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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.