ALPENA — No additional tickets will be sold for the 11-Player Football Finals that began Friday and continue today at Ford Field, despite Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s announcement that arenas with at least 10,000 capacity can allow up to 500 people, the Michigan High School Athletic Association said.

Meanwhile, sports officials are still analyzing Whitmer’s announcement that winter sports must remain no-contact through Feb. 21.

The no-contact rule for winter sports such as girls and boys basketball, competitive cheer, ice hockey, and wrestling, was expected to expire on Feb. 1, allowing those sports to continue normally.

Instead, Whitmer on Friday extended the rule through Feb. 21.

“We found out about this decision at 9:30 a.m. like everyone else, and we will address it as quickly as possible after taking the weekend to collect more information,” Mark Uyl, executive director of the MHSAA, said in a statement. “We did not anticipate this delay in winter contact practices and competition, and today’s announcement has created many new questions.

“Obviously, this is disappointing to thousands of athletes who have been training with their teams over the last week and watching teams in other states around Michigan play for the last two months,” Uyl added.

Meanwhile, Uyl said trying to distribute more tickets to the football finals would stress “Ford Field staffing, and force schools to make more hard decisions on who will be able to attend, but at the last second instead of with prior planning.”