I just want to take some time this Easter Day to thank all of the tournament directors, officials, referees, table workers, coaches, etc. for all the hard work you all did. It was a great tournament for our son who not only won a match for the first time at State but he also placed third. He was extremely pumped up about it for several hours after his picture was taken. Our family sure enjoyed the entire tournament. We had never been there for the final day matches that determine the order of finish for the final six participants. But that is a very impressive and inspiring event leading up to the matches. The crowd atmosphere for the matches was very exciting too. I hope each one of you get the opportunity to experience it, if you have not yet.

I still am not in favor of the new format of three front side, then one backside match. We were a beneficiary of that format this year, since our son won his first two matches and he wrestled his third frontside match about 3PM Friday. We would have been willing to waited for our son's third front side either later that first day or even in the morning on Saturday, so that the wrestlers who did not win their first round would not have had to wait so long to wrestle their second match. But I even think this went much better than last year (the first year of this new format) because I believe most if not all wrestlers did at least get their second match in on the first day. I'm sure the tournament workers worked longer than normal on Friday for this to happen.

So in closing thank you again to all involved in making the tournament run. I think you did a great job.


Vince Nowak
Kansas College Wrestling Fund Supporter
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