Amsterdam is looking for one more dual meet for the 2017-2018 season. If interested contact Brandon Giaquinto at bgb1234bgb@gmail.com.

Tim Herman at Armdrag.com is in the process of uploading decades of NYS Tournament Final videos. You can watch them on the Armdrag channel on youtube.

Youtube Channel

South Jefferson CSD has an anticipated vacancy for a full-time, tenure track Living Environment teacher effective August 30, 2017. AP experience preferred. NYS certification required. Also looking to fill coaching position for modified / assistant wrestling.  Please send letter of interest, resume, copy of certification, three letters of recommendation, and copies of transcripts by Friday, July 14, 2017, to:
 
Mary Beth Denny
Superintendent of Schools
South Jefferson CSD
P.O. Box 10
Adams, NY 13605
(315) 583-6104

Carthage wrestling will be hosting a camp for all 1st - 8th grade students on July 24, 25 and 27 from 5:30 - 8 pm at the Carthage High School in the Auxiliary gym and wrestling room.  The cost is $25.  You will register and pay the first night of camp.  For more information please contact me at 315-222-5061 or email at ddorchester@carthagecsd.org

Entry Form

Cornell C Brand Summer Duals are back July 16th at Brockport College! We are hosting  K-6, MS & HS Divisions this year. You are guaranteed 5-6 matches. Teams please contact me to hold your spot in this years dual. We can take up to 16 teams in each division. Wrestlers who want to jump on a team please email or call me with name, weight & grade. We will then place you on a team. This Dual will Follow Rob Koll's C Brand Camp July 12-15th at Brockport College. Flier is attached for both the Camp & the Dual.

Hannibal (Section III) has openings for a science and a social studies teacher at the high school level.  Interested candidates with wrestling coaching experience email Mike Kitts at Mkitts@hannibalcsd.org for more information.

Armdrag.com has recently been given film masters of the NYS high school wrestling finals from 1979 - 1999 (plus more from the 1970s as well as a few mystery reels!). This film needs to be converted to digital before it's lost (hopefully we're not already too late).

After shopping around, we found a place outside of Syracuse (Industrial Color Labs) that will do the conversion at a reasonable price.

Please help us raise $1000 to pay for this conversion, and we will upload it to YouTube for all to enjoy.

https://www.gofundme.com/nys-wrestling-film-to-digital

Canastota has openings in the 2018 Fallen Heroes Tournament on January 6th. If interested in participating, contact Coach John Tyler at jtsteel34@yahoo.com. For more information, see the tournament flyer.

Due to delays in mail as a result of the storm, the registration deadline for Saturday's Bob Carlin Memorial tournament in Greene, NY has been extended.  Please email your registration to stanfendryk@gmail.com by Friday, March 17th.

With the offseason upon us we have started to plan our dual event for next year.  It will be January 13th and we hope to have 8-10 teams attend so that all teams have 5 duals.  We usually have a diverse field of several sections along with one PA team.  In the past we have ranged from state ranked teams attending to less tough teams.  Our goal is to get several Section II, III, IV, V, and VI teams.  I want this event to continue to be one where wrestlers can come and get tough matches against new opponents.  If you have questions please contact Coach Wukovitz at mawukovitz@cppmail.com

Newark Valley Youth Wrestling Tournament is taking individual and team submissions until Friday Evening at 6:00 pm by email : newarkvalleywrestling@gmail.com. Payments can be made at check in. All NYS Certified refs.

Time Warner Cable Sportschannel will be broadcasting the semifinals (10am) and finals (6pm) live on Saturday. Check your local listings for channel.

For more information, visit the Time Warner Cable Sportscannel website.

2017 Ohio Tournament of Champions - 25th Anniversary

New for 2017: Region Competition - with chance to win up to $2500 cash grant, to help support wrestling in your Region

February 13, 2017

The Ohio Tournament of Champions, considered one of the toughest post season wrestling tournaments in the country, as well as being the largest one day event, will be held at the Columbus Convention Center, in Columbus, OH, on April 22.

This year marks the event’s 25th Anniversary and tournament organizers are expecting 3000 participants. Currently, entries are running at more than 75% ahead of last year’s pace, which saw nearly 2500 entries, and 16 states are already represented.

Registration is currently open, thru April 14, with extended registration closing out on April 16, at http://www.ohiotofc.com  - there will be no entries accepted after after that. Age groups, which are determined by the birth year, range from 8 and under and go thru high school. There is also an Open Division, for those wrestlers that have graduated high school.

Past participants read like a who’s who of wrestling, including: Jon Reader (10X Champion), Logan Stieber (6X Champion), Kyle Dake (1X placer - 4X placer), David Taylor (2X Champion) and Coleman Scott (2X Champion).

Other past competitors have included: Kyle Snyder, Mark Hall (6X Champion), Dean Heil (4X Champion), Anthony Collica (3X Champion), Lance Palmer (3X Champion), Collin Palmer (8X Champion), Zahid Valencia (2X Champion), Luke Pletcher (9X Champion), Cade Olivas (7X Champion), Mark Grey (6X Champion), Eric Tannenbaum (5X Champion), Kaleb Romero (5X Champion), Kenny Courts (5X Champion), Hunter Stieber (5X Champion), Dustin Schlatter (4X Champion), C.P.Schlatter (2X Champion), Austin O'Connor (2X Champion), Yianni Diakomihalis (4X Champion), Michael Poeta (3X Champion), Zeke Moisey (3X Champion), Nathan Tomasello (1X Champion), Jason Tsirtsis (1X Champion), Myles Martin, J. Jaggers (3X Champion) and many others.

While the event is an individual tournament, with awards being given out to the top eight place finishers in each age/weight class, a new twist was added this year - Region Competition.

“Basically, we have divided the United States up into about 40 Regions,” Tournament Chairman Bart Freidenberg said. “When a wrestler registers, he will select the Region that he resides in. The top 25 place finishers, in each Region, will score points for his Region. So, every wrestler is a potential point scorer.”

Freidenberg added that the top five Regions will win cash grants, ranging from $500 to $2500, which will go directly to support wrestling in the winning Regions. “We’ll see how the entries go,” Freidenberg said,” so there may even be additional money allocated to either the top five Regions, or additional placing Regions. We haven’t decided on that part yet.”

With the Region Competition, the event has added a new category of qualification, “Wildcard Entry.” Basically this is just an additional exemption that folks can use to register,” said Freidenberg. “We anticipate that 99 percent, or more, of our entries will have already met some other qualification, to enter. In the past, many folks have met one of the qualifications, or exemptions, but weren’t aware that they had, so they never bothered to enter. This just sort of streamlines things and makes it easier for folks.

Also back is the Club & Team Competition, which is again based on wrestler’s individual place finishes. ”There was a lot of confusion on which Division to enter last year,” Freidenberg said. “This year, the clubs and teams will just pick the Division based on the prize they are hoping to win.” This years prizes range in value from $500-$1500  worth of custom wrestling apparel and gear.

The Tournament has also announced its first two Special Guests for the event: Frank Jasper, who portrayed Shute, in the movie “Vision Quest” and Grayson Russell, who portrayed Texas Ranger in “Talladega Nights” and Fregley in the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies. Both will be on hand to sign autographs for all the attendees.

You can follow tournament updates on their Facebook page, at: You can also like the event’s Facebook page, at https://www.facebook.com/ohiotofc/ and the event itself will be streamed live on Flo Wrestling.

Registration is now open for the Gene Mills Eastern Nationals on April 8th, 2017 at the SRC Arena in Syracuse.

http://www.cnypin2win.com/