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Yet, the 47-year old tournament may undergo a significant tweak. Round-robin tournament formats seem to be more popular than bracket-style events or multi-dual meets. Wrestlers and coaches want matches, the more, the better. You don’t want to go to a tournament where you get only two or three matches,” Spencerport coach Dan Glover said. “It’s actually (about) bang for your buck.’ When schools backed out of the Teike/Bernabi Wrestling Tournament last week because of scheduling issues, organizers at Spencerport scrambled. A switch was made to a round-robin format during the opening day action. Results were used to seed the fields for the bracket-format that determined the tournament’s champions the next day. “My hand was kind of forced and it was a good thing,” Glover said. “Every coach I talked to said they appreciated the change.
“It’s a lot of wrestling, but at the end of the two days, kids were walking away with 10 matches of experience. Not that long ago, when I was in school, you didn’t get 10 matches in a month.” Glover, an assistant coach at Spencerport for six years before this season, said that the Attica Tournament has a round-robin format on the first day and then goes to brackets the next. “The only drawback I can see is that a team is not going to want to do too many of those,” Glover said. “You are going to get banged up. “Even with nine teams in our tournament, it was a meat-grinder.” Glover and Spencerport athletic director John Pelin still will consider a change in the Teike/Bernabi format. “It worked well,” Glover said. |
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