GRECO/STATE FREESTYLE QUALIFIER Saturday, May 12th, 2012 Hidden Oaks Middle School Prior Lake, MN Hidden Oaks Middle School Map

BARBARIAN MN/USAELIGIBILITY: TOURNAMENT LIMITED TO 210 PARTICIPANTS, IN ORDER TO CONDUCT THE TOURNAMENT IN AN EFFICIENT AND TIMELY MANNER.

Preregister by Emailing the Tournament Coordinator to reserve your spot. Pay at the registration table May 12th.  Same day walk up registration taken on an as available basis. Once the tournament fills, wrestlers showing up in Prior Lake will be weighed and sent to the Buffalo Freestyle qualifier which begins at 10am.
All wrestlers must be members of USA Wrestling.  Membership available for purchase online at themat.com or at registration the day of the tournament.

FEE: $24.00 wrestler fee includes both Greco and Freestyle Competition. $4 Adult admission

Divisions, Weights: PeeWee through Juniors. Scratch Weight. 3 to 4-wrestler Round-Robin Greco, then same group Round-Robin Freestyle after a short break.  Awards:T-shirt for all participants.  WEIGH INS: 7am-8:30am. Wrestling starts at 10am.

Tournament Coordinators:
Kevin O’ Neil 612-384-8320 kevinoneil@integra.net
Dr. Mark Berg 612-598-7717

Flat Earth Freestyle and Greco Results

Tyler Onstad, Jake Larkin, Levi Larkin, and Hunter Gruchow wrestled in the Flat Earth MN USA state qualifier this weekend.  What a great experience!  There were many talented wrestlers wrestling in the Jackson, Mn High School gym on Saturday morning.  The boys wrestled great but also realized they are still learning when it come to the greco/freestyle disciplines.  It's great they are going out and giving their all in something they are not all completely comfortable in.  These 4 boys are all new to the greco/freestyle world and they ran with some of Minnesota's best.

Jake Larkin 3rd Greco/4th Freestyle
Levi Larkin 1st Greco/1st Freestlyle
Tyler Onstad 2nd Greco/2nd Freestyle
Hunter Gruchow 1st Greco/1st Freetyle

Good Work Boys!!


From The MN USA Website:

Taking part in MN USA wrestling events is a great way to make some of the biggest improvements in the sport of wrestling.  Spring is the time when most wrestlers start wrapping it up for the year. Most wrestlers take this time off and wait until fall to resume their wrestling career. Why? Unless you are playing in another sport like baseball or track & field why not keep "playing" in wrestling? And even if you are playing another sport why not wrestle in a few tournaments? You might practice twice a week in a local wrestling room (Alexandria) and keep "playing" with the sport so you can keep improving your skills.

****************Click here for more information on MN USA Wrestling

WCAAE Wrestling Pictures from 2011-2012

JV/Varsity 2011-2012 season:

http://tammieolsonphotography.zenfolio.com/wcawrestling

Little Knights 2011-2012 season:

http://tammieolsonphotography.zenfolio.com/littleknightswrestling

FCA Wrestling Camp

We have three wrestlers going to FCA camp and have room for one more.  I wanted to post to see if anyone else was interested.  Here is the website.  June 1-3    http://www.fcand.org/fca-wrestling-camp-at-crystal-springs    *First response to me at long@runestone.net gets the transportation.

I would offer up one of my vehicles if we get a lot of interest, so there would be room for three more if needed, but we'll get to that when we see if there is any interest. 

Thanks!  Brenda Long

Cobber Camp

This is the camp that we have been going to for the last 6 years.  Check out the details and see if it works for you.  Click on the comments bar if you are going and write in your name.

http://www.theguillotine.com/youth/1112/camps/concordia.html

Freestyle and Greco Schedule in Alexandria

Freestyle / Greco Wrestling

Alexandria

Grades 4-12

We are excited to offer a local freestyle /greco wrestling program here in Alexandria for wrestlers in grades 4 - 12. This is a great opportunity to “extend“ and enrich your season as well as learn and participate in a slightly different style of wrestling.

Freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling are the predominant forms of wrestling throughout the world and are contested internationally and at the Olympics. Freestyle wrestling does have slightly different rules and scoring, but is very comparable to “Folk style” and wrestlers adapt quickly to the new style.  Most importantly, practicing Freestyle wrestling makes you a better folk style or high school style wrestler.

Practice will be held on Monday and Thursday evenings in the wrestling room at Discovery Middle School in Alexandria beginning March 12

Practices:         March 12 – March 31              7:30 – 9:00 PM

                        April 4      – May 31                6:30 – 8:30 PM

Fee:  a $20 fee will be charged to cover facility rental.         

If your wrestler wishes to compete in Freestyle wrestling tournaments, they are held throughout the state.  Information on tournament locations can be obtained by viewing http://mnusa.wrestlingsystems.com/

If you are interested in participating or have further questions about the program or style of wrestling, please attend a practice in the wrestling room at Discovery Middle School, or feel free to contact Scott Johnson (Coach) at 320-760-6217  or Brendan Bogart 320-762-6279

We are looking for help!!!!

Elementary program - looking for volunteers to divide up management of the program (each take a small part)
1)  Start of season - coordinate season schedule - conduct tshirt/singlet inventory

2)  Registration - up date paperwork/get copies - organize/conduct event - maintain paperwork/singlet deposits

3)  Grant County jv/v tournament concessions - coordinate food - find workers

4)  Team photos - coordinate photographer - handout/collect info/pictures

5)  Tournament schedules - print out/pass on web site address - send weekly email as to weekend tournaments are held.

6)  Tournament results - collect/document results - hand out pins - design/complete end of year certificates

7)  Elementary Tournament - award shirt inventory/collect and coordinate workers for tables/misc gym workers

8)  Year-End-Splash - organize/coordinate/collect funds

9)  Season end - collect singlets/shoes - return deposit funds

10)  Season Completion - clean/inventory all singlets/shoes - inventory booster/tournament shirts (order new if required)

11)  Awards Banquet - organize photos and make slide show

12)  Spirit Wear??

Comment on the comment bar or please e-mail Brandon Gruchow bgruchow@wca.k12.mn.us if you are interested in helping in any of the following areas.