For anyone planning on or interesting in competing in Missouri Nationals on Feb. 2 in Lebanon, Mo., here is a link to the flier and a list of weigh-in options provided by the organizers.
https://www.missouriusawrestling.org/event/show/437110527

It is a USA tournament, so all participants need a USA card to participate. (If you are 100% sure you are going but do not yet have a USA card yet, please let me know right away.)

Note that the tournament may be in conflict with weigh-ins for the rescheduled Ozark Blue tournament that are that evening, so plan carefully if you plan to do both.

The club will not be sending coaches, so you will need to make sure another parent with a coaching card is willing to coach your son if you don't have a coaching card yourself.

Registration is on your own, but submit payment to Spartan Wrestling Club, as they require one check per club.

Weigh in Options
 
Remote weigh in options:
 
Friday February 1st: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (On-site & remote - all divisions - open, novice, and girls)
 
Neosho Wrestling Facility
418 Fairground Rd
Neosho, Mo.
417-658-9007
 
Lafayette High School wrestling room
17050 Clayton Road
Wildwood, Mo. 63011
314-517-0907
 
Ozark High School Cafeteria
1350 W Bluff Drive
Ozark, Mo.
417-299-2131
 
On site weigh in options
 
Friday Feb. 1st: 5pm to 7pm (All divisions-open,novice,girls)
Saturday Feb. 2nd 6:30 am to 7:30 am (open divisions 6u, 8u,and 10u only)
Saturday Feb. 2nd 11am to noon (open divisions 12u and 14u only)
Saturday Feb. 2nd 5pm to 7pm (All novice and girls)
Sunday Feb. 3rd 7am to 8am (All novice and girls)
 
All wrestlers must weigh in wearing competition uniform. Skin checks will be done at weigh-in.
 
Any questions please contact
 
bravesfan40@gmail.com
rwjennings@centurytel.net

Hello, we are passing along this email from Greg Mattison of the Jr. Patriots Wrestling Club, along with the new flier for this tournament. You will notice that Greg says the tournament will allow not only first-year wrestlers (with a 4 rating), but also less-experienced second-year wrestlers ( who would be rated 3s). Just to clarify, this would not include a second-year wrestler who has been wrestling intensively this season and winning most matches (and whom we would hope would be competing in the Ozark Blue tournament that day), but more of a struggling wrestler who is a better fit with the first-year wrestlers due to lack of experience. This is different from the normal AAU Triple-Crown events, which are separated into first-year only wrestlers (Gold) and everyone else (Blue). There will be round-robin brackets and no weigh-ins. Please let me know by next Thursday, Jan. 31 if your child will participate. You can do this by filling out another form at the registration board (write APPLY CREDIT) in the payment section, or just by emailing or texting me. Weights will be taken next week at practice, and those are the weights that will be submitted.
 
Here's Greg's email:
Hello all,
We've been working with the Ozark Championship and RL Wrestling leadership to help facilitate continuance of the Ozark Blue Championship. We're glad Ozark Blue will be able to run, continuing that great tournament and allowing kids to get some great competition and hopefully a Triple Crown.  
 
To that end, the Jr. Patriots have agreed to run a modified Ozark Gold-like tournament in place of our annual tournament. We will run the Jr. Patriots Gold Wrestling Tournament on Sunday, February 3rd. In short, it will be much like our normal tournament, but focused on Gold (and less experienced 2nd year) wrestlers. There were 350 registered for Ozark Gold on the original date and we hope that you will all come to our tournament. It will be run as Round Robins (as we always do), which is intentional so newer wrestlers get more matches, regardless of win/loss.  In addition, as a round robin tournament, it runs super fast and we'll have you out the door by 2pm.  We will be running two gyms with 12 mat surfaces and full size mats for the older Schoolboys and Cadets. We have real refs, a great hospitality room, t-shirts and 1st place gets a plaque with nice medals for 2nd and 3rd.  Also, there is a Tot division. 
 
Please encourage your 1st (and even less experienced 2nd year kids) to attend as we're "taking one for the team" and hope you'll support our tournament. 
 
Attached is the updated flyer.
 
Thanks!
 
Greg Mattison
Jr Patriots Wrestling
www.jrpatswrestling.com

Details on the rescheduling of the Ozark District Tournaments (please read thoroughly)

Below this is an email we received from the organizers of the Ozark District Tournament. In a nutshell, the Blue tournament has been rescheduled for Sunday, Feb. 3, still at Lindbergh High School. If you did not sign up for this tournament previously but would now like to, please do so next week at practice. The envelope will be back out at the board. If you signed up but can no longer attend, or if you need to change a weight class, please respond to this email and let me know. Otherwise, all registrations for this tournament will be transferred over to the new date.

The Gold tournament will not be rescheduled. The Parkway South Jr. Patriots tournament is the same day as the rescheduled Blue tournament (Feb. 3), however, and the Jr. Patriots have agreed to make their tournament a beginner tournament for those wrestlers not participating in the Ozark Blue tournament.

Please let us know by next Thursday what you'd like to do. We will accept new registrations for this tournament next week, as well.

REFUNDS FOR OZARK WILL NOT BE DISTRIBUTED OR CREDITED UNTIL WE RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENT FROM OZARK FOR THE FEES WE PAID FOR THE CLUB. PLEASE BE PATIENT.

Here is the e-mail received:

Attached you will find the new flyer for the rescheduled OZARK DISTRICT BLUE tournament at Lindbergh HS on February 3rd.  Details of the event are described in the flyer.   All wrestling for the Blue division will start promptly at 9:00 a.m. 
 
The rescheduling of the GOLD OZARK DISTRICT was not achievable by our organization due to many reasons so we are informing everyone that Parkway South Jr. Pats is hosting an AAU gold style event that day February 3rd as well and we strongly encourage any interested gold wrestlers to participate in that event.  We would like to thank Parkway Jr. Patriots for their cooperation and assistance throughout this process of rescheduling our District event. 
 
 
Here is a few informational points for the upcoming event.
- Our deadline for registration is a hard stop deadline of January 28th at 10 pm.  Time constraints of this event are tight and we will not make adjustments after this point in time.

 
- The Trackwrestling registration for our event is now reopened and active.   If you were registered in the original event then you may go to Trackwrestling and make any roster adjustments that you may have (weights, adds, removals) prior to our deadline.   If you were previously registered for this event you will be currently registered in the rescheduled date of February 3rd so please go in and verify that information through Trackwrestling.   You may add wrestlers or remove wrestlers from your roster depending on the circumstances in the tournament registration.  This is Trackwrestling recommendations and processes for this when it occurs.
- No remote weigh ins for our event.  
 
Thank you and we look forward to the event on February 3rd 2019 at Lindbergh High School.

We will start mailing refund checks from the Ozark Gold Tournament back to clubs and individuals.

If your child plans on wrestling in the Hawk Brawl on Dec. 30 or in the first leg of the AAU Triple Crown, the Missouri Challenge, on Jan. 5 or 6, then make sure to sign up by Thursday evening (tonight!) at 6 p.m. The Missouri Challenge has separate divisions for experienced (Blue) and first-year (Gold) wrestlers, and both divisions require you to select a weight class, so make sure to choose Blue or Gold and write in your weight class of choice on your form.

Important note: Blue wrestlers must weigh in at or below the weight they sign up for. Gold wrestlers will be bumped up to the next weight class if they do not make weight for the class they signed up for.

Refer to the weigh-in schedule on the flier to see when your child's age and division must attend weigh-ins.

Blue wrestlers should submit seeding information WITH THEIR REGISTRATION if they wish to be seeded in their brackets. This includes win/loss records, head-to-head match results with others in their weight class, and so forth. Refer to the parent handbook for more information. If seeding info is not submitted with the registration form or e-mailed before the meeting, no information will be presented at the seeding meeting on behalf of the wrestler.

Have a great week and holiday season!

LeAnn Cross

​Some of you have had questions regarding tournaments and tournament registrations, so I hope this helps answer some of them!

Please make sure you are visiting the tournament board each week to sign up for upcoming tournaments. You can also find the tournaments posted on the calendar on our web site at swczone.com. If you click on the name of the tournament, a box opens up. If you click on the name of the tournament again, the tournament flier will come up. There you an find everything you need to know about that tournament, including:

-Start times

-Whether all wrestlers start at the same time or if there is a split session. (Split sessions don't always split groups the same way, so always read thoroughly.)

-The deadline for CLUB to register, and submission instructions for the CLUB MANAGER to follow when entering the TEAM. YOUR deadline to submit an entry to us is generally the last practice BEFORE this deadline, at 6 p.m. I submit all our entries together, with one payment. If you write a check for your fee, always make it to Spartan Wrestling, NOT the hosting club.

-Whether there are weigh-ins. The only AAU tournaments that require you to select a weight class and attend a weigh-in are: Missouri Challenge, Ozark District Championship and AAU State Tournament (Triple Crown events). For those, YOU must select a weight class for your child AND take him/her to the scheduled weigh-in. Wrestlers must weigh AT or BELOW the selected weight class at the time of the weigh-in.

-For ALL OTHER AAU TOURNAMENTS: Do not list your child's weight on the registration form. The only weight that will be submitted with tournament registrations will be the one taken by a coach at practice the week of the tournament.

Regarding beginners/rookies: All AAU tournaments will do a pretty good job of separating beginners (also known as 4s on the 1-4 rating scale or "Gold" wrestlers in Triple Crown events) into separate brackets. This is usually fairly easy to accomplish in a larger tournament such as our Spartan Kickoff Tournament. For this reason, we strongly encourage all of our Spartans, Mini and Junior, to compete in this early-season tournament to get their competition feet wet.

There are also tournaments only open to first-year wrestlers, such as the Holiday Beginner's Tournament on Dec. 8 at Whitfield HS. Although we do encourage our first-years to compete in this tournament, it is by no means the only tournament that caters to beginners. AAU is a terrific organization for beginning and intermediate wrestlers, so there is no need to only focus on beginner-only tournaments. All of the AAU tournaments will do their best to separate the beginners from the advanced wrestlers. If at any time you feel that your wrestler has been placed in a bracket that is not right for him/her, feel free to speak to the coach, the mat table or the official. We do not want any wrestler participating in an unsafe situation.

You may register for tournaments as far in advance as you wish; however, if you need to select a weight class, you may want to wait until closer to the deadline to avoid having to make a last-minute change.

If you want to sign up for several tournaments at once but write one check, please put all the registration forms together in the envelope with the EARLIEST deadline.

If there are payment envelopes in the board, feel free to use them for your registration. If not, just staple or clip your payment to your form.

Withdrawing from a Tournament
If your child is unable to wrestle in a tournament you registered for, please notify me or a coach so we can notify the tournament host. Refunds can not be made after the tournament registration deadline. (Once our roster has been submitted, we are required to pay for all registrants regardless of whether they show up to wrestle.) If the tournament is not notified in time to adjust brackets, then the wrestlers in the same bracket as the no-show get fewer matches and less value for their time and money.

Let me know if anyone has other questions!
LeAnn Cross

​Lots going on this week in preparation for the Spartan Kickoff!

Hello!
It's a big week! See below to make sure you don't miss any important info:

Mini-Spartan Practice Tournament -- Wednesday at Minis practice. Kids should wear their singlets to practice. They will participate in simulated matches to help prepare them for next weekend's tournament. It's a fun way to help get them ready. (Parent helpers will be needed.)

Spartan Kickoff Tournament deadline -- Thursday at the beginning of practice (6 p.m.). All entries and payments must be in the envelope in the registration board.

Weight checks -- All wrestlers should weigh in at practice this week. Anyone participating in the tournament next week MUST have their weight checked by a coach this week. These are the weights that will be used for bracketing at Sunday's tournament.

Spartan Shorts and T-shirts -- These are expected later this week and will be distributed to the kids at the end of practice. Wrestlers will receive the sizes ordered on their registration forms; any size trades will be considered after all others have been handed out. Note: If you still owe fees, these must be paid in full before shorts and Ts are given.

Tournament Volunteers
We still need volunteers for Sunday's tournament. Please sign up via the Signup Genius at
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F4EACA62CA7F94-12218
This is the only major volunteer opportunity this season, so please make it a priority to help if you are able.

Calendar -- The practice and tournament calendar has been updated on our web site, swczone.com. We aim to keep it current, so check here if you are wondering if there is practice or a tournament on a given date.

Thanks, and have a great week!
LeAnn Cross