The late Greg Grater had worked the numbers and said adding 6U was possible if we would trim the 16U and 14U classes to high school and middle school weights. Also, you will lose a weight or two at the bottom of the 8U division which currently consists mostly of 6U kids.
I for one think the mats are too small now and 14U should NEVER wrestle on anything smaller than a full mat. That is what always brings me back to eliminating the 16U division unless we are going to split the tournament into two segments. Our goal for state should be no mats smaller than a half mat and as many classes as possible on full mats. I will never understand everyone's desire to keep the 16U division. Those boys have had their folkstyle season and one would hope are preparing for an upcoming FS/GR season. With the growing number of regional and national folkstyle events it's only a matter of time before another tournament, in effect, decimates that division anyway.
If you are bound and determined to keep the 16U group then have them and THE 6U state together. Allow the 16U to just show up, weigh in and wrestle at that weight. We still should cut the weights back to recognized high school weights.
