Pittsburgh, PA – The Dapper Dan Charities will sponsor The 32nd Annual Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic, the most prestigious high school all-star wrestling meet in the United States, on Sunday, March 26, 2006, in the University of Pittsburgh Fitzgerald Field House.

The USA Team will feature two of the most successful and dominating high school wrestlers in the country, Henry Cejudo, from Colorado, and David Craig, from Florida. The Pennsylvania Team will feature Garrett Scott, from Juniata Valley, who is seeking his fourth state championship. Cejedo is pegged to wrestle at 125 lbs., Craig and Scott at 171 lbs. and 140 lbs. respectively.

Cejedo’s older brother Angel, was voted the USA’s Outstanding Wrestler in Wrestling Classic in 2004.

The preliminary dual meet, showcasing the Western Pennsylvania All-Stars against another state team will begin at 2:00 P.M. The feature match, between the Pennsylvania state team and the USA All-Stars follows at 4:00 P.M. The Western Pennsylvania All-Stars has not lost to another state all-star team since 1993. The Pennsylvania All-Team will try to break its ten year drought.

By Richard Herman
Clarion University Sports Information

Tom Tomeo, a former NCAA Division I wrestling All-American at Clarion in 1998 and a native of Grove City, Pa., has been named Assistant Wrestling Coach at Clarion University. He replaces Jason Robison who left to become the head coach at Washington and Jefferson.

“We’re really happy to have Tom accept the position and come back to his alma mater.” said Clarion Athletic Director Dave Katis. “He knows our past and our wrestling tradition here and will be a great addition to the program.”

Tomeo wrestled at Clarion starting with the 1993-94 season and finishing with the 1997-98 campaign. In 1998 Tomeo was a co-captain, had his best season at 142-pounds posting a season record of 31-7 and earned NCAA Division I All-America honors with an 8th place finish. He also won PSAC and EWL individual titles in 1998. In 1997 Tom was 17-10 overall, qualified for the D-I Nationals at 142 with a 4th place finish at EWL’s. In 1995 at 134-pounds Tomeo was 31-8 overall, qualified for the D-I Nationals, was PSAC champion and finished second at EWL’s. As a freshman Tom was 19-9 overall, second at PSAC’s and fifth at EWL’s.

By: Andrew Shanks - The Daily Iowan

The date was Nov. 13.

Two Iowa wrestlers had just finished demolishing a field of competitors and were slated to meet head-on for the 125-pound title at the Spartan Open in Dubuque. So which one won?

Neither and both.

“We decided that it would be best if we were co-champions,” said freshman Thomas Magnani, who split the title with older brother Lucas Magnani. “We didn’t need to wrestle against each other to prove anything. We were both satisfied with the result.”

They weren’t born with this compassion for one another. Rather, it was instilled in them in their youth. Parents Thomas (Sr.) and Helen Magnani - the former a high-school teacher, the latter a guidance counselor - taught their children that they were brothers first and athletes second.

“I thought that the decision to have them share the championship was the same decision that I would have made,” Thomas Magnani Sr. said. “I mean, sure, there’s a sibling rivalry and a lot of competitiveness. They would want to win against each other if they were playing chess. But the individual title didn’t mean much to either of them, especially because Thomas is redshirting, and they were brothers before anything else.”

12/14/2005 - University of Minnesota Sports Information

Sophomore C.P. Schlatter has been named Big Ten Wrestler of the Week after helping lead Minnesota to victories over No. 7 Iowa State and No. 19 Nebraska. Schlatter won both of his matches to improve to 16-2 overall and 7-0 in the dual meets.

Last Friday vs. the Cyclones, Schlatter upset top-ranked Trent Paulson, 5-4, at 157 pounds. It was the first time a Minnesota wrestler had defeated a top-ranked wrestler in a dual since Jacob Volkmann upset Tyrone Lewis of Oklahoma State on Feb. 22, 2004. Schlatter added a 12-5 decision against Nebraska’s Chris Oliver on Sunday.

The Golden Gophers are now 7-0 on the season and climbed to No. 2 in the latest W.I.N. Magazine rankings. Minnesota is off until it travels to Greensboro, N.C., for the Southern Scuffle on Dec. 29-30. The Golden Gophers will host Arizona State at the Sports Pavilion on Tuesday, Jan. 3.

Mark Palmer

Earl Jones has an impressive set of accomplishments on the mat: A three-time Kansas high school state champion. A two-time junior college national champion. Ranked third in the 133-pound weight class in an early December 2005 NCAA Division II poll as a wrestler for the University of Central Oklahoma.

All these accomplishments are all the more impressive when you realize that Earl is missing the lower portion of his right leg.

Earl was just seven years old when he lost part of his leg after being bitten by a horse. He wears a prosthetic device for walking and other off-the-mat activities, but not during matches. Earl competes on his knees; however, because he is 5′10″ and tall in the body, he does not give up anything in terms of height when facing his opponents.

Earl was already a wrestler at a club in his hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas at the time of the injury. When asked if there was ever any consideration of giving up the sport, Earl says, “I sat out one season. My folks didn’t think I would continue wrestling.”

By DAN McCOOL
REGISTER STAFF WRITER

Wrestling official Chuck Yagla said he would like to have an NCAA Division I wrestling tournament as good as last season’s.

The 51-year old Yagla, though, would prefer to not experience the same drama leading up to this season’s event on March 16 in Oklahoma City.

The former two-time NCAA champion at Iowa - and, in 1976, the Hawkeyes’ first outstanding wrestler of the NCAA tournament - was diagnosed with medication-induced hepatitis in the fall of 2004.

Yagla said the culprit was likely a non-steroid, anti-inflammatory drug he took for 15 years to alleviate pain and swelling of a herniated disc in his back.

By the time he returned to officiating last January - Yagla’s weight dropped 20 pounds to close to his 150-pound collegiate wrestling weight. His skin had the jaundiced yellow tint his wife, Sarah, first noticed in his eyes.

“The hardest part for me was I got so weak, I got to where I couldn’t even do one push-up,” said Yagla, whose strength helped him earn a berth on the freestyle team for the 1980 Olympics that the United States boycotted. “It really got depressing on (the strength) side of it. One thing I always did over the years in the morning was to do push-ups. Not to be able to do one, this was crazy.”

Mike Ellsworth grew up in Caro, MI, population @4500. He was a four-time state high school wrestling finalist and a two-time state champ with a record of 198-19-2. Since graduating from the University of Michigan in 1995, Mike has been one of the top Greco-Roman wrestlers in the United Sates for the past decade, currently he is ranked sixth in U.S. Senior Greco-Roman Rankings.

Mike also wrestled in Real Pro Wrestling Season 1 were he was a member of the Pennsylvania Hammer at 66kg. “RPW is going to explode,” said Mike. “I look forward to wrestling in Season 2 and helping the league grow.”

Mike has wrestled in and won tournaments in thirty- four different countries around the world.

In February of 2003 Mike took one of the most important trips of his life. Not only was Mike representing the USA at a prestigious wrestling tournament, he became an Ambassador for peace between two nations divided for over twenty years. Destination: Iran.

The relations between the United States and Iran began to deteriorate after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the subsequent taking over of the United States Embassy in Tehran by Islamic students.

Dover, DE — Delaware State University Director of Athletics Chuck Bell has announced the appointment of First State native Dr. Earl E. Walker, Jr. as head coach of the university’s wrestling team, effective in mid-December.

Walker, 33, succeeds Darren Archangelo, who resigned this fall after two seasons.

The Middletown, Delaware native is a prominent psychologist, former collegiate All-America, and state high school wrestling champion.

“Delaware State University is very fortunate to hire a coach with the credentials of Dr. Earl Walker,” Bell said. “His professional and athletics successes are proof of his commitment to excellence. I am certain he can lead our wrestling program to long-term success.”

Walker brings a wealth of experience as a wrestling coach and teacher to Delaware State.

Presently, he is owner and director of Basics Plus Wrestling Camps in Newton, MA. His responsibilities include wrestling instruction to elementary, middle and high school students.

Walker has served three stints as an assistant wrestling coach at Boston University, most recently from September 2000 to June 2004. He previously held the post on two occasions from 1995 to ‘98.

The RPW Season One Box Set (8 discs) of 49 full-length, action-packed matches will be available for Christmas!

Ordering Details

Everyone who placed a pre-order will be contacted directly by RPW to take their orders over the phone before Dec. 12th. For those who did not placed a pre-order, the box sets will be officially for sale on-line Dec. 15th, in time for ground shipping to all destinations within the continental U.S. The DVD is available at a price of $49.99.

What’s Inside

This is the first time ever that real wrestling has been produced for television as a weekly series. Capture this historic launch of RPW’s first season and see all the top amateur stars battle in their professional debut performance. In addition to each episode, you’ll see the matches that were not aired on television and also the background stories on these great athletes.

TV Guide gave RPW “Cheers” for putting real wrestling into the spotlight. USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and Foxsports.com also gave RPW extremely good reviews. Join in the excitement as the new league launches, RPW Season One!

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By KEVIN EVANS, Executive Sports Editor

CEDAR FALLS - If enthusiasm and want could carry a project, the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum would be up and running on Jefferson Street.

It’s not.

The target date of Nov. 15 for making a decision on the move from Newton to Waterloo has come and gone.

That doesn’t mean the project is dead. In fact, it is alive and well and being approached on a more realistic basis.

It was probably a fantasy that $750,000 could be raised in six weeks’ time without more concrete plans on paper for people to see.

Museum founder Mike Chapman compares that original goal to the way Gable used to set goals before each season when he was coaching at Iowa.

“We didn’t make that deadline, but that was just a deadline, sort of like Gable saying he wanted 10 NCAA champions,” said Chapman. “That was just a goal. I thought we might be able to at least know it was a done deal. It is not disappointing, it just made us realize there has to be more spade work done.”

That’s just what the East Waterloo graduate has been doing.