O'Town Showdown
An absolute extravaganza of wrestling will convene upon the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort outside of Orlando, Florida. Prime among the events is a 32-team dual meet tournament to be held on Friday and Saturday involving nine teams that finished in the top ten of their classification at the Florida State Tournament in 2009-10.
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Wrestling will start with four pools of eight teams, each pool then split into two. The top eight teams will be seeded, and placed into each of the pools, with the remaining teams blindly placed into positions. Teams will first wrestle the three teams in their sub-pool. After the first three matches, the last place team will be eliminated from the main draw. Within each pool, the three remaining teams will wrestle those remaining from the other sub-pool.
After those matches, the 24 teams will be split into three tiers of brackets. The top two in each pool advance to the championship bracket, the next two to the consolation championship bracket (places 9-16), and the last two to the consolation pride bracket (places 17-24). Teams will then compete in an eight-team "umbrella-style" bracket for the remaining three matches.
The 32-team field is anchored by a pair of state championship teams, fourth-ranked Brandon and 17th-ranked Oviedo. Other featured teams in the field include Lake Gibson and Northside Christian, which finished third in their respective state tournament divisionsPalmetto Ridge, fourth at state; South Dade, fifth at state; Winter Springs and Lake Highland Prep, both finishing eighth in the state; and Bishop Moore, which finished tenth.
The following wrestlers in this field are nationally ranked in their weight class:
103: No. 8 Colton Howell (Brandon)
119: No. 14 Earl Hall (South Dade)
125: No. 8 Rossi Bruno (Brandon)
130: No. 13 Kevin Norstrem (Brandon)
135: No. 6 Tyler Liberatore (Brandon)
152: No. 10 Clark Glass (Brandon)
160: No. 8 Wally Figaro (Brandon)
171: No. 15 Geordan Speiller (Oviedo)
285: No. 9 Doug Vollaro (Oviedo)
A showcase feature of this weekend event will be three dual meets involving NCAA Division I programs on the featured mat at the Jostens Center between Indiana, The Citadel, and Columbia.
11:00 a.m. ET -- Indiana vs. The Citadel
1:00 p.m. ET -- Indiana vs. Columbia
3:00 p.m. ET – Columbia vs. The Citadel
Also part of the weekend will be the Gold Dot JV Challenge conducted on Friday and the Middle and Elementary School Folkstyle National Championships on Saturday.
2010 Cliff Keen Kickoff Classic
The opening leg of the Roller World of Wrestling triple crown (aka -- the Trinity Award) will be this weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Expo Square Pavilion. Notable title winners in the 15-and-under division last year appearing in the high school rankings include Ryan Millhof (Archer, Georgia), Phillip Laux (Pekin, Iowa), Gary Wayne Harding (Collinsville, Oklahoma), and John Fahy (Trinity, Kentucky). Other champions at either the 15U or 12U levels that appear in the graduating class rankings include Davion Jeffries (Oklahoma), Ke-Shawn Hayes (Missouri), Luke Norland (Iowa), and Mason Manville (Virginia).
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