There is no NEED for a seventh match. How often would that actually occur. With the proposal to allow the sixth match it is only in the instance where it is for placing, most likely a consolation match due to the tournament running a 16 man bracket. We run a 16-man bracket in our one day tourney and ran into the 5th match rule several times last year. It would be nice to actually wrestle the match and not have to split the team points, and let the wrestlers decide who gets the points and the medal. I don't see it as a ploy of "if we ask for six, maybe we can get seven." Not that way. I am in favor of the 6th match here but what if a kid gets hurt during that 6th match. Have we now fed the litigation monster?
See I'd believe that, the problem is that several people in the past anytime this topic has been brought up have stated their opposition to the 5 match limit, not for placing purposes, but for "mat time" reasons. It comes as no surprise that if 6 matches is good mat time, then 7 would be even better.
