There will be NO girls only division this year. This year the calendar switched and placed our tournament and the Badger State Tournament in Madison on the same weekend. The Badger State tournament will be hosting the girls only tournament. 2019 Fond du Lac Cardinal Invitational (Formerly called the Marty Loy Classic) Saturday, December 21, 2019 Fond du Lac High School (Fans enter through door #25) We will be running a one-day tournament with 25 teams participating. We will be using a 16-man bracket with rattails to determine our final 16 competitors. We will wrestleback to 5th. All wrestlers will be seeded from 1-24. Those wrestlers seeded 1-8 will be automatically entered and seeded into the 16-man championship bracket. If a bracket has less than 24 wrestlers, the next highest seeded wrestlers will be added to the championship bracket. All lower seeds will wrestle in rattails to get into the scoring `championship` tournament. Rattail matches will not count for team scoring. Winners of the rattails will be seeded into the 16-man championship draw. Losers of the rattails will be placed in a non-team scoring `consolation` bracket so that they may get additional varsity matches. This format allows us to hopefully seed well and decrease the chances that the WIAA daily 5-match rule will come into effect. In the case that a wrestler who competed in a rattail match does wrestle back to the 5-8th places, that would be his 6th match of the day and he would not be able to compete. Thus those 2 wrestlers would share the placement and split the team points. We will also be hosting a JV tourney. JV`s will be pre-weighed in by coaches and weights submitted prior to tourney. JV bracket will be 8-man championship format with hopefully three matches for all wrestlers. Winners of each bracket will win a medal and wall chart. Schedule- Saturday, December 21st 7:30am- Varsity Weigh-in(all teams need to be in small gym by 7:30am) JV`s will weigh-in at same time. JV`s wrestle first at 8am so they need to begin warming up immediately. Wrestling will be continuous throughout day on 10 mats with no breaks. 8:30am- JV Round 1 Varsity Rattails (matches 1-8) (about 9:30am start) Varsity Round 1 (matches 9-16, 51-54) Rattail competitors will wrestle later in round after 45 minute rest JV Round 2 Varsity Round 2 (matches 17-24, 55-58) (about Noon start) JV Round 3 (JV awards will be given out after JV Round 3) (about 1:45pm) Varsity Round 3 (matches 25-28, 59-61) (about 2:45pm) Varsity Round 4 (Semifinals, matches 29-32) (about 3:30pm) Approximately 5:30pm- Varsity Round 5 (will start earlier if possible) Championship, 3rd, 5th and 7th place matches on 4 mats Medals will be given to the JV champion and to the top 5 placewinners in the Varsity tournament. Champions will receive wall-chart. An Outstanding Wrestler award will also be given out. The traveling trophy, Challenge Cup, will be awarded to the varsity team champion. The JV team champion will receive a team plaque and scores will be based on top 10 scoring JV wrestlers. Preliminary seeding will be handled by www.trackwrestling.com with final seeding being done by the seeding committee directed by officials and the tournament director. Final seeding meeting will be held at 4pm on Friday night prior to tournament. Seeds will not be released and brackets will not be constructed until after weigh-ins to eliminate scratches and those that did not make weight. Coaches need to make sure they follow the procedures and know the deadlines for lineup changes, etc.