It has been another great season for New Jersey wrestling and it will finish on the mats at Boardwalk Hall this Sunday. We at NJWrestle.com want to give thanks to everyone who has supported us not only this year, but the past six years of our existence.

Our site has had many facelifts, from our NJWrestle.com year end awards, Wrestler of the Week, Top 4 and Top 8 individual rankings, Top 10 and Top 25 team rankings, Chat, the Goodale Campaign, to a few different Forum looks. We tried to give you wanted, and thought it would be interesting for everyone. We never feared failure with these endeavors, just proud that we attempted them. Not everything worked, if it did we would be in Washington DC attempting to fix the budget.

Never boasting that our word was the end all, but just a word that we tried to get out as soon as possible through our many contacts. We are particularly proud of the existing relationships with the accomplished journalist that cover this sport statewide. In our first year, we decided to comb the internet and pull articles from the various regions and wrestling hot pockets of the state. We then posted their links on one news blog, and let you enjoy the reading all from one location. It proved very convenient and easy for our visitors. By doing this it allowed the journalist to get their articles out to areas of the state that were not familiar with their work.

As the years went by, the sport grew on the internet. Various other sites spawned, forums exploded and the wrestling fan went to the computer for their news. Newspapers expanded their online version to now include their own forum, videos, and pictures. Hopefully they can continue to improve their online version, as they still have a ways to go weighed against the resources available to them. But this is the right direction to go in, as our site often tried, to the dismay of the NJSIAA, to present these features to you over the years.

That said, we pridefully will be assuming a reduced roll on the site for the 2009-2010 season. We screamed to the high heavens what an internet site could provide to the fan. To date, we’ve been asked to leave two group championships and threatened expulsion at two individual state championships by NJSIAA officials because of their fear of our capabilities of providing realtime coverage. We actually got a kick out of that, but as you see today, realtime coverage is everywhere. It’s evident the internet will be the future for not only this sport, but total news coverage.

Our mission is complete.  The past six years we showed everyone what can be done by a few hard working people and how they could do the same.

With that said, if you see us in AC please stop and say hi. Our usual tour of establishments will not change this year. Friday afternoon prior to the pigtail round, we’ll be at the A Damn Good Sports Bar in the Tropicana, Then the AC Bar and Grill in the evening.  Saturday afternoon between the Quarters and Semis, we'll be at the Ducktown Tavern right next to Boardwalk Hall. The Ducktown is the best place in AC for food, drink and just plain good times!  Saturday night we’ll be all over the place and lovin it!

It’s been great folks, and we'll leave you with this thought.  A few years ago we had an encounter with an NJSIAA official who ran the tournament in AC.  Inside the Media Room our staff members were trying to attain updated brackets provided by that same official.  He stated the following; "These sheets are for the media, not dot commers!" 

How ironic is that, since the world we live in now makes that statement extremely archaic.