How to organise a dangal
Organising a dangal comes down to three things done before the day — collecting entries, sorting them into weight categories, and drawing the bracket — and one thing done on it: keeping the record straight as bouts finish. Almost every dangal that runs late runs late because the bracket was drawn on the morning.
Entries and weight categories
Take entries in advance with the wrestler's akhara and weight. Categories vary — UWW's differ from the ones most local dangals use, and village dangals often set their own — so pick yours, publish it with the entry, and weigh in on the day.
The bracket
Draw it once entries close, not on the morning. Seed the known wrestlers apart so the best bouts are not in the first round. Print it large enough to read from the edge of the pit.
On the day
One person owns the sheet and nobody else writes on it. Record each result as the bout ends rather than at the end of the round — a disputed result an hour later is unresolvable, and this is the single most common way a dangal's records end up wrong.
Afterwards
Publish the results while people still care, and keep them. A wrestler's record across dangals is their standing, and it only exists if somebody wrote it down each time.