Wrestling League Format and Rules

The purpose and formation of this league is to develop the youth and high school wrestlers of Colorado through affordable, local and high quality competition and training events. Some of our values are strong levels of competition, local Saturday events to the Colorado Front Range and surrounding areas, strong club leadership development and full USAW membership.

TOURNAMENTS: Our Saturday tournaments are run on a round robin and scratch weight format. This means all of our weigh-ins are done at your club site on Wednesday or Thursday evening practice conducted by your club's coach and entered on Track Wrestling (www.trackwrestling.com).  A statistician password will be assigned to each person entering wrestlers into PPWL events.  Please contact Jay if you don't have the statistician access Jay@PikesPeakWrestling.com

Scratch weight means there are no preassigned weight classes (Often called Madison Block bracketting).  If there are 120 9-10 year olds, the brackets will start with the lightest 6 wrestlers paired and then group the next 6 wrestlers according to weight and ranking and so on.  Coaches will rank wrestlers as they enter them as Novice, Intermediate, or Elite to ensure the best paired matches possible as well as enter them to the nearest tenth of a pound. 

The exceptions to Saturday events are, the PPWL may host a weeknight event under the same format during the regular season, and also the State tournament the PPWL runs in conjunction with USA Wrestling is not a Round Robin format and is done with weight classes preassigned.  Depending on number of entrants, this tournament may run two days to include Sunday.  Other than possibly at the state tournament, the PPWL will not run events on Sunday.

Tournaments are staggered start time, unless specifically noted.
Age groups of 4 and under, 7-8 year olds, 11-12 year olds start at 9am and finish around noon (called Session 1). Age groups of 5-6 year olds, 9-10 year olds, and 13-15 year olds start at noon and finish around 3:30pm (called Session 2).

ENTRANTS: All Wreslers must be a member of USA Wrestling. USA Wrestling membership can be purchased on the www.pikespeakwrestling.com website with an easy interface (available now). We also have an agreement to honor the WSWL’s membership, as long as it’s through USA Wrestling.  Coaches that handle the USA membership for the wrestlers may request an "Athlete Upload" form, and this allows them to enter into the fields of an excel spreadsheet all at once (for convenience).

The USA Membership also serves as an insurance policy for the wrestler, coaches, clubs and league (which comes with secondary sports accident insurance that also serves as primary insurance in the case of no health insurance for the wrestler's family).

Birthdate cutoff is September 1st as of now, but this will be a voting item for the annual meeting in October.

CHECK-IN: Arrive/warmup at least 30 minutes prior to tournament start time.  We start on time almost everytime.

BRACKETS: Round robin format, and 4-8 yr olds 4 man, 9-15 year olds in 6 man round robin (exception is novice 9-14 is 4 man as well)  You can print off the brackets from www.trackwrestling.com after 8pm on the Friday prior to the Saturday tournament.  This is free to do on track wrestling (doesn't require a password).  For those who don't print brackets prior to the tournament, there will be the option to purchase your wrestler's bracket for $1.

GATE FEES: No more than $5 for adults $3 for students. Under 6 free.  Active duty military and senior citizens over 65 with ID are free (this pertains to PPWL regular season tournaments only).  Coaches get in free with a visible USA coach's card.  Coach's cards require a background check, and the coach's card is not the same thing as a coach's pass from another league, nor a bronze card.  Coach's cards can be purchased at www.themat.com

WEIGH-INS: All entrants will have their weights entered by their coach to the Track Wrestling site (www.trackwrestling.com ) no later than Friday at 10am. At the tournament, 10% of the wrestlers will be randomly selected at check ins to weigh in. Wrestlers must weigh with singlets on. If a wrestler is found to be more than 2lbs or 3lbs pounds over the coach entered bracket weight, the wrestler is disqualified with no re-entry.  The 2lb variance is for any wrestler entered in under 100lbs, and the 3lb variance is for any wrestler entered in over 100lbs. 

Only coaches are approved to send in weights, and only from teams that are club members ($75 annual dues to become a club member in the PPWL), unless otherwise approved.  If there is a DQ from a team, there will be an announcement made over the PA system that due to cheating, the entire team must come and weigh in.  If any of those wrestlers DQ, the team is on probation, and the entire team must be present an hour prior to the doors opening for a mandatory weigh in at future events in the season.

HOSTING A TOURNAMENT: In order to host a tournament, a team must request a date via email.  Once you request a date via email, you have two weeks to provide your School's AD's contact information for verification of the reservation (phone and email contact) for the Pikes Peak league director to follow up and confirm the date for the gym as well as answer any questions the school's administration has about the insurance policy carried with our events.  If you host a tournament, you will have the same date reserved the following year. Please view Tournament Hosting Procedures.  Under the Coach's Corner Tab on the site is a tournament checklist as well.

Pikes Peak Youth Wrestling League rules (Differing rules from High School):

Rules should follow the High School sanctioned rules with the following exceptions:

  • Shorts and shoes required.  We prefer the kids wear a singlet, wrestling shoes, headgear, mouthgaurd (if applicable) and hair net (if applicable), but do not mandate it due to added cost.  We do mandate the USA insurance card.  Singlet, Head Gear, and Shoes can cost upwards of $50 to well over $100,  but catastrophic insurance coverage is more important should the wrestler ever need it.  The USA card is primary insurance if there isn't any held by the parent, or secondary if the parents have health insurance.
  • In the 4 and under division we do not initially call locked hands. The exception, would be after repeated verbal warnings in which the only move for the top wrestler is locking around the body.
  • RECENTLY ADDED:  6 and Under division (5-6 year olds) will call locked hands, but penalty is 1pt each time with no disqualification for this age group.  All older age groups will have locked hands called as normal...ie 1pt, 1pt, 2pt, DQ
  • Wrestlers 10 and under will all wrestle 3 (1) minute periods. 11-14 year olds are 1.5 minute periods.
  • 15 minute rest, as per USA wrestling rules
  • All wrestlers must have fingernails clipped and be skin checked by their coaches at weigh ins.  Wrestlers with a visible rash/blemish require a Dr's note or they will be disqualified without refund.
  • Wrestlers can request to wait until they have a coach in their corner (it's up to the wrestler to request that).
  • Only two coaches are allowed in the corner and the match will not start until there's two or less.
  • Ages are from 4-15 only, and no High School Wrestlers.