.

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RECORD WALLTop 3 in career wins

Luke Fedechko 142-23

Curt Delia 141-20

Rob Jillard 131-31

100-match winners: 12State champions: 7 (ChrisIanacone 1973; Joe Alex-ander 1997, 1998; LarrySmashey, 1998; Don Fisch2002, 2003; AnthonyBaldosaro 2008)

Team district titles: 19(1969, 1970, 1971, 1972,1984, 1986, 1989, 1990,1991, 1992, 1993, 1997,1998, 1999, 2000, 2002,2005, 2008, 2009, 2012).

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