Let's be honest here and really take a look at what we can do to increase freestyle/greco participation:

I know that as a hard core wrestling guy, I'll still go to these tourneys that last from the early morning until late at night, but most people will NOT. It is tough on the kids sitting around all day also. With Trackwrestling, there is no way that these tourneys should take so long to run. The old paper and pencil way used to run these tourneys and have us out by 4 or 5 in the evening at Junction City. I pulled out at around 8:30 Saturday night, and there was lots of wrestling left to do, so I don't know what the official finish time was.

Most weekly FS Greco tourneys, which of course only had 200 kids or so, would be over by mid afternoon. Now we have the Manhattan tourney not even starting Greco til 6 at night.

Is it the people in the bracketing/pairing room that are too slow or need more help? Do they turn down offers of more help? I have heard that is the case. Should we do a few satellite weigh in sites? I don't know what we need to do, but I know that the way it is going now is not the right way. Why not get a couple of rounds of greco out of the way Friday nite if we are going to require friday nite weighins? There was also another gym sitting empty on Saturday as well that could have been utilized, but I don't think that would have helped, because there was times when only ONE mat had a match going on. If we can't keep up with 6 mats, what makes you think we can keep up with even more?

If numbers were up this year, we better darn sure change something and let everyone know what we are going to change, or they are going to go WAY DOWN next year.

Doug