It's nice to see individual wrestling success stories online. But when I looked to see who won in individual categories/team categories, there was nothing. 

If the Californian is going to mention these high profile tourneys at all, why not be the premiere media site for them as well. I had to google CIF for results and download annoying PDFs. Maybe the paper version was different? Maybe all the information was in hand? How hard would it be to cut and paste and blog it???

Since these tourneys will be in Bakersfield a few more years, the Californian could reap big benefits off promoting at the Rabobank during the tourneys for people to go online for all the results... sort of cool March Madness types of online charts, but for wrestling... and have a blogger there, blogging who is winning... losing... instant reports. Let's see these blogs put into action since Bakersfield.com is claiming to be the big blog kings in the Central Valley. You could have a whole citizen team of citizen bloggers doing all your work for free. I mean, you want free ideas, and content. There you go. If you want to reply to me, please email or leave a message on Paperback Writer: www.noveltown.net/blog

Peace!

my complaint is with the coverage of the tournaments leading up to state. oh, there was plenty on bhs and their league, but nothing but an aside and a list of names for the ssl champrionships. was is mentioned that in their very first year of having a wrestling team, bchs had 4 kids place high enough to move on to valley? nope. was it mentioned how well tehachapi and arvin did? nope. what about the handicapped kid from mcfarland wresltling varsity? not a peep. there is more than one league in this town, but you wouldn't know it reading this paper.

Just to clarify. We still have individual results from all the weight classes posted on-line. Those results were posted at the end of consolation matches, when the third-, fifth- and seventh-place matches were decided. The final results were posted less than five matches after the conclusion of the matches.

We did not have team standings because the CIF doesn't provide until the end of each round. That was an oversight on our part and something we'll look into for next year.

We did not have a "State Wrestling" blog set up in the blog area, but I personally wrote two-three sentences on each championship match for the first 8 matches and posted within 2 or 3 minutes of the conclusion of each match. I had to stop before the conclusion of 152 because I was writing a story on Jason Welch's 160-pound final.

All print stories were posted at the conclusion of the event.