Regardless of the 7th and 8th as we don't have that issue in KS. It would be a shame to see opportunities taken away for smaller kids that wrestling is their ONLY opportunity and given to larger kids that are looking for something to do when not playing football. Leave it the way it is. HWY is already the most forfieted weight in HS.
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24/7,
This is not about taking opportunities away from smaller kids and giving them to larger kids. This is about reducing the number of classes from 14 to 12. It looks about just about all our current weight classes would lose a little ground in this proposal change to reduce two classes. Some of the reasons that I have seen given for the proposal are that coaches feel there are too many forfeits, many teams are having trouble filling all their spots, it would improve wrestling's image not to have so many forfeits and that competition would improve. The report states that the below weight classes would give the most equal distribution at actual weights for all three states in the Peterson survey. I am assuming that they are proposing this distribution or something close to it for their proposed 12 class system.
1 . 106
2 . 117
3 . 125
4 . 132
5 . 138
6 . 144
7 . 151
8 . 159
9 . 169
10. 184
11. 209
12. 285 (I assume this would remain 285 the new top weight)
