Have you ever seen how the basketball players in this area like to hand-check?? Maybe they should wrestle as well.

People who say stuff like that generally have some homophobia. Wrestling is about skill, not about touching each other. It gives kids who may not be good enough to play basketball an opportunity to compete in a sport during the winter months. If some guy is worried about the other guy touching him, then maybe he should just go play golf or tennis.

I read in the paper today that there is going to be a 8 team wrestling tournament tomorrow morning in Brinkley. Is anyone going to go check it out?

Since nobody writes about wrestling, I guess I'll be the only one to give the kids their props. The entire back of today's Sports Section today showed pics and gave results from the wrestling tournament. Bentonville seemed to have a lot of first place, but then again I think the paper on Friday said they have something like 35 kids on their team so go figure. I saw where several kids from the school for the blind placed well in the tournament. That is definately impressive that they could compete so well against kids from the bigger more well known schools who have vision. I guess that is a -*test*-('")ament that wrestling is about skill not just strength and athleticism.

Good post.

gct has some ppl who are rele good at wrestling/grappling. we had a state champ lastyear who is a junior this year. but we have no wrestling team. i'm pretty sure he did it with martial arts i think our school should add one pretty soon.

I wrestled my 1st grade year to my 9th grade year in my hometown in missouri but i moved here to arkansas and they didnt have it here and i was upset cause i think that it is a really good thing to get into.I hope more high schools pick it up...

Valley View has just started a wrestling team. I think they had their first match today.

Who the heck they gonna compete against? And where?

Several school's south of VV have wrestling,Brinkley,Barton,Des Arc,Augusta,Mountain Home,Mountain View,Beebe,Searcy, Arkansas deaf and Blind sSchoolHarding Academy,NLR,LR Hall,LR Central,PA,CAC,LRCA,Robinson,Cabot,Jacksonville,North Pulaski,Sylvan Hills. All the above school's have it. They are all with-in 2 hours of VV. I didn't list every school that has it in the state. Another 35+ school's have it. Almost every school in the Memphis area has wrestling. A lot of school's in SEMO have it, Poplar Bluff,New Madrid Central,Cape,Jackson,Hayti,etc....

There is a complete list of Arkansas schools that are wrestling at http://www.arkwrestling.com/participating.php

I love wrestling! Not be confused with "wrasslin", which is fake, like you see on TV. We wrestled my sophmore year at Jonesboro intramuraly, and tried to get other schools to field teams, but nobody was interested. Our coach was a All-American National Champion from Iowa. I'll have to tell my grandson about this.

Wrestling is a very popular sport in Tennessee. At least in some parts of the state almost every school has it.

this is max bishop, wrestling is great ,i wrestled in school as well as my brother and cousins. we all loved it learned alot of skills and the fitness level is great. i teach mixed martial arts and alot of our top fighters on the circuit come from wrestling backgrounds such as fighter travis adams. i am excited about it ,the kids need it, if we can help the teams in anyway call me. myself as well as others on my team where college and high school wrestlers.

I know I am way late on this topic but glad to here some talk about it. Wrestled in high school in MO. Hoping to see more schools in the area pick it up. Wonderful sport and a great way to get more kids involved in sports.