So jeremy you are telling your 12-14 child is asleep on a saturday night at 10:45 pm? I hope he does not go to big tournaments because its not uncommon to wrestle late.

Look you have a complaint then call the man. Dont sit here on a talk forum complaining about it. Have the gull and call the man up.

Jeremy I understand you are defending Dodge and all those involved but please. Yes my 15 year old is asleep by 10:45 on a Saturday night. He is an athlete and needs his sleep. If you have been in D4 for very long you know Dodge has a reputation for starting late. No I am not calling anyone out. One year it was track wrestling, one year referees carpooled and broke down another year started on time them main computer went down. They have a run of bad luck. I have been to big tournaments Hays, Salina, Battle of the Belt latest was 9:00pm. . They had some problems people will sound off about it. Hopefully they learn from it and make improvements for next time.

I guess we got lucky last 8yrs! Always hit big tournament Salina, Hutchinson, (back when we had 1000 wrestlers!) Also my son is crashed every Saturday night by 9:00 or 10:00 the lasest, during wrestling season! I've helped hutch run their tournament all 8yrs! DC failed just own up to it. Competition was great it was just poorly ran. I'm sorry it is what it is. Good luck to everybody at state.

Jeremy Smith

The other athlete had to compete at the same time. I'm so sorry your son HAD to wrestle in the championship match, you could have been one of the lucky ones that got beat out and HAD to go home early. I totally understand people being upset with a tournament running late. I'm sure everyone involved wished it would have went better. Constructive criticism is welcomed, whiney cry babies are just noise.

Well beeson, as coach if my kid got beat out early, he would of been sitting in the stands with his street shoes on! If there's no noise the problem won't be fixed! Every year I would look on the talk forums to see where hutch could improve and never took negative feed back personal!

I also stated my son and his competitor had to wrestle that late! Even a ref left early. Defend it all you want this is my opinion and I stand by it! If I had a solution I would sure offer it up! Maybe use the mat when it's matches have finished up.
Jeremy Smith. (620-200-3700),

Personally I like,these type of complaints aired in public. Particularly as it relates to invitationals. It often tells me which tournaments I would or would not attend. I see no difference between this and restaurant reviews on any number of sites. In this case, the people saying "the competition was great", that dog won't hunt! The competiton would have been the same regardless of where the tournament was held.

I Jeremy Smith retract my statement about how the DC tournament was ran. Scott Edwards called me and explained the situation. I appreciate and respect that he did so! All I wanted was explanation and that's what I got. Thank you Scott Edwards!

Jeremy Smith i take back any harsh things i said about you. It takes a man with some character to give a public statement like you just did. Thank you for doing so!

I don't take back anything about Jeremy he is still a dipstick....lol

Let this be an example that maybe instead of being a key board tough guy having some personal communication with someone can still actually solve problems or issues.

Did anyone complaining talk to D4 director or the tournament director Saturday? Did they call him with their complaints? Did they ask if they could help in any way?

If they did then good for them, but I bet they were the minority.

Tracy I think after 500 post you should be banned from this forum... lol

I will make a new name like others have done on here, that way I can talk to myself....

I can’t seem to post on the seats so thought I’d try here to make sure I still can. Dodge City did the best they could with the size of facility they have used for years in the past that had worked out fine for the # of matches previous to this year’s re zooning. Hind sight is always 20 20

Watch out Tracy I'll sick Mayfield on you! Just kidding, he is lucky none of us was around!