State tournament brackets and results - history

Also, added reports for states as a whole, combining AA and AAA.  That's available here:

With 19 years of data so far, some interesting numbers from states...

I believe that Northampton has the longest streak of consecutive state placers at 32 years (still active, 84-15). Second are Bald Eagle Area (81-99), Canon McMillan (82-00) and Reynolds (still active, 98-15) at 19 years.

Top in D1 is CR South at 12 years (still active, 04-15). Norristown (95-05) and Boyertown (01-11) are second at 11 years.

Of course I am......!

You've got some killer stats on this site, you the man, Mike!!!!

Ryan Nunamaker,Nazareth vs. Bob Crawford, Milton was one of the top 5 finals I've seen over the years.

Milton had been AA the year before but turned AAA in '91.  Crawford was this looong, skinny guy who looked like a good wind could blow him away.  And he went to his back way too easily.  But when you got him on his back, he had you just where he wanted you.

This match was just nuts, with Nunamaker turning Crawford over and Crawford immediately reversing him.  Nunamaker was the coach's son, and I think he's a coach up in District 11 now.  I didn't take Crawford seriously, but during every scramble, he seemed to end up on top.  No matter what Nunamaker did, Crawford seemed to have about 6 inches more body left over.

Anyway, the match went in to overtime with Crawford winning, 15-11.

I was searching the web to see if I could find a Crawford match, just to see if he matched my memory of him.  Weirdly, I found his final AA bout from '90.  Strangely, the guy who posted that bout to the web was me.  I posted it 5-6 years ago, I guess and promptly forgot about it.

Crawford won that one in overtime, too:  13-11.  He was kind of a 'last point wins' guy.

Bob Crawford was one of the few 4 time PIAA state champs.  I think he was the only one who wrestled both AA and AAA, with 1 AA win and 3 AAA wins.  

if you are interested, here is a link to that '90 match.  Crawford only went to his back once, but you can get the idea of how he got out from there.  

He was the only 4 x PIAA champ that you just had trouble taking seriously.

btw:  the final at 152 for 1991 is reported incorrectly.  It says that Brian Cippolone of Plum won by Injury Default over Romy O'Daniel of Canon Mac.  What really happened is that Cippolone won by disqualification.  O'Daniel slammed him a couple of times, the second time knocking Cippolone out.  Strangely, I watched O'Daniel at two tournaments (the other being the Manheim Central Christmas Tourney) that year and he was disqualified from both of them.  

Dice was right... it was 2 and 2.

That page just lists the 4-time changes over the past 25 years.  When we get more years of results entered, that page (and the other stats) will get updated.