This is how they do it in Colorado. You get there. You wait for the girls to get out of your locker room. This takes a while. Then when you do get to wrestle, they call your first guy, against two different guys, on two different mats, So he goes out and wrestles one guy, then they call him again in about 5 minutes for the other guy, so you go tell them that he just wrestled, so they say okay, we will give you more time, and give you about one more minute to report. Then, it looks like some of your guys are wrestling about two weight classes up, and you don't know what weight class, but no one seems to have weigh in sheets. So you wrestle anyway, The official in the rock band T-shirt with cool skulls and stuff and baseball cap lets a guy that you are wrestling grab on the the edge of the mat while your guy is pulling on both ankles, and gives running boy a point for an escape and puts them upon their feet. Then you explain it to him, and how in Kansas that would be pretty much illegal to hold on to the mat like a five year old boy on the way to the dentist, and he says, ok, you're right..and he takes an escape point off, and we win. A fleeing the mat conversation would have been fruitless, but that's ok at this point. That was at...oh...the 155-167 pound weight class. I think we skipped down to about the 85-105 weight class, and gone directly into the, oh...120-135 pound weight class, but no one really knows whats going on or what weight class is next, but they are calling heavyweights and everyone is getting there, so I guess it's okay. We know it's over when the guy with the little portable speaker disappears. That's how they do it there. Not a lot of regulation with starting dates, ending dates, no match count or point system...just wrestle em baby!! Yeah, kind of like that. And I really seem to like the new officials uniforms, since I am kind of partial to bands with skulls on the t-shirts. They don't they have to wear head gear or get hair cuts either. Our kids think that's cool and wanted to do that too, but I really don't, so I made them sad. They have some tough kids, a few had really big scary tattoos and everything. Skulls seem to be very popular there. I think I like Kansas better, come to think of it. Does that help any?

Rick
Glad to be able to cross back home