Minutemen Youth Wrestling

The final tournament of the Nutmeg Challenge will take place in Berlin on Saturday, November 26th at Berlin High School. Attached is the registration form.

USAWCT has developed a Folk Style Championship tournament Series, which invites all USA wrestlers to participate in. Out of state wrestlers are welcome and encouraged to come and compete in Folk style wrestling. USAWCT wants to create more opportunities for our youth and High School and Open age groups to compete and would like to raise the level of the competition in our region. It is our goal to develop some of the toughest tournaments and identify by age division the most outstanding wrestler to compete in the series. Nutmeg Fall Championship Wrestling series are a group of tournaments in which wrestlers will wrestle folk style. Each wrestler will compete for prizes and a beautiful Pittsburgh Trophy Guillotine style for each age divisions as follows: Elementary Division: Born 1995, 1996 & 1997 Middle School Division: Born 1992, 1993 & 1994 Elementary and Middle School weigh classes will be determined by the Madison System ( grouping wrestlers in brackets of eight, by similar weight). High School Division: Born 1991,1990, 1989,1988, 1987 if registered in a Public High School in the Fall of 2005 Open Division: Born 1987 or prior, unless you are born in 1987 and are registered in a Public High School in the Fall of 2005 ( Post Graduate Students are welcome in the Open Division) Elementary Division: Madison grouped weights (8 man brackets, with no more than 10% body weight difference) Middle School Division: Madison grouped weights (8man brackets, with no more than 10% body weight difference) High School Division: 84, 91, 98, 105, 112, 119, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 152, 160, 171, 189, 215, 275 Open Weights Division: 125,133,141,149,154,165,174,184,197,230 & 285 Tournament Director reserves the right to use Madison Weights if necessary. Bracket Seeding will be by Prior year record and State Accomplishments. Top four seeded for brackets of eight and Top Two seeded for brackets of six or less. Birth Certificate must be available upon challenge by tournament Director or other athlete Challenging athlete must also present birth Certificate in order to challenge another’s age Failure to produce Birth Certificate will result in forfeiture of awards. Wrestlers must wrestle in their own age group and will only be able to move up one weight class, exhibition matches will be allowed as time is available. Nutmeg Series points will be earned as follows for each Tournament: Brackets of eight or more: Brackets of five to seven Brackets of Four or less Place Points Place Points Place Points 1st 8 1st 7 1st 5 2nd 5 2nd 4 2nd 3 3rd 3 3rd 2 3rd 1, unless bracket of 3, then 0 4th 1 4th 1 4th 0 2 bonus points will be awarded to each wrestler for every pin, in the championship round 1 bonus point will be awarded to each wrestler for every pin, in the consolation rounds 1 bonus point will be awarded for each technical fall in the championship round, which is earned when 12 superiority in the score exists for all age groups. Byes will be given first to 1 seed, then 2 seed, then three seed, etc. We expect to have three to four tournaments in CT from the end of September 2005 to the Sunday after Thanks Giving Each tournament will have medals for the top three place winners in each weight class by age division. Outstanding Wrester placement will be determined by total points earned as a result of the accumulation of placement points outlined above for all tournaments in the series combined, plus bonus points earned during each match. The grand total of all points earned will rank all wrestlers, for which weekly point totals will be posted on our web site at www.USAWCT.org The top four point earners, cumulative for all tournaments of the series, for each Age division Elementary, Middle School, High School and Open will receive awards. Presentation of the awards will follow the final tournament in the series. The awards are all Pittsburgh Trophy Guillotine style: First place Outstanding wrestler for that age division will be awarded a Large Guillotine height 12" width 11 1/2" and a Nutmeg Championship Tournament Series Outstanding Wrestler Sweat Shirt. The Outstanding wrestler that places 2nd in total points for that age group will get a Silver Small Guillotine height 8” width 8” The Outstanding wrestler that places 3rd in total points for that age group will get a Bronze Small Guillotine height 8” width 8” The Outstanding wrestler that places 4th in total points for that age group will get a Gray Small Guillotine height 8” width 8” Tie Breaker Rules: In the event that we need to determine the placement, when two or more wrestlers tie for a place, the following criteria will be applied: Head to head results Most tournament wins Most match wins Most pins Most Technical Falls Total Match Points earned in all matches of the series Least amount of Match points given in all matches of the series Youngest wrestler in the tied criteria

Three Olympic champion wrestlers have been named as finalists for U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Sports fans and the general public have an opportunity to vote for these nominees online as part of the selection process. The wrestlers who are finalists for induction into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame are: * 1984 and 1992 Olympic champion Bruce Baumgartner * 1988 and 1992 Olympic champion John Smith * 1984 Olympic champion Jeff Blatnick These superstar wrestlers are among 15 athletes who are nominated for a position in the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Only five of the nominees will be inducted this year. To vote for U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Class of 2006, visit http://www.usolympicteam.com/117_37737.htm Wrestling is one of the most successful sports for the United States in Olympic history, as Americans have won 122 medals in the modern Olympics, including 49 gold medals. Yet only one wrestler has been inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, Dan Gable. Help get our wrestling heroes their deserved place in the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame by voting online today. The online voting process ends September 21. Please forward this e-mail to your friends and family. Spread the word!!

This year you will be registering directly with Coach Moss. The Resident rate will be $75.00 for the entire season. This will include a T-shirt and USA Wrestling Membership. Checks may be made payable to "Berlin Youth Wrestling", and sent to Roger Moss 80 Brandegee Lane, Berlin CT 06037. The rate for non-residents is $125.00. If you have questions about the program please call Coach Moss at 860-828-9818. Attached is a Word document that you can use for registering.

Camp went really well. I would like to thank Mike Cunningham for his work in organizing it and being there each night. We had 20 boys participate and I think they all learned at least one thing that they will be able to use. I know I did! A special thanks goes out to Drew Black and Rich Hasenfus for coming down and spending a night teach the boys so important moves. Great Job by All!