I know the NCAA considered bumping up some of the upper weights to narrow the 197 to 285 gap or to add a weight in between. It would be more difficult for them to add a weight in between. They had a survey of NCAA coaches and refs this year and those two questions were part of it. The majority of the coaches did not favor making the weight changes at this time. I believe the majority of the refs did though.
I was hoping that the NCAA would bump 184 and 197 to look more like our high school 189 and 215 by at least bumping 197 to the 212 international weight level. That might have been a good weight class in college for Joe. Although I think he will do very well as a heavyweight too. This was a good year for heavyweight recruits, Joe at OU, Atticus at Minnesota and Steve Andrus at Michigan State. I also think Duane Zlatnick could have gone D-I in wrestling if he had not chosen football instead. Congratulations to all of them.
