TO: Head Wrestling Coach and/or Athletic Director FROM: Josh Lowe, Bison Kickoff Classic Tournament Director; Ryan Peters, Athletic Director, Beachwood High School RE: 2010 Bison Kickoff Wrestling Classic DATE/TIME/LOCATION OF EVENT The Bison Kickoff Wrestling Classic will be held on Saturday, December 4th at Beachwood High School (South Gym); 25100 Fairmount Blvd, Beachwood OH 44122. Wrestling will commence at 10AM. DAY OF TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE 8:00 AM -> weigh-ins *Please be at the school prior to the start of weigh-ins, as weigh-ins will start on time as scheduled* 9:20 AM -> coaches’ meeting (brackets will be presented at that time) 10:00 AM -> wrestling commences on four mats NOTE: The tournament will run continuously until the final placement round. At that point, a break of approximately 30-45 minutes will occur. There will then be a parade of teams followed by the placement matches on four mats, which will be wrestled continuously until completion (i.e. 103-285). TEAMS COMPETING Beachwood, (Medina) Buckeye, Columbia, Cuyahoga Hts., Fairview, Garfield Hts., John Adams, NDCL, Oberlin, Revere, Shaker Hts., and Westlake CONTRACT AND FEES All teams in the field have turned in their contract. For those teams yet to pay their entry fee, the entry fee for this year’s event is $220. Entry fee checks should be payable to the Beachwood Athletic Boosters with a note indicating Kickoff Classic at the bottom. They should be mailed to the following address: Beachwood High School, ATTN: Ryan Peters (Athletic Director) 25100 Fairmont Blvd., Beachwood OH 44122 OFFICIALS Jim Behrens (head official), Michael Atkins, Santos Cageao, David Detec, Blake Jacobs, and Steven Walker. EVENT FORMAT The tournament will be conducted as a one-day pool tournament. Weight classes formats: *those with six wrestlers or less = true round-robin *those with seven or eight = two pools, then four-man brackets for top placers and bottom placers *those with nine or ten = two pools, the top four in each wrestling a cross-pool placement match *those with eleven or twelve (only if all schools have a wrestler entered) = four pools with two preliminary matches; two per pool go to eight-man bracket, third wrestlers compete in round-robin NOTE: Teams will be allowed to enter (non-scoring) extra wrestlers in order to accommodate those bracket numbers. Ideally each wrestler will come out of the day with four or five matches. AWARDS Placement will be up to eight wrestlers. All awards will be given out upon the completion of the final placement matches. The following awards will be given: top four finishers per weight class, team champion and runner-up, as well as the Most Outstanding Wrestler. SEEDING CRITERIA Up to six wrestlers will be seeded in each weight class. Pool A gets the 1st, 4th, and 5th seeds; Pool B the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th seeds. Criteria are as follows: (1) State tournament place in 2010 (2) District tournament place in 2010, top 4 (3) District tournament place in 2010, 5th or 6th (4) Bison Kickoff Wrestling Classic champion in 2009 (5) Sectional tournament place in 2010, 1st or 2nd (6) Bison Kickoff Wrestling Classic second place in 2009 (7) Season record for 2009-10, minimum of 8 matches (> 60% win percentage) (8) Bison Kickoff Wrestling Classic third place in 2009 (9) Sectional tournament place in 2010, 3rd or 4th Criteria tiebreaker is the next level. Criteria #7 tiebreaker will be wins The above criteria chart supersedes the sort done by the online entry system. NOTE: There will be no seeding meeting. The online registration process will be used to determine seeds, and set up the brackets. USE OF EXTRA WRESTLERS Please register all wrestlers that you wish to possibly compete in the tournament into the online system, both starters and extras. If the wrestler is not entered in the online registration, they are not eligible to compete in the tournament. In addition, there will be no weight class changes after the registration deadline. Since the allocation of extras will not be done until after weigh-ins, all entered wrestlers should weigh-in. The primary purpose of the extras is to create even weight classes per the formats listed above (i.e. having 6, 8, 10, or 12 wrestlers in a weight). Allocation of extras will be done at the discretion of the tournament director -- in the most reasonable and equitable way possible. Extra wrestlers will not be seeded, nor placed in the same pool as their teammate (scoring wrestler). ONLINE ENTRY SYSTEM Detailed information will be available closer to the event. The deadline for completing registration of your team will be 8:00 PM on Thursday, December 2nd. TOURNAMENT SCORING Placements: 1st – 17, 2nd – 16, 3rd – 11, 4th – 10, 5th – 7, 6th – 6, 7th – 4, 8th – 3 *Each match win (be it in pools, bracket, or the placement match): Injury default/pin/disqualification/forfeit = 6, technical fall = 5, major decision = 4, decision = 3 *Byes (either pool or bracket) are worth 3 points HOSPITALITY ROOM There will be one available for coaches, officials, and tournament workers only - location to be announced. No wrestlers are permitted in the hospitality room. The only meal to be served will be lunch, and there will be additional light snacks as well. CONCESSION STAND The concession stand will be located by the entrance to the South Gym, and will be in operation starting 30 minutes prior to wrestling through the end of the tournament (9:30 AM to close). TOURNAMENT ADMISSION/PASSES “Passes” allowing free admission will be granted to the following: all team members and coaches. Admission for the day will be $5.00 SCHOOL BUS PARKING Due to limited space in the Beachwood High School parking lot, it is asked that bus drivers park their busses at one of two locations: (1) Beachwood Middle School, which is to the immediate south on Richmond Road (2) Beachwood City Hall, which is across the street on Fairmount Blvd. BRACKETS/RESULTS Upon completion of the seeding meeting, a set of brackets will be printed out and given to each team’s head coach – one per team; they will also be available for sale by the ticket gate/concession area for $3.00. Results will be e-mailed by tournament management to media outlets (i.e. The Plain Dealer, JakesWrestling.com, etc). If there is a media outlet – other than the two listed here – that you want results e-mailed to, please notify the tournament director. Updated brackets will be posted during the duration of the day in the gymnasium area. In addition, updates of tournament results, as well as final tournament results, will be available through http://www.trackwrestling.com. For your information, the text messaging update feature of TrackWrestling will be in effect for this event as well. DIRECT TOURANMENT WEBLINK http://www.trackwrestling.com/predefinedtournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=1195009 CONTACTS Josh Lowe, Tournament Director. E-mail: jmlosu@yahoo.com Ryan Peters – Athletic Director, Beachwood High School. E-mail: rmp@beachwoodschools.org, Phone: 216-831-2080, x210