Originally posted by Husker Fan:
I did a review of the state tournament qualifiers for 6A, 5A, and 4A last year by class. It was not listed for 3-2-1A by class. It did surprise me as to how many juniors and seniors were in 103 and 112, which lends support for keeping both of these weights active in high school. But it also did confirm the dominance of upper classmen in the 171 and up divisions, which is support for adding more weight classes for the bigger athletes. In the upper weight classes 40 of the 48 were junior and seniors for the 215 weight class and 41 of 48 were junior and seniors for 171, 189 and 275.
103
9th-20, 10th-10, 11th-6, 12th-12
112
9th-17, 10th-8, 11th-12, 12th-11
171
9th-0, 10th-7, 11th-12, 12th-29
189
9th-3, 10th-4, 11th-17, 12th-24
215
9th-3, 10th-5, 11th-15, 12th-25
275
9th-2, 10th-5, 11th-21, 12th-20
The thing that hurts in the long run is the number of quality big men that go on to wrestling in college is small as compared to those that are smaller.
