Folkstyle Saturday, July 30, Freestyle Sunday, July 31. For information about this tournament go to http://www.cardingtonwrestling.com/StateFairTourn2011.html.

For all you older guys out there, i couldnt get a match in the high school division last year so i bumped up to the older division and had 4-5 guys in my weight class, including a couple of guys all the way from canada.

Hmmm...

NOT A CHANCE, bitter.

Cruiser...You may feel differently after your triumphant run through the Wrestle Against Autism bracket.

I'm helping my friend Brian Church with promoting this tournament. We have added a few new wrinkles, including the option to register and pay on-line and satellite weigh-in sites.

ChampsDad, that would definitely make it more appealing. Thanks for the info.

Take a look at the stuff on the web page. You can register in advance either on-line or mail-in and save some money, or register the day of the tournament at the Holiday Inn. Wrestlers who are pre-registered may be able to weigh in at a satellite weigh-in site. If you want to hold one of the weigh-ins at your club or school, please contact tournament director Brian Church.

Don Jones has volunteered to run a weigh-in for this tournament from 6 to 8 PM Thursday, July 28 at Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati. Check the web site (http://www.cardingtonwrestling.com/StateFairTourn2011.html) for more info. There may be other satellite weigh-ins in other parts of the state (or in other states or provinces), so stay tuned for details, or volunteer your own school or club for a weigh-in.

We shall get the advance entries posted as soon as possible after they come in, but because I have a day job and some obligations some weekday evenings, there may occasionally be a day or two delay in getting them on the web site.

Don't forget, in addition to the folkstyle tournament on Saturday (July 30), there is also a freestyle tournament on Sunday. If you're coming a long way, consider staying overnight to check out the Ohio State Fair (best in the country!) and wrestle on Sunday. If you're unfamiliar with freestyle wrestling, there will be a rules clinic before wrestling starts - the skills are the same as for folkstyle, and you may find you like it! If you register for both tournaments you get a price break.

Saturday, July 31 is also AEP Ohio Day at the Ohio State Fair. AEP Ohio customers present a bill at a booth outside entrance gates to receive $5 admission vouchers for everyone in their party before 5 pm. This will help reduce the cost of admission to the fair for family members and friends of wrestlers entered in the fair. Regular admission to the fair is $10 for adults (ages 13-59), $8 for youth (ages 5-12) and seniors (ages 60+), and free for children under 5.

Satellite weigh ins? I'm going 103.

There are an increasing number of women's college teams, who wrestle freestyle. A young lady who has perhaps taken some lumps from some of the more mature young men may find that she is scholarship material at the collegiate level. If we get enough girls they can have their own brackets separate from the boys. I know of a few who have said they are going to come, but I have not seen their registrations yet.

We are negotiating for a satellite weigh-in in Indiana and are expecting a good turnout from the Hoosier state.

The advance registrations are starting to pick up. Check the web site daily to see who has registered. Don't be fooled, however - most of the entrants will wait until the night before or the day of the tournament, even though they could save money by registering early.

I would like to see more Ohio kids wrestle freestyle. College coaches are more interested in whether you went to Fargo then in whether you won your local spring open folkstyle tournament. Also, I do not believe that my son would have won a state championship in high school if he had not had extensive freestyle and greco experience.

The advance registrations are just now starting to pick up. I will do my best to try to keep up with posting them on the web site, but sometimes I might get a day behind because of my day job.

For a while I was trying to post stuff on a half dozen different forums, but I'm not going to have time to do that in the next couple of weeks. If you check the web site you will be able to see what we have so far. Most of the clubs who say they have a bunch of kids coming have not yet turned in their entries. There are several weigh-in locations across the state and one in Indiana; those are all listed on the web site, and there will be at least a couple more put up by Monday evening.

In addition to the web site (http://www.cardingtonwrestling.com/S...Tourn2011.html), I started a Facebook page for the tournament. Just look for Ohio State Fair Wrestling Tournament.

Are they still holding it in the outdoor pavilion? Or have they moved it since circa 1996. (God I'm OLD)

I remember when they used to have it in the cattle show arena, you could tumble out of bounds and literally be nose to snout with 500 pounds of live hamburger. Those were the days!

Go4alOngbOmB;835130 wrote:Are they still holding it in the outdoor pavilion? Or have they moved it since circa 1996. (God I'm OLD)

I remember when they used to have it in the cattle show arena, you could tumble out of bounds and literally be nose to snout with 500 pounds of live hamburger. Those were the days!

Those were the days!!

are the results posted somewhere?

http://www.ohiostatefair.com/osf/downloadbooks/other2011/wrestling.pdf

Ah what the hell, I was working at this fair and was unaware of this going on. Damn it.

Just looked at the results! Great numbers here. Seems to me that the older guys did a great job with turnout this year in folkstyle. I hope this continues to be the trend. Love this tournament.