dLancer,
The NFL example is apples and oranges. The teams are in different Conferences and by rule, are unable to compete in the playoffs. We seed wrestlers all year and then when it really counts at the State tournament, we randomly draw the brackets? Your point about beating the best to be the best is obvious, but it skirts the issue of setting up the best possible final. "Just go out there and wrestle" is also a sound bite that avoids the issue. To say that the reason we don't seed is that "there are flaws in every bracketing system", shouldn't keep us from trying to choose the best available process that we've found to be applicable all year, only to abandon that process at the State tournament.
