NCAA Tournament brackets rant

There is truly no better time of year than March Madness. I get so excited when the NCAA tournament brackets come out and I can sit down and begin filling out what I think will be the perfect bracket. Of course, it is not perfect and this is usually because I tend to make picks more with my heart than with my head but at least I am honest about it. I choose a fair share first round upsets but it usually works out where a 1 or 2 seed comes out of each region (history tells us that this is a good formula to go by) Before the tournament begins I will have filled out around 10 brackets with many different ways I can see the tournament playing out but by the time the first game tips off I only claim one of them as my "true" bracket. This is what frustrates me. Everyone has the friend who fills out 20 brackets with pretty much every combination and outcome represented in those brackets and when that miraculous 15 seed beats the 2 seed they are quick to say "oh I picked that." You know good and well that he did pick that in one of his brackets but it was 18th one that he had filled out. No matter what happens in the tournament that guy will always say "I picked that one too!" It is easy for most of you to see how ridiculous this is (unless you are this person) but everyone at least knows someone who is just like this. You need to have ONE bracket. Can you fill out a bunch of brackets? Sure! It is fun to fill out brackets. But in the end you need to claim only one. You need to "game up" and put all of your basketball knowledge and sit down and fill out the bracket that you will claim as you own. I would argue that the more brackets you claim the less you know about basketball. I get so mad when I enter a tournament pool and I pay my $5 entry fee only to lose by a couple of points to the guy who won but filled out 5 brackets. Now yes that does mean that he paid $25 dollars to enter those 5 brackets but nevertheless why can't we just man up fill out one bracket and say "this is my bracket, these are my picks and this is what I think will happen." For those of you who claim more than one bracket please stop telling all of us that you picked Arizona to beat Cleveland St. in this years tourney because you really didn't. You were just tired of picking the higher seeds like you did in you previous 10 brackets you claim. You are not smarter than those of us who have integrity, honesty and confidence. You are weak minded souls whose entrance fee money should be accepted but your brackets dismissed.
You would think that based on this rant that I am doing poorly in my tournament bracket. Well quite the opposite, I am doing very well. I picked 13 of the 16 Sweet Sixteen teams with all of my Elite Eight teams still in play. Lauren is still beating me which is tough to swallow but there is still a lot of basketball left to be played. GO DUKE!