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AAU Great Plains Championships

August 22, 2006

The Swiftel Center and Wrestling Apparel have announced they will be hosting the first annual AAU Great Plains Championships on May 12-13, 2007 at the Swiftel Center in Brookings, SD. The meet will be run by the Brookings Wrestling Association.

This will be a folkstyle tournament that will invite the top four placewinners from the state AAU tournaments in South Dakota, NorthDakota , Minnesota and Iowa in the Tots (6&U), Bantam (7&8), Midget (9&10), Junior (11&12) and Schoolboy (13&14). There will also be an open division for grades 9-12 from each state. This is the first time that the best young wrestlers from these states will square off.

As of now, the AAU State tournaments in Iowa and South Dakota are extremely large with over 1200 participants at each. 2007 will be the first year an AAU State Tournament will be held in the State of North Dakota. Last Year theMinnesota AAU State Tournament was held in Rochester, MN at the RCC Field house. The event will be held there again and plans are for a great turnout. Each of these state events will also be qualifiers for the Columbus (Ohio) Tournament of Champions and the AAU Grand Nationals which will be held in Butte, Montana in the summer of 2007.

For more information, contact Bob Johnson 605-691-4636.