For over a decade the guys in Delta House had made their pledge class challenge the freshmen girls of Beta sorority in some sort of competitive activity on the Saturday night before Thanksgiving break. Sometimes it was a basketball or volleyball game where the freshmen would battle each other clad only in jocks and thongs. Occasionally it was a strip poker tournament or some other contest of prowess and skill. The losing team would have to thoroughly clean the house of the winners as well as contribute $500 to a local charity.
Nobody remembers which upperclassman came up with the idea first, but in a beer-fueled late night bull session, some genius suggested challenging the Beta girls to a wrestling tournament.
John Baker, the social committee chair at Delta, e-mailed his opposite number at Beta, and for a few days received no response. Just when he thought that the sorority had rejected the idea of a wrestling match out of hand, he got a text message from Mary Welles, the Beta vice president, asking for a face to face meeting. To John's happy surprise, Mary agreed to have a tournament, but insisted on a strict set of rules which would level the playing field.
The matches were to be decided by sex-pin which the leaders of Beta thought would give their freshmen girls a fighting chance, if not a positive advantage. A search of the internet led the planning committee to the Valkyrie site where rules for sex-pin wrestling described a contest that seemed likely to negate a result based on male strength alone.
With slightly more than a month to prepare, it was decided to hold the tournament in the 20'x20' Beta House party room on mats that the Deltas would "borrow" for the evening from the college gym. There would be 5 matches with opponents competing in weight classes which allowed the girls to have up to a 10 pound advantage as a form of handicap. One of the Beta juniors had wrestled against guys as a member of her high school varsity team, and a sophomore was dating a guy who had also wrestled in high school. These two "coaches" began a series of practices and wrestle-offs to determine which of the 23 freshmen girls would be entrusted with the defense of the honor of Beta House.
The day of the tournament finally arrived, and the Beta "arena" was packed with members of both houses.
The first match was announced with Delta being represented by Bruce O'Heir, the smallest guy in the house, standing only 5'4" and weighing in at 123 pounds. His opponent was Liz White, a compact 5'3" and 122 pounds.
The Ref was an attractive Beta senior who reviewed the rules, then signaled the beginning of the match.
Bruce, wearing only a jockstrap, stepped onto the mat and nervously circled his thong-clad opponent looking for an opening to exploit. He was not sure whether he was lucky or not to have been chosen. His wrestling experience was limited to informal tussles, but despite the butterflies in the pit of his stomach, how hard would it be to pin a girl?