MILWAUKEE (AP) _ Bride-to-be Katie Schloegel couldn't decide which friend should be her maid of honor Saturday, so Rammin' Slammin' Pam and Heather the Leather Magnet grappled for the honor in a backyard mud-wrestling match.
The loser got a melon and the runner-up title: bridesmaid.
Emily Post would have been appalled.
After three two-minute rounds of shrieking, mudslinging madness, Heather Aldrich emerged from the wading pool muck with the intimidating grimace she used to pin down her victory.
I practiced faces in the mirror to scare her, she said, laughing as she handed a garden hose to her opponent and friend, Pam Wright.
Pam, an electrical engineer from Boston, said she was disappointed, but content to be a bridesmaid.
Heather, a sales assistant at a Milwaukee television station, wallowed in her victory by pulling the bride into the mud and the three Marquette University alumni hammed it up for a video camera, which captured the event from the ceremonial mud blessing to the bride dunking.
The groom, Sheldon Rusch, a writer and producer for a Milwaukee advertising agency, wasn't invited to the bachelorette match. He had his own bachelor bash.
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