Igali and Verbeek take injury delays at Canadian Olympic Trials; Freestyle draws have been determine

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12/12/2003


* Draw determined for the 2004 Olympic Wrestling Trials pool and ladder competition    Sherwood Park, Alberta - Over 90 athletes have entered the Olympic Trials competition for the Freestyle and Women events. A total of 11 weight classes are being contested for a potential berth at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.     Two of the top ladder qualifiers have applied for injury provisions that were accepted by the CAWA Technical Committee: at 74 kilograms, World and Olympic Champion, Daniel Igali of the Burnaby Mountain W.C. and at 55 kilograms in the women's event, Tonya Verbeek from the Brock W.C. in St. Catharines, Ontario.     Both Igali and Verbeek will face up hill battles by taking an injury provision. They must defeat some ladder opponents to get to the final and then face the winner of the Olympic Trials in a best of three series in which they will be down by one match. These matches will be completed at some point early in the new year.    Currently, the winner of the 66 kilogram men's and 63 kilogram women's events have automatically qualified based upon a top 10 performance at the 2003 World Championships. All the other weight categories will have to attempt further qualifying at two international events in February/March of 2004.    The pool competitors will wrestle off in a single elimination competition on Friday morning. The pool winner will face the 3rd ranked ladder wrestler in a single match wrestle off on Friday afternoon. The winner of the pool vs. 3rd match will face the second ranked wrestler in a single match on Saturday morning. The winner of that match will then get the opportunity to face the top ranked wrestler in a best of three match final.     CBC Sports Saturday will be covering the second round of the final matches LIVE between 2:00 & 4:00 PM, Alberta time. Check you local listings.    Canadian Olympic Trials Freestyle Draw    Women    48 kilograms   1. Lindsay Belisle - BMWC  2. Belinda Chou - Cattown  3. Carol Huynh - BMWC    Pool - Draw    Ashley Goertz - Salisbury W.C. - BYE    Melissa Hillaby - Bears W.C. vs. Julie Harris - UCWC    Krista Wells - Kingston W.C. - Bye    Angela Mott - BMWC - BYE    55 kilograms  1. Jennifer Ryz - BMWC  2. Erica Sharp - UCWC    Pool - Draw    Justine Bouchard - BYE    Brittanee Laverdure - UCWC vs. Teresa Piotrowski - Guelph    Terri McNutt - London-Western vs. Tina Pihl - Independent     Audrey Pang - Team Impact vs. Laura McDougall - UCWC    63 kilograms  1. Viola Yanik - Saskatoon W.C.  2. Tamara Medwidsky - Montreal W.C.  3. Tara Hedican - Guelph W.C.    Pool - Draw    Heidi Kulak - Bears W.C. - BYE    Megan Dolan - Brock W.C. vs. Amy Dyck - Saskatoon W.C.    Helen Hennick - UCWC - BYE    Martine Dugrenier - Montreal W.C. - BYE    Breanne Graham - UCWC - BYE    Emily Richardson - BMWC - BYE    Shannon Samler - BMWC vs. Shannon Mathie - Bears W.C.    Theresa Vladicka - Bears W.C. - BYE    72 kilograms  1. Ohenewa Akuffo - Guelph W.C.  2. Pam Wilson - Hamilton W.C.  3. Christine Nordhagen - UCWC    NO Pool Entires    Freestyle    55 kilograms - FS  1. Mikheil Japaridze - Montreal W.C.  2. Mike Stitt - UCWC    Pool - Draw    Jamie Macari - Brock W.C. vs. Sean Dalton - Cattown    Cory Horsburgh - Calgary Rebels vs. Promise Mwenga - Black Bears W.C.    Clint Kingsbury - Brock W.C. vs. Apollo Belisle - Cattown    Travis Bellarose - Prince George W.C. vs. Andy Hutchinson - UCWC    60 kilograms - FS  1. Gia Sissaouri - Montreal W.C.  2. Saeed Azarbayjani - Brock W.C.    Pool - Draw    Joe Slobodian - Bears W.C. - BYE    Jesse Nelson - Bears W.C. vs. Chris Chase - Salisbury W.C.    66 kilograms - FS  1. Evan MacDonald - Brock W.C.  2. Rob Lang - Cattown  3. Mike Francis - Team Impact    Pool - Draw    Neal Ewers - BMWC vs. Nasir Lal - BMWC    Fred Harrisson - CLAB vs. Jeremy Podlog - UCWC    Danny Brown - Guelph W.C. vs. Ainsley Robinson - Team Impact    Chris Prickett - Guelph W.C. vs. Ryan Weicker - Brock W.C.    74 kilograms - FS  1. Zoltan Hunyady - Guelph W.C.  2. Danny Einhorn - BMWC  3. Steve Rose - BMWC    Pool - Draw  Steve Zureski - Bears W.C. - BYE    Dean DeHamel - BMWC vs. Cody Thordarson - Salisbury W.C.    Wade Elliot - UCWC vs. Roger Alves - Bears W.C.    Paul Harrison - Team Impact vs. Chris Harada - BMWC    84 kilograms - FS  1. Carl Rainville - Montreal W.C.  2. Roozbeh Banihashemi - BMWC  3. Nick Ugoalah - BMWC    Pool - Draw    Travis Cross - BMWC - BYE    Jonathan Rioux - Montreal W.C. vs. Victor Sprenger - Guelph W.C.    96 kilograms - FS  1. Dean Schmeichel - UCWC  2. Randeep Sodhi - BMWC  3. David Zilberman - Montreal W.C.    Pool - Draw    Mel Campbell - Calgary Rebels vs. Jeremy Rudack - UCWC    Peter Guterson - Independent vs. Chris Cox - Cattown    120 kilograms - FS  1. Wayne Weathers - Team Impact  2. Colbie Bell - Bears W.C.    Pool - Draw    Ari Taub - UCWC - BYE    Eric Kirschner - UCWC vs. Orett Morgan - Guelph W.C.    Derek Lauder - Toronto Thunder (CYC) vs. Adriano Bernardo - Prince George W.C.    James Kirkland - Bears W.C. vs. Steve Snyders - Brock W.C.