Wrestling Mistakes

It's not what you're thinking.  These are the times I made a mistake in naming a photo that I downloaded, so trying to track down the actual high school, college, or city turned , so it turned into a major hassle, if it was possible at all.

1. Atlantic. A wrestling conference?  Florida Atlantic University.?  The singlets don't help: "All I see is gold" and "Westlaw," which is a legal publishing company.

I tried "Atlantic High School," and came up with Atlantic, Iowa, 2000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.


2. Creek High School.  There's a Cherry, Fall, Spruce, Silver, Indian, Middle, Clear, Summer, Queen, Stewart, Tate, White, Sand, Harper, Sage, Goose, Bear, and Deer Creek, and just plain "Creek High Schools" in Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Texas, Colorado, and Karachi.  Maybe I should have been a bit more specific.





3. Dory.  Like John Dory from Fear the Walking Dead?  This one was easy to fix: Derry High School, Derry, Pennsylvania. Isn't there a poem in the Lord of the Rings with a refrain "Derry down derry?"


















4. IgnacioBobcat.  I assumed that Ignacio was the name of the wrestler, and started searching for Bobcat teams.  35 Bobcats later, I searched for schools, on the off chance that someone would name their high school Ignacio.

Yep.  Ignacio High School, Ignacio, Colorado, home of the fighting Bobcats.  Not a very cheery place: the home page has links to Financial Transparency, Safe 2 Tell Anti-Bullying, Suicide Prevention, and a list of students honored for their citizenship, responsibility, or TRRFCC.


5.  HasbroHeights.  No such place: "Hasbro" is a toy company.  But there's a Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County, New Jersey, home town of Frank Sinatra, Tony Orlando, and Jason Biggs.  Hasbrouck Heights High is home of the Aviators.
















6. Bergen.  Sounds like Bergen, New Jersey, and there's a "New Jersey" on the poster behind him, but there is no high school or college named Bergen. 

North Bergen High has red singlets.

Turns out that there's another Bergen, New York, with a Byron-Bergen Senior High, home of the fighting yellow Honeybees.





7. IenelPahtherhawkx.  Panther Hawks?  Sounds like a weird hybrid beast.  No high school or college team with that name. 

No city named Ienel.

Cornell University's team is the Black Panthers.

I suppose Ienel could turn into Cornell,but what's with the hawks?











8. SekmaSuperman.  No high school or college team named The Supermen, no town named Sekma.

Sekmet is the ancient Egyptian warrior goddess,but no teams named after her.

Google images kept wanting me to say Selma instead, but neither of the two Selmas have grey singlets.

Maybe he's from Seckman High School in Imperial, Missouri, home of the Jaguars.

Yep: I even found the original article, where he's a two-time champ who plans to go on to Arizona State.



9.WS.  Western State?  White Sands?  Warren School?  Who knows?