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 weigh in and be placed in an 8-man championship format with hopefully three matches for all wrestlers with full brackets. No weight classes are used and wrestlers will be grouped by weights. 4-man or 5-man round robins may be used if needed at lower and upper ends of weights. Winners of each bracket will win a medal and wall chart. Schedule- Saturday, December 21st 7:30am- Weigh-in(all teams need to be in small gym by 7:30am) JV`s will weigh-in at same time. JV`s will weigh in as a team as soon as they arrive so they can weigh in prior to 7:30am if team arrives earlier. Varsity wrestlers will weigh in by weight class. Wrestling will be continuous throughout day on 10 mats with no breaks. Schedule- Times below are approximate Varsity Round 1- Rattails (8:30am) JV Round 1 (8:45am) Varsity Round 2 (aproximately 10am) JV Round 2 Varsity Round 3 (approximately 12:30pm) JV Round 3 (JV awards will be given out after JV Round 3) (about 1:45pm) Varsity Round 4 (consolation matches only) Varsity Round 5 (Semifinals on front side and back side of bracket) (about 3:30pm) Varsity Round 6- Finals Matches (Championship, 3rd, 5th and 7th place matches on 4 mats ) (about 5:30pm) 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. Team champions will receive plaque. The JV team champion will will be based on scores of top 10 scoring JV wrestlers. Preliminary seeding will be handled by www.trackwrestling.com with final seeding being done by the seeding committee. 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.