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WRESTLING: CRESPI WINS AMID ANIMOSITY.


Byline: IVAN OROZCO Staff Writer

The Mission League wrestling finals had the makings of a daytime soap opera soap opera

Broadcast serial drama, characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, tangled interpersonal situations, and a melodramatic or sentimental style.
 Saturday night.

The competition that served as the CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF).  qualifying meet featured a possible regulation violation, coaches screaming at one another, three season-ending injuries and host Crespi of Encino winning its fifth straight league title.

But the Celts' win left other coaches disgruntled dis·grun·tle  
tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles
To make discontented.



[dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see
 because Crespi coach Mike Odman weighed in his wrestlers before the rest of the teams arrived.

``We show up to a tournament where we have no idea who weighs what,'' Alemany of Mission Hills coach Lou Carmona said. ``Now I have a 160-pounder in the hospital with a blown knee, wrestling against a kid that I have no idea what his exact weight was.''

Carmona, Odman, Chaminade of West Hills' Dan Peiffer Daniel William Peiffer (born March 29, 1951 in Sigourney, Iowa) was an American football center in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins. He played college football for Ellsworth Community College and Southeast Missouri State University. , Harvard-Westlake of Studio City's Gary Bairos and Brentwood of Los Angeles' Richard Ramos met before the meet and decided to go through with the competition.

The meet ended with Alemany and Crespi qualifying a meet-high 11 wrestlers for the CIF Coastal Division tournament. Harvard-Westlake qualified nine, Chaminde five, and Brentwood four. Alemany finished as the team runner-up and Harvard-Westlake was third.

``In the rules as meet manager, I decided to weigh my guys in first; there's nothing that says that they had to witness it,'' Odman said. ``They didn't see the other teams weigh.''

Carmona said he was most upset about two of his wrestlers getting hurt. Scott Grijalva suffered a dislocated dis·lo·cate  
tr.v. dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates
1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship.

2.
 left kneecap kneecap (patella), saucer-shaped bone at the front of the knee joint; it protects the ends of the femur, or thighbone, and the tibia, the large bone of the foreleg. The kneecap is embedded in the tendon tissue of the quadriceps femoris, a large thigh muscle. , and Antonio Buendia broke his clavicle clavicle /clav·i·cle/ (klav´i-k'l) collar bone; a bone, curved like the letter f, that articulates with the sternum and scapula, forming the anterior portion of the shoulder girdle on either side. . Crespi's Liam Gallagher dislocated his left elbow.

Carmona and other Mission League coaches said they plan to file a complaint with CIF to verify if Crespi violated the rules and if it should be stripped of its league title.

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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Feb 4, 2007
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