TFuller,

I agree with you 100% on keeping things more affordable. I think you might have misunderstood the Friday night weigh in proposal I mentioned above.

With this concept you wouldn't have to drive to the tournament sites for weigh ins at all, neither Fri or Sat. Weigh ins would be done by each team's home site that is participating in the tournament. The weights would be called in by the head coach or club leader to the tournament director.

The reason for doing it on Friday night is so the tournament host can then make the brackets, get rid of scratches, etc.

I don't have a problem with Sat weigh ins except it requires folks to get up really early, travel, and then provide breakfast or $$$ for breakfast. Typically, a family is getting up and leaving the house between 5:00-6:00 am in order to get to weigh ins. The kids weigh in, eat, and then sit around until between 9:00-10:30 am until wrestling starts. A lot of times they are still at the gym until 5:00-6:00 pm at night finishing the tournament. This makes the day very long for the younger wrestlers.

I do agree with you on the idea that if you are not going to do home site weigh ins then there needs to be at least a Sat am weigh in so folks don't have to travel twice.

Shawn Budke