TEAM KANSAS HEARTLAND USA DUALS INFO
Team Kansas will be taking 5 Elementary, 5 Middle School, 4 Girls and 2 High School dual teams to the 2025 Heartland USA National Duals. The dates for this year’s event are Friday March 28th (weigh-ins), Saturday March 29th and Sunday March 30th. The event is held at the Mid America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
For Elementary, Middle School and Girls, the qualifying tournament is held on Sunday March 9th at the Tony’s Event Center in Salina, Kansas. The top 5 wrestlers (Top 4 for Girls) are automatically locked in to their respective team based on placing at the qualifier. First place is on Team 1, second place is on Team 2, etc. We can take 3 alternates for each team and those will be selected on a volunteer basis with the 6th place (5th place for Girls) finishers having the first option to go.
Once qualified, I expect you to wrestle with your respective team at this event and in the same weight class you qualified at. There is no moving of weights and you must make weight on Friday March 28th. It is a one-time weigh in so once you make weight, that’s it.
Payment of $300.00 and forms are due by the end of the qualifying tournament on March 9, 2025. Forms will be available both electronically and in paper format. Payment options will be cash, check or Venmo. Cost includes entry fee, Team Kansas singlet, shorts and t-shirt plus travel to and from Topeka, lodging and food/water.
In addition to these forms, you will need to bring with you to the event, copies of the following;
Birth Certificate, Current Grade Card and Medical Insurance Card
I believe James Cook will be putting this info on Facebook as well. Once the qualifier if over, we will also put together an email list for communication regarding changes etc.
We will be meeting at The Hotel Topeka – 1717 SW Topeka Blvd – Topeka, KS 66612 - between 9 and 10am Friday March 28th to pass out gear, get bus and room assignments, etc. We will group up in chartered buses and leave Topeka at 12 noon - to get checked in to our hotel before weigh-in. Weigh-in starts at 4pm and we will probably have an assigned weigh-in time around 4:30 or so.
I understand it is not convenient for everyone to meet at that location. I have no problem with you and your wrestler meeting us in Council Bluffs. If that is the case, PLEASE NOTE THAT ON THE SIGN-UP FORM. For those of you NOT meeting in Topeka, I will get your gear to you at the hotel in Iowa.
I will also need to know if any wrestler IS NOT staying with the team in the team rooms. I will be making a rooming list to turn in to the hotel on March 20th. Also, if your wrestler has a room-mate preference, I’ll do my best to get them together. There will be 4 wrestlers per room. Please indicate on the sign-up form, whether or not your wrestler will be staying with the team and any roommate preferences.
We will need volunteers to coach the teams (4 coaches per team). You must have a USA and bronze card to be considered as a coach.
Our old hotels have had a change of ownership, and we will be staying elsewhere. All teams (Elementary, Middle School, High School and Girls) will be staying at the Holiday Inn Express – 2010 Abbott Dr, Carter Lake, Iowa – 712-847-0777 and the Hampton Inn – 2020 Abbott Dr, Carter Lake Iowa – 712-847-0699. These hotels are in the same parking lot. There is blocks of rooms for the parents at both the Holiday Inn Express and Hampton Inn. These blocks are on a first come first serve basis. Ask for the Kansas Wrestling 2025 Parents Block when making reservations.
Dal Eck – Elementary Dual Coordinator
dal@matteck.com
316-641-4913
James Cook - Middle School Duals Coordinator
teamkansasheartland@gmail.com
785-212-0605
