Manatee Wrestling Club's 2017 Tournament: Saturday, December 16

Manatee Wrestling Club will hold a 12/16 tournament including kids compete from grades K-8 with weight classes starting at 40lbs for Kindergarten and First. Wrestlers in 2nd and 3rd grades are at weights 41-150. For 4th and 5th grades the weights are 60-120 lbs and middle school weights are 70 lbs to a max of 165.

Wrestling Coach Dave Wiggins stated that the most aggressive and challenging weight classes are for 65-155 lbs. The event expects to attract 10-15 teams with and average of 200+ wrestlers tomorrow. The Manatee tournament is part of the I Own Florida youth wrestling series that is in place throughout Florida.

Weigh-ins will begin at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow with actual wrestling beginning at 10:30 a.m. All participants must pre-register on Trackwrestling.com.