Project Torch to Host Russian Wrestling Club in International Dual Meet

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The Project Torch foundation recently announced that it is building on the tremendous success of last year’s dual meet against the Beroe Wrestling Club of Bulgaria by following it up this year with a dual meet between some of the best wrestlers from the Chicagoland area and the elite Club Olympus from Dagestan Republic of Russia on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009. The dual meet will be held at R.A. Faganel Hall located at Elmhurst College, 221 Walter Street, Elmhurst, IL.

This rare event comes three years before the next Summer Olympic Games and features high school-aged athletes, some of whom may be taking a shot at the 2016 Olympics, which may be hosted by Chicago. The wrestlers will compete under international freestyle wrestling rules, and there will be a dual meet score kept between the two teams. Line-ups for both teams will be posted on the Project Torch website (www.projecttorchusa.org) by June 3, 2009.

“We’re excited to be hosting an event of this magnitude at our school,” said Elmhurst College head wrestling coach Steve Marianetti. “For young wrestlers to be able to compete with foreign athletes at such a high level at their age, and especially from a cultural exchange standpoint, it is a great experience to be able to do this.”

Team USA coach and Overtime School of Wrestling owner Sean Bormet explained the reasoning for the international dual meet, “We wanted to put together an exchange and host a dual meet that would allow some of the best young wrestlers in the Chicagoland area to measure themselves against some of the best young wrestlers from Russia. I have tremendous respect and regard for the Russian wrestling tradition and their history of success. At the senior level, the Russians are one of the greatest powerhouses in international wrestling today. So it will be interesting to see how we match up at an earlier stage of development. This event will be great for all of the athletes, and for all kinds of wrestling enthusiasts.”

R.A. Faganel Hall holds a crowd of 1,800. Ticket are $5 for adults and $3 for students. Kids 5 and under will be admitted for free. Doors open and tickets will go on sale at 6:30pm on Wednesday, June 10th. The first match will begin at 7:30 pm.

[da champ]

Will this be televised? If so what channel?

[exwrestler155]

Who's wrestling?

[camcorder]

The planned match-ups have been announced --

42kg Bryce Brill vs. Aydemir Hydyrbekov
46kg Eddie Greco vs. Arthur Arsanbekov
50kg Matt Cavallaris vs. Kamalutdin Karachaev
54kg Eddie Klimara vs. Salavutdin Karachaev
58kg Nick Dardanes vs. Eldar Rabadanov
63kg Donny Simpson vs. Zaur Magomedov
69kg Joe Keilbasa vs. Kurbanov Magomed
76kg Lee Munster vs. Dzhamalutdin Gadshiev
85kg Ryan Garringer vs. Magomed Abdullaev
100kg Ben Brooks vs. Islam Bahmudkadiev
120kg Ben Apland vs. Ulluby Abdulgafurov

[Ima Bigboy now23]

i heard mario couldnt wrestle because he had to get stitches

[Wic407]

I didn't see him at Freestyle state or Second Chance. Probably taking the offseason off

[wrstlng#1fan]

Originally Posted by Wic407

I didn't see him at Freestyle state or Second Chance. Probably taking the offseason off

mario told me the reason for him not wrestling was because he had to focus on his grades which he ended up doing very well on, and also he was gonna wrestle this dual but 2 days ago got cut pretty badly and had to get 3 layers of stitching on his fore arm

[forsure]

it seems like were not putting the best guys out there. Like at 63 simpson was beat by boggess badly and seems like he would be the number one choice. Chris dardanes not wrestlin seems odd to me. and having a 7th grader wrestle is kinda suprising
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[tigercoach]

Originally Posted by forsure

it seems like were not putting the best guys out there. Like at 63 simpson was beat by boggess badly and seems like he would be the number one choice. Chris dardanes not wrestlin seems odd to me. and having a 7th grader wrestle is kinda suprising

I would not fault the organizers for putting together whatever line-up they want. This is not a championship event where the top guys necessarily have to be in the line-up, although the IL line-up is very solid top to bottom.

It's just great that project force and overtime are giving these opportunities to Illinois MS & HS wrestlers.

Also, its pretty hard to find very many off-season HS wrestlers weighing 42 kg (92.4 lbs.).

[BARR]

Originally Posted by forsure

it seems like were not putting the best guys out there. Like at 63 simpson was beat by boggess badly and seems like he would be the number one choice. Chris dardanes not wrestlin seems odd to me. and having a 7th grader wrestle is kinda suprising

The team was decided with wrestle-offs.