We have a couple spots open in next years Holiday Hammer on December 29th & 30th 2017. We are located in Abingdon VA 2 minutes off Interstate 81 (about 2 hours from Pikeville and about 4 hours from Lexington). We do allow teams to enter more than one wrestler per wt class so your whole team can wrestle instead of just your starters. I try to run this tournament as quickly as possible and we will run 4 mats for the finals so we can finish early and get teams on the road home. We anticipate we will be completely finished between 4:00 and 4:30. Plenty of lodging within 5 minutes of school. We have some super nice hotels and we also have some above average hotels for $50-$60/night.

We give out Custom Diamond Plated Aluminum Hammers (3 feet tall) to the Champion of each wt class as well as one to the winning coach of the team champions. Be sure to check out the pic of the Hammer award. You can check them out if you search Holiday Hammer Wrestling Tournament on Facebook.

Here are a couple tidbits from this years tournament:

2016 Team Champions Upper Perkimon Pennsylvania

Rural Retreat finished 2nd @ the Hammer, 1st @ State
Tennessee High finished 3rd @ Hammer, 3rd @ State/4th @ State Duals
Greeneville finished 4th @ the Hammer, 4th @ State/2nd @ State Duals
Abingdon finished 5th @ Hammer, 6th @ State
Lord Botetourt finished 6th @ Hammer, 8th @ State

If you are interested in attending please let me know ASAP! I can be reached at [email protected]