I am curious when the brackets for this year will be posted for this on kansaswrestling.org. Does anyone have insight on this? Also wanting to know what wrestlers to keep an eye on at that tournament this weekend from those in the know. Perspective is greatly appreciated.

Should be a good one with Lawrence, STA, Manhattan, Shawnee Heights and Lansing.

106 - Stone/Star/Henes
126 - Olsen/Haralson
132 - Pursel/Lynch/Ikenberry
160 - Willis/Ewing
170 - Pursel/Wood
182 - Conklin/Meck
195 - VanDerWerff/Suggs

Kainisable,

I am currently working on a preview of the tourney. I have completed my research on ranked wrestlers and teams, so as soon as we receive all of the projected lineups from all the teams competing, I'll post it on this thread. I anticipate the preview post being Wednesday or Thursday of this week (waiting on 5 teams at the moment). Hope this helps...

Edit: For clarification, I will be posting the participating teams and the potential A pool brackets this week. I will update any scratches Saturday morning.

This is a round robin tournament with all wrestlers getting five matches. Upper level varsity wrestlers are split into an "A" pool and inexperienced varsity wrestlers are placed into a "B" pool. The bracket is in an excel format and I will post the placewinners on this forum at the conclusion of the tournament and send the bracket to Kramer so he can post it on the results page. Should be a fun day with some tough wrestling!

Leavenworth Challenger 2011 Preview

Teams Participating:
Blue Valley North
Lansing - 9th 5A
Lawrence - 1st 6A, 3rd All Class
Leavenworth
Lee's Summit (MO Class 4)
Manhattan - 5th 6A
Olathe East
Olathe South
Ray-Pec (MO Class 4)
Saint Thomas Aquinas - 3rd 5A, 6th All Class
Shawnee Heights - 7th 5A
Shawnee Mission North

Ranked Wrestlers by Weight:
106- Star (3rd 6A, 8th AC) Lawrence
Stone (1st 6A, 4th AC) Manhattan
Henes (3rd 5A, 10th AC) STA

113- Hoskins (4th 5A) STA
Ca. Allen (2010 Challenger Champion) Lee's Summit

120- Merenda (6th 6A) BVN
Dulgarian (2nd 5A, 2nd AC) STA
Diaz (2010 MO State Placer) Ray-Pec

126- Olsen (1st 5A, 1st AC) Lansing
Haralson (2nd 6A, 7th AC) Lawrence

132- Pursel (1st 5A, 1st AC) Lansing
Lynch (4th 6A) Lawrence
Ikenberry (5th 5A) STA

138- Williams (3rd 5A, 4th AC) STA

145- Hilgers (5th 6A) Manhattan
Hall (6th 5A) Shawnee Heights

152- Denning (2nd 6A, 7th AC) Lawrence
Ewing (6th 5A) STA

160- Willis (3rd 5A, 7th AC) Shawnee Heights
Carson (5th 6A) Shawnee Mission North

170- Pursel (3rd 6A, 7th AC) Lawrence
Blazevic (5th 6A) Olathe East
Hall (6th 5A) Shawnee Heights
Wood (4th 6A, 9th AC) Manhattan

182- Wright-Conklin (1st 6A, 1st AC) Lawrence
Campbell (3rd 6A, 10th AC) Manhattan
N. Meck (3rd 5A, 7th AC) Shawnee Heights

195- VanDerWerff (1st 5A, 8th AC) Lansing
Suggs (3rd 6A, 6th AC) Manhattan
Taliaferro (5th 5A) Shawnee Heights

220- Butler (1st 6A, 2nd AC) Leavenworth
Wilson (3rd 6A, 8th AC) Lawrence
Tipton (4th 6A, 9th AC) Olathe East
Parker (5th 6A) Manhattan
S. Meck (5th 5A) Shawnee Heights

285- Mason (1st 5A, 2nd AC) STA

60 Total State Qualifiers
16 Returning State Medalists
33 State Ranked Wrestlers
4 State Champions

*This is all tentative information that is subject to change at the time of weigh-ins*

Well run tournament!

126 - Olsen/Haralson - Haralson won that one I think pretty good.

Henes/Star - Henes 5-0
Henes/Stone - Henes 8-2

Ikenberry beat Lynch - pretty sure

182- Wright-Conklin (1st)
Conklin pinned Meck I think

195- ???
220- Butler (1st)
285- Mason (1st) STA

152- Denning (1st)

120- Dulgarian (1st)


126- Olsen (2nd)
Haralson (1st)

132- Pursel (1st)
Lynch (3rd)
Ikenberry (2nd)

138- Williams (1st) STA

Sorry about all the bits and pieces - my memory is very short

Dulgarian is the real deal. A Frosh Phenom for sure. That being said, Chandler Gordon for OE put on quite a show today. I would think that he should not just crack the top six at 6A 120, but probably be in the top half of the top six when the next rankings come out.

All individuals highlighted on the bracket injury defaulted at some point in the tournament.

Coach Johnston or anyone else that has knowledge of the situation is the young man from I believe from Ray Pec that was taken off on a stretcher alright? It seemed quite serious at the time and I haven't heard anything about it since. I certainly hope it was just precautionary measures and he turned out to be alright.

The coach emailed me and said the young man is doing fine, and it was mostly precauionary to take him to the hospital. He said the wrestler would be back to action soon had he not also torn ligaments in his thumb earlier in the match.