Welcome to the Special Edition Bip Report California State Wrestling Tournament Wrestling Spectacular for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
 

Um, I guess I'll do headers.
 

"Awesome"
This tournament was awesome.  We only watched the second day, which is semis and finals.  But frickin crap, it was awesome.  Here are my highlights.
 

"Tommy Schurkamp - 112"
Okay, the 112 were just awesome.  These guys kick Hawaii wrestling's ass so many times over, it's not even funny.  Anyway, this guy is my sister's favorite wrestler.  By the way, my sister has worked the CA State tourney for the past 3 years.
Schurkamp was in a match in the semis, and it was awesome.  It was possibly the best match I have ever seen in my life.  The whole match was close.  Tommy was up against a National champion in Freestyle and Greco Roman, Jason Moreno.  Moreno got the lead, and was leading most of the match.  But each point comes choke hard.  There was so much scrambbling for each takedown, it boggled the mind.  They'd scramble for 15 seconds, and both end up on their feet, with no points changed.  I was like, holy crap.  I don't believe this!  Moreno was leading until the third.  That's when I started cheering for Schurkamp.  He ended up tying the match in the third, and sent it to overtime.  Overtime was awesome, with much shooting, and scrambling, and all around awesome techinque.  But no one won, so the thing went into Double Overtime.  Holy crap!  This was so awesome.  Unfortunately, Schurkamp lost in Double OT.  But it was one helluva match.
 

"The Announcer Lady"
The announcer lady kicks ass.  She was so frickin good at playing the crowd.  It turns out she is like the best announcer in the nation, and announced wrestling at Atlanta Olympics.  And you could see why.  She played the crowd choke good.  The fans would be watching from the rails, and she got choke pissed, and started yelling and threatening them.  She cleared out the whole rail.  But that was just a taste.
Later on, three signs were missing from schools.  She informed the crowd that they were gone, and asked them to return them.  The crowd booed.  So she says, "We like to think that wrestling fans are the best.  Already, we've had 5 wallets returned WITH ALL THE MONEY STILL IN THEM.  This only shows that you are the most honest and greatest fans there are!!!"  The whole place started cheering, and 5 minutes later, the signs were returned.  She actually said it much better than I did just there.
Finally, before the 3rd, 5th, and 7th finals, there was a beach ball being tossed around.  She wasn't liking that too much, because it's the finals, right?  So she says, "Could you please put the beach ball away?"  The crowd boos.  So she says, "Could you put the ball away, because we aren't here to play toss.  We're here to watch THE 27th ANNUAL 1999 CALIFORNIA STATE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT!!!!!!!"  The place again went nuts, and the ball disappeared.
That lady is fricking awesome.  Forget "Let's get ready to rumble" man.  This lady is the bomb.
 

"3rd, 5th, 7th"
These matches were pretty good.  103 to 160 around were good.  Schurkamp ended up getting 3rd in another good match.  There was a good deal of drama in this match too.  Another match had an overtime finish, and the guy that won almost pinned his opponent.  It was a good match too.  But by 171, I was tired, and ready for dinner.  There was a 2 hour break between 275 and the first place matches, so we ate at Shomis.
 

"Gear"
This tournament has awesome gear.  There is no crappy Hawaii State Shirt, with the guy doing an illegal move on it.  There is no silly looking DaVinci guy in a singlet, with the circle around him.  Instead, they have nice shirts, nice hats, nice beanies, and even Hawaii style fisherman caps.  They were Hawaiian Print, and looking quite decent.  Basically, the CA tournament beat the Hawaii tournament to this nice Hawaii design.  Plus they had choke shoes, which Scott was happy about.  They also had nice Asics war-ups.  NICE Asics Warm-Ups.
 

"Temecula Valley"
This one is for Coach Jack.  Temecula Valley came in around 20th place or so.  They were 22 going into the 3rd, 5th, and 7th place matches, but they had no one in those matches.  However, they had one guy going for the championship at the 160 weight class, Ryan Kane.  He ended up teching his opponent, which is damn decent considering it is the finals for California.
 

"The Finals - 103 and 112"
After awesome matches earlier in these weights, I expected big things.  But these matches were kinda junk.  Scott liked them, because they clearly had the most talent of everyone.  I agree, but the matches were not too exciting.
 

"119 - A guy more whiney than Masaki?"
The 119 match pitted, as Tim called him, The Pussy of California, Mike Simpson.  He is known around the State as a cry baby, that likes to take excessive time outs, and fake injuries.  Hmm.  Reming us of somebody?  Yes, but he does it even better than Masaki.  He even has a story to go along with it.  See, in 9th grade, he was hit by a car.  So til now, he is still plagued by this injury.  When he was introduced, the crowd booed him.  That's another thing.  The crowd is choke into it.  The whole match, they were chanting staaaaaaalling.  staaaaaaalling.
But he ended up winning, in a last minute, veeery questionable call.  He got a reversal in the last 2 seconds, but didn't really get all the way behind or in control.  Me and Scott didn't really like the call, but it was exciting.  Throughout the match, he called two injury timeouts.  Too bad my sister didn't run out there faster, or she could've given me the lowdown on his actual injury.
But this guy does like calling injury time.  He did it thoughout the whole tourney, and Tim pointed it out every time, adding in, "I hate that guy."
 

"135 - a good match"
This was just a frickin good match.  The guy that won pinned his opponent.  And it was in the third period, in some decent as hell scurrying.  The guy got picked up, and slammed on his frickin head, but somehow, he got up, and they scrambled like hell.  The guy that got slammed ended up on top, and pinned the other guy.  Awesome.
 

"140 - Hilarious"
The beauty of this match was that the guy that won's father was coaching.  As time ran down, he got choke excited, cause his son had just got nearfall.  He was jumping up, and doing spins and stuff.  He was punching his fist in the air, and everything.  When his son won, he started jumping like crazy, and he fell over.  I got a picture of him falling, and I am pretty proud about that.  His son did three backflips after, and then jumped into his dad's arms.  It was funny.
 

"145 - Tim's classmate vs. #1 in the nation"
Tim's teammate Steve Martinez went up against Max Odom, the guy ranked #1 in the nation.  Steve almost won that match.  It went into overtime, and Odom was actually stalling the whole way.  But Odom won in overtime.  Again, this was a good match.
 

"171 - Stupidest Decision of the Night"
This one black guy was wrestling, representing Vacaville.  He was clearly better on his feet than the other guy, but didn't get a takedown in the first round.  But the second round, he chose top.  And he got reversed.  The third round, the other guy got bottom, and escaped.  So the guy lost 3-1.  He could have won if he chose bottom or neutral the second round.  He went to the same school as the guy sitting in front of us.  Scott was pissed at that guy.  "Dad, dad!  What's this E F thing?"  Stuff like that.
 

"189 - Greco like hell"
This guy won by Greco style.  He kept on throwin the other guy, greco roman style.  It was pretty good.
 

"275 - Awesome Finish"
The match itself was pretty junk.  We learned that heavyweights everywhere are slow and don't shoot.  Scott was pissed at the end of the match.  "Shooot!  Shooot!!"
But let's describe the situation.  Houson and Poway schools were tied going for first.  One guy in the final was from Poway.  He was Chinese.  The other guy was a frickin monster from Buchanan.  He was huge.  He was cut.  This is just a big guy.  He was 6 something and just a monster.  HUGE.  Damn.  Anyway.  If the Poway guy won, then Poway would win the State Championship.  If Buchanan guy won, they Houson would win.
The first three rounds were crap.  They were boring like anything, and the two guys were stalling like crazy.  But it ended up a tie!
They went into overtime.  In overtime, the Poway guy almost got taken down twice, but landed out of bounds twice.  The first time, my sister rushed out to attend, cause he fell on the wood.  But overtime ended, and it was still tied.  So they go into double overtime for the State Championship.  The Poway guy wins the toss, so he chooses bottom.  The other guy kept him down for 28 seconds, until with 2 seconds left, he reversed him, and won!  It was crazy.  The place went nuts, and everyone was cheering.  Awesome finish.
 

That was the tournament.  It was very good.  Some things about California.  Refs are good.  They call pins fast.  They call stalling.  They are better.  Wrestlers are choke fast, and skillful.  They work us.  But they take a lot of injury time out, possibly because it is intense, and people get bloodied up all the time.
 

Okay, until next time, diamonds are forever, and so is CIF.
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