Some members of the Student Wolfpack Club are left without tickets to the football team’s season-opening game Thursday.

“Obviously the demand for our club members was higher than the number of tickets,” Amanda Wujzik, vice president of the Student Wolfpack Club, said. “All of the new freshmen put an additional spin on things.”

The club awards tickets based on a priority minute system.  Students in the club are awarded points if they attend sporting events designated as Student Wolfpack Club events.

“We have our own computer system and we come up with a list in minute order,” Wujzik said. “If people do have the same number of minutes then the computer randomizes the selection.  Yes, seniors might not get tickets over freshmen with the same number of ours, but we feel it’s best just to let the computer do the randomization.”

On the morning of Aug. 21, students began lining up at Reynolds Coliseum at dawn in hopes of being one of the 7,950 students who would get a ticket.  Ticket distribution began at 6 a.m. and ended at 8:30 a.m.

“We got there at 6 a.m. and waited in line,” Taylor Wiggins, a freshman in Elementary education,  said. “Everyone started walking away at 8:30 so we assumed that they ran out of tickets.  I was mad because I was told by an upperclassman that if we were to join and get minutes we would be able to get tickets, but I understand why we didn’t get them.”

Students who didn’t receive tickets during the club’s initial distribution could go online to register for the ticket raffle, which is open to the general student population.

“We did the ticketing for this game so early so people who didn’t get a ticket would be able to register for the raffle.” Corey Obermiller, a freshman in math education, said.

“I know a lot of students who didn’t get tickets to the game who are in the Wolfpack club and they’re really disappointed.”  Wujzik said “We are the largest student organization so of course not everyone would be able to get a ticket.”

According to Wujzik, however, members of the club should not feel discouraged.

“As the season goes on the number of students who line up for tickets tends to dwindle down.  For our second distribution, we had so many tickets left over,” Wujzik said. “We definitely feel bad for all of the people who didn’t get tickets, but we encourage everyone to go to the games and earn those points.”