I guess I should but my two cents in...

After last years tournament our club agreed to not go back to Iowa… but I made this mistake of hoping that with experience they would improve and not have the same problems.

I hate to admit this but I was wrong.

I HAD A KID WIN 5 MATCHES IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP SIDE AND DID NOT PLACE.

At weigh ins they had his down as a school boy 115 when he was supposed to be a cadet 112. After getting that changed the next morning we noticed his name was not on any brackets. After a nice meeting with the head table he got pig tailed in to a 64 man bracket. He went on to win his first 5 matches. He actually wrestled 5 times between 10am and 12:30am.

After the last match at 12:30 I took him and the rest of the morning session wrestlers back to the hotel and when I received a phone call that our wrestler had missed his last match. I was thinking to myself there is no in a tournament this big in a 64 man bracket they could wrestle all the way to the finals in the Saturday morning session alone.

Once I got back to the UNI Dome and after talking to the head table ( I was camped out there for 3 days) We find out that Our wrestler was actually entered in to two weight classes 112 and 119 in Cadets (even though he wasn’t listed on either bracket.

The evening session (6pm) was crazy and pointless… everyone in the session only wrestled once but the “system” (if one was used) kept us there till after 9pm.

The UNI Dome is a great place to have the nationals but that was the only good thing about the tournament. The stadium was never remotely close to full, no one really knew when they where were about to wrestle, when they could leave, or when their next match was.

In the morning session they had 20 mats. Out of the 20 mats numbers 1-20 6 of them were mat 5.

Their were no Opening ceremony, Pomp and Circumstance, and the All American parade on the second day lacked half the wrestlers and was only seen by a few hundred spectators.

I could go on and on but ultimately…
I CAN NO LONGER RECOMMEND GOIN TO THE NATIONALS IN IOWA.

Its not over yet...