MISSOURI STATE HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION 1 N. Keene St. P.O. Box 1328 Columbia, MO 65205-1328 Telephone: (573) 875-4880 - Fax Number: (573) 875-1450 Email: [email protected] - Web site: www.mshsaa.org EXECUTIVE STAFF Dr. Kerwin Urhahn, Executive Director Stacy A. Schroeder, Associate Executive Director Davine Davis, Assistant Executive Director Kevin Garner, Assistant Executive Director * Greg Stahl, Assistant Executive Director Don Maurer, Assistant Executive Director Kenny Seifert, Assistant Executive Director Lou Mazzocco, Assistant Executive Director Jason West, Communications Director Craig Long, Financial Officer *MSHSAA Contact Person for Wrestling TABLE OF CONTENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE .......................................................................... PAGE 2-3 SECTION 1: Regular Season .................................................................... PAGE 4 SECTION 2: Criteria for Post Season ........................................................ PAGE 12 SECTION 3: District Entry Procedures ...................................................... PAGE 13 SECTION 4: District and State Championships ......................................... PAGE 13 APPENDIX A: MSHSAA Concussion Management .................................. PAGE 28 APPENDIX B: Seeding Procedure – District Wrestling…….. ..................... PAGE 29 APPENDIX C: Sample Brackets and Scoring Chart .................................. PAGE 33 APPENDIX D: Projected Dates ................................................................. PAGE 39 APPENDIX E: MSHSAA Board Policy – Spectators at Events ................... PAGE 40 1 WRESTLING ADVISORY COMMITTEE BOYS WRESTLING Northeast Kansas City Gayle Adams (2020) Adrian Doolin (2022) Mexico High School North Kansas City High School Mexico, Mo North Kansas City, Mo 573.581.4296 816.327.4900 [email protected] [email protected] Northwest South Central Brad Hubbard (2020) Matt Peregoy (2022) Benton High School Sullivan High School St. Joseph, Mo Sullivan, Mo 816.671.4030 417.986.1380 Brad. [email protected] [email protected] Central Southeast Eric DeVenney (2021) Scott Aholt (2023) Harrisonville High School Central (Park Hills) High School Harrisonville, Mo Park Hills, Mo 816.380.3273 573.431.2612 [email protected] [email protected] St. Louis Southwest Jake Lapinski (2021) Daryl Bradley (2023) McCluer North High School Monett High School Florissant, Mo Monett Mo 314.506.9200 (w) 417.235.5445 [email protected] [email protected] GIRLS WRESTLING Northeast Kansas City Austin Bruner (2020) Samantha Richardson (2022) Marceline High School Central Academy of Excellence Marceline, Mo Kansas City, Mo 660.376.6016 816.418.2000 [email protected] [email protected] Northwest South Central Aaron Gudde (2020) Mel Hughes (2022) Plattsburg High School St. Clair High School Plattsburg, Mo St. Clair, Mo 816.539.2184 636.629.3500 [email protected] [email protected] Central Southeast Julie Maassen (2021) Ron Wilhelm (2023) Jefferson City High School Northwest (Cedar Hill) High School Harrisonville, Mo Cedar Hill, Mo 573.659.3050 636.274.0555 [email protected] [email protected] St. Louis Southwest Erin Hopkins (2021) Randy Roark (2023) Rockwood Summit High School Lebanon High School Fenton, Mo Lebanon, Mo 636.891.6800 417.657.6006 [email protected] [email protected] 2 PURPOSE AND PHILOSOPHY MISSION STATEMENT: The MSHSAA promotes the value of participation, sportsmanship, team play and personal excellence to develop citizens who make positive contributions to their community and support the democratic principles of our state and nation. PURPOSE OF MANUAL: This manual has been prepared to provide a better understanding of the administration of MSHSAA sponsored events. It will serve as a guide to the participating schools and will provide for greater consistency. All information will be included in this manual except such supplementary or incidental information as may be included in the MSHSAA Journal. The regulations in this manual shall be considered official unless the schools are notified in a Special Bulletin of any changes. PHILOSOPHY OF INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES: Interscholastic activities are intended to supplement the secondary curricular program. These activities can provide the student with educational experiences and learning outcomes that contribute toward the development of good citizenship. This can be accomplished only when the emphasis is placed upon teaching "through school activities." Interscholastic activities can be justified only when this is the primary philosophy and purpose. PURPOSE OF DISTRICT AND STATE CONTESTS: There are two primary purposes that justify and cause district and state events to be desirable. Those purposes are to provide opportunities to demonstrate before the public the best knowledge, skills, and emotional patterns taught through a particular sport; and to evaluate and compare the best of this teaching of knowledge, skills and emotional patterns among schools. Unless these purposes are primary, district and state athletic contests cannot be completely justified. It is the desire of the MSHSAA Board of Directors that these events be both fun and educational. It is extremely important that players, coaches, and the school community make every effort to enhance, and keep in proper perspective, the educational values of these events. Competition merely for "competition's sake" cannot be justified. Only when competition contributes toward worthwhile educational goals can the competition be considered sufficiently important to be included in the school program. USING THIS MANUAL All coaches and athletic administrators are urged to read the instructions in this manual carefully. Entry forms are located on the MSHSAA web site on each school site under Downloadable Forms. Please check and make note of all deadline dates for submitting entry forms which relate to this manual's sport. It is the responsibility of each school to make certain that the entries are properly submitted on or before the deadline date. Any questions concerning the forms or instructions should be referred to the MSHSAA Office 3 SECTION 1: REGULAR SEASON A. CLASS DIVISIONS: Boys Wrestling: Schools will be equally divided into four classes on the basis of enrollment for the 2019-2020 season and will re-classify every year. a. The largest schools, by enrollment, will be Class 4. b. The smallest schools, by enrollment, will be Class 1. Girls Wrestling: There will be one class until participation numbers deem otherwise. Girls Wrestling Implementation Period: The proposed plan is to have a two-year implementation period (2018-2019, 2019-2020) that would permit girls the option of participating in both their school’s boys lineup and girls lineup during regular season contests only. After this two-year transition period a girl can only participate against girls at girls only competition. From the start of implementation of Girls Wrestling, the girls MUST participate in the girl’s postseason. B. CONTEST LIMITS (TEAM/INDIVIDUAL): Boys Wrestling – 20 competitions dates, no more than 10 competition dates can be used for tournaments. Girls Wrestling – 20 competition dates, no tournament competition date restrictions. NOTE: The contest limits apply to both a Team and each Individual on a Team. (Example: School A has Boys Wrestling and fields a Varsity “Team”, JV “Team” and a Freshmen “Team”. School A can permit each “Team” to have a schedule that consists of 20 competitions dates, no more than 10 competition dates can be used for tournaments. Each Individual wrestler from School A can participate on any of the “Teams” that School A has; however, each Individual wrestler from School A is limited to competing in a total of 20 competitions dates, no more than 10 competition dates can be used for tournaments. These Contest Limits apply to the regular season prior to the district tournament. C. WEIGHT CLASSES (High School): Boys Wrestling: To determine the weight class in which a wrestler will be allowed to compete, refer to the MSHSAA Weight Management Program Manual link on the Wrestling page of the MSHSAA website. The following NFHS weight classes will be used: 106, 113, 120, 126, 132, 138, 145, 152, 160, 170, 182, 195, 220 and 285. Note: All lower level (Freshmen/JV) events and tournaments must also use the 14 approved weight classes. Pooling of wrestlers simply close in weight in lower level contest is not permitted. Girls Wrestling: Weight Classes will be determined based on weight assessments completed and entered into the OPC at trackwrestling.com by November 20, 2019. The 2019-2020 Girls Wrestling weight classes will be released via MSHSAA Broadcast email blast on November 21, 2019, just prior to the first allowable contest on November 22, 2019. The data from the weight assessments will be used to set the actual weight classes in an effort to achieve as much equal distribution in weight classes as possible. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEIGHT CLASSES (Boys and Girls): Any number of contestants may be used in duals and tournaments. There will be no more than five (5) pounds difference between opponents of 100 pounds or less; no more than eight (8) pounds 4 difference between 101 and 150 pounds; and no more than fifteen (15) pounds difference for opponents exceeding 150 pounds. The emphasis is placed on participation, not winning or losing, because of the fact that schools cannot fill a particular weight class.