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I would like to give thanks to Martin County for the well run tournaments. The tournaments were both very well ran by their coaches, staff, and parents. Special thanks to the ladies who provided the hospitality room from this old coach.

Excellent one.

I am in not implying it was done the way it should have been but very curious, how many top 5 kids didn't place in the top 8 last year?

Michael Barren, Julian Tackett, thank you for being insouciant in your decisions this year towards the kids. You have made many enemies, I’d imagine everyone in the wrestling community besides Coach Matney. Your negligence in decision making has given the KHSAA a black eye that no words you can express will wipe away the stain. Hope to have a candid and concrete conversation with you next week at state. Congrats to the kids that qualified. They went through the rigors of a season dictated by the KHSAA, Tackett, and Barren, but many kids were left at home in order to check the box of “having” a wrestling state tournament. I hope the KHSAA and BOC sleeps well at night knowing audacity they had to ignore the recommendations from the Kentucky wrestling community.

For those of you who said it's not a money grab by the powers that be explain why we weigh in at 9 a.m., start wrestling at 10 a.m. but finals do not start until 5 p.m., after placing all 8 wrestlers. It's 100% of money grab, rob from the coaches, force everybody to stay there all day so they can make more money on concessions. Seed the tournaments in the worst way possible, so they can then say "See you ask us to seed it, We did and you're still not happy" This is stupid and ridiculous, with absoulutly no common sense injected to the tournament. It is been made patently clear that they do not give a crap about our sport, they just want to get it over in time for basketball to start next week, where I guarentee no coach will have to pay to enter and there will be food to feed their coaches. Am I bitter, yes our sport deserves so much more it terms of respect.

4 unranked kids made it through. 6 ranked 20-25 9 ranked 15-19 15 top 5 didn’t make it.

Three of the officials worked the state tournament last year and all three done a fantastic job. Geez quit crying and get better. Which team were you pulling for?

To anyone that was there yesterday and saw how bad the officiating was inform who ever is in charge of the officials. You Do not want the same ones doing actual state!!