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Jason, thanks for they updates. I was right there when this happened - that though of that could have been my kid went through my head 100's of times. Good luck to Maverick on his recovery - hope to seem him on the mat again once he had fully recovered. Also thanks to all the kids, coaches and parents for attending yesterday - good luck the rest of the season. Chris Lynch

GOOD NEWS! - We will have a parade of teams before the event. Coaches meeting will be at 8:30 - during that time we will be lining up kids for the parade of teams. Once coaches meeting is over (around 8:40) we will start parade of states. Should be fun for the kids and parents. If you have a school flag or sign you would like to carry please bring with you. Chris Lynch ISWA - Vice Chair

Coach Shelton, This is Chris Lynch - one of the Vice Chairs for the ISWA. I will try to answer some of your questions the best I can. The Elementary State Duals were started 5 or 6 years ago when I was Folkstyle Director for the ISWA. Hearing many request from coaches to have such an event Franklin Wrestling Club took it as one of their events and ran with it. I first started it as a local club event and an Academy Event - that didn't work so had to make changes at last minute to have enough teams to have the event. Since then it has grown 3 times over thanks to the help great coaches like yourself and past and current ISWA Board Members that have really worked hard to make this a great event. That is a little history on the event. With that being said we have used the criteria of separation the top 4 teams from the previous year since the 2nd year of having the event when it was discussed at board meeting on how we would separate the top teams. Wrong or right that is the way we put it into place - thats not saying we can't change the way we do it for future years but thats the way it will be set up for this year. The top 4 Team from pervious year rule is for separation and not seeding. Another thing that has changed that we have failed to take of the flyer (and can be blamed on me since i should check all printed material before it goes out) is the Team Draw. This being the 3rd year we have used Trackwrestling at this event - our head pairing person for this event Pat Culp - separates the top 4 from the previous year and lets the computer randomly place the other teams - this is done at her home and not at the ISWA office. Anyone that would like to make recommendations on any changes - such as the ones Coach Shelton can be e-mailed to the ISWA office at iowa@sbcglobal.net and we would be happy to consider different ways of doing things. Thank you and look forward to great event this weekend and remember we do this for the kids! Chris Lynch ISWA - Vice Chair

DANIEL MERCER-CHAMPION SERIES DUE TO WEIGH INS SITES OPENING AT 2 PRE-REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE AT 2- HOWEVER, YOU MAY REGISTER ONSITE AT ANY WEIGH IN SITE. PLEASE HAVE $15 CASH AND CARD

DAY 1 OF THE CHAMPION SERIES CHANGE OF ADDRESS Franklin Community MIDDLE School- LOCATED ON US 31- NOT high school WE WILL WRESTLE ON FULL MATS REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY AT 5 PM WRESTLING WILL START AT 9 AM WEIGH INS FOR DANIEL MERCER FOLKSTYLE CHALLENGE ARE SATURDAY JANUARY 24 AT: Franklin Community MIDDLE School 6-8 Perry Meridian High School (enter main door go to wrestling room) 6-8 Yorktown High School (enter door 19) 5:30-7 Edgewood High School (enter door 5) 5-7 Beech Grove High School (enter athletic door) 2-3:30 IF YOU ARE WRESTLING IN THE GRIZZLY SUPER 12 DUALS WE WILL HONOR YOU WEIGH-IN IF YOU WANT TO WRESTLE IN THE DANIEL MERCER- YOU MUST NOTIFY THE HEAD TABLE OF THIS DECISION.

i could be wrong - but i think Franklin had a different 106 also.

Still have one spot open - please call Chuck VanHorn if team is interested. 317-412-3301

There are still 2 spots open for the Franklin Grizzly Elementary Duals - This Sunday December 7th (not the 6th as listed on ISWA Website). For more information please contact Chuck VanHorn at 317-412-3301.

There are still a lot of spots open on the Cadet and Junior National Team going to Fargo. If you are panning on going get a hold of the team leader for your age group ASAP! We are taken petitions for the team for those who did not place top 3 at state or were unable to participate at ISWA Freestyle / Greco Roman State. Junior Team Leader - Mark Stevenson - 812-390-8656 Cadet Team Leader - Thomas Pompei - 317-730-4056

Two Weeks Out - Please get paper work to Team Leader Now!

Sorry to hear that Indiana Wrestling lost a great man. Thoughts will be with Perry Meridian and Dave's family the next few days.

****PLEASE NOTE**** Some of the information listed on the ISWA Website Central Regional Flyer is not correct. The information listed at the top of this post and below is correct. 1) Freestyle Wrestling for ALL Age Groups will start Saturday at 10:00 am - the iswa website has kids starting at 9:00 am 2) All Wrestlers (age groups) can register on site and weigh-in on Saturday morning (not just cadets and juniors as listed) 3) There are NO Greco Only Registration and Weigh-ins on Saturday Night - Greco only registration and weigh-ins are Sunday Moring Please refer to the USA Wrestling Event Schedule (the posted at top of this post) and the link is http://www.teamusa.org/Home/USA-Wrestling/Events

They will be provided at registration.

this link takes you to the ones that have pre-registered. All Wrestlers can do walk up registration and weigh-ins both Friday night and Saturday morning http://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/registration/TournamentList.jsp?TIM=1400200025806&twSessionId=qgzkkpruzmkpdsn&tournamentGroupId=130396009&tournamentBox=F_84094

and to add to that - both are great kids - we are glad they will represent Indiana this summer.