Richard,

Your comment is way off base. To equate an error in judgement on a weigh in as a basis of never allowing a kid into an individual's tournament based on that error is ridiculous.

What is even more ridiculous is some of the analogies of people with way too much time on their hands. For example, I heard one hypothesis on why this happened and it centered around allowing it to happen so District One could beat out a District Two kid. I will profess that there are times that I think there are underlying reasons of why things happen, but eventually sanity will creep into my brain and say, "that's just silly gibby."

Was it an error, yes. Was there an attempt to correct it, yes. Do we cut a guy's hand off at the neck for a screw up, no. Your comment was way off base and I would hope your were man enough to apologize for such a horrible statement like not ever sending your kids to a tournament run by him.

In a world consumed with various criminal acts upon kids, here is one guy that's trying to do the right thing. He was there at 8:00 am to help set out the mats. He was there all weekend to officiate. Wrestling is a big part of his life and to have his character questioned and scrutinized is plain wrong.

If it is yours and others mission to publicly criticize an individual for his volunteerism toward the sport to help make it better to the best of his ability, I suggest that each of you get busy and study the rule book, pass the test, organize the tournaments, put on the stripes, and volunteer your time in helping make this tournament successful. Somehow I don't think I'll see you bright and early on Friday to help with Nationals.

There's truth to the saying put up or shut up.

I'm sorry if I sound "huffy," but I don't agree with using this forum as a way to belittle a person and it bothers me because there is now way to defend yourself on this forum other than the moderator removing the post. Even that is a bad way to defend a man's integrity. There's no chance for rebuttal.

I apologize if I sound nasty, that's not my intent. It's hard to convey tone in a post. With that being said however, I don't agree one bit on the manner in which some abuse this forum. I'm not saying you do in particular, as I'm sure there are others, this just happened to catch my eye and upset me.