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Top 4 seeds with their ranking after it.

We were 2-3.

Tom got warned for stalling twice. Should have been a point awarded and the match would not have gone into O.T. I didn't catch it until it was too late.

Not sure why this was taken out of the High School wrestling discussion but here is the information again.

Not sure why this was taken out of the Youth Wrestling discussion area but here is the information again.

Spots are filling up. Make sure you get your preregistration in.

Attached is the info for our camp July 17-19.

Updated flyer with registration information.

We have talked about splitting the times next year with Freestyle and Sombo in the morning and Folkstyle in the afternoon. Another way to assure you don't wait 7 hours is to sign up for the other styles. If your son would have wrestled freestyle or greco he would not have had to wait very long for his first match. We also talked about bringing another group of refs in for the folkstyle part of the tournament. The refs did an excellent job with the greco and freestyle portion but it definately seemed like they lost interest when it came to folkstyle. The ref on our mat kept leaving between matches and one of the coaches stepped up to ref some matches for us.

Just wanted to let everyone know the plan for this weekend. We will not take pre-registration in hopes that there will be no "lost" paperwork and everyone will get entered in the tournament. We will do remote weigh ins. Right now Meade Co. is doing one on Friday from 5-7, Cobra Wrestling is doing one Thursday from 5-7 and we will have one at Fern Creek from 5-7 on Friday. We will start weigh ins at 8 Saturday morning and registration will end at 9 a.m. You should have your USAW card, $10 and a registration form (you can get them at the tournament) the morning of the tournament. IF YOU ARE GOING TO PAY AS A GROUP YOU NEED TO SHOW UP AS A GROUP. We had some kids show up before their coach and had to pay again. (They had to get a refund from their coach.) I hope to get started by 10:30 if not earlier. We will have 4 mats. Mat 1- Bantam and Intermediate, Mat 2- Novice and Schoolboy, Mat 3- Cadet and Open (121-145.5) and Mat 4- Junior and Open (154-264.5). You will need to stay by the mat you are assigned to and listen for your name. We will finish all regular matches and give out medals before we do ANY exhibition matches. I want everyone to get matches in but I want the matches that count to be done first. This went pretty smooth last year and I hope it works well again this year. Post any questions you have here and I will try to answer them as soon as possible. Good luck and I hope to see you Saturday.

What weight class are you going to be in? I know JTowns assistant coach and Doss' head coach will be in the 165 range. I have gotten a lot of emails about the open division.

This is hilarious!! I think we will have steak and shrimp on the 2nd floor above the ROTC room. And before some of you guys go looking, there is no 2nd floor! Most participants are from in state. I have gotten emails from about 6 juniors and 2 cadets that plan on coming from Ohio. Other than that we will have to see the morning of. I wish there was a way to know who was coming but that's just the way these off season tournaments go. We had about 120 wrestlers last year and I am hoping the numbers go up a little each year.

North Hardin- Contact Keith Smith- Friday 5-7

More remote weigh ins: Danville, KY- Contact David- 859-329-1339 Dayton, OH- Contact Randy Logsdon- 513-505-6092

The way I understand it, and hopefully Keith can help me out, you can not go up a division but you can go up one weight class. If you register at Cadet you will only wrestle Cadet during the tournament. We have always allowed exhibitions within one weight class and one division as long as both parties agree. YOU set up those matches and we will score them after the regular matches are complete. You can get as many matches as you can set up. Hopefully we will have enough in each weight class but there are always a few that end up by themselves and we try to combine them with another weight as long as its close. I don't have a minimum # of people in a pool. I know that last year we had some with 2 or 3 in their round robin and they got another 4 or 5 exhibitions.

The mats are split up by division not weight. If you are wrestling Cadet you will be on mat 3. If you are wrestling Junior, you will be on mat 4.

Fern Creek Derby Classic Folkstyle Tournament Saturday, April 25, 2009 Location: Fern Creek High School 9115 Fern Creek Road Louisville, KY 40291 Hosted by: Fern Creek Wrestling Club Contact: Josh Tichenor Phone: 502-594-3701 E-Mail: jtichenor@insightbb.com Entry Fee: $10 USAW Card required Bantam-Open Round Robin Brackets if there are 6 or fewer. 8 man brackets for anything more. Weigh Ins: Fern Creek High School wrestling room April 24, 6-8pm I would like to have 3 other sites outside of Louisville. If you would like to host one let me know. http://www.eteamz.com/kyusawrestling/files/DerbyClassicFlyer.pdf

Yes. Make sure you bring your card the first time you come to each place.

Due to getting mats back to schools they were borrowed from for the elementary state tournament, Fern Creek will not start open mats until March 16th.

MOST tournaments don't have around 200 coaches to accommodate. The problem with setting up a hospitality room for a youth event, in my opinion, is that everyone becomes a coach on that day. Uncle Larry yells "half" from the corner for one match then thinks he deserves a ham sandwich. People often take advantage of hospitality rooms and I think thats probably why there is not much of one at the High School State Tournament. Kids and coaches were in and out of there this weekend. The first session was over by 10-10:30 and awards were given out by 11:45. The next session started at around 12 and was over by 4. I don't think you can take anything away from Greg and Thomas and all of the parents that put a lot of time and energy in to hosting this tournament because you guys didn't get a bottled water and some meatballs.

No, if you want to get at Cody you have to ask if they are starting a wrestling team at the Hair Design School! :evil: :mrgreen: :evil: :-D

Why the jab at Cody?

Go to themat.com and sign up

Fern Creek will have open mats starting March 9. Mondays @ 4 and Wednesdays @ 6. You must have USA card. Cody Mann will be in charge on Mondays and Jeff Branch will have Wednesdays.

The Fern Creek Tournament is the Saturday before Derby which falls on April 25th this year. We had a pretty good turn out last year and it ran pretty smoothly. I will have a flyer together before too long.