Dark Energy Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Listening to ‘Wrestling Changed My Life’ podcast. Very clear that no session was sold out. WTF? Ok. Strike Tulsa. Oklahoma people … lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Cinnabon Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Would have helped if Ok St and Oklahoma were bigger title threats. The state is in a major downswing for wrestling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idaho Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Dark Energy said: Listening to ‘Wrestling Changed My Life’ podcast. Very clear that no session was sold out. WTF? Ok. Strike Tulsa. Oklahoma people … lame. There were empty seats for sure.... even for the finals we had a scattering of empty seats around us. I did hear there were some flight cancellations and problems for people getting to Tulsa, but I don't know how that affected final numbers. It was interesting to hear Bono say that during his time there wasn't nearly the crowds they are getting now for the NCAA. Sponsored by INTERMAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Dark Energy said: Listening to ‘Wrestling Changed My Life’ podcast. Very clear that no session was sold out. WTF? Ok. Strike Tulsa. Oklahoma people … lame. Don't know why you are blaming Oklahoma folks, this is an NCAA issue. They used to allocate more tickets to individual programs. I heard a lot of grumbling from folks who had not recieved tickets, didn't know where they were sitting etc, believe clear up to or just after conference. There's plenty of demand from true wrestling fans who are also willing to travel, but they need access early to make plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdowntown Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Where were these extra tickets? I don't have any ties to a program to get the insider tickets. I called half a dozen different school ticket offices, none of them knew how many tickets they were getting until March, and in the end none had extra tickets to sell to me. Ticketmaster and stubhub only had stupid expensive tickets or very crappy seats in the corners and high up. I love the championships enough to fly there without tickets and found some decent seats from someone out front. But seriously I should not have had to do that with how many empty seats there were. Something is broken with the system. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPhillips Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 If only Tulsa wasn't in Tulsa... I left Oklahoma, drivin' in a Pontiac Just about to lose my mind I was goin' to Arizona Maybe on to California Where the people all live so fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 one of the kids and his crew went out there on a whim and everyone got tickets no problem thursday morning... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbone Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 I don't know that they weren't "sold" but they were definitely all not used. I would guess that ticket brokers gobbled up the public tickets early and then tried to flip them for $1000+ profit but didn't get many people to bite. I think most of the unused tickets where in the upper bowl, but I think @jdowntown has the problem correct. My understanding was that the NCAA didn't allocate the schools tickets until late Feb/early March so even people who normally get tickets didn't know until late if they had tickets or how many and then throw in that Ticketmaster stops selling all session tickets altogether (so they can get fees on all 6 sessions individually), there didn't seem to really be a reasonable secondary market until very late. We looked Wednesday on ticketmaster/stubhub and it appeared the secondary market had finally come back down to reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 22 minutes ago, MPhillips said: If only Tulsa wasn't in Tulsa... I left Oklahoma, drivin' in a Pontiac Just about to lose my mind I was goin' to Arizona Maybe on to California Where the people all live so fine. I used to have a Pontiac. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarletKnight Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Crazy. What was the hardest ticket to get ever, Cleveland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Blades Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Well, I never been to heaven But I been to Oklahoma Oh, they tell me I was born there But I really don't remember In Oklahoma, not Arizona What does it matter? What does it matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 36 minutes ago, ScarletKnight said: Crazy. What was the hardest ticket to get ever, Cleveland? I had no trouble getting Cleveland, prob because they allocated enough early to individual programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbane Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 2 hours ago, ScarletKnight said: Crazy. What was the hardest ticket to get ever, Cleveland? Cleveland wasn't difficult for me. Pittsburgh was the only year recently I tried to get tickets and could not. 3 hours ago, ionel said: There's plenty of demand from true wrestling fans who are also willing to travel, but they need access early to make plans. I think Is part of the issue. Flights to Tulsa were more scarce than other host cities. By the time conference came around they were pretty dang expensive or impossible to get if you were looking for a Wednesday-Sunday travel schedule. Tulsa airport is probably the smallest for a host city since 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobDole Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 There are always empty seats, especially for the finals as some people head home after their guys lose. I didn't notice it was any less full for the finals than it usually is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionel Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 5 minutes ago, BobDole said: There are always empty seats, especially for the finals as some people head home after their guys lose. I didn't notice it was any less full for the finals than it usually is. Are you suggesting Spencer's mom didn't stay for the finals? Was there a braille option on the Espn app? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOCStallsLikeAMug Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 No one wants to go to the GD midwest/Great Plains. Stop putting the finals there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobDole Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 25 minutes ago, AOCStallsLikeAMug said: No one wants to go to the GD midwest/Great Plains. Stop putting the finals there. But no one in Iowa wants to go on a plane either. Something about not letting them take their shotguns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 1 hour ago, AOCStallsLikeAMug said: No one wants to go to the GD midwest/Great Plains. Stop putting the finals there. St Louis sells out almost every year they host it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southend Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Hotels were more of an issue than event tickets. I gave my all session tickets up. Couldn’t find reasonable accommodations in town. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scribers Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 5 hours ago, LJB said: one of the kids and his crew went out there on a whim and everyone got tickets no problem thursday morning... At the box office, or off the street? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Just now, scribers said: At the box office, or off the street? no clue... didn't seem important enough to ask... thursday i sent a text and he said they were in the building... to be honest, i doubt they bought them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Scrivener Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 I sell tickets on the side. First 3 sessions did not sell out. Other sessions "sold out", but still a decent amount of tickets left on the secondary market. Last minute tickets were available for as low as $5 on Thursday. I'm also from Oklahoma.... Tulsa is still quite a ways behind okc for event hosting. Also, the above-mentioned fact about Oklahoma schools being down is a MAJOR thing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbone Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Attendance was 16,855 for the finals. 95,245 overall (15,874/session). BOK capacity for center stage (similar to a finals set up) is 19K; Capacity for Arena Football (comparable to an 8 mat set up) is 16.5K. With the head table and extra floor space, etc, I assume the capacity might of been less than I stated above (center state/arena football capacity numbers) but there was certainly more than the usual amount of unused tickets every session, including the finals. For comparison PPG in Pittsburgh list the Arena Football capacity at 16.3K and the total attendance in 2019 was 109,405 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarletKnight Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 5 hours ago, fishbane said: Cleveland wasn't difficult for me. Pittsburgh was the only year recently I tried to get tickets and could not. I think Is part of the issue. Flights to Tulsa were more scarce than other host cities. By the time conference came around they were pretty dang expensive or impossible to get if you were looking for a Wednesday-Sunday travel schedule. Tulsa airport is probably the smallest for a host city since 2013. Cleveland didn't have many scalpers after Thursday. Yeah I remember Pittsburgh being hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRef Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 6 hours ago, Frank Scrivener said: I sell tickets on the side. First 3 sessions did not sell out. Other sessions "sold out", but still a decent amount of tickets left on the secondary market. Last minute tickets were available for as low as $5 on Thursday. I'm also from Oklahoma.... Tulsa is still quite a ways behind okc for event hosting. Also, the above-mentioned fact about Oklahoma schools being down is a MAJOR thing. I bought $5 tickets when it was in OKC and I might have paid $10 for a Finals ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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