Iowa City West will compete in the Ed Winger Invitational wrestling tournament in Urbandale, Iowa on January 24.

This 16-team individual tournament will features 6 of the states top 10 individual tournament teams as ranked by the Predicament on January 8, 2009. Ranked teams include #2-3A-IA Iowa City West, #3-3A-IA Des Moines Roosevelt, #4-3A-IA Southeast Polk, #5-3A-IA Urbandale, #6-3A-IA Indianola, and #8-3A-IA North Scott. Filling out the field will be Class 3A teams including Ames, Bettendorf, Burlington, Cedar Falls, Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson, Davenport West, Dowling Catholic, and Fort Madison as well as Class 2A teams Centerville and Dallas Center-Grimes.

Approximately 50 wrestlers scheduled to compete in the tournament are currently Top 10 ranked in their weight class by the Predicament's January 8, 2009 Class 3A and 2A rankings. The deepest weight class appears to 160 pounds where the top six ranked wrestlers are anticipated to compete.

Currently, six Trojan wrestlers are ranked:

• 103. #8 - Jack Hathaway (Fr.)
• 135. #7 - Justin Koethe (Fr.)
• 145. #1 - Dylan Carew (Sr.)
• 152. #1 - Nick Moore (Jr.)
• 160. #1 - Derek St. John (Sr.)
• 215. #5 - Matt Behnami (Sr.)

The Trojan Wrestling Varsity team Hosted the Lepic Duals Tournament on Saturday, January 10, 2009, finishing 1st with a 5-0 record. West defeated three other class 3A teams ranked in the top ten by the Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association.

Weather prevented the anticipated #1-2A-IA Ballard (Huxley) verses #2-3A-IA Iowa City West dual. However, #10-3A-IA Fort Dodge, who had traveled to Cedar Rapids on Friday night, replaced Ballard when the Benton Community tournament was cancelled.

The entire Trojan team battled hard throughout the day. Leading the way for the Trojans were Justin Koethe, Nick Moore, and Derek St John with 5-0 records. Justin, ranked 7th in Class 3A, recorded a decision over Julian Feikert of Keokuk who is current 1st ranked in Class 3A and is a returning state runner-up. Nick, ranked 1st in Class 3A, had falls over the 8th ranked wrestlers at 145 and 152. Derek had 5 falls in 7 minutes and 13 seconds including 8th ranked Trevor Clark of Fort Dodge.

Jack Hathaway, Gradey Gambrall, Dylan Carew, and David Solis were all 4-1 on the day. Jack, ranked 8th in Class 3A, dropped a close decision to 4th ranked Corey Clark of Southeast Polk when he was reversed and rode out late in the third period. Gradey began the day by defeating 10th ranked Chris Hoskins of Keokuk. Dylan was upset in his final match of the day by 2nd ranked (Class AAA) Elias Larsen of Marian Catholic, Illinois. Nearly perfect on the day, David lost a close decision to Taylor Bowie of Southeast Polk.

Hunter St. John was 3-1 while John Skarda, Berkley Strand, and Matt Behnami were all 3-2.

The Trojan Wrestling Varsity team competed in The Clash 7 dual team wrestling tournament on Friday, January 2 and Saturday, January 3, 2008, at University Center Field House in Rochester, Minnesota. This 32 team tournament included 15 listed on Amateur Wrestling News (AWN) Prep 40, which ranks the top forty high school teams in the nation.

On the first day of competition, the AWN 17th ranked Iowa City West Trojans finished 5th in Bracket A. The Trojans were upset in the opening round of competition by Perham, Minnesota. After the slow start, the Trojans rebounded with a solid defeat of Vacaville, California. In the final Bracket A dual, the Trojans beat AWN 36th ranked Brown High School from Sturgis, South Dakota in a dual that was decided by tie breaker 3 criteria, more 6-point victories. Iowa City West had three

6-point victories with two falls and a forfeit verses Browns two falls.

Based the Bracket A finish, the Trojans finished 1st in Division 5 during the second day of competition. In the first dual of the day, the Trojans beat Neuqua Valley High School from Naperville, Illinois. Then, The Iowa City West defeated AWN 20th ranked Skutt Catholic High School from Omaha, Nebraska. In the Division 5 finals, the Trojans avenged their early season loss by beating AWN 25th Ranked Waverly Shell Rock.

Jack was 5-0 with nice wins over Thomas Gilman (Omaha Scutt via Council Bluffs) and Tanner Werner (Waverly Shell Rock). West's alternate wrestler, Griffin Weihe was 1-0 received a forfiet against Neuqua Valley, Illinois. If Jack had received the forfeit, he would have been 6-0 for the tournament, qualifying for consideration to the all-tournament team. Colin Lord was 1-0 with a decision.

Garrett Hathaway was 4-2 for the tournament with 4 decisions, advenging an early season loss by defeating 10th ranked Luke Pint of Waverly Shell Rock. Justin Koethe was also 4-2 defeating the South Dakota's #1 ranked wrestler Rex Lyon. Hunter St. John and Matt Behnami both finished with 3-3 records while David Solis finished with a 2-2 record.