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With the Jefferson County School schedule laid out like it is, The Jefferson County Tournament of Champions will be held Jan 11-12th, The Big East will be held on Jan 5th. Any teams wanting to come on the Big East email me @ ejsoc@insightbb.com

Wrestlers and Coaches, I putting together a camp and tournament schedule to place on the coaches association web site. if you have any information email me at ejsoc@insightbb.com

Off Season Wrestling Calendar Date Tournament Location Style 25-Feb Tell City Folk Style Open Tell City HS Folkstyle 3-Mar Mater Dei Evansville Mater Dei Folkstyle 4-Mar Perry Meridian Folkstyle open Perry Meridian (Indianapolis, IN) Folkstyle 17-Mar Union County Dan Gable Series Union County HS Folkstyle 17-Mar Letcher County Open Letcher County High Folkstyle 23-Mar Team Jeff Greco- Roman Open Jeffersonville High School Greco Roman 24-Mar Boder Wars - Conner High School Conner High School Folkstyle 24-Mar Team Jeff Freestyle Open Jeffersonville High School Freestyle 31-Mar Charlestown Freestyle Open Charlestown IN Freestyle 7-Apr Letcher County Open Letcher County High Folkstyle 14-Apr Perry Meridian Freestyle Open Perry Meridian (Indianapolis, IN) Freestyle 21-Apr Jennings County Freestyle Open Jennings County HS (North Vernon IN) Freestyle 28-Apr Five Star Wrestling Club Lexingtion Traditional Magnet School Folkstyle 28-Apr New Castle Freestyle Open New Castle IN Freestyle 12-May Letcher County Open Letcher County High Folkstyle 9-Jun Battle of the Bluegrass Lexington Lafayette HS Folkstyle 16-Jun Letcher County Open Letcher County High Folkstyle 28-Jul Bluegrass State Games Lexington Lafayette HS Folkstyle This is the information that I have, Any moer posting will be on the Coaches Assoiciation Web site. If you know of any other tournaments please message me or email me.

Is there a USA Wrestling schedule for Kentucky, I have been to both the Kentucky USA Wrestling web site and the USA Wrestling web site and there was no information entered.

Yes a team is punished for byes , If a wrestler how receives a bye in the first round that is a #1 seed only gets 2 points for that round instead of a chance of earning points for a major decision=3pts, tech fall 3 1/2 points, or pin points which is 4. If I was a coach of a team that will be in a close highly competivie region like region 2 I would want to make sure that all my good wrestlers especially the #1 and #2 seeded wrestlers had matches in the first round because they are usually the easiest matches where I could pick up easy extra points

I dont know if you guys know this but looking over the draw I noticed that #1 seeds and #2 seeds had a lot of byes, like it was automatic. Why would good wrestlers want byes in the first round and give up team points

OK to dispell any myths about the JCTC and how it is ran. Here is how the seeding goes 1. All Coaches turn in lineups by Thursday @1:00 p.m. along with all seeding information (i.e. head to head records with people in the county, wins against quality competition, and any information the is relavant to seeding) 2. I got through a supply of tournament results and brackets (i.e. King of the Bluegrass, Lonesome Inv, WCI. and results that i have verfied off of web sites like here, KWCA, and Baum's page to find common opponents and to track competition 3. I complie a list of all facts and results and put together a pre meeting seed rating. 4. We meet as a committee and discuss each weight class, some weight classes are deeper than others but we try to spread out in the bracket. I know there is not a perfect way to seed a tournament but after running the county tournament for 15 years I have come to find out this is the most efficent and effective way for seeding. Every year the same problems arise with this tournament + How do you seed kids that have faced top competition and may have lost a few matches over a kid that has lost only one match but has only wrestled close to home and hasnt face quality opponents. + There is always wrestlers that drop down a weight class for this tournament to get ready for regionals and state. + Some programs in Jefferson County dont even know where their kids are even going to wrestle. So the committe process helps solve this process but representing each region and keeping up with what goes on in their respective region Coaches are selected on this committee by past success, respect of peers, and the number of seeds that are currently on their team. As you can tell no Unseeded wrestler made the finals. most of the top 4 seeds finished in the top 4 and like most tournaments, you cant predict injuries, sickness, or a kid that just has all the right answers for the weekend. As for this year's JCTC, It was the smoothest ran tournament I have seen in a long time. We started early, finished early, had only one bad bout card that caused a problem that was easliy fixed and most important EMS was never called. Last but not least people should congradulate Mike Thomas of Moore and Josh Tichenor of Iroquios for putting on strong performances at this year's JCTC. Mike has revived a program that only had 4 or 5 wrestlers about 4 years ago and Josh starting a program and in its second year having a few placers including one in the finals. He does this with limited resources and a small budget.

There will be 25 to 27 teams at this year's Big East including Trinity North Hardin Union County Caldwell County Pleasure Ridge Park North Oldham Oldham Co South Oldham Southern Ballard KCD Western Hills Oneida Baptist Doss Manual Fairdale Iroquios Moore Nelson County Lou.Holy Cross Cov. Holmes Jeffersontown Eastern Eastern 2 Central