Dear jayhayes,
Maybe I was incorrect by mentioning most sports, I have been to many a baseball tournaments that last all day long and the next. At Liberty Nationals My son was not as fortunate as yours to be in the championship match (Congrats to your son!) but we also arrived at 7:00am, wrestled 5 matches, got out around 5:00pm, and drove 2 1/2 hours home. Your statement "if any of those sports could last up to 13 hours... NOBODY would want to play that sport. That is to much time for anybody to spend in a gym or field and then have a 1.5 hour drive home," is also false because we, wrestling parents, do it every year. We make the sacrifice. Some don't and that to is Okay.
As for Topeka going over their entry limit, if memory serves me correctly, Liberty Nationals also went over their cutoff by several hundred.
Don't get me wrong I would go to both tournaments if they were on opposite weekends. My whole point in posting was that the very reasons you listed as dislikes in Topeka's Tournament, Liberty Nationals was the same way.