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Congrats to Travis Budke, PCCC from Hays- TMP for qualifying at 165. Who else from Kansas will be there?

125
Joey Stephens (Derby) PCCC
Colin Hase (Silver Lake) Labette

141
Chris Wright (Dodge City) PCCC

157
Aaron Hynick (Rose Hill) Labette

165
Travis Budke (TMP) PCCC

184
Derek Heckel (Ulysses) Neosho

197
Tyler Downs (Derby) PCCC
Nick Kriss (Colby) Colby CC

My son just TXT me from Rochester and they are expecting upto 7" of snow with an .10" ice under it Thursday. So if your going, you might throw in a little extra stuff to keep warm and allow a little more time to get there.

If you see a black Dodge P/U in the ditch or a snow drift, stop and help push will ya!!!

See ya there - I hope!!

NJCAA National Wrestling Championships
2009 Official Tournament Schedule

Thursday, February 26
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM Team Registration at UCR Regional Sports Center
10:00 AM - 10:00 PM Official Scale Open – Workout site available
5:00 PM Tournament Procedure Meeting
5:15 PM NJCAA Coaches Meeting – Regional Sports Center
9:00 PM Coaches/Officials Social – Best Western Soldiers Field

Friday, February 27
6:00 AM – 7:15 AM Official Scale Available
7:15 AM Skin Check
7:30 AM Official Weigh-in
9:30 AM Preliminaries – First Round…..6 Mats
12:00 Noon* Preliminaries – Second Round……6 Mats
Consolation Pigtails
Consolation First Round…..6 Mats

6:00 PM Awards Ceremony
6:15 PM Championship Quarterfinals…..6 Mats
Consolation Second Round

8:30 PM* Consolation Third Round

Saturday, February 28
8:00 AM – 9:25 AM Official Scale Available
9:30 AM Official Weigh-in
10:30 AM Championship Semifinals…..2 mats
Consolation Quarterfinals…..2 mats
12:30 PM* Consolation Semifinals
2:00 PM Consolation Finals – 3rd & 4th, 5th & 6th, 7th & 8th
6:30 PM Opening Ceremonies
6:50 PM Parade of All-Americans
7:00 PM Championship Finals

*times are approximate

I see Travis Budke has won his first two. What do you have to place to be All American?

Top 8 make all american

I saw a lot of great wrestling today, in what turned out to be a very good tournament. I thought the Ref”s had done a good job. My only complaint was in the money round in the Consolation round. I know it’s a thankless job, but the table workers running the clock screwed a young gentleman from Labette out of placing. The Ref would start the match the last period and the timekeeper would repeatedly not start the clock. They even had the riding time going in the wrong direction when they did have it running. The Ref had finally noticed the last time they hadn’t started the clock and removed a few seconds off the clock, but not anywhere near as much as the time that didn’t run off. The young gentleman from Labette lost the match in the last 5 seconds in a match that should have already been over. I just hated to see someone’s season come to an end on sloppy timekeeping.

Derek Heckel from Ulysses lost the first round and came all the way through the back side to take fourth at 184. Proud of you Derek! Way to battle back.

Here are the results for those listed above.

165
Travis Budke (TMP) PCCC
7Th Place (7Th & 8Th Place Match)

W Fall 1:56
W 2-1
L 15-7
W Fall 6:43
L 5-1
W Fall 2:55


184
Derek Heckel (Ulysses) Neosho
4Th Place

L 5-3 to Devin Clark--Rochester (NATIONAL CHAMP)
W Bye
W Fall 1:56
W Fall 0:38
W 6-5
W Fall 1:27
W Fall 2:43
L 7-4 (3rd & 4Th Place Match)

Congrats to both of you for representing Kansas very well!

Well....

Labette finished fifth up there. Colby snuck past them by a half a point when they won in the finals at 149. There were some great, good, and poor performances from the Cards. Even with a nearly perfect tourney I don't know that this team could have beat Iowa Central. Iowa Central had a nearly flawless tourney and overachieved at many weights. The good news is...seven of ten guys are coming back next year. The Cards had some guys step up out there but some of the big guns didn't perform very well.

We are proud of Derek too. The guy he lost to in the first round wound up National Champion. Also we were anxiously sitting through the HWT final, as you see above Derek had 4 pins, that had him tied with Clackamas HWT in amount, but Heckel's time of falls were faster by nearly 40 seconds. Didn't work out though and finished 2nd in the most falls category.

http://www.wrestling411.tv/

This link has interviews with Coach Renfro, Zac Taylor of Neosho, and many other good interviews.

FYI...the final brackets can be found at http://www.rochsports.org/2009njcaawrestling.php