Dan the Man puts the hammer down on gutwrentch. As a fellow official in our great state, I too would like to put some money in on getting Mr. Gutwrench registered as an official, and also to the KWOA meetings. I'm sure everyone there including myself would be pleased to sit there and listen to this unknown, unnamed, man talking trash about them. Apprently in his eyes there is only one respectable referee in this entire state. I find that funny because I know plenty of officials who call matches exactly like Mark Anderson does, but I guess since they don't have the name they aren't important?

Gut, this IS Kansas, prehaps our style of wreslting isn't to your liking, the best suggestion I have to you is move out of the state and find somewhere else, because its going to be like this for a long time. I've seen countless high school officials call stalling 35 seconds into match because that was what was happening. Just because officials don't require a top wrestler to turn a kid in 7 seconds or let him go in Kansas, doesn't mean they are bad officials or that Kansas wrestling as a whole is bad.

So far you've managed to insult the coaches, the tournament directors, KSHSAA, about 92% of all the wrestlers in Kansas, and now about 150 officials on our state. On second though Dan the man, maybe he shouldn't reveal his name, I'm quite sure at this point if he did, he'd lose any credibility as a person should he decide to show his face at a tournament. Bottom line, if you don't like it LEAVE.


William Nigel Isom
Officials Director (USAWKS)
KSHSAA #14274
USAWKS #577
Riley KS