DrBaker

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    1 hour ago, PPmothman said:

    I think the next two weeks we will see where everyone goes. There is a rumor that all the Ryle kids are going to drop to get Evans away from Raney. Also PT currently is stacked up. Interesting to see where the two 175s go and 215s go. Virzi could stay at 215 making 190 interesting. Looks like JC has a lot of kids weighing in light. Could see Scott, Smith, Morris and Jude drop. 
     

    Another Interesting rumor is Raney dropping to 120 and letting Utah go 126. This would be huge. Right now 126 is the deepest class in the state. Raney staying there till 126 clears out then sliding Utah in would be huge. 
     

    Just some interesting points for entertainment. 

    Pt has a new lineup posted for the Johnny Drennan at Father Ryan. 

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    13 minutes ago, Lowsingle said:

    This whole post season has not been enjoyable for fans, coaches or mostly importantly wrestlers. I was at Ryle this past weekend and I can honestly say that I have never been in a gym so long to only wrestle 16 man brackets. No hospitality room, one concession stand so the line was very long most of the day, no seating, restrooms were not big enough and floor space around the mats was not sufficient. Not to mention that the competition area was not legally set up according to rules that are in place for the safety of the athletes. The out of bounds lines were not far enough apart. There were a couple of places on the mats where you could stand with one foot in the wrestling area of two different mats. Most of these things are not the fault of Ryle coaches or admins, its just an issue with putting that many teams and fans in a high school gym. I am most certainly not looking forward to being packed into GRC this weekend. First of all the fact that we are making this a two day event is being ridiculous. 16 man brackets on 5 mats if done right should take about 6-8 hours max not two days. We are forcing parents of competitors to miss work on Friday if they want to watch their sons compete when the whole tournament can be wrestled on Saturday. Isn't that why we put in the 6th match rule for post season? So we all show up bright and early on Friday, while GRC is in school session, to watch 3 total rounds of wrestling. Those 3 rounds should be finished by about 5pm unless we take a bunch of useless breaks just to string out the days which only causes the fans and competitors to become more disgruntled. Now the teams that have to travel from the far ends of the state will go back to their hotel rooms, that they had to book for 2 nights instead of 1 night costing the team money that they probably didn't have, and find out how to kill time the rest of the evening. Then we will get up early and finish the tournament the next day but not without buying another $16 ticket and if you are lucky you can get one of those $75 KHSAA hoodies for your kid before you go home.

    Total cost for a family of 4 traveling to watch their kids compete:

    Hotel Room 2 nights $275

    Tickets for 4 both days: $128

    Fuel, Food, Merchandise: $300

    Total cost about $700ish for a tournament that could be done start to finish in 1 day. Not mention the fact that those same fans spent half that amount to go to the first round of state last weekend. We are doing our people and injustice. We are killing our sport by letting this happen. We will lose wrestlers next season because of our postseason. The wrestlers and their parents will leave this season with a sour taste in their mouths and they will remember what a circus it was this season,. 

    It was pretty well the same at Atherton. Small concessions, packed bathrooms, etc. It had the feeling of a regular high school tourney.