All these numbers haven't proven anything glaring to me. If we are going to do stats, then let's track the number of kids at each weight class in each tournament throughout the high school season. The kids season is a different bird and upper weights are not always participating after the high school season as they are doing baseball and track. The argument of amount of experience means nothing. You can have 10 years of experience and get beaten by a first year guy as it depends on how quickly the athletes learn and how athletic the athlete is. Like I have said, I support the little guy, but that's not where are athletes are losing opportunities, it is in the mid upper weights.
Obviously we can't convince each other of anything, so I am done posting, it's just that I think we are arguing based on loyalty to our own children(which I understand). However, there are just not as many lighter kids (103 lbers in high school) out there wrestling unless you have 50 kids in wrestling, which is an occurrence in a couple of KS schools, but it is not very common. Most of the varsity 103s cut, so why not move it to 107 and adjust the other weights to give the congested weights some more opportunities to participate.
