1st off thank you for taking suggestions/feedback. 2nd year we’ve gone and definitely plan on coming back.

Floor congestion was biggest issue. Seemed to be lots of people who were willing to pay an extra $20 to be able to camp out along the inside of the fence for better viewing. Might consider limiting floor pass sales to those w/coach cards only...maybe even bronze card holders to limit it even further? Also noticed that the security personnel over behind mats 1-3 didn’t seem at all interested in checking for bands as people passed through. Is it possible that some of the people on the inside of the fencing had no bands and took advantage of this?

Also, was surprised to find out floor pass didn’t cover admission. I assume it’s because floor pass is sold by club/admission sold by arena. Would be nice to only have to stand in one line if admission was either waived or rolled in to cost of floor pass.

More of an arena issue but concession lines were LONG. Noticed they only had one of two upstairs stands open, with #’s increasing each year they should at least consider opening the second stand upstairs.

KCMO area MO side remote weigh-ins would be nice, especially for those in the afternoon session so families can have the option of driving down morning of and not have to choose between staying two nights or a three hr drive at 10pm. Understand completely that integrity of the event can become an issue with a lot of remotes though.

1700 wrestlers. If event continues to grow in popularity and integrity of novice division is an issue maybe ditch the novice division altogether? Or consider running novice one day and open the other? Was a marathon for the coaches and families who had kids in each session.

Seeding. You’re doing the best you can and integrity of those registering kids is being relied upon, but there’s a MO club who brought 33kids. Of those 33 29 were open entries and all but 3 were registered as “AAA”. Looking at track profiles the majority have never wrestled much less placed in a national tournament; many weren’t even MO state tournament qualifiers last year but were registered as “national placers”in an attempt to seed them higher. For the record my son didn’t lose to one of them, but it was a running joke among the kids that knew these wrestlers and its frustrating to see truly deserving kids have a tougher hill to climb because others choose to game the system. Tough, if possible at all, to police this but they were pretty blatant about it. If it’s an issue with other clubs as well might as well just go blind draw.