I was there and I think I can offer you an explanation. As you know the tournament did get off to a late start because they had over 1000 wrestlers and 100+ scratches. With that number of scratches alot of brackets had to be reworked. It was nearing 10:30 by the time the first 5 tables worth of brackets were complete. A decision was made to go ahead and start wrestling on those mats while the brackets were being finished for the others. I really am neutral about this whole thing only because I have been to thousands of tournaments and events and heard the Anthem thousands of times so missing out on 1 time out of thousands isn't really doing to disapoint me, and honestly I don't think it should disppoint you either. Trust me its not going to be a trend.