I have been seeing several posts regarding these issues. There is a simple answer:
www.trackwrestling.comThis is the BEST option to solve all of the issues listed above.
It costs $.25 per wrestler, less than $60 for a 16 team tournament. You don't have to hire anyone to run your tournament so it is a cost savings! Get a few students, laptops, internet access and a good printer, your tournament will run so smooth it will be unbelievable.
Visit there site and see how many tournaments are on there. Round robins, line brackets, dual tournaments, etc. They can handle it all. The Tritz brothers, founders and developers of this site, wrestled in Wisconsin and they run a great business.
The results will be accessible from now on and the school doesn't have to worry about managing the history or anything.
People from ALL over the country can keep track of the tournament from home. Actually from all over the world if you have internet access. This would be great for dads or other relatives who have been deployed for military service. I have a friend with medical issues that do not permit him to travel to many tournaments and he loves following all of the wrestlers on trackwrestling.
This is great stuff!! Tell your coach and AD. Kansas Kids wrestling uses it for many of their regular season tournaments and for ALL of their post season State tournament series. USA Wrestling uses it to manage the Fargo Nationals and those brackets sometimes have over 100 kids in them. Lets move Kansas High School wrestling into 2010 and start using trackwrestling!!!