The Power Plant was advertised on WCW Monday Nitro, and potential trainees could schedule a three day tryout session costing $250 where they would attempt to impress the trainers. If the applicants were suitably impressive, they would earn an invitation to join the school at a cost of $3000 for six months training. On one occasion, Sonny Siaki and two other wrestlers were admitted out of a field of twenty three applicants. In order to be accepted, applicants had to be physically fit and between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight. Male applicants had to be at least 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall and 180 lb (82 kg) in weight, and were forced to undergo a physically taxing three-day exercise session. Potential trainees unable to keep up were asked to leave. In the course of the three-day period,