novice shouldn't be an amount of years anyway. I know a kid that is on his 3rd year of wrestling and should be wrestling novice tournaments. On the same token some first year wrestlers should be in open tournaments only. As far as the coaching thing. I have been a high school, middle school, and kids wrestling coach and I wrestled with my boys when they were 3 and 4 years old all the time on the living room floor. And they tagged along with me at practice a lot before they started wrestling. Yes when they finally entered wrestling they are a leg up on "Little Johnny" who got a flyer from school about joining wrestling at age 6. Coach's sons tend to be good wrestlers. With that said if a coach is lying about the years experience of a wrestler to allow them to wrestle novice tournaments that would be a totally different situation.
