In the last 35 years of my wrestling, coaching and running tournaments there is always something that is going to go wrong with a tournament. They will never be perfect no matter how much planning goes in to one. The only thing I was concerned about was the bathroom situation. But as wrestling teaches us you have to be patient and composed and take the bad calls with the good calls and what comes around goes around.
I really thought our tourny in JC would start on time (9:00a.m.)with all of the planning and effort. We had over 400 wrestlers with 28 scatches and numerous problems sending kids in the wrong age groups or weights. Some were internal and some external.Most of the kids were done by 3pm and we were completely done by 4pm.

I would like to thank the Emporia Kids team on a good tourny. They had to do a lot of scrambling and made the tournament an overall success.