Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School Taken from the Colorado Wrestling Sight: New Weight Class?

But Aaron, could this be a byproduct of there being so few weight classes for bigger wrestlers in high school that wrestling is not attracting enough of the better football type athletes into the sport during their elementary and high school years?

I suppose the football scholarships on the average are also more lucrative for the bigger athletes and this also probably directs their interest, energy and time more into football than wrestling.

that and because of the huge amount of football scholarships out there compared to wrestling.

Very True. I think I heard Stanford had 1.3 scholarships under the old coach for an example of scholarhips not being readily available for wrestling.

1.8 actually Swayz

in comparison, Stanford's football team gets 85 scholarships

leave the lower weights.

get a 184 and bump 189 to 197...the jump from 171-189 and 189-215 is pretty big.

and get a 235 and move heavyweight up to 285.

that would make things interesting.

Coming from a smaller guy when I was in high school....please don't mess with the lower weights. It still bothers me that the smallest weight is 103 lbs and not 98 lbs (that's just personal sour grapes because I only weighed 90 lbs as a freshman in hs). Luckily, the lightest weight was 98 lbs.

Wrestling is one of the few sports, if not the only, at the high school level where you don't have to be "big" to compete. The beauty of it is that for a team to be successful you have to have all shapes and sizes successfully contribute in order to win a team championship.

As far as the bigger kids going on to college...another aspect is that a lot of kids that are big enough to play football in high school and compete in the heavier weights in wrestling chose to play football in college. All of the reasons mentioned above are part of the equation for that choice. I would also submit that the potential to go to college, play football and then get a shot at the NFL is a legitimate dream for a lot of these athletes. We all know that achieving that dream is a great challenge but I'm not sure a lot of kids are willing to write off that dream and not give it a shot when they tranisition from HS to college.

If extra weights are needed for the heavier weights then add them, don't mess with the lighter weights. For a lot of us smaller guys, it is one of the few opportunities we have to compete in a sport at the college level. By the way....in the 6 and under age we add in all kinds of weights at the lower end because the numbers support that. Why not do something like that with the high school level and the heavier weights?

Just some random thoughts. Have a great day!

All this talk about adding some weight groups but how do you make it happen?