Unable to search for event by name using wildcards

There is no apparent way to find an event by name or use an event name wildcard in any of the search tools because they expect an event id rather than an event name.
For example:
Find Participants (event search) does not except wildcards - it will only match to a single event. Finding all the events with "Summer" will not work.
Advanced Search offers "Event Name" as a field, but it only matches a single name - wildcards of non-numeric cause an error.
Search builder has an Event name field, but it is incorrectly names and should be called Event ID - there is no way to match on an event name.

See http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,12114.0.html