Local wrestling enthusiasts and young grapplers will have the opportunity to learn from former Olympian and legendary coach Ken Chertow this weekend in Bremen.

The Ken Chertow Weekend Warrior Wrestling Camp will run Saturday and Sunday at Bremen High School with a check-in at 2 p.m. on Saturday and a 3 p.m. check-out on Sunday.

Bremen Takedown Club Board Member Chris Young said nearly 100 campers have already signed up, but they are also taking walk-up registration on Saturday, as well as a pro-rated registration on Sunday if you can’t make it on Saturday.

The cost of the camp is $175, which includes instruction, food and housing with a host family.

Campers will receive technique instruction in a wide variety of important areas and intense drilling to perfect set-ups, timing and combinations. There will be live wrestling and discussions covering preparation, nutrition, strength-training, goal-setting, earning a college scholarship and other important topics.

Campers should bring workout gear, a towel, sleeping bag, laundry bag and a notebook.

Young said Bremen High School wrestling coach Tony Armas played an instrumental role in getting Chertow here this weekend, which he said will be a huge event for the West Georgia area.

“Coach Armas has got a lot of contacts,” Young said. “One thing that a lot of people don’t know about coach Armas, there’s a lot of people that know he’s a little quirky when it comes to stats and things he keeps. But one of the things he does is he breaks down Big Ten tapes of wrestling and he actually sends them to coaches. He goes to the NCAA and breaks down these tapes that (the coaches) can prepare for their wrestlers. So he’s made a lot of contacts and allowed us to be able to bring in somebody like Ken Chertow to Bremen.”

Young said one of the major benefits to coming would be helping some of the older campers learn what it takes to compete at the college level, while teach the younger ones the proper techniques and habits it takes to be successful.

Upon retiring from competition, Chertow has coached at Penn State and Ohio State, including winning the National Dual Meet with Penn State.

Young also encouraged parents to attend the event in order to learn the proper ways of nutrition and hydration if they have children that wrestle.

“You’ve got parents that get involved and try to have the kids cut weight, cut weight, cut weight. I mean, we want the parents to learn the right way,” he said. “Then for the wrestlers, we want to teach them while they’re young instead of picking up all these bad habits that carry over into high school.”