December 31, 2013 Dear Coach, As you are aware the annual Richardson Memorial Wrestling Tournament will be held on Friday and Saturday Jan. 10,11 2014. I am looking forward to a great tournament and I am glad your team will be entered this year. The following teams will be entered: Box Elder Bountiful Roy Viewmont Bear River Logan Star Valley, Wyo. Skyview Clearfield Layton Murray Weber Fremont Mountain Crest Olympus West Jordan Blackfoot,Id Pocatello, Idaho Coaches, Each year I find that we have some that try to enter more than one wrestler on the jv level. Please just enter one wrestler per weight per team. I look at the bracket and then only add wrestlers once I see that the bracket might not be full. Obviously when there might be an opening the first one will be filled by a Box Elder extra first. I only will do that if the bracket isn`t full. If I don`t have a wrestler for that weight then I will call you and have you let me know who you might be able to add. So once you fill the bracket send me an email if there might be an extra kid that you would like to see if there might be a spot. Team entry fees will be ($400.00) entry fee, due and payable to Box Elder Wrestling, at the seeding meeting. This year the weights will be as follows: 108 (pounds), 115,122, 128, 134, 140, 147, 154, 162, 172, 184, 197, 222 and 287.. Again this year in conjunction with the Varsity Tournament we will also host a Junior Varsity Tournament. Please let me know your JV lineup as soon as possible. I want to know exactly how many bouts I need to plan on. Also, I need to know who your JV wrestler is, his record, and any outstanding accomplishments this year. We will run the tournament on Trackwrestling again this year so I will be sending you information on how to register your wrestler at a later date. I am looking forward to seeing you on the 11th and 12th of January. If there are any problems or questions please contact me as soon as possible. This year we are trying to put a nice program together. I need the following information: name, year, record, returning state placer of the varsity entry. Sincerely, Mike Ripplinger Head Wrestling Coach Box Elder High School: 435-734-4840 Home: 435-723-5005 Fax # 435-734-4846 Cell # 435-225-3023 Email address: Mike.Ripplinger@besd.net This is a change in my email address. Criteria for Seeding 1. Richardson Memorial Champion 2013 2. Returning State champion 2013 3. Richardson Memorial placer 2013 4. Returning State placer 2013 5. Record winning percentage 6. wins/wins against common opponents 7. Returning state champion 2012 8. Richardson Memorial champion 2012 9. Viewmont/ Reno placer 2013 10. Layton/Rollie Lane placer 2013 11. Evanston 2013 placer 12. We will try to seed the best wrestlers opposite each other. If we have a problem with a couple of wrestlers with the same record, we will draw those two for the two seeds, in order to avoid a long debate. We will only seed up to eight wrestlers in any weight, and then let the computer seed the rest. 13. Draw Awards Varsity: Top six places will receive medals. JV.: top six placers will receive medals. Varsity Team: top three teams will receive trophies. J.V. Team: Top two teams will receive trophies. Outstanding Varsity Wrestler. One trophy for upper weights.(103-140 One trophy for lower weights.(145-275 Outstanding J. V. Wrestler: One trophy will be awarded. Motels Crystal Inn 480 Westland Drive 1-435-723-0440 Days Inn 1033 South 1600 West 1-435-723-3500 Galaxie Motel 740 So. Main 1-435-723-3439 HoJo Inn 1167 So. Main 1-435-723-8511 Flying J. Plaza 1206 W. 2100 So. 1-801-393-8644 Tournament Schedule Friday, January 10 Weigh-in: Weigh-in at Box Elder High at 1:00 PM. Weigh-ins will follow the national high school rules for weigh-in procedure. We will start at 108 scratch + 1 lbs. (109,116, etc., lbs.) and move up through the weights in order. The weigh-in will close immediately after the last wrestler in the 287 lbs. class has weighed in. The same procedure will be used for the Saturday morning weigh-in. Saturday morning weight will be scratch +2 lbs. Please make it easier on the both of us by not neglecting to do this. (scratch +2 lbs. allowance: 110, 117, etc. on Saturday) most of us wrestle on Thursday. Seeding Meeting: 1:00pm ( Room M1 which is Madison Hall #1, this is same as last year. ) Weigh-ins 1:00 PM –completion of 285 lbs. (As the new weigh-in rule states.) Session I JV Round 1 ( matches 1-8 ): 3:00 pm-6:00 pm 3 mats - 7 mats when available Varsity Round 1 (matches 1-8): 3:00 pm-6:00 pm 4 mats - 7 mats 1/2 hour break approximately 6:00 pm-6:30 pm Session II Varsity round 2 (matches 9-16 ): 6:30 pm - 9:30 4 mats - 7 mats when available. Jv. round 2 matches 9-16): 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm 3 mats Saturday, January 11 Weigh-ins on Saturday, (scratch +2 additional pounds 110, 117, etc.) Will be from 8:00 am - 9:00 am. (Remember you must be there when we start) Session III Varsity Round 3 (matches 17-20): 9:30 am-11:00 or ????- 4 mats J.V. Round 3 (matches 17-20): 9:30 am-11:00 or ?????- 3 mats Break : We will have a 10 minute break then start round 4 (semis & Consolations) Varsity Round 4 (matches 21-24): immediately after 10 minute break - 4 mats JV Round 4 (matches 21-24): immediately following 10 minute break- 3 mats Varsity Round 5: (matches 25-26): immediately following previous round - 4 mats JV. round 5: (matches 25-26): immediately following previous round - 3 mats Varsity Round 6 (matches 27-28)) : for 5th and 6th, 3rd and 4th, and JV championship, JV 3rd and 4th, and 5th and 6th. Break: approximately 4;00 pm JV medals presentation: 4:30pm-4:45 pm Varsity Championship Finals: (match 29) 5:00 pm - 1 mat Varsity Awards presentation: follows after the 285 lbs match Team presentation, outstanding wrestler awards.