The lineups for the Dream and Sengoku featherweight tournaments are all but completed.

Dream parent company Fighting and Entertainment Group has completed its tournament rosters, announcing all the participants and bouts for its upcoming March 8 tourney kickoff at the Saitama Super Arena. In addition, Sengoku backer World Victory Road has announced another four entrants for its own bracket, bringing the total of announced competitors to 15 of the slated 16 for its March 20 opener at Tokyo's Yoyogi National Stadium Second Gymnasium.

After a month of drama surrounding the potential participation of Japanese superstar Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto in Dream's grand prix, the featherweight firebrand has confirmed his place in the tournament -- which was originally conceived around his participation.

Unlike the rest of the tournament, Yamamoto will be seeded into the quarterfinal round of the tournament in May, meaning the grand prix will feature 15 competitors rather than 16. While FEG and Yamamoto have cited continuing issues with a knee injury, as previously reported by Sherdog.com, there have been further complications due to many of the promotion's event sponsors being reluctant to sign off Yamamoto's return due to lingering media scrutiny. In July, Japanese tabloid Shukan Gendai linked the 31-year-old Yamamoto to "marijuana parties" in Tokyo, an allegation with considerable impact given the strict cannabis control laws in Japan.

Also requiring some creative scheduling, the quarterfinal bout between janitor-turned-posterboy Hideo Tokoro and rabble-rouser Daiki "DJ.taiki" Hata has been lined up for the April 5 welterweight grand prix opener at the NGK Insulators Hall in Nagoya. The 26-year-old Hata earned his way into the tournament by taking a unanimous verdict in his brawl with Shoji Maruyama on Feb. 20 in the Deep ring. However, Hata's left eye was badly swollen shut following the bout, and won't be battle-ready for March 8, necessitating the rescheduling.

The March 8 card will feature the remaining six quarterfinal bouts: former Deep featherweight and current Deep bantamweight king Masakazu Imanari will take on "Kid" Yamamoto pupil Atsushi Yamamoto; brawler Hiroyuki Takaya meets Dong Sik Yoon understudy Jong Won Kim; WEC veterans Yoshiro Maeda and Micah Miller do battle; former WEC bantamweight champ Chase Beebe confronts former Greco-Roman wrestling world champion Joe Warren; Brazilian jiu-jitsu ace Bibiano Fernandes meets fast-rising Takafumi Otsuka and wildchild "Wicky Akiyo" Akiyo Nishiura takes on 21-year-old former EliteXC title challenger Abel Cullum.

Also, FEG have finally ended the speculation about the weight contract of its tournament, announcing that the featherweight bouts will be contested at 139 pounds.

While WVR have yet to reveal any of its opening-round tournament bouts for March 20, it did announce the participation of former Shooto world champion Hideki Kadowaki, hot prospect and IFL veteran L.C. Davis and former KOTC standouts Nam Phan and Matt Jaggers.

Davis and Jaggers both enter the tournament on victories, Davis having taken a hard-fought unanimous decision over Bao Quach at Affliction's Jan. 20 "Day of Reckoning,” while Jaggers punched out Chris Boyden in November. Meanwhile, Kadowaki and Phan are coming off contentious decision losses, as Kadowaki dropped his Shooto world title to "Lion Takeshi" Takeshi Inoue on a razor-thin, one-point unanimous verdict in November. Phan hasn't fought since his controversial split decision loss to Billy Evangelista in Strikeforce last June.

WVR director Takahiro Kokuho revealed that the promotion hopes to add one more Asian fighter, preferably Japanese, to the tournament draw before announcing all eight opening-round bouts next week.