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We have heard your concerns, and in an effort to always be improving the Gene Mills Eastern Nationals, major changes will be happening for next years tournament...
- No door charge next year - only one wrestler admission charge.
- Weigh-ins 4:30-9:00 Friday only.
- Six additional bathrooms to be added to those already on premises four ladies, two men.
- Carpeting between the two rinks to eliminate the dirt tracking.
- Bantam, midget, junior and girls start at 9:00 am.
- Varsity and Cadet will start at three o'clock.
Things that will remain the same...
- By far the best competition found in the North East.
- The largest one day tournament to be found in the North East.
- The most wrestling opportunity of the large tournaments with the very few small brackets wrestled as three men and four man round robins.
- Eight man brackets are wrestled to sixth place.
This year we had 850 wrestlers on twelve mats and we finished at eight thirty. With the split start most wrestlers should be done in six hours. It should be remembered that only Bantam, midget, and juniors need to qualify. Girls, junior high, junior varsity and varsity do not need to qualify and have never needed to qualify as they have no opportunity to qualify.
If a better venue can be found that is workable with all the complexities of a large tournament that runs 12-15 mats as two years ago we ran one thousand wrestlers then we will move but this is not likely. Personal comments should be directed to me personally at (315) 277-5164 or gburkin1@twcny.rr.com as this tournament involves eight hundred and fifty wrestlers and over ninety volunteers. |
