TEN WRESTLERS WIN PRESTIGIOUS TRIPLE CROWN TITLES  AT NATIONAL KIDS WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN WATERLOO, IOWA, JULY 3 
 Freestyle champions were crowned at three age divisions at the 1999 USA Wrestling National Kids Wrestling Championships, at Young Arena in Waterloo, Iowa, July 3. Competition was held at the Midget (9-10 years), Novice (11-12 years), and Schoolboy/girl (13-14 years) divisions. 
 Ten athletes won the prestigious USA Wrestling Kids Triple Crown. To win, an athlete must win USA Wrestling national titles in folkstyle, Greco-Roman and freestyle the same year.  The 1999 USA Wrestling Kids Folkstyle Championships were held in Topeka, Kan. in April. 
 The 1999 Triple Crown include Midget wrestlers Riley Adamson of New Mexico (55) and Duane Zlatnick of Kansas (112). 
 Triple Crown Novice winners were Victor Weideman of Nebraska (60), Angel Escobedo of Indiana (80), David Craig of Florida (90), Cole Swenson of Minnesota (105), Jon Dahl of Minnesota (120), Joe Zlatnick of Kansas (140) and Blake Roemer of Ripon, Wis. (140++).  
 The only Schoolboy Triple Crown champion was Alex Tsirsis of Indiana (95). 
 Only two wrestlers won the Triple Crown in 1997, and eight in 1998. Jon Dahl of Minnesota, also a 1997 winner, became the first to win the Triple Crown for a second time. Also for the first time, a pair of brothers won the Triple Crown in the same year, as Duane and Joe Zlatnick won the award in 1999. 
 In the freestyle finals, just as in Thursday's Greco-Roman finals, there were co-champions at a 55-pound Midget class, Dak Adamson and Riley Adamson of Albuquerque, N.M. According to USA Wrestling rules on the age-group level, if brothers make the finals, the athletes can be declared co-champions if they do not wish to wrestle each other. 
 Twenty-three wrestlers were double champions, winning both the freestyle and Greco-Roman titles this year. Double champions in the Midget division were Adamson and Zlatnick, plus Nick LeClare of Coggon, Iowa (80) and Deron Winn of Liberty, Mo. (103). 
 Double champions in the Novice division were Weideman, Escobedo, Craig, Swenson, Dahl, Zlatnick and Roemer, plus Jayson Ness of Bloomington, Minn. (65), Mike Carlson of Elmdorf AFB, Alaska (75) and Randy Doherty of Tulare, Calif. (112). 
 Double champions in the Schoolboy division were Tsirsis, plus Brett Land of Porterville, Calif. (70), Paul Donahoe of Goodrich, Mich. (75), Dustin Schlatter of Westerville, Ohio (85), Brent Metcalf of Grand Blanc, Mich., Ryan Needle of Burt, N.Y. (110), Jeremy Pederson of Becker, Minn. (130), Mark Wall of Oak Grove, Mo. (140) and Geoff Hall of Petersburg, Alaska (160+++). 
 Winning Kids National freestyle titles for the second straight year  were Daniel Mahoney of Pittsburgh, Pa., Brett Land of Porterville, Calif. and Dustin Schlatter of Westerville, Ohio. 
 A record 639 athletes entered the freestyle competition this year, a new record for the three-year event. Combined with the 491 Greco-Roman participants, the tournament had a record 1130 entries this year. This is 150 more athletes than any other year. 
 For complete results of all weight classes in all divisions, visit the USA Wrestling web page at http://www.usawrestling.org   Visit the "Recent Results" section.