Tournament of Champions - Salina - Jan. 31st

The Salina Kids Wrestling Club would like to invite you all to the Bicentennial Center on Saturday, January 31st for the Tournament of Champions.

Tournament registration will be done through Trackwrestling. You can register directly at the link below. The entry deadline for the tournament is Saturday, January 24th at 8:00 p.m. Payment is due at the time of registration.

http://www.trackwrestling.com/opentournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=164348009

We will be having weigh-ins at the Bicentennial Center in Salina from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Friday night January 30th and from 6:00-7:00 am Saturday morning of the tournament. As in years past, we will be giving the 0.9 weight allowance at weigh-ins. For instance, if your wrestler is wrestling 58 pound weight class, as long as he weighs 58.9 he has made weight for the tournament.

I also want to make a point to bring up that for wrestlers with a skin condition requiring a silhouette form to make sure to have a doctors letterhead, prescription pad, etc. attached to the form. This is a requirement of the Kansas Kids Bylaws and will be enforced at weigh-in. There has been some confusion with parents in the past during weigh-ins as to this requirement.

If you have any questions, contact Rich Zimmerman at rich.zimmerman@salinawrestling.com or (785) 823-3987.

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Satellite weigh ins?

Not for this tournament, show up make weight or go home. Competition is well worth it.

Make weight... your giving .9# correct?
Show up, don't be more than a pound over or you'll go home.

Comp. is well worth it. Been last few years. See you next weekend!

Are entries going to be realeased?

The entries are released. You can view them at the following link.

http://www.salinawrestling.com/documents/2015tocentries.pdf

And yes we will be giving the .9 of a pound weight allowance at weigh-ins again this year.

Rich Zimmerman
Tournament Director

The Kansas College Wrestling Fund will have a booth in Salina - this weekend. Stop by and see how you can help out the Kansas College Wrestling Programs.

After Friday weigh-ins come down the road to Lindsborg, KS and watch NAIA wrestling as Bethany College host 15th ranked Baker University in Hahn Gymnasium at 7:00 Friday January 30, 2015.
Kids Club and High School wrestlers and parents free admission!

Be sure to stop by.

The Kansas College Wrestling Fund will have a booth in Salina - this weekend. Stop by and see how you can help out the Kansas College Wrestling Programs.

When will the brackets be up on trackwrestling?

They won't

They started using trackwrestling for the whole tournament last year. It states that brackets for this years tournament will be posted tonight at 6:30.

I looked over their flyer a couple times...maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anywhere that is said brackets released tonight at 6:30. I saw the weigh is at 6:30, but that is it.

greendog - When you are on trackwrestling under the TOC tournament. You click on the "Information" tab and scroll to deadlines. It will show "release information to public" date and time.

Great tournament! Great competition! Good luck to all that wrestle.

I know the flier says no food or drink, but can the wrestlers bring in a water bottle or Gatorade?

Not sure how they have managed it in recent years, but the old answer would have been no. They used to lock it down pretty good and nothing made it in.

This Tournament Gets and A-. It would have been an A+ for sure. But they started getting GREEDY. The tournament itself was great. The Competition was great. Tons of kids from tons of places. Everything Ran really smooth. The refs did a fairly competent job. BUT THEY GOT GREEDY, AND WHERE REDICULOUS ABOUT THE FOOD. THEY WOULDN'T LET YOU BRING FOOD INTO A TOURNAMENT THAT WAS FROM 7 AM TO APPROX. 8PM. AND THAT ITSELF IS UNDERSTANDABLE. BUT IF YOU BOUGHT A DRINK OF FOOD YOU COULDN'T BRING IT INTO THE AREA RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE GATE. IT WAS CRAZY. THEN THE WORST PART OF ALL WAS. THERE WERE KIDS THATS PARENTS WENT TO GET THEM SOME LUNCH AND BROUGHT IT BACK TO THEM, WELL SINCE THEY COULD NOT BRING THE FOOD INSIDE. YOU WOULD THINK THEY COULD EAT IT IN THAT LITTLE COMMONS AREA RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE GATE AND INSIDE THE DOORS, BUT NO. THEY MADE THESE KIDS GO OUTSIDE IN THE FREEZING RAIN AND COMBO SNOW IN FREEZING WEATHER TO EAT THEIR LUNCH. I THOUGHT THAT WAS EXTREMELY GREEDY AND HARDCORE. SO IF KIDS GET COLDS, FLUS OR NUMONEA THIS WEEK. PLEASE LET THE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS KNOW THAT THIS IS A RIDICULOUS POLICY. MOST ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE DROVE HUNDREDS OF MILES TO COME AND ENJOY ONE OF THE BEST TOURNAMENTS IN THE MIDWEST. AND WE ARE MIDWESTERN FOLKS. WE DO NOT LIKE GREEDY ISSUES LIKE THIS. IT COULD BE AN EASY WAY TO MAKE THIS GREAT AMAZING EVENT TURN INTO SOMETHING THAT NOBODY WANTS IT TO BE. SO NEXT YEAR PLEASE ALLOW FOOD BACK INTO THE COMMONS AREA RIGHT OUTSIDE OF THE GATES. NOT INTO THE TOURNAMENT ITSELF BUT JUST INSIDE THE DOORS AND OUT SIDE THE GATES.

THANK YOU

This is not the Salina kids wrestling clubs fault. They didn't get greedy, it's the bicentennial center who makes these rules. This must be your first year coming to this. As this is how it has always been at Salina. Rich and Bobby did another fabulous job with great competition. We will be back next year along with approximately 1400 wrestlers.

The tournament was awesome, with great competition. The food and drink nazi's at the door were a little over the top, but that's out of the hands of the kids club.

The weigh in/coach packet pickup on Friday was poorly run at best. They were woefully unprepared for the number of kids and coaches there to weigh and get their packet. An hour in line to get the coach packet from a table with 1 lady running the table? That could have been tripled and it still would have been a little lacking. Weigh in stations could have been tripled as well and been close to sufficient.

I will attack the night before a little differently next year, but still plan to attend as the actual tournament day was good.

Anoother great tournament with many thanx to Bobby and Rich. As far a greed that is the bi-center because up until à couple years back they did allow food in thé commons area but it was nice to see that they finanaly got some healthy snacks for the kids. This was our eighth year there. It has always been ran very smooth and professionnel since i wrestled this tournament when it was at south east of saline hs. Great tournament and competition, good job SKWC.

Great tournament and great competition as always. I would agree that the coaches packet line was a long wait, approximately an hour and a half for me.

I was also curious if awards will ever be changed? These trophies have been the same for as long as I can remember. Something different would excite the kids, my son has 3 of these trophies and wondered why they were the same as the previous years.

been going to this tourny for 9 years. Food and drink nazis have always been there. I've personally handed out creativity awards to people who shall remain nameless.

[quote=gorailroaders901]Great tournament and great competition as always. I would agree that the coaches packet line was a long wait, approximately an hour and a half for me.

I was also curious if awards will ever be changed? These trophies have been the same for as long as I can remember. Something different would excite the kids, my son has 3 of these trophies and wondered why they were the same as the previous

Why change them? My son has 5 but only one 1st place. It's a preview for kids State. A medal would be fine by me with the sweet bracket that still hangs on my 17 year Olds wall.