Mamasawn;
I am Randy by the way lol. I did run that meeting and that was a very tough call to be sure. The fact is you have to start somewhere and record is as good a place as any to start that. When you are dealing with two wrestlers who are both state champs in a weight where you have four state champs, there is probably as many ways to see that deal as there are coaches sitting in the room. You have to seperate them though and the fact is, it is the 2003 tourney and the record from 2003 has to be a relavent factor. One very very close six minute match a year ago in a different weight does not really mean any more than a lot of other factors. We couldn't sit there all day at an impasse though, we had to decide on something. The fact of it is that one of those four state champs had managed to get to that day unbeaten, that year, and when you factored in all the criteria not just that one or the ones convienient to each coach, it made sense. The wrestlers settled it on the mat though and it came out the way that you thought it should so in affect it worked, they were seperated on the bracket, they met in the finals, and it was a great match. The fact of it is, it worked and I don't think, save for a few bruised egos in the coaches room, that whether they were as they were or flipped it really made a nats eyebrow worth of difference and we didn't spend the next four hours in the room arguing which is where we were headed. It was a very tough weight to seed and we did the best we could for them. Somebody had to come away from that weight feeling gypped, I realize that and would have if I had been in that position no doubt (and have been many many times).