Regionals

If a wrestler cannot make the regionals:
1) Can they wrestle at state?
2) Are the automatically Slate?
3) Whom do we tell?

Traditionally, the rule has been that a wrestler who didn't wrestle in a Regional can wrestle at States, but only in the Slate class. For those not familiar with the format, the Slate class state tournament is run along with the rest of States, but it's comprised of wreslters who finished in the bottom half of the brackets at the two Regionals. (The top half finishers are in the Granite class.)

I have no idea if that's the rule this year. The person to contact is Rick Ross at the Manchester YMCA. And George Havener of Goffstown is hosting States.

I think I have heard of situations years ago where a kid who missed Regionals was allowed to wreslte in Granite, but (1) all coaches in the tourney were required to agree to it (because it's a team scoring event), and (2) it was only in "fringe" (extremely light or extremely heavy) brackets that had very few kids to begin with.

And for the record, I don't speak for the NHYWCA board, so nothing I say carries any weight.

Please contact Rick Ross at campmitena@aol.com You need to request a waiver from the Board of Directors to able to wrestle in States without wrestling in Regionals.

My daughter is sick and slate is fine...just want to be sure she can participate at state if she is not well enough to compete.

Originally Posted by IAmNot777

My daughter is sick and slate is fine...just want to be sure she can participate at state if she is not well enough to compete.

She cannot compete in either State division without the waiver and time is running out to request the waiver. Please contact Rick right away as the waiver needs to be approved by the entire NH wrestling board.

I have spoken directly to Rick and he asked me to post this information.

I guess the "rule" does not apply to everyone.