Districts, Regions, & State

Districts

Tea

-Flyer
-Tournament Registration
-Everyone registered with AAU is invited to wrestle at districts as long as they reside in the district boundaries.
-Brandon Valley is District 9
-Wrestlers can weigh in at any weight class, but if they advance to Regions they must weigh in at the same weight division as they wrestled in Districts.
     *If you register a wrestler at a weight for districts but they do not make that weight or are able to drop down a weight class this can be done only at Districts.
-Wrestlers may move up in age division, but this can only be done at Districts.
    *If a wrestler advances to Regions, they will wrestle at the same age and weight as they wrestled at Districts
-Top 8 from each age and weight division qualify for Regions Tournament.
-If a wrestler places in the top 8 at District Tournament, they will automatically be registered in the SDWCA Region 5 Tournament
-Matcats association will reimburse wrestlers entry fee at the end of the season banquet for Districts Tournament

***Important***
Coaching – You must have an AAU coaching membership (don’t wait to get this it can take a few days to get results from the background check, before you receive your membership card) to coach matside at all SDWCA postseason tournaments. You will need to have this stamped at the Districts to be able to coach your wrestler at Regions, and you need it stamped at District  AND Region Tournaments to be able to coach matside at the State Tournament.

 

Regions

West Central

-Flyer
-Brandon Valley is Region 5 (Districts 9&10 make up Region 5)
-Wrestlers must weigh in at or below the weight they qualified at, and will be bracketed based on placing in District Tournament (NO WEIGHT ALLOWANCE)
-Top 3* from each age and weight division qualify for State Tournament 
    *each year 1 age division from our region (Region 5) sends 4 wrestlers in each weight class to the state tournament. This year (2023) Region 5 will send 4 Midget wrestlers.
-Qualifiers for the State Tournament will automatically be registered for the State Tournament
-Matcats association will reimburse wrestlers entry fee at the end of the season banquet for Regions Tournament

 

State

Rapid City

March 15-17

-Contact Matcats email for Hotel info
-Wrestlers must weigh in at or below the weight they qualified at, and will be bracket based on placing in Region Tournament.
-Matcats association will reimburse wrestlers entry fee at the end of the season banquet for state tournament
-Flyer

2023 State Qualifiers
Tots
     49
– James Wiese
     53 – Dominic Groenewold
Bantam
     70
– Roman Weiss
     76 – Lincoln Kiefer
Midget
     59
– Benjamin Wiese
     67
– Wyatt Veskrna
     82
– Bryan Blomgren
     89
– Maddox Evans
     96
– Hank Crawford
     104 – Hayden Wolf
Girls B
     82 – Avery Christensen
     91 – Gracie Peters
Novice
     64
– Jonah Elder
     68 – Gavin Carda
     100
– Jack Tinker
Schoolboy
     80
– Bode Walker
     90
– Braylon Bach
     125
– Braden Shoemaker
     140
– Harmon Kramer
     180
– Cody Lindekugel
Girls C
     110
– Kendall Clayton
Cadet (16U)
     100
– Beckett Rehorst
     138
– Aaron Tucker
     195
– Juul Heggen

2022 SDWCA State Participants

Champions
Nehemiah Elder Midget 53
Tyson Carda Midget 89

2nd
James Wiese Tots 43
Gavin Carda Midget 63
Aaron Tucker Schoolboy 120
Hudson Parliament 16U 220

3rd
Roman Anderson Schoolboy 115

4th
Levi Veskrna 16U 138

5th
Maddox Evans Bantam 76
Breyson Barthman Novice 60
Grant Blomgren Novice 150
Braden Shoemaker Schoolboy 110

6th
Wyatt Veskrna Midget 59
Isaac Weerheim Novice 68

7th
Ben Wiese Bantam 53

8th
Issac Irvine Schoolboy 150
Ethan Tucker 16U 138
Ellie Irvine Girls A 60

Participants
Dominic Groenewold Tots 46
Cooper Genz Tots 53
Mathias Anderson Tots 57
Sam Riedmann Bantam 65
Hayden Wolf Bantam 83
Tucker Kiefer Midget 113
Bode Walker Novice 72
Ben Spahr Novice HWT
Jacoby Fisher Schoolboy 105
Cohen Hartz 16U 160