Districts

-Everyone registered with AAU is invited to wrestle at districts as long as they reside in the district boundaries, and must be a South Dakota resident.
-Brandon Valley is District 9
-Wrestlers can weigh in at any weight class, but if they advance to Regions they must weigh in at the same weight division as they wrestled in Districts.
     *If you register a wrestler at a weight for districts but they do not make that weight or are able to drop down a weight class this can be done only at Districts.
-Wrestlers may move up in age division, but this can only be done at Districts.
    *If a wrestler advances to Regions, they will wrestle at the same age and weight as they wrestled at Districts
-Top 8 from each age and weight division qualify for Regions Tournament.
-If a wrestler places in the top 8 at District Tournament, they will automatically be registered in the SDWCA Region 5 Tournament
-Matcats association will reimburse wrestlers entry fee at the end of the season banquet for Districts Tournament

***Important***
Coaching – You must have an AAU coaching membership (don’t wait to get this it can take a few days to get results from the background check, before you receive your membership card) to coach matside at all SDWCA postseason tournaments. You will need to have this stamped at the Districts to be able to coach your wrestler at Regions, and you need it stamped at District  AND Region Tournaments to be able to coach matside at the State Tournament.

Regions

-Brandon Valley is Region 5 (Districts 9&10 make up Region 5)
-Wrestlers must weigh in at or below the weight they qualified at, and will be bracketed based on placing in District Tournament (NO WEIGHT ALLOWANCE)
-Top 3* from each age and weight division qualify for State Tournament 
    *each year 1 age division from our region (Region 5) sends 4 wrestlers in each weight class to the state tournament.
-Qualifiers for the State Tournament will automatically be registered for the State Tournament
-Matcats association will reimburse wrestlers entry fee at the end of the season banquet for Regions Tournament

State

Rapid City

March 28-30
-Wrestlers must weigh in at or below the weight they qualified at, and will be bracket based on placing in Region Tournament.
-Matcats association will reimburse wrestlers entry fee at the end of the season banquet for state tournament