1996 Southeast Conference

[knighthead]

Just thinking back a few years ago about the 1996 Southeast Conference Tournament.  Some of the best teams in SE Wisconsin. Does anybody have the the tournament team and individual results?  Thank you.

[crossface21]

I have it, but I don't know how complete it is. I'll dig it out and post in the morning. IIRC, there were around 46 State Qualifiers in the SEC that year. 15 teams. It was a mini state meet.

[knighthead]

Thank you Crossface.  You are exactly right.  I think we only did that format one year and then the conference alignment changed again.  Thank you for your help !

[crossface21]

The SEC was 15 teams for 4 seasons from the '93-'94 season thru the '96-'97 season. Then in the '97-'98 season it got knocked down to the 10 team SEC.

[knighthead]

Thank you. I didn't think it was around that long. Sure was a meat grinder with some great kids.  Maybe somebody has some old results stored away. Would be interesting to see the depth of the weight classes.

[Ghetto]

If you could make the happen I'd love to see it as well. I think some kids placed higher in state than they did in the conference that year.

[knighthead]

I think the seeding meetings were the night before and nobody wrestled the same kids.  I believe you wrestled everybody in your division and then a couple of crossovers from the other 2 divisions.

[crossface21]

1996 SEC Tournament Results:

1. Oak Creek 150 pts
2. Kenosha Tremper  142.5
3. Mukwonago  136.5
4. Muskego 128
5. Racine Horlick 125.5
6. Racine Case 111.5
7. Kenosha Bradford 97.5
8. Kettle Moraine 97
9. Waukesha South 93
10. Waukesha North 88.5
11. West Allis Central 80
12. Racine Park 68.5
13. Arrowhead 56.5
14. West Allis Hale 38
15. Waukesha West 36  

103  Drake Horn(OC) over Brad Russell(KM) 3-1
112  Matt Pope(RH) over Ryan Douglas(WS) 12-2
119  Chris Miller(RH) over Mike Host(KT) 9-4
125  Nick Blawat(Mus) over Adrian Langlois(RP)18-2
130  Nick Malanche(RH) over Kevin Martins(Mus) 22-16
135  Jay Zellner(WN) over Greg Blawat(Mus) 5-3
140  Paul Ksobiech(WAC) over Gott(KM) 12-4
145  Nate Schoenborn(Muk) over Tony Aranda(KB) 6-5
152  Ryan Lews(WS) over Rob Strand(Mus)17-4
160  Matt Sommerville(OC) over Nelson(Muk) 5-1
171  Eric Swick(KM) over Greeenebaum(Arr) Tech Fall
189  Bruce Szcyublalka(OC) over Dan DeLeon(Case) 10-3
275  Art Ferreira(OC) over Webb(KT)8-5

47 State Qualifiers
103  
Brad Russell(KM)
Robert Weinstein(RH)
Drake Horn(OC)
Dave Haecker(WAC)

112
Ryan Douglas(WS)
Matt Pope(RH)
Mike Host(KT)
Jason Kassabian(WAH)

119
Mike Lisiecki(MUS)
Chris Miller(RH)
Ben Wolf(WN)

125
Greg Lilley(WW)
Adrian Langlois(RP)
Nick Blawat(MUS)

130
Kevin Martins(MUS)
Jon McElrone(WAC)
Nick Malanche(RH)

135
Jay Zellner(WN)
Greg Blawat(MUS)
Nick Agallar(RC)

140
Jed Schwartz(KB)
Paul Ksobiech(WAC)
Brian Gott(KM)

145
Nate Schoenborn(MUK)
Tony Aranda(KB)
Matt Sommerville(OC)
Jasen Slade(WAH)

152
Paul Schloesser(MUK)
Ryan Lewis(WS)
Giancarlo Potente(KT)
Manny Ferreria(OC)
Rob Strand(MUS)

160
Joaquin Martinez(KB)
Ryan Green(WS)

171
Scott Hagen(WN)
Jake Ackerman(MUK)
Eric Swick(KM)

189
Dan DeLeon(RC)
Ian Berg(WN)
Fred Pagel(ARR)
Chris Simonsen(MUS)
Bruce Szcyubialka(OC)

275
Shayne Noller(RC)
Kevin Jacques(KM)
Pat Cull(ARR)
Derek Boileau(MUS)
Art Ferreira(OC)

[crossface21]

1994 SEC Tournament

1. Racine Park 200.5 pts
2. Muskego 171.5
3. Waukesha South 111
4. Racine Case  108.5
5. Waukesha North 106.5
6. Kettle Moraine 97
7. Mukwonago  90.5
8. West Allis Hale  80
9. Kenosha Tremper  61.5
10. Oak Creek 61
11. Kenosha Bradford  56.5
12. Arrowhead  55.5
13. West Allis Central 51
14. Waukesha West  39
15. Racine Horlick 34

Champs:

103  Matt Pope-RP
112  Tim Farmer-WS
119  Neil Pope-RP
125  Terry Meeks-KT
130  Brian Fitzgerald-OC
135  Zach Schlueter-KM
140  Casey Yunker-RP
145  Stever Scherer-WAH
152  Eric Swick-KM
160  Aaron Kahle-OC
171  Ken Siejkowski-WAH
189  Mike Shifford-ARR
275  August Farkas-MUS

1995 SEC Tournament Results
1. Muskego 212
2. Racine Park 159
3. Oak Creek 135.5
4. Waukesha South 135
5. Kettle Moraine  118
6. Mukwonago 117
7. Racine Case  116.5
8. Waukesha North 97
9. West Allis Central  85
10. Kenosha Tremper  83
11. Waukesha West  69.5
12. West Allis Hale 57
13. Kenosha Bradford 54
14. Arrowhead  43
15. Racine Horlick 19

Champs:
103  Matt Pope-RP
112  Nick Blawat-MUS
119  Nick Malanche-RP
125  Bryon Reynolds-RC
130  Neil Pope-RP
135  Jason Zellner-WN
140  Paul Ksobiech-WAC
145  Matt Martins-MUS
152  Dan Zirbel-WN
160  Eric Swick-KM
171  Aaron Kahle-OC
189  T.J. Ackerman-MUK
275  August Farkas-MUS

[knighthead]

Crossface that is amazing.  Thank you, what an unbelievable conference. Glad to have been a part of it ,even if only for a brief period. Some really great wrestling took place!

[crossface21]

I have the brackets to the tournament, but no names, just initials of the schools. I started writing out names but figured out that was gonna take too long and I had to wrestle. In '95, it was at Waukesha West and they already had all the names printed in the program so that is complete.

[Ghetto]

I was coaching at Muskego in 1996. That conference tournament was bananas. Paul Simonsen DNP'd I'm pretty sure at conference and then qualified for state.

[South Coach]

Was the 1996 tourney (1995-96 season) at Racine Park? If I'm remembering correctly then the 1997 tourney (1996-97 season) might have been at west allis central and the last one before realignment. That one was also pretty tough.

Good memories - thanks for taking me back a bit!

[crossface21]

'94 was at Kenosha Tremper. They had very limited space for mats so it was a Friday-Saturday tournament.
'95 was at Waukesha West
'96 was at West Allis Central
'97 was at Racine Park

[Ghetto]

I thought for sure 96 was at Park