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Wrestling Club Grapplers Place High At AAU Tourney
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| Former two-time All-America wrestler Danny Kida and 1973 World Cup competitor Joe Tice took third and second place
respectively in the 15th Annual Great Plains Open Wrestling Championships held over the weekend at the University
of Nebraska. |
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| Because of their victories, both Kida and Tice (who are graduates of SJSU and who were representing the university's
Spartan Wrestling Club) are likely candidates in the selection of a team that will participate in Russia's Tblisi
Tournament in February. |
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| In the meantime, the two assistant coaches will be pretty busy as the Spartan varsity wrestlers will take on Hayward
State at the Pioneers' gym in the first dual meet of the season for the defending NCAA champions. |
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| Kida, a 1969 graduate of Spring Valley's Monte Vista HS and the only four-time CIF champion in San Diego history,
competed seven times in a field of 33 wrestlers at the two-day tourney. |
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| The tourney was stocked with the nation's best AAU wrestlers and in Kida's last match, he defeated Olympian Joe
Corso. |
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| Wrestling in a 34-man bracket, Tice wrestled six times, defeating both last year's runner-up and also the defending
champion, but suffered his only defeat to two-time NCAA champion from the University of Iowa Chuck Yagla in an
extremely close match. |
