....I guess my biggest arguement is the fact of my frustration of the kids not being able to wrestle in this all-star format. Payne did do what the team needed him to do....and yes Chief to answer your statment...I did see the match.
I have read a lot of this thread but not all of it, so I apologize if I am repeating something that has already been said. I read a couple of times from RailerMulePanther that he was frustrated that in an all star competition format Payne chose not to wrestle all out and instead decided to stall to avoid the pin and insure the win for the team.
This is more than an all star competition. It is also a Missouri metro vs. Kansas metro team competition. Basically it is a Missouri side vs. Kansas side of the State Line metro wrestling competition. If it was just an all star metro competition it should just have the two best senior metro wrestlers at each weight competing no matter what side of the State Line they are from. This is all about bragging rights for the year in the metro area. So it is definitely not all about individual all star competition. In a team competition like this, you wrestle your match with the team goal in mind. I think it is revealing what Travius said the coaches told the wrestlers before the meet that this was not a tournament but a dual. In that situation it seems that as an individual you sometimes would have to wrestle your individual match different than a tournament to preserve the team victory in the dual format.
