About
Philosophy
KAP Wrestling sees every event as a partnership and your event’s success is our success. Over the course of the last 25 years, KAP Wrestling has been elevating the level of hundreds of wrestling tournaments. We at KAP Wrestling have been in the shoes of the wrestler, the coach, and the family at wrestling events. We know how long and confusing the days can get. KAP Wrestling prides itself in looking after every detail of a wrestling tournament to make the experience as exciting as the sport itself. We pride ourselves in making every event a premier event.
History
For more than 20 years, KAP Wrestling has been running tournaments all over the US. KAP Wrestling’s first tournament in 1995, was the Hammond Invitational in Columbia, MD, which later was taken over by Mount Mat Madness. KAP Wrestling started out with just Desi Kaplan and for the first 8 years he ran tournaments with just a computer and printer. In 2003, Larry Kaplan joined Desi and KAP Wrestling started to grow. Desi started writing custom software to improve the quality of the tournaments. In 2007, Desi partnered with Sikora Soft Systems and began running paperless tournaments and writing web based software to provide real time results to the wrestling community. In 2010, KAP Wrestling launched an interactive live brackets and results website, kapwrestling.net. By 2011, KAP Wrestling continued to grow and Peter Marcolini joined us running tournaments. Over the last 10 years KAP Wrestling has run more than 600 paperless tournaments, has become the largest tournament operation service in New England, and has become the tournament management partner of choice in many states. In October of 2014, we lost Larry Kaplan to pancreatic cancer. During the 2014 season, we realized if were going to grow more we needed to partner with a company that would allow us to leverage more software resources. In the summer of 2015, KAP Wrestling partnered with FloWrestling and in October 2015 FloArena was officially released. In our first season with FloWrestling, we have doubled the number of tournaments we work with and more than doubled our team of tournament organizers. The last 20 years have been awesome and together with the passion of our team and the partnership with FloWrestling we can’t wait to show you where the next 20 years will take us.