...what a tough tournament! yeow! lots of unbelievable and incredible matches and talent!alot of kansas guys lost some very close heart breakers, ours included, i know our guys just got out horse powered. there were some unbelieveable specimens there, made you really wonder if they were in the right clasification...i know some guys sucked quite a bit of weight to make weight, i think to really make it fair, they should have only given a 1 pound allowance for the second day, i know some of those 30 pounders had to to be 15-20 over on sunday the second day! (and weigh in was friday evening) and that wasnt the only weight that was like that....but that's what the rule was so we just dealt with it, and did our best...i know smull (6th), loyd (8th), richard (dnp), and brown (8th), were not happy with thier perfomances, which is good, i hope it drives them to become better wrestlers
the winners got a singlet from brute/adidas, an adidas watch, a shirt, and a trophy. the 2nd and 3rd place finishers recieved medals. the 4th through 8th just got a "coupon" with thier name wrote in pen saying congrats yer an all american, -love brute.
...now it was a good tournament, with lots of excellent competition, high caliber, high quality kids, but after wrestling your heart out, and paying a $40 entry fee, you think you would have recieved a medal for making all american status, not a coupon with your name written in ink, it could have had a little more class.
but nonetheless, i think we'll be headed back again next year...we didnt go for medals, we went for competition, and thats what we got..
