I admit that we did have one major snafu on Saturday morning that, hopefully, we learned from and will be changing our process because of this. Basically we had a high schooler running one of our weigh-in scales who wasn't checking kids off on the weigh-in sheet. The kid was new to the sport and not very familiar with the process. This caused several unnecessary scratches in the 10U brackets, most notably 10U Novice 70 lbs where it really got interesting. several kids were scratched that should not have been and I combined the 2 brackets into one 8 man bracket. figured out the mistake after we started wrestling and a couple of the bouts in that bracket had already wrestled. Once I saw this mistake, I stopped that mat from wrestling to try to figure out the best way to fix the issue. This was a learning experience and because of it, we have changed our process for the future.
Craig Gash
Derby Wrestling Club
Tournament Director
