I am kind of new to kids wrestling and do not know the exact rules about novice wrestlers. I do know that some coaches and kids have wrestled kids with more than 2 years experience in novice tournements. I use the Olathe novice this last weekend as an example. One kid I saw there wrestled at least three years ago against one of our wrestlers. At the Olathe novice this last weekend he wrestled another. the first year this kid wrestled he was obviously a novice and to see him there last weekend he was wrestling at an open level. Should the kid be to blame I think not we should blame the coaches that sign the kids up for a novice when they know better. Call it what you want but I call it CHERRY PICKING. This is not very much fun for the novice wrestler. I have my own novice wrestler who has never won a tournament but has placed in novice and open tournaments. Is it wrong for me to continue to enter him in novice tournaments? Should I only enter him in open tournaments? And why should I only enter in open if he has never won any tournament?
These questions of Novice or open wrestler will never be decided until the state decides to step in or coaches decide to have standard rules to follow.
