India, the defending Commonwealth team champion will be hard pressed by Canada, Pakistan, Nigeria and host South Africa.    Cape Town,  South Africa. - The 2005 Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in Freestyle for men and women and Greco-Roman for men are to begin in a few days.     The championships will be held on June 30 - July 2 in the gymnasium at University of Stellenbosch in the town of Stellenbosch, one of the oldest towns in South Africa. Stellenbosch is located some 40km from Cape Town among the rolling hills in the centre of South Africa's famous wine district.     In addition to the original 11 Commonwealth wrestling nations that confirmed their participation previously, Cameroon, Uganda and Gambia have now indicated to the organizing committee that they will also take part in the 2005 Championships.    The first team that arrived yesterday was New Zealand team. Team coach Kevin Mclaughlan is optimistic about his teams chances by saying " we have a young team with a lot of potential and we came to wrestle tough and get medals at these Championships, we will wrestle both freestyle and Greco-Roman."    The Commonwealth Amateur Wrestling Association secured the services previously of Momir Petkovic, USA assistant national Greco-Roman coach to conduct a Greco-Roman camp. In the last few days, the Commonwealth Association was also able to get the services of Victor Zilberman a Freestyle coach from Canada to do the Freestyle portion of the Commonwealth wrestling camp. Victor is a former World and Commonwealth medallist as well as a top Canadian wrestling coach, his athletes have won Olympic and World wrestling medals.    Most of the teams are to arrive on the 28th or 29th of June. The largest team will be from India, their team is the defending champion from the 2003 Commonwealth Championships. They have among their freestyle wrestlers a number of athletes that can win gold meals such as Palwinder Singh Cheema at 120kg,  Kripa Shankar at 55kg,  Sushil Kumar at 66kg  and  Anuj Kumar at 84kg. In women's wrestling two ladies have proven themselves on the International wresting stage, they are Alka Tomar at 59kg and Geetika Jakhar at 63kg.     The Canadian wrestling team is to arrive today and is represented by Montreal Wrestling Club. The club is one of the best wrestling clubs in Canada and it is coached by Victor Zilberman. The Canadian wrestling team has a potential gold medallist among their roster in Tim Wadsworth at 66kg,  Tyler Marghetis at 74kg and David Zilberman at 96kg. In women's section , Canada should win with Martine Dugrenier at 67kg. Martine is a national champion and a World Student Games champion.    A strong team from Nigeria is to challenge the powerhouses of Commonwealth wrestling of India and Canada.     The Pakistani team is not a large team but it boasts three wrestlers who have the potential to upset the teams from India and Canada.  Muhammad Umar at 96kg, Muhammad Ali at 74kg and Muhammas Bashir at 120kg of the Pakistan's wrestling team have met the Indian wrestlers in the finals at the recent Punjab Games and all three have won gold medals.    Australia's entries have a better chance to win medals in Greco-Roman style of wrestling with Vitaly Ogulev at 84kg and Hassan Shahshavan at 74kg.    The hosting nation of South Africa has also potential to win medals in a number of weight classes, but their best chance would be with Corne Erasmus at 74kg hailing from Bloemfontein in the Free State,  Jacques Schoeman at 66kg from Evander in Mpumalanga,  John Short at 96kg from Witbank in Mpumalanga.and  Charl van Der Merweat at 60kg from Cape Town of the Western Province.     The South African Wrestling Federation president, Mr. Dave van der Merwe stated, "The 2005 Commonwealth Wrestling Championships is the largest wrestling event that is being hosted in the Cape Town region and the Organizing Committee and their Chairman, Mr Sakki Bosse is to be congratulated for hosting this International wrestling event in the Town of Stellenbosch".