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NYWA Team Tournament Rules

1. There are 15 weight classes with 6 alternates for the region team tournaments for K-6 team competition and also for state team tournament, Class A. They are as follows:
   45 – 50 – 55 – 60 – 65 – 70 – 75 – 80 – 84 – 88 – 93 – 102 – 115 – 130 – Hwt. (Maximum 215 lbs.)

2. There are 13 weight classes with 8 alternates for state team tournament, Class B only, which are those teams that placed 4 th -6 th place at region team tournaments. They are as follows:
   50 – 55 – 60 – 65 – 70 – 75 – 80 – 84 – 88 – 97 – 108 – 120 – Hwt. (Maximum 215 lbs.)

3. There are 9 weight classes with 4 alternates for 7th –8 th grade team tournament. They are as follows:
   80 – 90 – 100 – 110 – 120 – 130 – 140 – 160 – Hwt. (Maximum 235 lbs.)

4. Minimum weight for heavyweight class is 115.1 at regions and 116.1 at state because of the one-pound allowance at state. For the 45 lb. weight class, a wrestler can weigh 45 lbs. at regions and 46 lbs. at state with no minimum. There is no one-pound allowance at regions.

5. Regional entry fee per team is $175.00. Checks are payable to NYWA, Inc. Send or fax roster to team tournament director by the Wednesday prior to the regional team tournament date.

6. Dual team rosters can change until the end of weigh-ins the day of the team tournament both at regions and at state.

7. Saturday individual weights are good for Sunday dual team region if on same weekend. Individuals may wrestle one region and then wrestle for a team in another region with their blue card weight if the regions are the same weekend.

8. State entry fee per team is $240.00. This will need to be sent in with roster PRIOR to weigh-ins and coaches meeting. Send team roster to NYWA, Inc., PO Box 567, Grand Meadow, MN 55936 immediately after regional team tournament so we can ensure that your roster will be in the NYWA State Program.

9. Region team tournaments must use certified referees.

10. Both region and state team tournaments are double elimination.

11. The top six teams at each region will advance to the state team tournament. The teams placing 1st-3rd place will advance to the Class A team competition at state for grades K-6. The teams placing 4th-6th will advance to the Class B team competition at state. The region with the most teams will advance the top seven teams with the top four teams advancing to Class A and the 5th -7th place teams advancing to Class B. The region with the second most teams will advance the top seven teams to state with the top three teams advancing to Class A and the teams placing 4th – 7th advancing to Class B. There are no qualifying (region) team tournaments for grades 7-8.

12. In the event two or three regions have the same number of teams:
    a) The region that did not send a team the year before will send a team.
    b) The region with the most individual wrestlers will send a team.

13. Wrestlers wrestling in both individual and team at state may weigh in Friday night for both individual and team (K-6 grade). Then on Saturday, that wrestler can weigh in again at a different weight class for team competition. All 7-8 graders will weigh in on Thursday evening whether they are participating in individual competition, team competition or both.

14. Team wrestlers can move up only one weight class as in high school.

15. All dual team wrestlers must have shoe laces taped or covered as in high school rules.

16. All dual team wrestlers must wear head gear as in high school rules.

17. All dual team wrestlers must wear singlets.

18. For dual team tournaments, region and state, all wrestlers on each team must attend schools that feed into the high school program . If the wrestler attends a private school or is home schooled, then he/she is allowed to wrestle with the team that comes from the school district he/she lives in. If a wrestler lives in one district and is home schooled, but his/her siblings attend school in another district, then the wrestler can wrestle with the team that is in the school district his/her siblings attend.

19. The coach from each team is responsible to ensure that only wrestlers that are on their roster qualifies under rule 18. If any wrestler on the roster does not qualify, that team will be disqualified that year and the year following the year of infraction. Any questions regarding if a wrestler qualifies or is eligible to wrestle for a specific team call the NYWA office at (507) 754-4499.

20. Regions must wrestle to 7th and 8th place in the event a higher placing team can not go to state.

21. Team plaques will be given to the top four teams at the regional level. The top eight teams at state will receive individual medals and trophies, both Class A and Class B.

22. Biting – this will be determined by the referee and follows high school rules.

23. Crying Rule – this will be determined by the referee and follows the same criteria as injury time outs.

24. Any team may forfeit at regions at any weight but do not have to forfeit that weight at the state tournament. At the state tournament, a team must put a wrestler on the mat for each match or they will forfeit that match at that weight for the remainder of the tournament. This is the same as high school rules.

25. Teams may forfeit weight classes at regions for one match and not forfeit that weight the next match.

26. Teams must compete at the regional team tournament that their school district falls under. Check the boundaries map at www.nywa-mn.com.

27. Sixth graders are allowed to be on the 7th & 8th grade team roster to fill smaller weights; however, no one under the sixth grade can participate on the 7th & 8th grade team.

28. Sixth grade and under, Class A and Class B, team tournament brackets will be drawn on Friday night before the State tournament and will be drawn from a pre-determined schedule.

29. In the event a team is unable to attend the State Team tournament, Class A or Class B, NYWA reserves the right to replace them with any other team, beginning with the teams that wrestled in the regional tournaments.

30. Any team qualifying for the State Team tournament but is unable to attend must notify NYWA as soon as possible so NYWA may select another team to replace them. Team or teams not notifying NYWA of their state participation by Wednesday night prior to the state tournament may be replaced by alternate teams selected by NYWA.

31. Any team invited to fill a vacant spot in the State Team tournament must wrestle in that spot only.

32. Districts with 200 kids or less will advance all wrestlers to the region tournament.

33. Any wrestler sending an entry form to the region qualifier and they did not weigh in AND WRESTLE at a district tournament, within that region, will be disqualified from that regional tournament.

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