I was wondering why there are so many novice tournaments on Sundays and only a couple open ones.

This has never been a problem for us before, but I'm sure that others have faced this problem previously and are currently in the same boat that we are. We have both high school and kids wrestlers and would like to be at both places. But, as everyone knows you can't be in two places at once. Therefore, you have to pick and choose which tournament to miss, thus leaving someone out. Some Saturdays there are way more tournaments than what people can go to. Wouldn't numbers be the same or higher if some of them were held on Sundays.

I realize that Sunday is Church and family time, but maybe they could start later so that people would have the opportunity to attend Church and isn't wrestling a family affair. It is for our family. I know we went to the Salina South High School fundraising tournament and we had an enjoyable time. It was very well ran for being primarily ran by high school kids. It was quick and smooth. We were done by 12:45, so it could have even started at noon and everyone would have been out by 3:00 or 4:00 at the latest. Which is early for some Saturday tournament.

Just wondering.

I can't speak for all clubs and ours has never hosted a Sunday event, but getting facilities for Sunday tournaments is a little tricky. Our school district (and I suspect most others), has a long standing policy against the facilities being used on Sundays. In recent years that restriction has been eased some. We could try to obtain permission to have the facilities, but in order not to rock the boat we would likely host only small novice tournaments at first.
Another problem is there are already too many tournaments each weekend. This doesn't allow clubs to make much money or even cover their costs of hosting. If you added a tournament on Sunday someplace that would only further deminish the Saturday hosts profits.
Then we have the problem of the parents who are not looking out for the best interests of their child and would be going both days to different tournaments.

Thats an interesting question and im glad that sportsfan had some good insight to the issue. I myself am happy in the number of Sunday tournaments that are being offered and I hope to see more in the future. Nothing makes me happier than to spend all weekend doing what I love the most.

As far as offering open tournaments on Sunday I don't see any reason why a tournament could not be run on this day, but I think most clubs recognize that Saturday has always been the day for open tournys. And that Sunday offers and opportunity for the Novice tournaments to be run independently. There are some clubs that do both a Saturday and a Sunday stretch. Based on my observations of the last few years, only a small percentage of parents are willing to take their kids to 2 tournaments in a weekend because of money reasons or just a lack of willingness to lose a whole weekend. A lot of the time a parent will choose 1 day or the other for their child based on their experience level.

Hopefully in the future we will see every weekend filled with an open tourny on Saturday and an Open/Novice tourny on Sunday as well.

i know we asked this year for sunday facilities to host both an open and novice, and maybe a qualifing tourny but was denied abruptly by school district

I also think maybe clubs do not have enough coaches if there is both a novice and open tournament in two different locations.

I think Open tournaments would make sense on a Sunday afternoon or so.

I think Novice on a Saturday would make a lot of sense in the aspect that most people probably don't have a kid that is a novice and a kid that is in high school. Open tournaments though will probably have kids only a few years younger (middle school and such) that are closer to High school age and cause conflict. Maybe Fridays can be looked into by some clubs as I know a lot of JV tournaments are done on Fridays and over with quickly.

Personally, I prefer to have both an Open and a Novice tournament on the same day, either Saturday or Sunday is fine. We have several parents in our club that will only do Saturdays tournaments for their Novice wrestlers and there have been several Saturday Novice tournaments this year to accomodate those parents. However, as the season as well into the thick of it, there are going to be fewer and fewer Novice tournaments on Saturday for these parents to take their kids to, and I have suggested to them that if they are dead set on not wrestling on Sunday, then they should start now by trying their kids in some Open tournaments to see where they are skill level-wise.

Most things that I have liked about running the Novice tournament on the same day as the Open tournaments that have been run so far this year is that they are split session, with the Novice running in the afternoon session. I think that this is a wise idea for breaking new and novice wrestling families into the sport so that they don't have to spend all their day at a wrestling tournament.