Maize "Battle of the Belt" 2019 - Feb. 2, 2019

The Maize Wrestling Club will once again be hosting it's annual "Battle of the Belt" on Saturday, February 2nd at the Kansas Star Arena.

Open, Girl's, and Novice Divisions

Hasty Awards has done an amazing job updating our championship belts, as well as our placement medals (see below for this year's belts).

RUDIS will have their onsite store set up again this year, with tons of awesome gear!

New floor layout revisions will cut down on some of the floor traffic, as well as increase the viewing capabilities of the spectators.

We are also offering early weigh-ins, specifically to cut down on our total number of satellite locations.

A list of all satellite locations will be posted as we get close to the tournament. If your club would like to be considered for one, please email me at maizewrestlingks@gmail.com

Last year we had around 1,650 competitors, with wrestlers from 9 different states!

Hope to see you there!!

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When will registration open?

Registration is scheduled to go live tonight.

Battle of the Belt

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Battle of the Belt

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Is a USA wrestling card required?

The registration was closed early due to exceeding the capped amount of registrations. We apologize for any inconvenience.

HEADGEAR WILL BE REQUIRED ACROSS ALL DIVISIONS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO LET YOUR RESPECTIVE CLUB KNOW.

JOC ran 2300 kids in 2 days of wrestling 12+ hours and you guys are at what?

Not 2300. It's gonna be a long day, but we'll have more mats than what they had at JOC.

Way more mats because you are going to split mats now instead of having full mats. I know last year went till after 10pm.

We'll have to split a couple of them unfortunately. It's gonna be a long day, but we'll all get through it. Some stellar out-of-state competition coming in to bang!

This is going to be a train wreck....already moving pm session to 2....which means it probably won’t start until 3 or later.

A tough tournament doesn’t mean the longest...having KIDS wrestling past 10pm which happen last year is totally rediculous.

If you truly think being a tough tournament is where it is at....then cut the novice.

How many entries are over your 1500 “limit”?

Greed....will get you everytime.

Is there a Topeka satellite weigh in option?

Matrix showed something like 1860 entries before they closed it. Second session start time pushed back already? This is crazy.

Was willing to give it another shot but if it’s ANYTHING like last year we won’t be back. 10yr old kids wrestling @ 9:30, 10pm is a joke.

First off, I would like to say thank you to Derek and the Maize Wrestling Club for bringing such a great opportunity to our wrestlers. Some of you complaining clearly did not attend it when it was in the school gymnasium, where there were times we did not leave until close to midnight, in crowded gymnasiums. Did we complain no, because we knew what we signed up for. In case you forgot, it is America that we live in, and you have a choice to sign up or not sign up for particular tournaments.

What really is ridiculous to me is, you have people actually on here complaining at the fact of starting late, how about being grateful they are giving you a heads up so you can plan accordingly and not show up so early. And before you start crying over that fact stating," well when you are a coach you have to be there for both the morning and afternoon session," so have we for 10plus years now, and we look forward to this tournament every year. Yes I will be the first to say it is a long day, and by the end I am ready to get out of there hours ago, but do I whine about it, no, it is what we signed up for and will continue to for the years to come. Just think of how long of a day it is for the Maize Wrestling Club...... They are there late Friday night, early Saturday morning and again late Saturday night. So instead of being crybabies about it, maybe thank them for bringing such a competitive tournament to our state and all the hard work they put into it. OR SIMPLY DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THE TOURNAMENT AND KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF.

I will say it again, Thank You Maize for your dedication to not only your wrestlers but to the sport of wrestling in general. We know a lot of you on personal level and know the blood sweat and tears you put into kids even outside of your team and expect nothing in return. You are the TRUE organization in it for the right reasons.

Cristin Dietrich

Just need to split the mat surfaces. If you want 5 hours of wrestling per session. I would estimate 15 matches per hour. So you would want to keep your bout count on each mat to around 75 bouts per mat.
Maize wrestling club does a great job running the tournament. Looking forward to another great battle of the belt tournament with top notch competition.

Thank you Derek and the Maize wrestling club for a excellent day of wrestling. You all handled a very large group of wrestlers and ran a magnificent tournament.

I thought the tournament was ran very well. It was a long day of course but what 1 day tournament wouldnt be with 1800+ kids.

I do have one question regarding the Novice Division. Do you have a requirement/definition for a Novice Wrestler? Do you screen these Novice entries?

I noticed a kid that wrestled at 8U Novice 43/46 lbs that won and pinned every kid he wrestled was a 5th year wrestler that had 62 previous tournaments under his belt. I feel like the real Novice kids got worked over for their entry fee by letting this kid wrestle in the Novice Division. I would have been pissed if my 1st or 2nd year kid made it to the finals and had to wrestle this kid.

I really think its bad on his coach/director/parent for allowing him to wrestle in the Novice Division knowing dang well he is so far from Novice its not even funny.

Thoughts?

This was an outstanding tournament that was ran as efficient as possible in my opinion. This was our 1st year there and while we only had one kid in 8&U open, I couldn't have been more impressed. Very cool to see and what an opportunity in season for our Kansas Kids. Thank you to MWC for the long hours and putting your best foot forward. We will be back next year!

Thanks,
Jesse
Phillipsburg Kids Wrestling Club

Our definition of novice is 2 years or less of experience. If they had a match before 9/1/17, they are ineligible for novice. We leave it to parents to police, just like Tulsa or USJOC. A little bitter about that division because it was our kid who lost to him in the finals of that age and weight. We allow bumps in weight so we do not release a wrestler list. After some issues we had this year, we will most likely have a zero tolerance for weight missed. This way we give people ample time to research this. I did receive a few emails on wrestlers that we had to look into. We moved them to the open division and charged the team the correct entry fee. Most were mistakes on entires. We realize we are not a Tulsa or even a USJOC, but are approaching the competition level of these tournaments (Maybe not Tulsa) and need to have rules set in place for this such thing.

Yeah....here is the worst part of that kid. Whomever registered him ranked him as a "D" so no flags popped up. He has wrestled since 2015 nearly 4 years. This kid is so beyond a Novice wrestler it's not even funny.

I wish my "D" level kid had won Liberty Nationals and hadn't lost since before Christmas in Open Tournaments. I would ban his ass from coming back to the tournament. He can keep his entry fee in his pocket next year!

It's really disgusting that a parent or coach would do this to come win a belt from a true Novice kid!

Their club will be receiving an email today regarding this wrestler. I'd like an explanation from the coach.

Thanks for the support Big Papa, jacksontop, and Jesse!! Much appreciated!