OHS Wrestling

Hello everybody! We have an exciting weekend coming up... Both the Junior High team and the High School team have a tournament this weekend.

For the junior high wrestlers, you have the option to go to either the Salt Lake Slam (in heber, online pre-registration only) or the South County Classic (in Payson - this is where the coaches will be). I believe weigh ins for both tournaments are today. For the Payson tournament, we will be holding the weigh in at practice. If you plan on going to the Salt Lake Slam you need to register ASAP (if it's not already too late) on trackwrestling.com. You will be able to see the regional weigh in locations there. (You will not be able to weigh in for the Salt Lake Slam at Orem High.)

The cost of the Payson tournament is $10.

For the high school wrestlers, we will be traveling to Price to participate in the Carbon Duals. All high school wrestlers are invited to come. We will try and fill open spots on other teams with JV and Exhibition wrestlers, but can't guarantee that they will get onto another team. If they are not able to get on another team, we will try to rotate them in at least once or twice on our varsity team.

The bus will be leaving Orem High at noon on Friday. We have wrestling class B4, but if you are not in the class it will be excused. If you need to get checked out before then it will have to be by your parents.

The boys will be sleeping in the gym at Carbon High School, so they will not need to pay for a hotel. I decided to cut the price for the tournaments in half (Originally we had the boys paying $20 for each tournament, plus about $15 per night for hotel rooms. The hotel rooms will still be the same price, but the tournament entry fee will be split between the wrestler and the school, so only $10 instead of $20.) These can be paid for by fundraisers. If you have already paid for this tournament in the financial office, we can apply anything over the actual cost to your next tournament.

Here is some more info about how the tournament will be run:

You will have a one pound weight allowance for each day of the tournament. (This doesn't go towards your weight loss plan.) For example, Friday +1 (103=104), and Saturday +2 (103=105).

Weigh-in begins at 2:00 Friday afternoon; coaches meeting at 3:00 in the wrestling office in the old gym; first round at 4:00 p.m..
Saturday weigh-in 6:30 a.m. and round 5 begins at 8:30 a.m.

Concessions are available.

Admission each day for parents ($5.00), non-wrestling-team students ($2.00), Senior Citizens (65 yoa) $3.00

No outside drinks may be brought into the gym (except coolers by the team - I would recommend bringing some healthy food in a cooler for both days).

Weigh-in will be by team.

First round will begin at 103 pound class and each successive round will move up one (1) weight class.