The thought was that no more than 500 would appear at the first tournament. We thought that possibly the Derby location, would have sufficed, remember, over 800 there for their kids tournaments, and as most know, out of state teams bring very few spectators. Spread out over a Friday, weigh in's and some exhibition tournament, and all day Saturday the tournament would have been run fairly smoothly.

There was no conflict of date, with the possible exception of kids in Iowa, but again, remember this was primarily a high school tournament. There was only a 3 week span where there was no conflict, and if not mistaken, there was no conflict in state.

As to your comment regarding USA being promoted in state, I agree, but the truth is, at least I think we will agree on, we need to find a way to get many more high school wrestlers signed up with USA and take part in more USA events. The numbers are low. I know that I am hopefully going to have a number of High School kids sign up next year with the Wizzers that haven't been signed up in the past in that we now have our charter and will require USA membership to participate with the team, whether participating in USA tournaments or not.