9374-Sciacca-Holtfreter Wrestling 2022

55 th Annual Sciacca / Holtfreter Tournament Preview

Welcome to the 55th Annual Sciacca-Holtfreter Wrestling Tournament. The tournament started out to be an eight team tournament but they received an overwhelming response when looking for teams to compete. At that time, Harvard’s varsity coach, John Sciacca, and wife, Pat, formulated the idea of the sixteen-team tournament. It is believed to be the first 16 team tournament in Illinois as it was unheard of to have that many teams gather for a two day tournament back in those days. Thus, it was billed as Harvard’s 16 Team Tournament. For several years the name was changed to The Harvard Holiday Tournament because 16 team tournaments were not that unique anymore and it always fell just before the Christmas holiday. Finally, it was renamed in honor of the founders of the tournament: The John Sciacca/Richard Holtfreter Invitational Tournament. The tournament has held a rich history, due to the leadership of several great coaches; Coach John Sciacca, who coached from 1967- 1977, Coach Richard Holtfreter, who coached from 1978–1987 and Coach Tim Haak, who coached from 1988-2013.

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YEAR Champion

TEAM RESULT HISTORY

Runner-up

1967 Belvidere Beloit

1968 Sycamore Harvard

1969 Crystal Lake Rockford Guilford

1970 Rochelle Carmel

1971 Carmel Sycamore

1972 Carmel Harvard

1973 West Aurora Woodstock

1974 Bremen Aurora

1975 Bremen Harlem

1976 Harlem West Aurora

1977 Bremen Rockford Boylan

1978 Dundee Crown Harlem

1979 Dundee Crown Woodstock

1980 Sycamore Harlem

1981 Sycamore West Aurora

1982 Harvard Tie Woodstock

1983 Woodstock Dundee Crown

1984 Dundee Crown Round Lake

1985 West Aurora Dundee Crown

1986 Dundee Crown Harvard

1987 Dundee Crown Belvidere

1988 McHenry Woodstock

1989 Round Lake Belvidere

1990 Harvard Belvidere

1991 West Aurora Belvidere

1992 Belvidere West Aurora

1993 West Aurora Harlem

1994 Harvard Woodstock

YEAR Champion

Runner-up

1995 Sycamore Hononegah 1996 Hononegah Harvard 1997 Harvard Hononegah 1998 DeKalb Hononegah 1999 Hononegah DeKalb 2000 Stanford Olympia Hononegah 2001 Dekalb Belvidere

2002 Dekalb Belvidere

2003 Dundee Crown Sandwich

2004 Harvard Dundee Crown

2005 Hononegah Dundee Crown 2006 Hononegah Woodstock

2007 Crystal Lake Central Harvard 2008 Dundee Crown Harvard

2009 Richmond Dundee Crown

2010 Crystal Lake South Harvard

2011 Harvard Richmond

2012 Huntley Round Lake

2013 Dundee Crown Antioch

2014 Huntley Harvard

2015 Harvard Grayslake North

2016 Antioch Grayslake North

2017 Milton Grayslake North

2018 Rock Falls Grayslake Central

2019 Harvard Belvidere Co-op 2021 Portage Riverside Brookfield