Scott,
Normally we have a seeding meeting the Sunday before the tournament and the clubs that help us with the tournament help us with seeding.

Because we are utilizing TrackWrestling the deadline is later than it used to be.

We will have a seeding meeting on Thursday evening.

We do have a limited ammount of space to work with.

We will use a video projector and we will project each and every bracket up on a screen one bracket at a time and based upon the information entered we will do our best job to seed the wrestlers accordingly.

Obviously the more people that show up, the longer the process will take.

A large majority of these clubs that help us with seeding wrestle most of the big tournaments (USJOC, Cliff Keen Kick Off, and Tulsa Nationals)and are very familiar with the "Top" wrestlers.

We have asked coaches to give us the best "Rating" of their wrestlers that they can. Based upon the input that we received, we will seed the top 4 to 8 wrestlers and TrackWrestling will allocate the remaining wrestlers within the brackets.

Seeding is not a perfect science and we are very dependent on the clubs to be as honest as possible with the info they give us.

At the end of the day our goal is to keep the top 4 to 8 wrestlers away from each other in the early rounds. Not to argue about who number one and number two wrestlers are.

I hope I have done a good job of answering your questions and I hope that you feel comfortable about our process.

Thank you and I hope to see you this weekend.