forvac, I understand that running any size tournament is a lot of work. I agree with that and I appreciate all the volunteer hours that go into putting on a tournament. I know from volunteer efforts in other things that it is very difficult to hear criticism after you have done all of that volunteer work. I was not saying though that I thought Salina was a poorly run tournament. I was just trying to point out that there might be a little better way to improve the seeding for it. Please take a little bit of time to compare the Salina and Wichita-Park City entry forms that you can find on the Calendar section of this website. If you do that, I believe you would see that Wichita's entry form if filled out completely (listing the number of state championships, state placings, and state qualifiers) has a better chance of getting a correct seeding than the Salina entry form. Yes I realize that you will never make everyone happy and that it will still be difficult for seeding the youngest wrestlers who do not have as much history to compare. Still I think you would make a whole lot more people happy with Wichita's system if everyone fills it out correctly and I really don't think it would add that much more work for the tournament's seeding committee. Actually I would think it would be easier for them because they would have so much more information available.

Finally I thought your first post was saying that I was just being a selfish parent who was just complaining about his kid's seeding at Salina. I will admit that like my son I also felt we were a little slighted with the Salina seeding. But I was only using it as an example of the post that I made on the same situation in this topic on 1/26/04 at 9:48 PM. That was about four days before we knew what my son's Salina seeding would be. It was intended as an example to support my position in that post. It was personal and maybe I should not have done it. Maybe I came across as slighting the other wrestlers. If I did I apologize to all of them, because I have a great deal of respect for all of them. They are all fine wrestlers who are very capable of defeating my son on any given day. Believe me we had plenty of concern that he was not going to win his first match and the rest of them too for that matter.