While you really hate to throw stones at those who volunteer their time it is the frustration that many felt yesterday that destroys the interest in spring/summer wrestling. The excuses all sounded good but everyone knows with five surfaces and only 250 wrestlers, action should have been started by 10am and finished by 3pm. The finals matches from the pools were abandoned to start Greco and by 6pm there were maybe 40 wrestlers left. My son loves wrestling as much or more than anyone but by 5pm he was begging me to leave. There was far too much "dead" mat time. We need a team of people to run all of these spring events. You CANNOT "wing it" and hope and pray it will work out. The wrestlers should have been grouped by age and ability in brackets of four, preferably five and round robins should have been utilized from top to bottom. When the event isn't state or a qualifier we do not need pairings. The wrestlers need mat time. The organization of this event was comprised of fine people who are great wrestling supporters but the plan and organization was so severly lacking that results may have done more damage than the good they set out to do. Next year lets get a swat team of experts to run all of the spring events so the kids can enjoy some great mat time without sitting in a gym for 12 hours.
