Unfortunately we had a team bail out on the event at the last minute and we are left with only 24 teams. The plan was to have 5 pools of 5 with four duals - then on the second day take all of the 1st place teams into a new pool of 5, the 5 2nd place teams into another pool of 5, so on and so forth. Now we will go 4 pools of 6 the first day (5 duals the first day and 3 the second).
We will be fine and will run a smooth event, however, we are willing to accept one more team. I know it is late and know some movement in anyone's schedule is tight at this point. If you have the points, this being a 4-point event, and are interested - 1st coach to contact me is in - mschadwi@gips.org. The dates are December 17-18, 2010. 8 guaranteed duals over the two days!

If you post on themat or theopenmat you might be able to get some more success if you don't find an in state team

Thanks - I'll give it a try!

www.cowrestling.com for colorado
www.usawks.com for kansas
www.wyowrestling.com for wyoming
www.thepredicament.com for iowa
www.dakotagrappler.com for south dakota
www.missouriwrestling.com for missouri
that covers all of the surrounding states. see you should have let us in.

Did you fin that 25th team? What teams are in? I know it was a great tourney last year and can't wait till this year!!!

Here is the list on GIPS athletic website:

Flatwater Fracas Wrestling Tournament

Lincoln Southwest,
Adams Central Junior-Senior,
Aurora,
Central City,
Grand Island Central Catholic,
Millard West,
Norfolk Senior,
North Platte,
Grand Island Northwest,
Grand Island Senior High
High Plains Community,
Holdrege,
Manhattan,
Mitchell Secondary,
Omaha North,
Papillion-La Vista,
Papillion-La Vista South,
Omaha Gross Catholic,
Kearney Senior,
Gretna,
Hastings Senior,
Gothenburg,
Thayer Central,
Chaparral

Too bad I can't send you our local team from Fort Benning, Georgia....
....If I could, you'd be able to say that the Flatwater Fracas is really ARMY STRONG!

Good luck and see you in Dec.

Hoaah!
AB

Cornfed, I wish at the time we could have let you in. Would have mad a lot of sense. So far no luck... its awful late at this point. If we only have 24 it will work out fine. I'm just glad we aren't stuck with 23 or 27 or some odd number that doesn't work out well, 24 will fit fine.

Pools drawn yet? If not when?

Please post up Saturday starting time and approx. time finals will begin. thanks

Saturday Morning we will start at 10am, and I don't want to guess a time for the finals! Hope to see a good croud though!

Teams are in 6-team pools each team wrestles 5 duals the first day. The first duals start at noon after a 10 am weigh-in. On Saturday the teams placing 1st in each pool will be in their own new pool of 4-teams. Each team will be have 3 duals on Saturday for a total of 8 duals. Start time for Saturday is 10 am. There actually won't be a "finals" because the actual final round could take place earlier due to it being pools. We set it up this way because last year we had a few teams that had to wrestle each other twice and there is no reason for that to happen. I'll try to post the pools later today...

2010 – 4th Annual Flatwater Fracas
Heartland Event Center – Grand Island, NE
Hosted by Grand Island Senior High School

Pool # 1 Day 1
Grand Island
Gothenburg
Papillion LaVista
Adams Central
Chaparral, CO
Thayer Central

Pool #2
Day 1
Norfolk
Holdrege
Gretna
Lincoln Southwest
Manhattan, KS
Northwest

Pool #3
Day 1
Omaha North
Omaha Gross
Aurora
Grand Island Central Catholic
North Platte
Mitchell

Pool #4
Day 1
Millard West
Hastings
CentralCity
Papillion LaVista South
Kearney
HighPlains

Coach Schad will be joining us on the 'Doug and Daddy Show' Wednesday morning at 1135. Show is on ESPN Radio 1460 and 1550am,or the web at espnsuperstation.com. Had Coach Waddington of Wood River on today. You can always listen to past shows on our podcast at espnsuperstation.com.

Have times been set for duals on Sat.?

Friday Schedule:

Weigh-ins 10:00

Round #1 12:00
Round #2 1:30
Round #3 3:00
Round #4 4:30
Supper Break
Round #5 6:30
Round #6 8:00



Saturday schedule:

Weigh-ins 8:30

Round #1 10 am
Round #2 11:30 am
Round #3 2 pm
Round #4 3:30 pm

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what about fridays start times?

Let's hope the GI Independent does the same bang up job they did last year with the coverage of the event!

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does anyone know the criteria on seeding or selecting the pools?

We were all asked to personally rank the top 8 teams. Otherwise, there was no real seeding. I think they did a pretty fair job of evening out the pools, in my opinion.