I apologize to all of the parents and coaches who are more than likely chomping at the bit to blast us for this year's event. We learned lots of valuable lessons. No 16 man brackets in a split session! We are going to cut off the entries at 600 wrestlers. 817 was just way too many even though we had 77 scratches. We had three officials no show on us so I ended up on the mat all day instead of in the room running the track wrestling. This caused lots of problems in the afternoon session as inexperience caused a a plethora of problems and mix ups. Don't blame the software or greed, you can blame me. I don't like to turn away wrestlers because it is a great tournament with lots of bi-state competition. I like the track wrestling software but each tournament has to adapt to its use. I know it was too hot in the gym too. Again, I apologize and thank all of the parents and who came and helped us set what will undoubtedly go down in history as the longest OPEN kids tournament is USAWKS history! Not something we are proud of so give us another chance next year.
