This tournament is NOT limited to the KC area, I would like to encourage all teams that might be interested, large class or small class. We run a four class system in Missouri and Platte County is Class 2 (usually a top 10 team) and Kearney is class 3 (usually a top 10 team). It is not our attempt to have all big schools here, we would like to have as competitive of a tournament as possible.

I have contacted Carroll, Goddard, Garden City, Newton, Derby....as many teams as I could think of, about 40 total, that were not the KC area in the past year. If it is an issue of traveling to only get five matches or not wanting to drive 3 hours in the morning we can arrange for team rate at the local hotels, or possibly work with one of the Kansas teams for a dual Friday against one of the KS schools and then make the short 20 minute drive down to Ray-Pec. I think all of the KS schools that attended this past year would agree that the tournament set-up was very good and things were run very smoothly. This year wrestling started at 9:00 and the last dual finished up around 3:00

This provides a great opportunity to wrestle some kids that you will not see at regional’s and have a little competition between the states. It also provides an opportunity for the media to get involved as the event was covered by the KC Star and FOX 4.

Any coaches that are interested please contact me or I can answer question on here as well.

Thanks!

John Heinemann
Ray-Pec Wrestling
jheinemann@raypec.k12.mo.us
816-892-1463