AA State Duals for the most part seemed to be more competitive this year than in the past. I could see/feel the energy in the building. Parents pacing around and barking at each other. Just some really good matches, best I have seen at the state level. I’ve watched all of these kids move up through AAU the past 10 years and can’t help but believe TN has improved tremendously on a national level. Kids are competing and placing at the big tournaments to show the feedback. Kids also moving on to the next level.
I think TSSAA should tweek the event some to wrestling out the 5th place match and actually give the kids a medal or something. We are talking about 75 teams down to 8 and that’s a long road to go a lot of work.
1st, 2nd, 3rd placers get plaques or whatever and 4th gets NADA. Just seems it could be made bigger for what it has become.