The Mid America Deadline in Council Bluffs, A Roller Tournament is this Saturday. I am sending in registrations Friday night and it would be great if we have some of us going as a team, that way we can save on the coaches pass and all. Right now I have Nate and Dante Rogers and possibly others, would love to set something up quickly though for those wanting to go. It is a great tournament and there will be a lot of good comp there. Let me know if interested, call cell phone at 316-841-5814 or email me at mike@furches.org. This is one of the last folkstyle tournaments and will be a lot of fun. Here is a link to the tournament information:

http://www.worldofwrestling-roller.com/tournaments.asp

By the way, they do have an 18 & Under division.

Today is the deadline for this tournament. You can register on line at http://www.worldofwrestling-roller.com/tournaments.asp Hope to see a good group up there from Kansas. We still have a couple of seats left. I actually found rooms at The Days Inn in Council Bluffs for anyone wanting to stay there. I'll have or know of the following:

Nathan Furches at 15 & Under 95
Dante Rogers 18 & Under 103
Aaron Sweazy Open and Real Pro Body Slammin'
Matt Mahan 18 & Under 140 pounds
Lance Peltier 6 & Under 37

Who else is going up for this tournament?

Doniphan County Grizzlies have three kids going

ZEB SPEER 6U 46
KORTIN BLEVINS 6U 52
TRISTAN SPEER 8U 70

WE ALREADY SENT OUR ENTRIEES IN EARLY OR WE WOULD HAVE TEAMED UP WITH YOU. MAYBE YOU COULD HELP US COACH IF MORE THAN ONE OF MY WRESTLERS COME UP AT THE SAME TIME . I AM THE ONLY COACH GOING.THANKS FRANK SPEER

LANDON WOOD 8U 58

Sean Gaither - 12U/120

Reece Conklin 10&u 90 and Hunter Haralson 10&u 64 from Sunflower Kids willbe going.

Kansas wrestlers are as follows:

Kansas Entries for Mid America

6 & Under

37 lbs - Lance Peltier
43 lbs - Christian Bowen
46 lbs - Zeb Speer
52 lbs - Kortin Blevins


8 & Under

52 lbs - Ty Hensley
58 lbs - Landon Wood
64 lbs - Ben Ewing
64 lbs - Paul Suhr
70 lbs - Drake Hake
70 lbs - Tristan Speer
70 lbs – Landon Younger
105 lbs – Mike Lade
105 lbs - Skyler Hittle


10 & Under

58 lbs – Chance Pitcock
64 lbs – Hunter Haralson
67 lbs – Gage Younger
70 lbs – Dylan Schumacher
70 lbs – Dallas Vesta
73 lbs – Austin Lopez
90 lbs – Reece Conklin
90 lbs - Brock Long
130 lbs – Cash Drylie
HWT – Jarin Brown

12 & Under

73 lbs – Zack Vesta
84 lbs – Channing Hosey
110 lbs – Braden Long
120 lbs - Sean Gaither

15 & Under

82 lbs – Jeff Vesta
95 lbs – Ethan Bates
95 lbs – Nathan Furches
157 lbs – Artie Squire

18 & Under

103 lbs – Dante Rogers
140 lbs – Matt Mahan
171 lbs – Chris Kearn


A link to entries so far is up at: http://www.worldofwrestling-roller.com/images/tournaments/mid_america_2005.pdf expect the possibility of more entries, apparently each wrestler is guaranteed at least 3-4 matches. This may mean some combined matches at other weights.

Good luck to all of the Kansas Wrestlers. It would be great if somehow we could all sit together and cheer each other on. If there are any that I have missed email me and I'll try and correct the list.

GO KANSAS!

Hey Mike your missing Brock Long 10u 90lbs. In fact Ellis is taking six young wrestlers to CB town.

When anyone has any results...can you please post??

I only know some off the top of my head:

Lance Peltier 3rd 37/6u

Jarin Brown 1st HWT/10u

Ethan Bates 2-2 (maybe 3-2) DNP (only lost to 2nd and 3rd place guys in 95lb/15u

Nathan Furches 1st 95/15u

Matt Mahan 2nd 140/18u

and finally...

Dante Rogers 1st 103/18u

Dante was also the winner of the Most Outstanding wrestler in the 18 and under division for having the most falls.

Sean Gaither - 12/120 - 2nd

Looks like Kansas was once again, well represented!!

All of our wrestlers did great. There was also a number of exhibition matches for some of them where they did quite well. It was great seeing everyone and helping each other out. Would love to see some of the other results.

Last note, maybe the Swayz can tell you about some of the experiences we had over the weekend with our wrestlers and the trip.

SKW - Hunter Haralson 10/64 1st place
SKW - Reece Conklin 10/ 90 1st place

Wrestlers from Hays and Ellis

Landon Younger 8U 70 1-2 DNP
Gage Younger 10U 67 1-2 DNP
Dylan Schumacher 10U 70 4-1 2nd
Austin Lopez 10U 73 1-2 DNP
Josh Thomson 10U 80 3-2 3rd
Brock Long 10U 90 3-2 4th
Cash Drylie 10U 130 2-0 1st
Bradon Long 12U 110 0-3 DNP

The tournament was a great experience for all the kids. Good officals and nice to wrestle on full mats.

TRISTAN SPEER 8-70 3RD PLACE
KORTIN BLEVINS 2-2 DNP 6-52
ZEB SPEER 1-2 DNP 6-46

Dustin Williams 8-61 3rd place

Paul Suhr 8-64 3rd place

Wrestlers from Pittsburg and Grant County:

Zak Hensley- 3rd place
Landon Wood- 4th place
Tyler Hensley- 0-3 DNP.

Great job boys we are very proud of all three of you! We had a great time in Council Bluffs...

Great job to all the Kansas wrestlers they represented Kansas well!