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Tickets now on sale for 46th annual NYSPHSAA Wrestling Championships

Championships head to Blue Cross Arena in Rochester on March 8-9

LATHAM, N.Y. (Dec. 21, 2007) – The New York State Public High School Athletic Association has announced tickets are on sale beginning December 21 for the 2008 high school wrestling state championships at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9. The Association has also released its competition schedule for this year’s tournament which has shifted to a Saturday-Sunday format instead of a Friday-Saturday format as in previous years. The tournament is sponsored in part by Worldwide Sport Supply, Jostens, CSEA, Holiday Inn and the Marines.

THE 2008 TOURNAMENT, now in its fifth year of a two-division format, will follow a similar schedule to last year’s event held at the Times Union Center in Albany. The upcoming tournament will be the second year that an additional 120 wrestlers will fill the byes in the brackets. Overall, the wrestling championships will see 520 student-athletes from approximately 400 schools participate from each of 11 sections, along with qualifiers from the New York City Public School Athletic League (PSAL) and the Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA).

The 2008 schedule is as follows:

Session #1

Saturday, March 8

10 a.m.

Parade of Champions/National Anthem

 

10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Preliminaries: Division 1 & 2

 

2:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Quarterfinals: Division 1 & 2

 

4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Wrestlebacks: Division 1 & 2

Consolations Finals: Division 1 & 2

Session #2

Sunday, March 9

9:30 a.m.

National Anthem/Special Awards

 

10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Semifinals: Division 1 & 2
Wrestlebacks: Division 1 & 2

 

12:30 - 2 p.m.

Wrestlebacks/Consolation Semifinals: Div. 1 & 2

 

2:15 - 4 p.m.

FINALS: Division 1 & 2 (2 mats only)

Session #3

Sunday, March 9

6 p.m.

THREE TICKET PACKAGES are being offered for the tournament including a "Premium package" for $38 in which an attendee would receive a ticket for each of the first two sessions and a third ticket for the last session in a premium seating area closer to the floor for the finals only. Also available will be a one-session ticket for $12 and a three-session package (without premium seating) for $33. All seating is general admission except for premium seating for the finals. Premium seating is only available in the "Premium package".

TICKETS ARE ON SALE beginning Friday, December 21 at the Blue Cross Arena Box Office, also by calling 585.232.1900 or 716.852.5000, or by visiting Ticketmaster.com.

TO REQUEST A MEDIA CREDENTIAL for this event, please contact Kathy Killion, marketing manager at the Blue Cross Arena, via e-mail. Media members will be asked to provide a photo ID and credential upon receiving their credential at the ticket window during the tournament. Regardless of having secured an official NYSPHSAA tournament credential, this venue REQUIRES ALL MEDIA to contact the arena to request a credential and announce their attendance.

HISTORY/VENUES OF WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

1963 - Cornell University, Ithaca
1964 - Walt Whitman High School, South Huntington (Long Island)
1965 - Ithaca College, Ithaca
1966 - Walt Whitman High School, South Huntington (Long Island)
1967 - Niagara University, Niagara Falls
1968 - Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse
1969 - RIT Fieldhouse, Rochester
1970-72 - Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse
1973 - Utica Memorial Auditorium, Utica
1974-2003 - Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse
2004 - University at Buffalo, Amherst
2005 - Pepsi Arena, Albany (currently the Times Union Center
2006 - Nassau Veterans Coliseum, Uniondale
2007 - Times Union Center, Albany
2008 - Blue Cross Arena, Rochester
2009 - Times Union Center, Albany