ok i got the scoop. the small mats were used to prevent kids from running doing back handsprings and backflips after they won the championships like what happened at the college finals. thats just what i heard lol. cant tell you who i heard it from though.
I watched the NCAAs when I got home from Topeka. Seeing this wrestler doing flips and handsprings was one thing, but watching the wrestler from Iowa take off for him like a heat seeking missile and blow him up while he was in the middle of one of the flips, sending him flying another 15-20 feet where he landed flat on his back was quite another.
