Back on the Calendar. Sorry for that, but there is apparently a wedding being held on Dec. 17th as well at the high school at 5 pm. we had to make some concessions for this wedding party (traffic redirect for parking, no use of the commons area, blocking any interference between the tournament and the wedding just down the hall, etc.) Anyhow, with the plan that we have in making sure that we do not interrupt the wedding, we were finally able to convince the district to allow us to host our tournament on our date of Dec 17th. With that there will be some minor changes to the tournament. First and foremost, we are keeping with a split format and having the Novice on Sunday the 18th. Only other change is that we will have the 14U group going in the morning session in the Aux Gym along with the 6U and 8U in the Main Gym. This is due to time constraints mostly, and in my past experiences the 14U need full size mats and this can push the end time a little long. We need to be completing matches up sometime before the wedding starts so this move, I believe will help with us getting out of the afternoon session as early as possible. In the past, we have run the 14U on Friday to alleviate time constraints, however, this is not an option this year and since we took the Novice out of the mix on Saturday I believe that we can meet our time demands and still get the proper rest between matches for the kids and meet the demands of the wedding party.

We will see, not everything always goes perfectly to the plan. As for now, we have penciled in our dates with the district for the next several years so that this situation does not arise again (hopefully)

Thank you for your support and your patience as we have had to juggle yet another obstacle.

Craig Gash
Derby Wrestling Club
Tournament Director