wagreco84

Thanks for putting on another great tournament! I don't know why we don't have more wrestlers at this tournament. The awards are great, the tournament is well organized, there were full mats to wrestle on, most of the mats had 3 person officiating crews, everything was on track wrestling so you have brackets updated immediately. Even though there weren't more wrestlers, the ones that were there were very good in general. I watched a lot of great matches. We will be back again next year.

I took a job in Washington state in 2010 but we still come back every year for my son to wrestle at the Iron Eagle in addition to visiting family. I'm sorry you felt the tournament was a waste of money. I sure would like to see more kids come out, but even now, the quality of wrestlers my son had in his weight brackets were great. We were in cadet and he had someone who made the Cadet Fargo team last year and a kid who qualified for high school state from Ohio. The group was so evenly matched that the kid who won Greco and Folkstyle lost by tech fall in two straight in Freestyle. It sounds like the frustration is that Indiana continues to lose focus on Freestyle and Greco, and that Hyway is really competing with ISWA. Out in Washington state we regularly have 400 kids in freestyle and Greco tournaments each weekend. The one we are signed up for this weekend has 8 registered in his class for freestyle and 6 for Greco. I don't know what Washington State does to keep Freestyle and Greco going but I hope that the ISWA can do some benchmarking against other successful states to see if there are improvements that can be made to get more wrestlers into Freestyle and Greco.

Hi Blane, We have Isaac registered and our tickets booked from Seattle. Washington State has some great wrestlers, but last year we had some great competition at Iron Eagle. See you there.