Nothing wrong with sending two teams out in a weekend. If you got depth, why not get these kids matches. SJA is top team in the state and one of the reasons is they have good competition in the room. Someone has to loose a challenge match, and it doesnt mean the kid is only good enough to wrestle a JV level because he lost a challenge match.
MY son's team in Indiana has two varsity teams. We have a Varsity A and Varsity B team. Coach gets really gets mad if somebody calls the Varsity B a JV team. The Varsity B has won two varsity tournaments this year already. They weren't the toughest tournaments and against small schools but still impressive. We have 65 kids out, and this is a huge motivator to keep kids involved and hungry. It also accelerates the kids progression as they are wrestling stronger competition.
A lot of schools dont necessarily like to wrestle the 2nd team because if you win, they think they were supposed to win and if they lose they lost to the 2nd team guy. I think some coaches just dont like to come to the realization that some teams 2nd string is better thatn their first.
I know a lot of schools in OH and Indiana have two teams, and its becoming accepted as a norm. A really good team in Indiana this weekend won two tournaments and placed 3rd in another tournament. We wrestled one of these teams and they were solid and it was a hammer tournament.
