Coach Polansky,
I agree with you that wrestling should be about creating more opportunities and should not be cutting weight classes.
I think we could create more opportunities if Kansas had a system like the NAIA does that allows for a team to take 12 wrestlers (2 more than the college weight class bracket total of ten) and up to 2 per weight class. In high school this would mean each team could wrestle at state up to 16 wrestlers and up to two per weight class. This type of system would have served a situation like yours this year very well where you have five wrestlers between 139 and 142 alpha weight. You would have had the option to wrestle all five in weight classes very close to their alpha weights. For example you could have wrestled two at 135 and two at 140 and one at 130 or 145.
