The tournament is now only a week away. Here is the schedule of events:
Event Schedule
Thursday, December 14

6:00 pm High School duals:
Platte County vs. St. Joe Benton
Park Hill South vs. Winnetonka
Park Hill vs. TBA
8:00 pm Collegiate Club dual - K-State vs. NWMSU
Friday, December 15

5:30 pm High school pool wrestling begins
Saturday, December 16

9:00 am Final two rounds of pool wrestling
Noon, Freestyle and GRECO demonstrations
Featuring wrestlers from the US Olympic Development Training Center
Northern Michigan vs. U. S. Marine team members
1:00 pm Bracket wrestling begins
4:00 pm Bronze and Silver medal bouts
6:30 pm Parade and introductions of Gold bracket medal bouts
7:00 pm Gold bracket medal bouts

We are very excited to showcase a couple of great club teams in the feature dual Thursday night.

Here is a list of the competing teams

Team City Class Coach 2005 Finish 2006 Finish
1. Platte County Platte City, Mo. 2 Phil Dorman 1st 1st
2. Park Hill South Riverside, Mo. 4 Dan Dunkin 36th 30th
3. Ft. Zumwalt West O’Fallon, Mo. 4 Dan Hayes 2nd 2nd
4. Raymore-Peculiar Peculiar, Mo. 3 Paul Barbarick 2nd 4th
5. Omaha Skutt Omaha, Neb. B Brad Hildebrandt 1st 1st
6. Oak Grove Oak Grove, Mo. 2 Bob Glasgow 2nd 9th
7. Liberty Liberty, Mo. 4 Mike Hammer 4th 7th
8. Manhattan Manhattan, Kan. 6 Robert Gonzales 2nd 10th
9. Colonial Forge Stafford, Va. 3A Bill Swink 2nd 4th
10. Park Hill Kansas City, Mo. 3 Bill Erneste 1st 1st
11. Omaha Creighton Prep Omaha, Neb. A John Hiffernan 2nd 3rd
12. Creston Creston, Iowa 2 Darrell Frain 13th 3rd
13. Blue Springs Blue Springs, Mo. 4 Mike Hagarty 3rd 3rd
14. Collins Hill Suwanee, Ga. 5A Cliff Ramos 1st 2nd
15. Farmington Farmington, Mo. 3 Mark Krause 5th 5th
16. Hutchinson Hutchinson, Kan. 6 Mike Garcia 4th 5th
17. St. Vincent-St. Mary Akron, Ohio 2 Chad Kollert 16th 3rd
18. Norman North Norman, Okla. 5A Jay Gibson 9th 13th
19. Dodgeville High School Dodgeville, WI 2 Matt Webster - 2nd
20. Centerville Centerville, Iowa 2 Kevin Cochran 2nd 2nd
21. Perry Perry, Okla. 2 Scott Chenowith 1st 1st
22. Houston Westside Houston, TX - Ronald Baker - 34th
23. Marshfield Marshfield, WI - Donald Lang - -
24. Ponca City Ponca City, Okla. 5A Chris Walker 1st 1st

Based on preliminary lineups here is what we are expecting to be at the tournament:
24 teams from 10 states.
13 were top 3 in their home state last year. 6 were state champs in either 2005 or 2006 or both.
24 individual prior state champions. 19 were 2005-2006 champs. 8 are multiple year state champs.
65 2005-2006 state medalists.
128 2005-2006 state qualifiers.
ASICS/Vaughan Cadet & Junior National Championships in Fargo :
20 Greco wrestlers, 7 of which were all Americans and 4 champs
31 Freestlye wrestlers, 11 of which were all Americans and 3 champs.

The tournament will be held at the KCI Expo Center near Kansas City International Airport. The street address is: 11730 North Ambassador Drive, Kansas City, MO 64153. This is the same venue that USA Wrestling held the 2005 and 2006 Cadet National Duals.

What a GREAT lineup ... sometimes I wish I was just a fan!