Meigs invitational Dec. 6

[Mighty Mighty Devils]

gallipolis looked very good on saturday at meigs several kids going undefeated great team effort we had at least one backup finish second in his weight class . belpre looked good also very tough kids at 160 and 171 if they had a full team it would have been a shootout for sure more so than it already was. very well run tourney everything went like clockwork after it got started hats off to meigs staff

[the_big_coach]

I just want to thank everyone for coming out to support our tournament, it went well with some really good teams and wrestlers. The gallia,belpre match was really good and very intense. I will posting all the winners on here tonight or in the morning.Again thanks to all.

[BlizzardMan]

Low numbers are always a shame because it is so hard to win a duel or pool style tournamnet when a lot of the other teams have so many wrestlers. Good job everyone, but tough luck for Belpre.

[the_big_coach]

The following is the results of the meigs tournament.
103-matt kerr -gallia 1st

112-tyler crislip-belpre 1st
joe jarvis -gallia 2nd

119-corey law-belpre 1st
john caldwell-gallia-2nd
n. watson-river valley-3rd

125-cody pullins-gallia 1st
p. mulholand-r.v. 2nd

130-wyatt watts-gallia 1st
drew mendenhall alex. 2nd

135-todd packard-belpre 1st
shawn bunnell-vinton 2nd
josh macgreger-alex 3rd

140-zack tackett-gallia 1st
sanders-gallia 2nd
joe rodgers vinton 3rd

145-brandon taylor=gallia 1st
cody cook-meigs 2nd
steve sims-vinton 3rd

152-kyle bays-gallia 1st
james bechley vinton 2nd
shawn myers gallia 3rd
j. miller-r.v. 3rd
jeffery roush-meigs 3rd

160-ashton packard-belpre 1st
cory mason-gallia 2nd
james brown-vinton 3rd

171-clint saunders-gallia 1st
phillip wiggers-belpre 2nd
jed patterson-vinton 3rd

189- hackett-gallia 1st
justin burt-vinton 2nd
tyler brothers-meigs 3rd

215- gravely-gallia 1st
grisby-vinton 2nd
brannon-belpre 3rd

285-ernie welsh-meigs 1st
tyler carr-belpre 2nd
allan shillington-r.v. 3rd

team placing
1.gallia
2.belpre
3.vinton
4.river valley
5.meigs
6.alexander.

[boogerred]

Thanks for the results coach! and best of luck this year!

[BlizzardMan]

The new weight class rule has kept a lot of these kids from moving down to previous weights of years past I have noticed.

[boogerred]

What is the new rule? I don't keep close tabs on these since I don't coach anything anymore.

[BlizzardMan]

One class down per season I do believe. For instance, a 119 at the season's start cannot go below 112.

[boogerred]

a good rule, although it could hurt some teams.

At Muskingum, we had a guy that wrestled 150 at meets and weighed 175 during the week before matches and he cut 25 lbs every time we had a match.

[tric118]

The rule is you can not drop below 7% body fat. You can go down 5 weight classes. Our 215 can go to 152 at 7% body fat it is not happening but legally could go to that weight. You also have to be able to get to the weight by I believe Jan. 24th. Again you can go the whatever weight you want as long as you are at 7% body fat the only exception is if you weigh-in pass the hydration test and weigh for instance 104 pounds and your body fat is 6.159% you are a 112 lber and can NOT go to 103 because you are below 7%. so you would want to make 103 or less and then be 6% body fat pass hydration and then you could wrestle 103 . You can only loose 1.5% of your weight per week which differs but averages about 2 pounds of weight loss per week. So some kids will drop more than 1 weight class my 171 can drop to 152 but could not wrestle 152 until first of January due to the 1.5% drop per week.

[BlizzardMan]

Thanks for the explanation Tric118. So basically the little guys will struggle with this rule more.

[tric118]

Yes your right the smaller the wrestler the less weight to cut.