I will back up Olathewrestlingmom's assertion that her son is not that overweight. I saw him at Turner for the first time this weekend and he is a very big kid who is really not that overweight. I would not be encouraging him to lose. He is athletic and looks like he could play for the Chiefs or my Nebraska Cornhuskers someday. He is more muscle. He has an athletic football lineman's body.
I think a point here is that why are not more of his fellow football linemen not wrestling. When I played football, I know coaches loved for players to wrestle. I know there are a lot of bigger kids out there playing football. Three years ago, my son tried football and I was amazed at the size of some of those kids and wondered why they were not wrestling. A wrestling coach talked to his football team about coming out after the season, but I have never seen any of them. I wonder if these large weight spreads for bigger wrestlers contributes to the lack of participation of these football players. High school goes from 215 to 275. I wonder how many 225-240 high school football players resist coming out due to the weight differential?
