European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Calm before the storm with the town of Lillehammer in the misty Valley below gets Down to a few Days. This part of Norway will be bus the week. The opening empty chairs make their Way up the Mountain to the ski thing with competitors spectators and hundreds of re and the Competition jump area As the countdown for the Winter olympics porters photographers and cameramen by the end of 27. See Page 34 for More on the 1994 Winter games. Mat madness High school for 73 to compete s of Kitzinger by . Allbright staff writer High school wrestlers from Central Europe and the United kingdom will be vying for 13 individual titles and two team championships when the Dodds wrestling tournament begins at noon thursday in the Sicke Grund sports Hall in Kitzinger Germany. Tourney action resumes at 9 . Fri Day and concludes saturday with Consola Tion and championship matches. Teams will be competing for big and Small schools championship titles. This is the first year since 1974 that teams have come from outside of Central Germany to compete in the championships according to Leo Palmer tour Ney coordinator. Heidelberg will be bringing 18 wrestlers to compete in 12 weight , with 16 wrestlers is the Only school to have competitors in All 13 classes. Ramstein with 15 wrestlers of cent 14, and Lakenheath 11, will each be represented in 11 classes. Ansbach will have 10 wrestlers in nine weight classes. Other schools will have fewer wrestlers. Top individual finishers from last weekend s divisional championships will be comp editing in the double elimination tourney for the individual titles. Medals will be Given to the top six wrestlers in each weight class. 103 pounds Wurzburg s Joe Espi Nosa the division ii Winner and Kaiserslautern s . Bell the division i Champ have the strongest chances to win this class. Bell was also the 1993 divisional Winner. 112 Wurzburg s Craig Paig is a top contender in this class after wrapping up the division ii title last week. He takes his one loss record against of cent s Dennis Custodio London Cen trial s Clay Jones and Berlin s Tito Solis. Custodio wrestled at 109 last year and finished in fifth place at the 1993 championships. 119 Croughton s Tim Hallock 11 0, will face off against Strong Competition from Ramstein s John Newhaus and of cent s Phil Cornier. In 1993, Cormier Defeated Newhaus 8-5 in the 115-Pound title match. All three wrestlers come into the match As divisional winners. 125 Ramstein s Mike Parker the division i Champion will have to contend with Wurzburg s Gary Melendez who was the division i runner up last saturday. Parker s Only loss this season has been to Melendez. Before Melendez can earn a rematch with Parker however he has to get past Jeff Wursten of accent. Wursten Defeated Melendez earlier in the season. 130 Omar Sritani of the Ameri can school of London will try to continue his 10-0 winning Streak against Strong wrestlers like Ramstein s Josh Marull and Wurzburg s Kelly Sowell. 135 Stewart Keller of Patch a two time Dodds Champion is an ath Lete to watch in the 135-Pound class. The division ii Winner s strongest Competition will come from Heidelberg s Marc Wong whose own division i championship performance last weekend earned him most valuable wrestler honors. Kel Ler won the 129-Pound Central european title in the 1993 championships. He also claimed the 125-Pound title in 1991. 140 in one of the most wide open classes the top contenders most Likely will be Heidelberg s Bryan Carnes Frankfurt s Joe Foster and accent s Rickey Fairbanks. Untested in Central european Competition is Lakenheath s Amondo Caro 8-0. 145 Frankfurt s Quentin Chis Holm the division i Champion will prove hard to beat. Chisholm is trying to be this 1993 fifth place finish. 152 Heidelberg s Mark Barolet Marnstein s Gene Cox and Mannheim s Una Swain should finish atop this class. Barolet and Cox the top two finishers in division i will More than Likely be seeded separately but should weave their Way the stars and stripes ports february 1994 Page 36 to a rematch of last week s final. 160 Ramstein s Jeff Doucet will be hard to beat despite Tough Competition from Heidelberg s Ray Stelker and Mannheim s Justin Vickery. 171 Ramstein s Nick Riley and Kaiserslautern s Jon Yoesting finished 1 2 in division i last week and should be difficult to beat throughout the pairings. 189 Heidelberg s David Stricklin should Lead the pack in this class. As a two time division i Winner he wrestled his Way to an outstanding 15-0 season. Last year he finished fifth m the championships. Heavyweight divisional winners Joel Rodriguez of accent and . Wesley of Ramstein will prove to be hard to beat. Rodriguez finished third in the 1993 championships by edging out Wes Ley 9-8. London s Greg Harris comes to the tourney with an 8-1 record. The team championships will be decided by adding All of the individual wrestlers Points together. Although a big and Small schools Champion will be named individuals will be competing for one of six top medals in each division. 0"246850"000504"