Guys 15 matchups for the 2005-2006 Kansas Collegiate All Star Duals are set and could be some great matchups with the small college wrestlers vs. the big dawgs of DI.

Small Colleges vs. DI

Tommy Edgmon (Neosho) v. Blayze Bahe (N. Colo)

Cody Garcia (UNO) v. Tanner Gardner (Stanford)

Kory Lira (FHSU) v. Doug Hoover (Nebraska)

Earl Jones (UCO) v. Shawn Bunch (Edinboro)

Christian Alt (UNO) v. Emery McReynolds(OregonSt)

Josh Baldridge(Labette) v. Jake Kriegbaum (USAFA)

Matt Pyle (Luther) v. Brady Lamar (Nebraska)

Danny Grater (FHSU) v. Joe Cornejo (N. Illinois)

Ross Taplin (UNO) v. Joe Johnston (Iowa)

Curtis Chenoweth(Newman) v.Jacob Klien (Nebraska)

Aaron Meister (FHSU) v. Ryan Sonderegger (Missou)

Jacob Marrs (UNO) v. Justin Dyer (Oklahoma)

Ryan Sponsel (Newman) v. Chris Pursel (Iowa St.)

Sean Pietryzk (Dana) v. Ian Bork (Stanford)

Andrew Ubben (FHSU) v. Michael Sprigg (Army)

All wrestlers must have eligibilty left to participate in this event. Matches are subject to change without notice. Team scoring will be done as according to NCAA rules with 3-2-2 periods and riding time clock in use.

So when and where is this at?

Jordan...I forgot you were 184, might need you as a backup just in case one of the Small School guys backs out.

Swayz-

Is this a new thing this year? Who picked the matchups? When is this? Where is this? Are all the guys agreed on this so far?

Alex

ps. Nice thought Swayz on posting this

This is something I have been working on behind the scenes trying to lay out potential matchups. I would like to get this to become a reality to help kick off the wrestling season. I might have a few other matchups that I would need for exhibitions where it would be guys from small divisions against each other or something.

I would like to do this for the upcomming season and have all proceeds go to the Tyler Graebner Foundation. I think plenty of people would show up for a great event like this.

4 exhibitions to bring it to a total of 20 matches on the night.

EXHIBITION MATCHES:

Blake Malloy (FHSU) v. Nick Figge (Mo Valley)

Aaron Thompson (Adams St) v. Bryan Lauersdorf (CMSU)

Witt Hinton (Dana) v. Jordan Best (Labette)

Josh See (York) v. Nic Sterneker (Neosho)

so you do this will we have to make weight??

How about Eric Luedke v. Matt Murray?

I'll give a weight agreement deal or something. I will probably give everyone about 8lbs which should be plenty. Maybe do it about 2 weeks after on mat practices begin.

Murray and Luedke? 2 very different weights. I might have to find Zach Luedke a match, I still can't believe he hasn't been signed.

THIS JUST ADDED:

Matt Gilliland (COLBY) v. Matt Murray (Nebraska)

Matt Schippers (Colby) v. Daniel Peterson (UTC)

One more to the slate to get more Colby guys in the mix:

Bobby Dennis (Colby) v. Neil Cisper (Penn)

Swayz you might throw me in at 97. Just let us all know if this pans out and it going to happen

Ok...I need everyone associated with a college wrestling program to contact their coaches and show them the idea and see if they are up for it...then if you have teammates that want to compete we might be able to do a Showcase...maybe in future years really get something like this off the ground.

I think it would be a little over done to have Grater and Cornejo wrestle again in this event....

Is that like saying that watching Gardner and Karelin go at it again would be over done? Sure we've seen the match a couple times now, but it's been very close in those matches and I believe the score stands at a 1-1? So why not have a "rubber" match?

Alex

Swayz,

The window of opportunity is small between now and the season start. If you don't get this scheduled prior to 11/1, you'll probably have to wait until after NCAAs.

I'd have to get people to help arrange this anyway. Getting a place and getting the athletes is a whole different task in itself.