I would recommend that there is NO SEEDING this year. Salina is convenient for an inaugural tournament for a couple of reasons. First, a club will not be hosting this event, the USAWKS State Tournament Committee will be doing so. The 4A State tournament is the day before so we will have mats available. The arena is cost effective. If the series is successful then we can put the event up for bids in the future. Availability and convenience are critical issues when you are looking at a limited time to prepare.
6U's will undoubtedly jump to the 8U group in some open tournaments after this event. That will be at the discretion of the tournament director. They will NOT be allowed to participate in the 8U USAWKS State Tournament Series, by rule.
Rictoria, if you can provide me with a method to accurately collect practice attendance data I will jump all over that. I do know that if EVERY tournament would utilize trackwrestling I would have more data to work with.
There may be brackets in the District qualifiers that are larger than we would like. I would not be as concerned about the qualifier as the attendees will be geographically closer to their homes because it is a district event. We could entertaining capping each weight class at 32. Again, this is a proposal to improve. It will have wrinkles that need to be ironed out. The more support we have the more success we will achieve!
