Elk River Old-Timers Tournament a blast once again
March 31, 2006
The Elk River Youth Wrestling Club hosted the 3rd Annual Elk River Old-Timers Tournament on March 11th at the Elk River High School. We grew again this year going from 74 wrestlers in 2005 to 84 wrestlers this year and we also added a team competition.
In the individual tournament, wrestlers were placed into groups of three and wrestled a round robin tournament. Wrestlers competed in (3) one-minute periods with a one-minute break between periods. In the team tournament, wrestlers could make up a teams consisting of five wrestlers. Each wrestler on the team was given points based on their place in the round robin tournament. The lower the total score the better the team placed in the tournament. This year instead of giving out T-Shirts to the champions, we gave medals to everyone who participated. The team champions received $125 and the runners-up received $50.
The award for the fastest pin went to Jordan Below of St. Paul, Minnesota with a time of 20.9 seconds. The award for the farthest distance traveled went to Nicolas Moody of San Diego, California and the oldest wrestler award went to Scott Forde age 41 of Elk River, Minnesota
Individual champions were:
Josh Kloss of Foley, Age: 25
Josh West of Blaine, Age: 19
Tony Peltier of Princeton, Age: 21
Travis Martensen of Minneapolis, Age: 20
Jason Jensen of Minnetonka, Age: 22
Chad Shilson of Maple Grove, Age: 35
Jesse Barthel of Princeton, Age: 39
Justin Englin of Eagan, Age: 23
Chad McGraw of Sartell, Age: 26
Dan Mueller of Eagan, Age: 20
Chris Gross of Blaine, Age: 28
Jason Longenbones of Champlin, Age: 35
Jon Koranda of Becker, Age: 20
Ben Moody of Blaine, Age: 22
Chad Boock of St. Cloud, Age: ??
Josh Skogen of Mankato, Age: 25
Joe Burke of Minneapolis, Age: 38
Mark Hayes of Zimmerman, Age: ??
Brad McAdams of Elk River, Age: 25
Josh Fitzpatrick of Foley, Age: 23
Paul Klees of St. Paul, Age: ??
Al Erickson of Elk River, Age: 21
Mike Timm of Minneapolis, Age: 28
Jordan Below of St. Paul, Age: ??
Jesse Zajac of Pierz, Age: 19
Ben LaBlanc of St. Paul, Age: ??
Ben Dahmus of St. Paul, Age: 21
Jon Duncombe of Becker, Age: ??
Team Results:
1st Place, Animal House, $125
2nd Place, Blaine Fury, $50
3rd Place, Princeton,
4th Place, The Killer Bees,
5th Place, Elk River
Thanks to the following people and organizations for donating their time to help: Skyline Officials Association members Nye McCarty, Zach McGillis and Mike Roff, Elk River Wrestling Coach, John Peterson and the entire high school wrestling team, and finally Craig Hemmesch and Dan Weimann for organizing the concessions.
As always, thank you to all the wrestlers for enduring the punishment of old timer wrestling and providing us with so much entertainment. We continue to have a blast with this tournament and hope to get bigger and better every year. We look forward to seeing you all again next year!!
