  We discuss the importance of mixing between glueballs -- bound states of
gluons -- and excited $\bar{q}q$ states for the glueball search. A preliminary
study of the excited states in the Extended Linear Sigma Model (eLSM) suggests
their masses in the scalar channel to be in the vicinity of the scalar-glueball
mass found in Lattice QCD. This could have implications for future glueball
searches.
