USA Memorial Duals Freestyle/Greco
May 27th, 28th and 29th in Fremont, Nebraska at Midland University.

This is a USA event and you must have a USA wrestling card. You must have a USA Coaches Card to coach at mat side.
Team entry fee is $350 per team per style.
Only accepting the first 16 teams entered
The weight classes for the event are as follows: 70, 77, 84, 91, 98, 105, 112, 119, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 152, 160, 171, 189, 215, 285. Each team is limited to 25 wrestlers per team and must be listed on your roster. The teams can be a State team or a club team. The team does not have to be made up of wrestlers from the same state but encouraged. Grade verification (report card or official letter from a school authority) will be required for all wrestlers. This event is for 6th through 12th graders. The grade eligibility is based on the grade the wrestler was in during the school year of 2010/2011. A wrestler can’t be in this event if he or she will be 20 years old during the calendar year of 2011. Please be prepared to show proof of age if challenged.

Each team will be allowed 5 coaches. From your coaching staff, you must provide table help for each dual. There will be an official electronic score keeper and a time/score clock keeper. These duties should be divided between the 2 dual teams competing. We will be using Trackwrestling for this event and we require each team to have a laptop, with wireless capability at each scoring table for the electronic dual bout system. Your laptop will be used by your team only. Take it with you as your team changes to a different mat/scoring table. There will be a training clinic prior to the start of the tournament. As you designate your electronic scorer for your team, please email their contact info to Craig Pokorny at craig.pokorny@gmail.com . He can set them up as a statistician in the tournament and send them a link to practice scoring a match electronically on the testing site.

Each team entered in the tournament must bring at least one mat official to work at the tournament. A team may pick up mat officials from other states, if they choose. They may not designate a mat official from the host State. Only teams within the host State may designate mat officials from the host State for their teams.
Address of Venue
Midland University, 900 N. Clarkson St. Fremont, NE 68025
Event Dates and times
May 27th Friday- Weigh-ins from 6:30pm to 8:30pm (One time weigh-in for both days.)

May 28th Saturday- Freestyle--Doors open at 7:00am and wrestling begins at 8:30am (We will wrestle in pools (Morning session) to determine the championship brackets for the afternoon session)

May 29th Sunday- Greco Roman--Doors open at 7:00am and wrestling begins at 8:30am (We will wrestle in pools (Morning session) to determine the championship brackets for the afternoon session)
Team Awards
There will be awards for the top 6 teams in the tournaments.
Individual Awards
All wrestlers that are undefeated will be acknowledged as Outstanding wrestlers for the tournaments. They will receive a Gold medal. It will be engraved on the back “USA Memorial Duals Outstanding Wrestler”. There will be a team sportsmanship award given by the referees. There will also be an outstanding referee award given and chosen by the coaches in the tournament.
Rules of Engagement
FILA Rules and USA Wrestling (USAW) modifications apply
Team entry fee and roster
Make checks payable to Nebraska USA Wrestling, P.O. Box 1, Oakland, NE., 68045. It’s $350 per team per style. We will set up a user id and password so you can log into TW to enter your team rosters.
Adult pass and student pass
Admissions into the tournament will be $5.00 for students and adults. This is a per day fee. If child is not in school yet, they are free.
Hotel information
Go to http://fdcvb.org/Sleep/index.htm and you will find info on all the hotels in Fremont, Nebraska. Let them know you are in town for USA Memorial Duals for special pricing on rooms. Our host hotel will be the Clarion Inn. Rate is around $69 per night.
Contact info
Tournament Director- Fred Franklin
Mobile number- 402-380-1939
Email- alphasurveyingqwestoffice.net

If I understand this right, a team could have kids from grades 6-12 on the same team? They are not divided by grade?

Is this a new event? It is in direct competition with AAU Ironman Folkstyle Championships in Omaha.

New event that Nebraska is hosting. We will be holding Northern Plains with in the next couple of years. It will be good experience for our kids if they chose to take advantage of the regionals coming to Nebraska.

Yes 6 through 12th grades are all on one team. I currently have commitments from ND, SD, KS and IA teams. They don't have to be from the same State. So recruit how you want and let's wrestle.

The Dual tournament format is where all the matches are. Are kids in Nebraska need more freestyle and greco opportunities. So do are officials. We have Northern Plains Regionals coming to Nebraska next year 2012.

I have a son that would be interested in wrestling. Is anyone in the state putting a team together?

I'm assuming they will be putting a team together starting with the state placer at this weekends tournament and go from there.

Yep that's right MatCat. If I can get a few guys to help recruit we could put together quite a few teams. It's all about getting matches at a reasonable price.

I should know more from Iowa this weekend. South Dakota has kids that want to jump on a team.

We will see.

So honetly, how many teams and matches are we estimating at per wrestler?

Well if we get 16 teams: Pools will 4 with 4 teams....Then 2 eight team brackets. That's 6 matches in Freestyle and 6 matches in Greco

8 teams: 2 pools of 4 then 1 eight team bracket with seeding criteria. So again, 6 matches in both.

6 teams: Round robin....so 5 matches per style. 10 total.

We are looking at 8 teams for this year. There's a date conflict with Kansas Southern Plains camp.

So who do we contact to inquire about being on the team?

All the information was given out at state yesterday.

get ahold of fred franklin, he can get you lined up im sure

Its all on the nebraskausawrestling.org website. My contact is there too.

when will we know who is on the team. If we aren't selected, we need to sign up for the Iron Man tournament at UNO.

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Originally posted by myred65:
when will we know who is on the team. If we aren't selected, we need to sign up for the Iron Man tournament at UNO.

If your son is interested in being on the team then email his info. I'm compiling everyone together to see where the holes may be.

I and a friend have already e-mailed our kids info to you and you told us you will let us know.

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This was also emailed to everyone that wrestled at USA State Freestyle/Greco

Just a note to let you know how things are going. I don’t have enough teams from other states at this time to hold this event. I’m counting on 2 teams from Nebraska and we have a team from North Dakota. Several others on the fence. I will make a decision by May 19th (Thursday). This will give you time to make other arrangements for that weekend. Some of you have expressed wanting to do the duals but, if not, would need to sign up for the Ironman tournament. The Ironman tournament’s registration deadline is May 24th, so this shouldn’t be a problem.

Any help from anyone that has friends in other states surrounding us would be greatly appreciated. These don’t have to be State sponsored teams and kids don’t have to be from the same State. Heck if I had the time I bet I could put teams together from the other states for them…  Sometimes it’s just finding the right person to put it together. If you know someone then hit them up. I have kids from South Dakota and Nebraska that would be willing to fill in some gaps on other teams if necessary.

I’m very surprised that I’m not getting anything from Iowa yet. Surely they have kids that would want to wrestle.

If you are getting this email and you know of someone that needs this information please forward it on to them. These are the email addresses that signed up at Freestyle State.

I have also provided a link to the USA Memorial duals flier for your convenience .

http://nebraskausawrestling.org/memorialduals.htm

Sincerely,

Fred Franklin
NE USA Wrestling Kids Director

[I will make a decision by May 19th (Thursday). This will give you time to make other arrangements for that weekend.]

Did I miss the reply to this? What did you decide, 525?