We try to keep schools in the same classification together as much as possible. We also look at schedules and try to separate teams that wrestle each other more than once. In the past we have tried to seed the tournament but never had much success with it being the first weekend of the season.

This season was a little different because we added Goddard to the tournament and they are now in our league. We wrestle Goddard and Andover Central in league duals over the next two weeks. We kept all the other 5A schools in the same pool and both 6A schools in the same pool. The 4A schools were drawn randomly and placed into pools that way.

Another change we made for this year�s tournament is starting the duals in each round based on random draw. We will roll a 14 sided die in the coaches meeting to determine the starting weight of the first round. At the conclusion of each round, the winning coach of the last dual to finish will roll the same die to determine the starting weight of the next round. We will eliminate the last 5 weights wrestled because of time considerations and start with one of the other nine weights. We will put 10 minutes on the clock and start the next round when that time is up. Hopefully, this will make the tournament a little bit more fan friendly and keep people interested.