Inaugural OHSAA wrestling tourney begins Wednesday

From staff reports

The inau­gural Ohio High School Ath­letic Asso­ci­a­tion Team Wrestling Tour­na­ment, a dual tour­na­ment for Ohio’s var­sity wrestling pro­grams, will begin Wednes­day at select high schools through­out the state.

The pur­pose of the tour­na­ment is to con­duct a statewide team tour­na­ment that crowns a true team cham­pion in each divi­sion of Ohio high school wrestling, in a way that the OHSAA’s season-ending indi­vid­ual state wrestling tour­na­ment can­not. The tour­na­ment was approved by the OHSAA in 2010.

This inau­gural single-elimination tour­na­ment is bro­ken down into a three-day, three-round regional tour­na­ment (which will be held each of the next three Wednes­days) and a one-day, three-round state tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day, Feb. 9.

For the pur­poses of the tour­na­ment, the OHSAA’s three divi­sions each are sep­a­rated into eight regions, which are split geo­graph­i­cally into A and B regions. The win­ners of each of the tournament’s regions will advance to com­pete at the state tour­na­ment at The Ohio State University’s St. John Arena in Columbus.

Each region is seeded, with the top four teams in each region receiv­ing the option to host their respec­tive region’s quar­ter­fi­nals at their home venue.

Each team must fill at least eight weight classes in order to be eli­gi­ble for the optional tournament.

Tick­ets for the regional quar­ter­fi­nals and semi­fi­nals will cost $7, regional finals $8 and state tour­na­ment $10.

Belle­vue to wres­tle Edison

PERKINS — The Belle­vue Red­men will wres­tle the Edi­son Charg­ers in the Divi­sion II, Region 9-B quar­ter­fi­nals Wednes­day of the 2013 OHSAA Team Wrestling Tournament.

Belle­vue and Edi­son will face off at 6 p.m. Wednes­day, Jan. 23, at Perkins High School. The win­ner will advance to face the No. 2 seed in Region 9-B, the Perkins Pirates, with that dual match win­ner advanc­ing to the Region 9-B semi­fi­nals of the tour­na­ment, to be held Wednes­day, Jan. 30, at a site to be determined.

Belle­vue is the 10th seed and Edi­son sev­enth in the Region 9-B’s 10-team field.

Edi­son beat Belle­vue, 42–25, in a dual match ear­lier this sea­son on Jan. 2.

The state-ranked Clyde Fliers, the No. 1 seed in Region 9-B, will host their por­tion of the region’s bracket and will face the win­ner of Ross­ford and Columbian on Wednesday.

The Mar­garetta Polar Bears, the No. 4 seed in Divi­sion III, Region 18-B, earned a bye and will face No. 5 seed New Lon­don at 6 p.m. Wednes­day at Mar­garetta High School.

The Mon­roeville Eagles are the No. 10 seed in Region 18-B. They will face No. 7 seed Ply­mouth at 6 p.m. Wednes­day at Huron High School.

To view com­plete brack­ets for the tour­na­ment, visit the OHSAA Web site at ohsaa.org.

Posted by Brad Frank on Jan 22 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.