Last year, the inaugural NYWAY Kickoff Classic brought several hundred youth wrestlers from five to 14 years old to the campus of Cornell University. Many of the standouts from that event continued to make names for themselves throughout the season, including some at the varsity level.
A few examples: Penfield’s Frankie Gissendanner was named MOW at his first varsity tournament and won the prestigious Top Hat event in Pennsylvania at 126 pounds– as a seventh grader. Alexander’s Dane Heberlein has already made an impact at 99 pounds in Section 5 while Michigan’s Devin Schroder, who won the NYWAY Kickoff a year ago at 105-110 pounds, went on to take All-America honors at the FloNationals in April at 106 as an eighth grader.
The second annual NYWAY Kickoff Classic on January 6 promises to be another top notch event, this time at Niagara County Community College (NCCC) in Sanborn, New York. NCCC head coach Keith Maute, who is also the Director of Cobra Wrestling Academy, will serve as Tournament Director.
Around 100 wrestlers from Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania have already committed to attend and enrollment from New York has been strong. In fact, the expectation is that over 400 youth wrestlers between the ages of five and 14 will compete.
“We are hoping to make this a true New York state championship with registration from all around the state,” said Kevin Lucinski, NYWAY’s Far Western Director. “Having top kids from other states just adds to the competition. We want people to know that it will be professionally paired with New York certified referees and full mats. We’re hoping it will be a flagship event for NYWAY and Section 6.”
The champion in each of the 59 weight classes will receive custom Cage Fighter shorts (pictured) and the top four finishers in each bracket will earn medals.
Lucinski notes that there has been a change to the registration process. Rather than signing up online, all registration must be done using the mail-in form, which is here: 2013-NYWAY-KICK3
Please send the registration to:
Cobra Wrestling Academy
351 Pine St
Lockport, NY 14094
If you have already registered and paid online, please confirm your registration by e-mailing Kevin Lucinski at kslucinski@yahoo.com.
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For those of you going be aware that NCCC is always filthy and anything run by the school for wrestling tournaments is always POORLY run!
dont know what tournament has been poorly run or what is filthy about NCCC? Be more specific
Just someone looking to hate on things! This is an opportunity for local as well as state wide competitors to come out and wrestle in an early season tournament. A majority of these kids don’t get this chance until march or April. NCCC is not Cornell, but believe me everyone involved is doing their best to make sure that this is a fun, safe enviornemt for all competitors and fans
For what its worth Ive had good experiences with wrestling tournaments at NCCC.
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