Mr. Juby,

I see no reason we should not get the figures out to the general membership NOW before we all start buying our cards. The real problem I have with this explanation is that I KNOW you have that information readily available, perhaps even committed to memory, so why would it not be given out. We have a right to know where are money is going. This organization has an obligation to its membership to operate transparently. If an AAU Card is only $12, purchased online, why are USA Cards $23 more? What benefits do we receive from each group? When the cost is almost triple it is past time to start looking into this.

In addition, am I correct to state that only Florida and Kansas make their members purchase their USA cards through their state organization? It seems odd to me that the other 48 states are onboard with online purchasing and NOT controling who gets a coach's card and who gets a competitor's card... I am missing something and I am sure the general membership would love to know too.

Honestly, do you REALLY want me to send you a check in advance knowing that I am going to be buying 50 USA cards? If I do I can expect an email within the day with the USA Card numbers for all of those wrestlers on my spreadsheet? I can do that but PAYPAL and Credit Cards are the most common method of payment for online transactions today so I am not sure why we are stuck in the dark ages of check writing. (And yes, I am aware that credit card companies/banks and Paypal charge a fee for handling transactions.) By the way, the "slight" delay you spoke of turned into weeks for some of the card purchases across the state. Last year cards were purchased through USAWKS and when wrestlers appeared at the Fall Brawl to register their names were not in the USA Card database which forced some to purchase a second card from Missouri because Kansas had no card selling delegation available.

I am sure the majority of these issues only apply to the "hard core" wrestlers as 7,000 may be oblivious to how this is happening and where their money goes but that doesn't make it ok to ignore those of us who are inconvienced and want to know.