I read this forum often but until this weekend have never felt the need to post. This was my son's second year to make it to state and my second year to "experience" the Expo Center. I just do not feel that neither this venue nor the town of Topeka can handle a tournament of this size in a good fashion. The hotel experiences listed above are only a portion of my concern. Other problems include inadequate parking, high traffic stairs and hallways, long line in bathrooms (my son nearly missed his match due to lines on Sat. morning after the parade), the up and down arrows to get onto the floor ( again even though my son was up next on the mat in front of him, and their was no one coming up the stairs, the man made him go all the way around to the other side,-he ended up running up to his mat and stepping right on for his turn-not mentally prepared due to bathroom and line frustrations), The one stairwell to the exhibition hall was at times extremely crowded, and finally for anyone who is slightly larger than normal like my self, the small seats and lovely metal arm rests were very frustrating (painful)-one grandpa from our club could not sit in the seats and left early because of this problem. I have been to the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita, Salina Bicentennial Center and other venues around and never had this bad of a problem.

It is for these reasons, I wish to request that the board of directors and the powers that be will move this tournament to Wichita.

Julie Scott
Circle Jr. Wrestling
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