We had a big problem with saving seats on Saturday and Sunday. I got up both days and stood in line outside for a 1/2 hour before the doors would open so I could save seats. Saturday around 9:30a.m. some lady wanted to sit right in the middle of my family with her son and we told her the seats were for our boys wrestling and our 70+ dad who had just had surgery two weeks prior to State (we would call him at the Capital Plaza when it was time to come over to watch the boys). The lady left and brought back a security guy, he told us that we could only save seats for people that were using the restroom. He said we could not save seats for our boys that were wrestling and that if their seats were taken they would have to sit in our laps! The woman that wanted the seats threaten to push our mother down the steps in order to get the seats she wanted and the security guy just laughed. This man said he was the assistant to the head of security and it looked to us as though he was more concerned with who was saving seats than he was about an act of violence! In years past, I have gone over early to save seats for the club and our families because we all want to sit together--as most people do--and have not had the problem I had this year. I feel that if I am getting up early I should be able to save as many seats as I want without being harrassed by security and rude people that feel they deserve a good seat when they show up after the wrestling has started.


Patty Ochs