The free-agent board for tournament wrestling. A Matside Wrestling Co. product. Wrestlers post availability for a tournament; teams fill open weight-class spots; tournament directors run the whole thing as one live board.
WrestleFA is the open matching layer for tournaments. Parents post their wrestler's availability for a specific event; coaches post the open weight-class spots they need filled in their team's lineup; tournament directors activate one live board per event. Where SignupSignin is friendly and MatPass is urgent, WrestleFA is opportunity-forward: it treats every open spot like a placement worth competing for, in real time.
Posts a profile for their wrestler, browses open dual spots by weight class, sends join requests, and tracks acceptances in one dashboard. Free to browse and post.
Club, middle-school, or high-school coach with weight-class spots to fill at a specific tournament. Posts open spots, browses available wrestlers, accepts or declines join requests. $12 per event or $99/yr.
Activates a Free Agent Board tied to their event, bulk-invites teams and wrestlers, moderates listings, and exports a placement report after the board closes. $99 per event, all divisions included.
High-volume circuits running 10+ events a year (e.g. NuWay-tier). Annual contract, custom volume pricing — direct contact with Daniel, not self-serve.
WrestleFA shares Matside's master spine — Midnight Navy, Inter, flat technical layouts — and adds Signal Amber as its product-exclusive accent. It must read as part of the family at first glance, but stand on its own at second glance.
The primary mark is a signal bolt paired with the WrestleFA wordmark — the bolt reads as the "available now" light on a draft board. The two pieces are designed as a single unit. Use the bolt-only mark when the system has earned the recognition (app icon, avatar, badge) — never as a substitute for the lockup in first-impression contexts.
WrestleFA defaults to dark. Midnight Navy is the canvas, Off-White is the body, and Signal Amber is reserved for one job: indicating availability and active state. The amber should feel earned every time it appears — like a runway light coming on.
Signal Amber should never exceed ~10% of any single view. If it's everywhere, it's nowhere — the signal stops being a signal. Reserve it for active CTAs, "Available" status, and one or two attention-pulling marks per screen (a number, a bolt, a count).
Montserrat for athlete names, headlines, and the wordmark. Anton for weights and numbers — borrowed from MatPass to keep stat callouts loud. Inter for everything else: body, UI, microcopy. Never substitute or stack.
| Token | Family | Size | Line | Weight | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| display/xl | Montserrat | 88 / 5.5r | 0.92 | 800 | Marketing hero |
| display/lg | Montserrat | 64 / 4.0r | 0.95 | 800 | Section heads |
| stat/xl | Anton | 104 / 6.5r | 0.92 | 400 | Hero number callouts |
| stat/lg | Anton | 36 / 2.25r | 1.0 | 400 | Card weight + jersey |
| stat/sm | Anton | 18 / 1.125r | 1.0 | 400 | Table weight column |
| h1 | Montserrat | 40 / 2.5r | 1.1 | 700 | Page titles |
| h2 | Montserrat | 28 / 1.75r | 1.2 | 700 | Section titles |
| name | Montserrat | 19 / 1.187r | 1.25 | 700 | Athlete card name |
| body/lg | Inter | 16 / 1.0r | 1.55 | 400 | Lede |
| body | Inter | 14 / 0.875r | 1.5 | 400 | Default UI |
| label | JetBrains Mono | 11 / 0.687r | 1.4 | 600 | Mono uppercase labels |
| caption | JetBrains Mono | 10 / 0.625r | 1.4 | 500 | Footnotes · metadata |
Every wrestler on the board has exactly one status at any moment. The system is binary on purpose — a coach scanning the board needs to act, not interpret. Signal Amber means "act now"; green means done; gray means stand down. Statuses apply to wrestlers and to open spots. Use the status pill component verbatim — never invent new states.
WrestleFA's voice is direct without being pushy, confident without being salesy. We address parents and coaches as peers who already know the sport — never as customers to be sold. Every line should answer "would a coach scrolling at 11pm before weigh-ins feel this is for them, by people who get the sport?"
The brand isn't decoration — it's the components. Every applied surface follows the same recipe: navy canvas, mono labels, Anton numbers, Inter copy, Signal Amber as the active layer. If you removed everything that wasn't doing a job, this is what's left.
Primary = parent & coach actions, Signal Amber on Navy. Dark = TD-tier paid action. Each CTA names a real user-story flow — never "Get started".
| WT | Wrestler | Club / HS | Rec | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | D. Thompson | Bethlehem Catholic | 18–6 | Available |
| 120 | J. Okafor | Young Guns WC | 21–8 | Confirmed |
| 126 | A. Salazar | Notre Dame–GP | 25–3 | Available |
| 138 | M. Reyes | Cornwall HS | 22–4 | Available |
| 145 | K. Bauer | Wyoming Seminary | 27–2 | Requested |
| 170 | R. Castillo | M2 Training Center | 19–7 | Confirmed |
Documentary, not portraiture. On-mat moments, weigh-in lines, hand-raised victories, locker rooms. High contrast with one warm light source. Athlete identity is always legible. Avoid stock-photo gym shots, posed studio portraits, and motion-blur abstractions.