MERRILL BLUEJAY CHALLENGE WRESTLING TOURNAMENT Tournament Date: Saturday, January 6, 2018 Teams Participating: Adams Friendship, Amherst, Barron, Boyceville, Chippewa Falls, Crandon, Edgar, Lakeland, Marathon, Merrill, Pacelli/Almond Bancroft, Prairie du Chien, St. Croix Central, Sun Prairie, Three Lakes, Tomahawk, & Wittenberg-Birnamwood. Entry Fee: $250.00 per team - payment should have been made - if not get-r-done! Please make checks payable to: Merrill Area Public Schools, Merrill High School Attn. John Miller - (Bluejay Challenge Wrestling) 1201 North Sales Street Merrill, WI 54452 Training Staff: An athletic trainer will be provided. A doctor will also be present at weigh ins. Mats: Initial Plan: 6 mats for the Challenge and 2 mats for the JV tournament. Track Wrestling: Coaches we will be using Track Wrestling for the Varsity portion of the tournament. You will receive your Track Wrestling instructions from Ben Natzke ? please follow the steps and timelines, also make sure to enter all requested information. Seeding Criteria ? State Place Finisher, State Qualifier, 2016 Bluejay Challenge placed in top 3, Current season records ? minimum of 10 matches ? varsity records only and special consideration. Weigh-Ins: Will begin at 8:00 AM and we will have team weigh-ins instead of by weight classes. The teams will weigh-in, in the locker room they are assigned to. We will have a separate weigh-in area for the JV wrestlers. Coaches - it will be imperative to have your varsity line-ups set by Thursday at noon ? this will ensure that the JV tournament is tentatively set as well. JV wrestlers will fill out a weigh-in card, upon arrival, much like with youth tournaments. Locker Room and Weigh In Assignments: Boys? Phy Ed Locker Room: Adams Friendship, Amherst, Barron, Boyceville, Chippewa Falls, & Crandon Boys? Team Locker Room: Will be used for the JV weigh-ins Girls? Phy Ed Locker Room: Edgar, Lakeland, Marathon, Merrill, & Pacelli/Almond Bancroft Girls? Team Locker Room: Prairie du Chien, St. Croix Central, Sun Prairie, Three Lakes, Tomahawk, & Wittenberg-Birnamwood *The locker rooms attached to the field house will remain open the entire day, all other locker rooms will be locked and unusable. *Female wrestlers will have their own locker room, which will also remain open. Coaches Meeting: 8:30 am in the upstairs cafeteria ? to verify your wrestlers are in the correct bracket. Wrestling Begins: ASAP after the coaches meeting, we hope to start at 9:30 am. ?THE BLUEJAY CHALLENGE? Tentative Schedule - Tentative Schedule - Tentative Schedule 7:30 AM???????????????.. Gym Opens 8:00 AM???????????????? Weigh-Ins ? specific locker rooms 8:30 AM???????????????? Coaches Meeting ? verify brackets 9:30 AM???????????????? Wrestling starts ? 3 rounds of round robin matches (6 mats, JV on 2 mats) 12:30 PM??????????????? Lunch Break 1:00 PM???????????????.. Semi Final matches for all 4 person brackets 4:00 PM???????????????.. 9th ? ? placement matches (9th - ? Place) 5:00 PM???????????????.. Championship Finals on 4 mats (1st ? 8th Place) Tournament Procedure: We will complete the 4 person round robin, then take a break for lunch. Individuals will be placed into 4 person brackets according to their records from the round robin pools. Then the 4 person brackets will be wrestled all the way out, 2 more matches. JV wrestlers will be placed in 8 person brackets or a 4 person round robin ? hoping to get all wrestlers 3 matches. JV will wrestle on 2 mats - if a varsity mat becomes open we may shift some of the JV brackets over to the varsity mats to fill the down time. Please make your JV wrestlers, coaches and parents are aware of this possible change in mats. Team Scoring: Standard scoring will take place on/in trackwrestling.com Awards: Medals will be given to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, (White Pool Champ) place finishers. Podium awards will be handed out as soon as possible after the Championship matches are completed ? the 106 pound awards will follow the 120 pound championship match and so on until the tournament is completed. The top 5 wrestlers in a weight class will be required to come to the podium for awards and pictures. We expect to have all individuals called to the podium to be in their full team warm-up; meaning tops and bottoms ? if a team doesn?t have bottoms we would like them to wear blue jeans ? no shorts please and no bandanas or hats. JV will receive medals for 1st and 2nd place for the 4 person round robin brackets and 1st, 2nd and 3rd place medals in the 8 person brackets. Awards for JV will be handed out at mat side, upon the completion of each individual chart. Team Awards: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place Team Plaques will be given; we will also give a pin trophy and outstanding wrestler award plaque.