Top notch amateur collegiate wrestling!
by BigAppleGrappler on 12/18/12Madison Square Garden - New YorkTop notch amateur wrestling in the Big Apple for the first time. Kudos to Beat the Streets and everybody else in the current and alumni wrestling community nationwide who helped this event come together. I took my twin sons to see some of the top ranked team and individual wrestlers in the country. Everyone from Oklahoma State, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio State and Cornell were there, as well as a slew of other top national and regional wrestling programs. The only noticeable absentees werePenn State and Arizona State, but for a first time event, which will only improve over time as more colleges are able to schedule in advance, it was fantastic. The only thing I would caution is that I could have sworn I'd paid for lower level seats in the Cornell section (my kids wanted to see Kyle Dake desperately), but must have clicked Cornell and also best available. I assumed I'd get best available in that section, but ended up in "best available" on the other side of the arena. We ended up sitting in the upper level near where we wanted to be in the first place. Our view was fine and the kids didn't care, but I did pay for lower level seats. That aside, and it was probably first-time-at-this-event user error on my part, it was a great event and I'd highly recommend it next year.