The Staff

SUZANNE HEDLUND
Head Table

The "real" tournament director, Suzanne has directed the head table at over 80 wrestling tournaments including the past 42 TOC tournaments. Suzanne was a PE teacher at Georgetown School before moving over to Camerado Springs Middle School in Cameron Park. She is a former volleyball, track and basketball coach and her volleyball and basketball teams won numerous county championships in both schools over the years. Suzanne was also recognized by the California Wrestling Hall of Fame and was inducted as a Lifetime Service Award member in May, 2010. Rod and Suzanne celebrated their 43th wedding anniversary in August 2014.

A true wrestling family, the Hedlunds have two boys, Drew and Blake, who both placed numerous times in the TOC and went on to have outstanding high school wrestling careers. Drew also wrestled at Cuesta College (placing 5th in State 1996), was an assistant coach at Cuesta for 2 years while attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He has also served as a TOC referee many times over the years. He now lives in San Diego and works as a CPA. (see Blake below)

ROGER CLOUGH
Assistant Director

Serving as Rod Hedlund's behind the scenes-right-hand-man for many years is Roger Clough. A native of the Georgetown area, he wrestled at and graduated from Ponderosa HS and attended Sac City College where he wrestled for the legendary Bill Hickey. Roger organizes the scorekeeping help, tournament set up, staging, and weigh ins at Elk Grove. An invaluable member of the TOC staff for over 25 years, Roger has also coached junior high school wrestling at Northside and Georgetown Schools as well as assisting at Golden Sierra HS. Roger's two sons, Josh and Patrick were outstanding wrestlers at Golden Sierra. Patrick continued his wrestling career at Sierra College from 1998-2000 and Josh was the Georgetown School wrestling coach from 2003-2009 and assists in set up, weigh ins and staging at the TOC.

STEVE COLE
Assistant Director

Since moving the tournament to Del Oro HS, Steve is the reason the tournament facility is set up and well organized. A veteran at running all sorts of tournaments, including the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters tournament, Steve is in charge of facility set up, including mat moving, head table set up and personnel for gate, security, snack bar and score tables. Steve graduated from Roseville HS and wrestled at both Sierra College and Chico State College. He has been an assistant coach at both Del Oro and Sierra College, coaches kids freestyle club wrestling and is highly active in the Sacramento Area Wrestling Association. He has been in charge of many freestyle tournaments at the local and state level, high school section tournaments and has run all the tournaments at Del Oro HS for the past 20 plus years. Steve was recognized for his lifelong commitment to wrestling in April 2009 when he was inducted into the California Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Lifetime Service Award winner. His expertise in organizing the facility, staging area and remote head table in the other gym is invaluable to the TOC. He owns Cole Construction and Cole Christmas Tree Farm and lives in Newcastle. Steve and wife, Vivian, have 2 grown children and 2 grand daughters.

BLAKE HEDLUND
Head Table / Photos

Blake is a computer software training manager in the Bay Area and lives in Lafayette, CA. with wife, Janine, and their 2 children, Nova and Lily. Blake has assisted at the TOC for the past 10 years at the head table and uploading tournament results as well as the podium and action shots of the TOC.

JERRY LOSCALZO

For the past 25 years, Jerry has been the primary PA announcer and in addition also helps with staging the wrestlers. Jerry has been part of the TOC organization in a variety of positions including breakfast cooking in the early morning and registration of wrestlers the evening before the tourney. His three sons; Vince, Jason and Tony all wrestled for GSHS. Tony was a league MVP, wrestled at Embry Riddle College and now serves the USA as an FBI agent in hostage recovery! His oldest son,Vince, is a teacher and former wrestling coach at Herbert Green MS and currently teaches and coaches high school football in Arizona. After a football career at Sierra College and Humboldt State University, middle son, Jason, is currently the head strength and conditioning coach for the football team at Washington State University.

JOHN PIPARO

John has become a permanent fixture in the staging area while working the TOC for many years. He's the guy with the big beard and long ponytail! He is friendly to the wrestlers, extremely efficient and works tirelessly all day while staging over 600 matches!! John works as a school bus mechanic and coaches the defense for the Golden Sierra varsity football team. John's sons, Joseph and Jason were very successful wrestlers at Golden Sierra. Daughter, Donna, helped at the TOC in many capacities over the years.

JOHN DANIELS

Friends of wrestling and fellow educators, John and Joanne are the parents of two girls who never wrestled! John served as assistant coach at Golden Sierra and also coached at Georgetown School where he was a science teacher for 15 years before moving over to teach science at Golden Sierra for another 15 years. John has worked weigh ins, staging, computer help, organized table help and the end of tournament photography for over 25 years.

MICHELE ROMAN

Michele and Steve Roman have been an integral part of the TOC for years. The lived in Sacramento for many years and now have relocated to the San Diego area. No matter, every year they travel north to help at the TOC. Michele works at the head table and then with the awards presentation while Steve continues to officiate matches. He has been selected from both the Sac Joaquin and the San Diego sections for the California High School State tournament. Their daughter, Samantha, has worked many TOCs herself.

DAVID PUBLICOVER

Dave was a 1975 TOC champion and TOC Outstanding Wrestler Award winner at 122 lbs while wrestling for Rogers Junior High in San Jose. A section champion at Blackford HS (San Jose), Dave attended Fresno State and then coached at Montgomery HS in Santa Rosa before moving over to Georgetown School to teach 8th grade English and coach the Georgetown wrestling team for several years. While assisting in set up, weigh ins, and coaching over the years, Dave has also worked at the head table at the TOC in a variety of positions including website and computer operations.

DAVE SANCHEZ, CLINT MADDEN, MIKE MABEN

Coaching at Del Oro HS for the past several years these guys continue to be one of the top programs in the Sacramento area and the Sac Joaquin Section producing state qualifiers and place winners every year. Take a look at the wall of fame in the wrestling room (small gym area) to see the history of DO wrestling. Dave's a wholesale flower representative for Color Spot, Clint is a Folsom Fireman and Mike teaches and coaches full time at Del Oro. Clint and Dave both wrestled at Sierra College and Mike is a former UC Davis wrestler. Mike and his student crew move mats, do set up and clean up for both gyms and run the small gym score tables for TOC.

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