$40 entry, $7 parking, $10 coaches pass, $4 bracket, $8 admission for wife, super high food prices, poor gym layout, poor seeding, not enough quality refs but great, great competition.
I agree with this statement. I know Bill had his hands full as well, and thought that overall, it was a great tournament. I did feel sorry for some of the parents that had to travel hundreds or even a thousand miles, in order to watch their kids wrestle in the basement of the building, where there was little to no seating. It appeared to me that they had plenty of room to place all of the kids upstairs. Was there anyway they could have down the pictures and awards downstairs instead? I kow that several of the coaches had a really hard time running back and forth between the two floors in order to coach kids as well. I was also dissapointed when I realized that my own kids were downstairs. Several parents paid $40.00 along with everyone else, just like the older kids and should've gottent the chance to wrestle upstairs. I heard several comments on this throughout the day. In addition, I also agree with the comment about the inexperienced referee's. We had one kids from our club getting his arm tweaked, when our two coaches that where mattside began yelling to the ref to stop the match. The ref kept on going. The two coaches went out on the matt themselves and stopped the action, but by then it was too late. Our wrestler had to go to the hospital, where it was learned that he had dislocated his shoulder and was done wrestling for the rest of the season. It was something that shouldn't have happened. The ref simply wasn't doing his job, and wasn't watching.
