Did anyone notice that there were about 3 to 4 refs missing from this year's state tournament that are there every year? I sure did and I called one of them up and asked him what was going on. He said that they were asked to work the state tournament but turned them down because the tournament and the director had no backbone to back up the refs and the decisions that they made. He said that they were tired of the whole mess that the state tournament has become. From what I could understand he felt like he was going to a gun fight with gun filled with blanks. I told him about what took place on mat 2 with the TOHK kid and the Gardner-Edgerton kid. The TOHK coaches were very upset with the outcome of the match and believed that the ref blew a call that cost their wrestler a win. I told him that the TOHK coaches were jumping up and down all over the place yelling and screaming at the ref and were way across their magical little line that is taped on the mat that coaches are not supposed to cross unless given permission to. I told him that no one was thrown out or penalized. He laughed and said he was glad that it was not his problem. He did say that if he was there and it was his mat they probably would have been good as gone from the tournament if the tournament would have back him on the ejection, but he doubted that they would. I also mentioned that some objects were thrown out on to the mat during the next match from the TOHK crowd. He did not laugh at that.