The year of the big questions

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When the wreath festival season kicks off on Sunday, it will be eight months since Joel Wicki was crowned king of wrestling at Pratteln. How does the Entlebuch powerhouse handle the new pressure and especially the added burden?

It will also be a season of saying goodbye. Who will fill the gap when the Bernese kings Christian Stucki and perhaps Kilian Wenger will soon hang up their strings?

At the start of the sawdust season, Blick mentions four names to remember: Sinisha Lüscher, Gian Maria Odermatt, Marc Lustenberger and Michael Moser take everything to make saying goodbye to the greats easier.

Talk about goodbye. There is another question that many friends of wrestling find uncomfortable: does wrestling say goodbye to gigantism? It’s been talked about for years, but the truth is that the federal wrestling and alpine festivals are getting bigger and bigger. Now that there has been a bang in Pratteln, the million-dollar hole created in the Basel area should be a warning shot to anyone going to host these big events in the future.

The Unspunnen Festival shows how big this challenge will be: Tickets for the highlight of the season are currently being sold on the black market at fantastic prices, although the tickets are not yet available. The fights in the sawdust are still booming – the wrestlers have to keep fighting next door.

Source : Blick