2019 AAA Lower State Wrestling Championships
We would like to welcome your school to the 2019 AAA Lower State Wrestling Championships. May River HS is very proud to be the host school for this year’s AAA Lower State Qualifier. Below is general information about the tournament and the seeding meeting. I am asking that you respond via email to Richard Bonneville Richard.bonneville@beaufort.k12.sc.us or Ashley Powell at ashley.powell@beaufort.k12.sc.us cell (843) 598-0698 as to whether you plan on attending the seeding meeting or merely sending in your information. Please respond by Friday, February 9^th.
 
Seeding Meeting: The seeding meeting will take place at May River HS on February 13^th at 10:00 a.m. The tournament is going to be run through flowrestling again this year and registration will be done online before the seeding meeting. The link is: https://events.flowrestling.org/event/6f39008c-db19-b563-36d1-c6925095a6b2/summary
 At the bottom of this letter I have more detailed instructions on how to register your kids if needed.

• Registration will close Tuesday, February 12^th at 12:00 pm
• All wrestlers’ names, weights, and records must be submitted by Tuesday February 12^th @12:00 PM. Once the names and weights are submitted there will be no changing of the wrestlers to a new weight class. 
• Seeding Criteria: This is the baseline seeding criteria that will be used for seeding wrestlers. This criterion will start at the top and work its way down. We will seed all wrestlers.

 There will be a 10 match minimum to be considered in win percentage.
 1. Overall Win Percentage sets the order
2. Head to Head will go ahead of win percentage if within 10 percentage points.           (if a wrestler beat someone with a better win percentage he jumps them as long as there win percentage is within 10% of the wrestler in question)
3. Previous State Placer
 4. Previous State Qualifier
Entry Fee: According to SCHSL AAA Handbook, a fee of $100 will be paid to:
Please make out checks payable to;
      May River High School (wrestling/school name memo line)
      601 New Riverside Rd.
      Bluffton, SC 29910
Concessions: A full concession stand will be available Friday and Saturday. ***No outside food will be allowed***

Hospitality Room: A hospitality room will be available for the athletic directors, coaches and referees only. The hospitality room is designed to cater to the above mentioned and abuse by any school or individual will not be tolerated. Admission to the hospitality room will warrant a wristband. There will be 3 wristbands provided per team.

Coolers: Coolers will be allowed but not inside gymnasium to allow for maximum athlete and spectator space. There will be space provided for teams to set-up coolers outside gymnasium. This space is for the teams and their personnel only.

Tournament set-up: The tournament will be run on 4 regulation high school wrestling mats. Coaches meeting will follow weigh-ins approximately 5:30. Wrestling should begin at about 6:15 pm.

Medical: May River HS has an athletic trainer. Our trainer will be on site to assist with all injuries. It is asked that you bring adequate tape and supplies for your team. Coaches are responsible for their teams’ blood clean-up. Any wrestler with pre-existing aliments (e.g. asthma, etc.) will need to have supplies with them.

Bus Parking: Bus Parking will be located around the perimeter of the football field and softball fields on Friday night. Saturday they will park in the bus loop outside the café located at the rear of the school.

Weigh-ins: Weigh-ins will take place in the varsity wrestling room. Every team must enter through the gym entrance and be directed to the wrestling room. Weigh-ins will be performed by teams. 
The following weigh in time will be used:

1. Friday: 4:30-5:30pm
2. Saturday: 8:00-9:00am

Locker Rooms: Locker rooms will be available for wrestlers to change clothes. We recommend that wrestlers do not keep their gear inside locker room. The locker rooms will be closed once weigh-ins are completed. 

Vandalism: Vandalism will NOT be tolerated and those person(s) found damaging school or personal property will be held accountable. 

T-shirts: T-shirts will be sold in foyer of gymnasium or inside the gymnasium. 

Lower State Registration Information
1. Click on the registration link to register. (2 ways to do this)
a. https://arena.flowrestling.org/ - Under Upcoming Tournaments find your Lower State tournament and click on the registration link.
b. Click the appropriate link below: 3A Lower:
https://events.flowrestling.org/event/6f39008c-db19-b563-36d1-c6925095a6b2/summary
2. Create a FloArena account for free. Remember this login ID and password as you can use it for future events that are run on FloArena and use online registration or login with your FloArena login.
3. Once you are registered, choose “Proceed as Coach” on the banner page.
4. Fill in your information. This will collect the appropriate record for seeding purposes (3A will ask for the wrestler’s overall record). Seeding will be done based on this record. All seeding changes will be handled at your respective seeding meetings (head-2-head, etc).
5. Add your team and add your wrestlers (screen is pretty user friendly). You can save your info in to rosters. These wrestlers will remain in your roster for years until you remove them.
6. Ensure that everything is correct with your entries (Correct weight class, correct spellings, correct grade, etc)
7. Follow the onscreen instructions to continue through the process. No payment will be made/received over this online registration. You will be responsible for the money being paid to the host school prior to them being able to weigh-in (the same as in the past).
8. When completed, you will receive a registration invoice of your entries. I would advise printing this off and bringing with you to the tournament for any issues that may occur.
9. All registrations must be completed via this online registration by the time decided for your tournament.
10. Any scratches or changes must be reported to the tournament director by Friday, 2/15 at 10:00 AM.
11. Seeding will change per your tournaments rules.