Dana Announces Red & White Classic Wrestle-Offs

Dana College Sports Information
10/16/2006

BLAIR, Neb. - Dana Coach Richard Fergola announced today that the annual Red & White Classic wrestle-offs will be held this Friday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Gardner-Hawks Center. The defending NAIA National Champions will be looking to replace a record setting lineup that went into the history books as the highest scoring team in NAIA’s 50 years of wrestling championships.

The Vikings held their annual Team Trials on Saturday, Oct. 14 at the Gardner-Hawks Center. This event is held just like a challenge tournament in which brackets are set up and the finalists earn the right to compete in the Red & White Classic this Friday to see who will claim the top spot in their weight.

The three returning All-Americans for Dana were exempt from the Team Trials and await the winner of the challenge tournament. Craig Trampe (125), Burke Barnes (133) and Terrence Almond (141) all sat out of the challenge tournament, but will take on the winners of the tournament on Friday in the Red & White.

The Red & White Classic will also feature four honorary coaches for the event. This year marks the third year that the Red & White Classic will feature honorary coaches. This year’s coaches are Ron Beaman, Perry Mostek, Steve Hansen and Pete Isham. Beaman is a former head coach of the Vikings for almost 20 years. Mostek is a Dana wrestling alumnus and All-American and Wrestler of the Year for the Vikings in 1999.

Steve Hansen is the father of current Dana wrestler Chancy Hansen. Mr. Hansen and his wife Debbie have been major supporters of the Dana Wrestling program. Hansen wrestled at the University of Iowa and also hosts the Viking wrestling team on his ranch in Valentine, Neb., for the annual Team Retreat. Pete Isham is also a Dana wrestling alumni and is the current Assistant Coach at Millard North High School in Omaha.

Spectators will also get a chance to meet the new Vikings which were considered the No. 2 Non-Division I recruiting class in the country by Wrestling USA magazine. Following the Red & White Classic on Saturday October 21st will be the annual Fall Wrestling Clinic. Featured clinician will be 1992 Olympic Champion, 2x World Champion and current U.S. Head Freestyle coach Kevin Jackson as well as the Dana College National Champion athletes and coaching staff. The clinic registration begins at 8 a.m. with the clinic starting at 9 a.m. For the registration form, go to: http://www.dana.edu/wrestling/2006FallClinic.pdf

2006 Dana College Wrestling Red & White Classic Lineups

Weight White Team, Red Team

125 Craig Trampe, Sr., Ty Costa, Fr.
133 Burke Barnes, Jr., Eric Graham, Fr.
141 Terrence Almond, Sr., Brian Graham, Fr.
149 Clinton Dale, Jr., Marcos Martinez, Jr.
157 Jason Bilinski, Jr., Dan Pray, Jr.
165 Bula Tuzon, R-Fr., Jordan Davis, Fr.
174 Josh Ghobadpoor, Fr., Ross Milam, So.
184 Webster Farris, Jr., Jon Wilbourne, Fr.
197 Wade Jordan, Jr., John Schmalz, Fr.
285 Jesse Boggs, R-Fr., Shawn Gach, R-Fr.
Coaches: Ron Beaman, Steve Hansen, Perry Mostek, Pete Isham