Actually most of the computer programs assign the byes randomly. The problem that you get into is that, like we did at Basehor, it is too easy to seed all .500 or better wrestlers. When you get a quality tourney like that one, there might be fifteen or eighteen wrestlers over .500. We seeded them all because it is fast and we just did. When you do that you limit the possibilities of the byes to about the same lines every time simply because there are no other lines for them to go on.

What we are going to do next year is seed only eight wrestlers per weight. That way, when you draw the byes, it gives you twelve lines per half bracket available for the byes. You will see a much more random appearance of byes when we do that or when anyone does that.

It used to be mandated that all seeded wrestlers must have the opportunity to draw for the bye. I think it still is. I know we do that. That way, conversely they also have the opportunity to draw a match by the same random chance, if that makes sense. Probably if you are going to tourneys and it appears that they always gives the bye's to the seeded guys, it might be, like us, that they are simply seeding too many wrestlers. I say that about us, but you have to understand that in a couple of weights we had wrestlers that were 12-2 and better that were seeded ten and twelve. That is not the way most normal tourney's are though. Don't know if any of that helps you at all but it is what it is.