LegRider
My son didn�t make it to the finals at Liberty Nationals, it was at the Topeka Tournament. At Liberty Nationals, he went 3-2, one win away from medaling. Also, my first post I had stated that my son had wrestled 4 matches, it was actually 3 matches.
Your quote
"Maybe I was incorrect by mentioning most sports, I have been to many a baseball tournaments that last all day long and the next."
You�ve made my point about making it a 2 day event. Granted this type of tournament isn�t a National tournament and doesn�t need to be two days. I bet that baseball tournament was ran in sessions, so you weren't stuck at the ballpark all day. Even if it wasn�t in sessions, he had a good ideal how long a game could last so you could leave and come back. You can�t really do that in wrestling because you never know what is going to happen. �All day� doesn�t mean 13 hours. You also have to remember, my son wrestled 6u, I can't imagine how long late the older kids were their. Again, I don't mind a tournament lasting a long time but 13 hour tournament needs to be a two day event. Like I had posted before we waited 4 hours between one match. That is alot of time wasted doing nothing. I'm not complaining about the drive home, so I probably shouldn't have mentioned that. We all have to spend time on the road to compete, that is part of the sport. Wrestling parents do make the sacrifice for their children to compete, we did at the Topeka Tournament. The problem is that type of sacrifice weakens the sport. Your not going to tell me that most parents would spend 13 hours in a gym every weekend and stay in that sport and then call it a sacrifice. What kid wants to be in a gym that long? My son was 6 years old when attending the tournament (2/03). He was ready to go home long before that tournament ended, around the 8th hour.
I don�t know if the Liberty Nationals went over the cutoff entries, I wouldn�t doubt it because their were a lot of people and wrestlers. The only reason I recall the Topeka going over the cutoff was because we were camping out on the floor next to the announcer and he announced the number of entries which was more than the cutoff number.