Funny or memorable seeding meeting stories

[AC Computer]

I wish that would have happened in this case.  All the coaches voted, 9 to 11 in favor of our kid getting the 3rd seed and the administrator didn't like it so he made it the way he wanted it.  I guess when you host sectional you get some home cookin' along the way. 

I can't believe the coaches let him get away with it. The tournament director should not have a vote in the seedings.  He's only there to insure the seeding is done fairly and according to the recommendations.  Sounds like he was biased to the host school.

[OTMF74]

Had a coach try to get his wrestler a higher seed by saying, "In High School his wrestler was on Cover of USA Wrestling Magazine."  Not anything to do with head to head, higher winning percentage, common opponents nothing like that, just his wrestler was on cover of USA Wrestling Magazine lol.

 

 

By the way this is in A College seeding meeting.  The things people come up with.  ;D

 

 

[jlittlejohn]

1988 Indianapolis City Championships

 

Cathedral Coach Lance Rhodes claimed that "a bug" had been going through his team and he wasn't sure any of his kids would be able to wrestle so he refused to offer any of his kids (a loaded roster including Ellis, Terry, McGinley, Guhl etc.) up for seed, instead entering only the school name at each weight. There was grumbling throughout the meeting and immediately upon the conclusion of the meeting Coach Rhodes and his assistant bolted from the room. The remaining coaches began discussing his reasoning for this and it was a consensus among the coaches that it was an attempt to increase the chances of the Cathedral wrestlers to match-up early with the Roncalli wrestlers, thus, hopefully knocking them out of the championship bracket earlier in the event, whereby, reducing Roncalli?s opportunities of scoring team points.

 

Tech?s coach John Hurrle, President of the Indianapolis Wrestling Coaches Association and an officer in the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association, made a phone call to the NFHS in Kansas City (at that time) and learned that it was permissible to seed a school even without a designated wrestler if there was a consensus among the other school?s coaches. So in the absence of Coach Rhodes the tournament was re-seeded (at Cathedral's stud weights). The next morning upon Cathedral?s arrival Coach Rhodes was given the new brackets and you can imagine his response. Roncalli won the City Championship by ? of a point, thus, ending Cathedral?s strangle hold on the City.

 

[Trinedad]

Dont know what was said, or by whom, but I am guessing there were some interesting words said at the Shelbyville meeting when the 125 class was being seeded.