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There are some options, just the biggest obstacle is that there is such a short turn around between getting your qualifiers and then getting tickets for family and teams then for the general public.
 
Some ideas I have had or heard from others.
1. Assigned sections instead of seats. I assume this is possible with enough "service" fees on Ticketmaster, but it would be great for teams and fans to converge on a specific section instead of exact seats. I really miss the pockets of fans from each team that cheer loudly together.
2. Teams get X amount of tickets to sell per qualifier beyond the parent/school tickets. If it was say 10 per qualifier they would get the 4(well should be 4) for family and 4 for school, plus 10. This would mean just over 4000 tickets which is a lot. The unused ones would be given back. The hardest part would be the turnaround time to get them to schools and get them back into the pool if not used.
3. Only all session tickets. 
4. Open All-Session tickets on Wednesday and single session tickets on Thursday.
 
The assigned seating isn't going away, general admission is bad and makes for a tremendously less enjoyable experience. 

Ticketmaster and the IHSAA are two totally separate entities. When the IHSAA chooses to use venues like the Ford Center, Gainbridge, and the Memorial Coliseum(Fort Wayne) they are beholden to Ticketmaster. The only way to get around TicketMaster is to physically go to the box office. That is what they did at the coliseum and what I do at IHPO. 
 
Unfortunately Ticketmaster is the scum of the world and will continue to screw the people for their "convenience" fees.

Not saying the ticket situation is right but if anyone here was in the IHSAA's shoes how would you handle next year's tickets? I say back to general admission.

Not saying the ticket situation is right but if anyone here was in the IHSAA's shoes how would you handle next year's tickets? I say back to general admission.

Honorable Mention: the music selection was horrendous.. nothing like warming up for one of the biggest matches of your career to the Disney on Ice soundtrack. 
 
#BringBackTheTights

My seats were way up in the nosebleeds and I kept seeing empty seats down near the floor so we just moved. I would check Ticketmaster and the seats were never sold. Wrestlers and coaches should get their allotment first then priorities should go to all session ticket holders and then single session. Or just make it one price for the whole dang thing. Ticketmaster put the screws to us and ihsaa let them do it. Unfortunately I think the only way to avoid this in the future is to go general admission all the way around but that's not fair to the coaches and wrestlers families.

Thank you! We had a great time! Chasers had everything a state party should have pizza, adult beverages, some colorful language, friends, great wrestling talk and fans, some arguments but it was all love I am already counting down the days until next year! 

Those schools get together and tell each other to buy the same section.  

Oh and all tickets should be mobile except for walk up sales.  

Is this better? 
- after each wrestler gets their allotment then the sale to general public happens at 10 AM on Wednesday.   These tickets are ALL SESSION only tickets. It’s crappy that all session tickets were being sold for the top row of the upper deck while the individual session seats were available in the lower bowl.  
- any seats not sold during this time then go to a Friday session and a Saturday session ticket. Each would be good for the whole day.  These go on sale on Wednesday night at 8 PM
- you can still do walk up sales but it’s just what is left for that day. 
- the purpose is the ALL SESSION tickets should have priority seating.  

Maybe I have more insulation but I never did get cold all weekend

Switching this up a bit. 
 
My "Not Top 5"
5: Weather
4: No pass outs for Friday night and paying ridiculous prices to eat.
3: IHSAA not shipping the original podium
2: Attendance
1:Ticketmaster

I may have missed it over the last couple days and the trip back home, but did they ever announce attendance, as in actual number of people in attendance, not the number of tickets sold?
 
Be interested to know that number too I guess, because I know my group had 4 tickets go unused. I feel most people had some go unused. Was the #TicketGate2024 debacle a scare tactic by TicketMaster to sell more tickets and accrue more money, courtesy of assanine fees they charge?

Two sessions Friday is unnecessary 

I’m definitely passing that along to the staff. 

On another note every single employee of the Ford Center that I came across was very nice and helpful. Some venues that I go to such as gainbridge or Lucas Oil that is not the case. Instead of helpful they are aggressive and abrasive. It truly was a nice change of pace to be able to talk to someone that didn't act like they had better things to do than help you out. And I mean that for every single employee that I encountered.

Dirty South did a great job ! If it wasn’t for #ticketgate2024 I’d give the event a TeamGarcia 

 
But overall 5 Stars . Was at the my hotel reading the flyers they had and it was pretty cool to see the hospitality. 
 
 

On another note every single employee of the Ford Center that I came across was very nice and helpful. Some venues that I go to such as gainbridge or Lucas Oil that is not the case. Instead of helpful they are aggressive and abrasive. It truly was a nice change of pace to be able to talk to someone that didn't act like they had better things to do than help you out. And I mean that for every single employee that I encountered.

On another note every single employee of the Ford Center that I came across was very nice and helpful. Some venues that I go to such as gainbridge or Lucas Oil that is not the case. Instead of helpful they are aggressive and abrasive. It truly was a nice change of pace to be able to talk to someone that didn't act like they had better things to do than help you out. And I mean that for every single employee that I encountered.

You guys did a good job, my only complaint was the no pass outs on Friday night. You guys know that there's a lot of working families that go to this and to make them feed their kids with a $15 chicken sandwich is hard on a guy. Other than that I think the Ford Center did an outstanding job. Thank you for your hard work!

So what's up with the back flips? Or lack there of? I say if a kid wins a state championship he should be able to do a back flip or 2 or 3 or 4 depending on how many he has won. Is there something that happened to make this change? I'm a pretty low key guy but come on let yhe kid have some fun.

On another note every single employee of the Ford Center that I came across was very nice and helpful. Some venues that I go to such as gainbridge or Lucas Oil that is not the case. Instead of helpful they are aggressive and abrasive. It truly was a nice change of pace to be able to talk to someone that didn't act like they had better things to do than help you out. And I mean that for every single employee that I encountered.

Agree 100%! It's the absolute pinnacle of Indiana wrestling. If he's not puting his opponent down, flipping the bird, or doing anything obscene then let the kid have a moment. We all love a good back flip, if they made it this far you know darn well they worked for it.

What time at the square?

I'm sure that the location had something to do with it, but I'm pretty confident that the ticketmaster fiasco was the biggest factor.
 
How is it that a company that only handles ticket sales, can't properly handle an event of 11,000?
 
Completely inexcusable!