I disagree with the statement that there were too many coaches and wrestlers on the floor. Actually, one of the problems with the State Tournament in Topeka is that coaches floor passes are so restricted it keeps coaches moving to swap floor passes with other coaches to get to their kids mats when they are up, because there are not enough floor passes given out to accomodate all the coaches. I didn't really care for some of the attitudes of some security people. Funny thing is, they keep talking about restricting coaches and wresslers on the floor, yet while State Championship Matches were in progress, there were a bunch of sloppy-dressed bums down there rolling up mats that adjoin championship contests still in progress. It isn't very classy, to be viewing video of a championship match there, and suddenly have some idiot lift up a mat next to the championship match and obscure half the active mat. I think the important thing at these tournaments is to accomodate the kids, their coaches, their parents and friends who came to watch them, instead of creating a mofiaoso of super-security jerks playing MR. Big with the young wrestlers and coaches trying to get down to the floor in time to prepare for their matches. It would seem appropriate at a tournament as significant as the Kansas State Kids Championships to retain enough style and class to leave the mats on the floor until all the finals are completed. The last comment I have is that in our history, our legislators once considered it appropriate to protect citizens from unfair price gouging and monopolistic opportunists from taking advantage of people by passing laws to restrict prices charged in monopoly situations and to protect citizens from unfair prices due to price-fixing scemes. When an event complex like the Expo Center or the Kansas Coleseum restrict food and drink from being brought in from outside, they are surely creating a monopoly for the sole purpose of extracting huge fixed prices for items that could be purchased within a few blocks, or brought from home, at a fraction of that price. Either the prices of items should be controlled at less than 20% over the prices of like items in the area, or restrictions should not be allowed. Our early legislators realized that such restrictions to create opportunities for unethical interests to extract unfair prices was not in the best interest of the community and its citizens. I believe that Enron violated and is being punished for scemeing to accomplish the same situations and exploiting a captive group of utility consumers in California as these venues are doing to unethically exploit people who attend such long-lasting events as a day-long wrestling tournament.
