Independence Holiday Tournament

Format
We are planning on running a pool tournament this year again, 4 pools of 4. With the winners of each pool wrestling
for 1st -4th , 2nd in each pool wrestling for 5th – 8th and so on through 13th -16th . This guarantee each wrestler five
matches. This tournament will be run by Fiscus Mat Control.
WE WILL ALSO BE HAVING A GIRL’S DIVISION
Times and Dates
Entries (1 varsity and 1 or 2 alternates) in by Wednesday December 30st @ 10:00p.m.
Due to the holidays, seeding will take place solely by entries sent in with criteria.
Weigh ins Saturday Jan 2nd @ 7:00 a.m.
Wrestling Start time 9:00
Finals- Approximate 5:00

Seeding Criteria
1. Returning state medal winner
2. Head to head
3. State Qualifier
4. Common Opponent
5. % of overall record
6. Committee vote
*If unable to have a legitimate seeding meeting, we will use a point system based on the above
criteria in order to group the pools.

Awards
Individual medals for 1-4-----Team trophy for 1-2-----------MOW wrestler voted on by coaches

FEES
Each team is responsible for a tournament entry fee of $125.00
This needs to be paid be by the morning of Jan 2nd , can be mailed as early as needed.
Please make all checks payable to IHS Athletics

Teams: as of 5/5/2009
1. Independence
2. Adairsville, GA
3. Cordova - Full
4. Page
5. Siegal
6. Brentwood Academy
7. Centennial
8. Dickson County
9. Friendship Christian
10. Montgomery Central
11. Rossview
12. Caldwell County (KY
13. Cleveland
14. Hardin Academy
15. Houston
16. John’s Creek H.S. (GA)
17. Clk NE
18. David Lipscomb

Jared Grindstaff – Head Wrestling Coach Independence

1776 Declaration Way, Thompsons Station, TN 37179
jaredg@wcs.edu