You can view the 2009 Senior Classic Program by following the link below.

http://www.usd253.org/ehswrest/documents/SeniorClassic2009ProgramComplete.pdf

Anybody not going because of Weather? A weatherman here said if you decide to travel this evening or tonight you are putting your life at risk!!!! Well, I guess that's a risk I am willing too take for RASSLIN

Church

WOW!!!!!!! The more I look at that crazy line-up, the closer this dual gets! I started at 11-6 Bigs with one toss-up and now I'm at 9-8 Bigs with one push.

30-28 Bigs! It's a great day for Kansas Wrestling!

All I know if that I can not wait to leave my classroom and head to Topeka to see all the great matches tonight. Snow or no snow.

Chris Watson is out.

Can we postpone it for one week and have it at Coach Church's gym instead? I would hate to see any one getting KILLED to go see it. Death is permanent!

I might not go because of the weather.

Sucks. I was really looking forward to going. But, my wife and three kids need me for many years to come (Good Lord willing).

We want to be there more that anything, way to many great matches to pass up. But that said, it is a mess outside here in Wichita and is getting worse as time passes. For those that do make it good luck

The Watson Family

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
FRI MAR 27 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM LIKELY FOR TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY...
KSZ050>052-067-068-082-083-091-092-272200-
/O.CON.KICT.BZ.W.0001.090327T1200Z-090328T1800Z/
RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-RENO-HARVEY-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-SUMNER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LYONS...MCPHERSON...MARION...
HUTCHINSON...NEWTON...KINGMAN...WICHITA...ANTHONY...HARPER...
WELLINGTON
419 AM CDT FRI MAR 27 2009
...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO
1 PM CDT SATURDAY...

A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO
1 PM CDT SATURDAY.

SNOW IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS MORNING AND
ESPECIALLY INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE SNOW MAY BE VERY HEAVY AT
TIMES LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH
SNOWFALL RATES APPROACHING TWO INCHES PER HOUR...ESPECIALLY WITH
ANY PERIODS OF THUNDER SNOW. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 9 TO 15
INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS. THE COMBINATION OF HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY NORTH WINDS WILL
CAUSE EXTENSIVE BLOWING SNOW...AND REDUCED VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO.
THIS WILL CREATE VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE DRIVING CONDITIONS
ACROSS THE REGION WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AT TIMES

I WOULD DO ANYTIHNG TO POSTPONE THIS.... I WOULD BET WE COULD DO IT AT HEIGHTS.... AFTER VA BEACH.... I BETTER TALK TO MY ADMINISTRATION FIRST, BUT I WOULD BE WILLING TO ASK AND TRY HARD FOR IT. RIGHT NOW THE TURNPIKE IS 20 MPH FROM WICHITA TO TOPEKA.... ITS GOING TO BE TOO HARD TO GO!

CHURCH

Mike Church Thank you for the offer. The KWCA executive board will do the right thing and we do not want any one to get traveling. Mike call me As soon as we can we will make a post on this event. RMG

I was coming, not knowing if my son was going to be there or not, but having to leave at 3:30 there is no way with the weather as it is. I would hope it is rescheduled if possible.

We have decided not to come up today due to the weather. As a result this will cancel the match between Chris Watson and Ty Caldwell. I visited with Chris's father a few minutes ago and felt this was the best decision even though we hated to miss the matches.

I have contacted Coach Means and left a message for Tyler at Goddard High School to tell them in advance. I also volunteered to see if I could get Andover Central High School for a site to host the duel in a couple of weeks if they wanted to postpone it tonight.

Terry Alley
Andover Central High School

Is this event taking place I am planning on leaving @ 1:30 and would like to know if I am wasting my time driving to Topeka there are already others on their way up In my family I would like to contact to let them know one way or the other.

Brian Means
619-3808

The storm is basically over in Western Kansas sun was trying to shine in Colby area. Have talked to people on I-70 coming from west and seems to be good for the most part. Most of them left last night to beat the storm. If we cancel this thing now we probably won't make the trip in a couple of weeks to Wichita to wrestle. If we don't wrestle this thing tonight how you going to have the kids tournament. Sounds like some needed to make better plans. JMO

Don't get me wrong I want to go but I already know one match is not going on that I wanted to see, and I would hate for some of these kids to get up there and not be able to wrestle because other didn't show. I understand why some don't or won't be able to show; just suck the storm came today.

my3sons, I understand the snow didn't hit anywhere north of US 24, so that's why you're in sunshine. Just about everywhere else south of you and to the east is geting hammered.

I agree with you about making better plans, though. There needs to be a contingency for something like this.

Mother Nature doesn't care about us. She has her own schedule. It stinks, but we knew the deal.

My fellow wrestling guru and I have concluded that big schools will win 41-30! Of course that depends on all the close matches going the exact way we predicted it...

Also good luck to everybody involved and drive safe whether you're wrestling or coming to watch. Hope to see everybody make it safe and sound.