Schedule

Seeding Criteria

Seeding
• We will be using head to head competition to seed wrestlers.
• Indicate other wrestlers that your wrestler has beaten.
• The wrestlers will first be placed in order using the seeding criteria below, then any wrestler that has beaten a wrestler within
  1 slot(s) above him and has not lost to any wrestler below the wrestler will get moved ahead of the wrestler he beat.
• If a wrestler has beaten a wrestler but lost to another wrestler below the wrestler he beat, that wrestler will not be moved.
• Coaches please check the call-in matrix below for your time slot.
• The seeding criteria is used to build a matrix based upon numbers only and the final seeding will be determined by the officials
  at the seeding meetings based on all factors.

Wrestler Categories - select the best match
• 2007 State Place (1st-3rd)
• 2006 Bi-State Place (1st-3rd)
• 2007 State Place (4th-6th)
• 2006 Bi-State Place (4th-6th)
• Had 7 matches with winning percentage greater than .875
• 2007 State Qualifier
• 2006 Bi-State Place (7th-8th)
• 3rd Place 2007 Sectionals
• None of the above

Seeding Call-In Matrix

Ticket Prices

Entry Fees

Due by Monday December 1st, 2008.

Make checks payable to Holmen Area Foundation

Mail to the following address:

Holmen High School
Attn: Naomi Schmitz
P.O. BOX 403
1001 McHugh Rd
Holmen, WI 54636

Arrival

• You may pickup your packet Thursday evening after 7:00pm at the Radisson Hotel. Check at the front desk for the location.
• Team entry is on Friday is on the Second Street side of the LaCrosse Center using the Exibition Hall entrance(North). These are the doors
  closest to the Radisson Hotel. Do not use the arena doors. You can proceed directly to the weigh-in area.
• Pick up your packet at the counter if you did not pick it up Thursday evening.
• Included in your packet will be contract for 2009, security badges for each of the following:
  • All Participating Wrestlers
  • Three(3) Coaches
  • One(1) Manager
  • One(1) Statistician
• Please use the admissions for qualified people only. These are not for parents, friends, siblings, etc. to watch or coach from the arena area.
• Only team personnel and school personnel will be allowed through the exhibition/weigh-in areas.
• Remember your extra personnel who HELP you during the event, may purchase passes for the same as admission.
• Teams must use the lower level to store your gear. You can not use the arena seating area. The LaCrosse Center will not allow coolers
  or bags in the arena seating area. This is a LaCrosse Center policy and voilators will have their items confiscated.

Matches

• We will use ten mats for sessions 1, 2 and 3. We will then go to three mats for session 4.
• Championship matches will be 2-2-2 ... wrestleback matches will be 1-2-2.
• 1st and 3rd place matches will wrestle on the elevated stage. 5^th through 12^th place matches will wrestle on the outer mats next to the elevated stage.
• Each placement match will use two officials.

Updates/Paperwork

• You will get updated charts and scores at the beginning of each session at the head table.
• You will receive a score agreement sheet with each rounds score.
• Someone on your team is to turn in a comparison score sheet at the conclusion of EACH ROUND. This is done to prevent any team scoring errors.
  Please help by confirming your team score at the conclusion of each round.
• Pickup your weigh-in list for boths days during the third session at the head table.

Publicity/Media

• PLEASE POST the information you are receiving so that students in your school are aware of the event, and help publicize the event in your communities.
• If you have media contacts please enter get them to us as soon as possible.
• There are forms to return for team information both from past years and for this year. We do what we can to put this information in the program based on your input.
• If you have any returning place winners, state qualifiers or state place winners who will be in the event please send us that information.
• The event staff has done a great job of getting you updated information at the close of the event. Please stay a short time at the end to get a copy of all brackets, team scores and information for next year.

Cheerleaders

• Cheerleaders will be checked in separately.
• You will receive security badges for five(5) cheerleaders in uniform and one advisor.
• Cheerleaders will have restricted access will only be allowed to cheer on the end mats during the first 3 sessions.
• Session 4 you will be allowed to cheer on the south side of the arena only.

TrackWrestling

• Lineup entry deadline: 10:00pm Monday December 22nd, 2008. You will be locked out of TrackWrestling at this time to enter or change your lineups.
• Lineups can be changed after the lineup entry deadline until and including your seeding call in time. If lineup changes are required before your seeding call,
  you will have to contact one of the tournament directors. Otherwise tell your seeding official of the change(s) during your call in.
• Seeding information must be entered after 10:00pm Monday December 22nd, 2008 to 10:00pm , 2008.
• No seeding information can be entered after 10:00pm Monday December 22nd, 2008.
• Reminder ... You must enter the record for every wrestler when you enter your lineups.
  Records not entered will automatically place your wrestler at a lower seed.

Awards

• Awards will occur at the conclusion of the matches for the weight class preceding the concluding match.
• We construct an awards stand for all 16 medalists, 12 place winners and 4 second day contestants.
• Awards area will be located by the stairways to facilitate picture taking.
• Please have wrestlers available for awards at the conclusion of a weight class. This is all 16 medalists.
• We request that all 14 champions be available at the conclusion of the awards ceremony for a photograph for media use.
• Team awards will follow the conclusion of the last match.
• There will be four team trophies, one overall team trophy and one per division I, II and III. Competition is across the whole field and the highest placing team by
  division will receive one of the three division trophies. The overall team trophy will be for the top team across all division based on the highest point total.
• Trophies for MVW and most falls in the least amount of time is also awarded.
• When team awards are completed, the division with the champion with the least amount of points will receive awards first, and the division with the champion
  with the most amount of points will receive awards last.
• Divisions are asked to enter the stage for awards from one side and exit across to the other side.

Officals

Larry Anderson (1140)	Scott Brookman (10480)	Rob Beastrom
Rob Boyer	Dan DiLaura (IA0076)	Lynn Isensee (601584)
Joe Heil (930918)	Harry Hellen	Ted Kiefer (830605)
Kirk Layer (600872)	Ralph Lobner (52886)	David Miller (201519)
Mike Nickelatti (900982)	Derrick Olson (970241)	Dan Parlier (66590)
Ed Pryztarski	Gail Pronschinske (890730)	Jeff Ryba (201104)
Chuck Walek (93405)	Steve Williamson (830680)

La Crosse Center Configuration

• There are no changing room facilities available throughout the event.
• Locker Rooms A and B can be used for showering throughout the day. They are not large enough for all wrestlers to be in them at the same time.
• Locker Room C is for Officials use only.
• There are two dressing rooms on the northwest side of the LaCrosse Center near the head table. One is for tournament personnel and the other is
  assigned to cheerleaders. Please direct your team to stay away from these facilities
• No towels will be supplied. Wrestlers must supply your own.
• The exhibition hall/weigh-in area can be used for changing, but it is very open. The entrances are draped but caution your personnel to eliminate total nudity
  except during weigh-ins. We will control access during weigh-ins and it should be safe at that time
• Full concessions are available from the LaCrosse Center.
• The La Crosse Center WILL NOT ALLOW bags and coolers in the arena seating areas.
• Reminder ... The LaCrosse Center is cleared between session. Please have your wrestlers & staff take there belongings with them and not to leave
  them in the center.

Preliminary Matches Sessions 1-3

Finals Session 4

Future Dates - (Tentative)

• 2009 - Monday December 28^th and Tuesday December 29^th
• 2010 - Wednesday December 29^th and Thursday December 30^th
• 2011 - Thursday December 29^th and Friday December 30^th