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    I understand that this may have been a new venue, having so many styles of wrestling and was difficult to run.  However, we had a wrestler that weighed in at 8:00 am, and did not get to wrestle until 3:00 pm.  He won his only two matches, and the other 3 matches in his weight class that he was supposed to have had, left because they got tired of waiting.  I have found that the AAU is a good chance for kids to wrestle and improve out of season, but they are run very inefficiently.  That may be ok on occasion, but we have a 90 minute drive to Louisville, and that means getting up early on Saturday.  This Saturday, the wrestler got up at 5:30 am, got to Louisville by 8 am, and sat around for 7 hours before getting to wrestle. There should be a better way to schedule these. This is an honor student, with much homework to do, wasting 7 hours on a Saturday.  It's one thing to wrestle, wait, wrestle, wait, but to have to do nothing for 7 hours before getting to wrestle is an inefficient way to do things.

    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. 

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    Will there be a hospitality room for coaches?  Just kidding, I thought you might need a good elbow in the ribs today.

    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!

    Are most of the participants from in state?

    Also I know it's hard to predict, but how many wrestlers do you think there will be on average for each weight class?

    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.

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         Will you combine any weight classes or age divisions?  If so, what will be the minimum number of wrestlers in a pool/bracket before you decide to combine them?  I know most kids would rather see a combined bracket of at least 8 or 10 than a 3 wrestler pool.  Hanging around all day to wrestle one or two matches is what turns a lot of kids sour on summer tournaments.  I do realize that there are rules that you have to go by though.  Thanks.

    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. 

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    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.

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    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

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    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.