There is another alternative. We could add another layer of elimination, a sub-state, like we had many years ago when state was still in high school gyms, and have 8-man brackets at state. We would push the regionals up to the week prior to the current date and have sub-state on the weekend we currently have state. Then our state tournament would be the 1st weekend of March and just prior to the arenas getting busy with that other winter sport.
I would say we should have only two 16 team regionals and have 8 wrestlers at state for 5A and 6A. 25% of the wrestlers just like 4A.
