Come on guys wake up! This issue of men vs women has been around since the beginning of time. Women have always had to fight to recieve equal rights and respect from a male dominated society and this carries over into sports. There was a time just 40 years ago when women weren't even allowed to play sports like basketball and in States like Oklahoma, some girls in the late 70's early 80's were confined to half court basketball because the male dominated leadership believed they were too fragile physically to handle running up and down a basketball court. What a crock. Today, there are opportunities for girls at all levels of competition including a professional league. Is there a physical difference, of course, no one is denying that. Guys will be stronger and faster physically once they hit puberty but they are not necessarily superior mentally or technically which are two huge elements of wrestling. A good example of this is a teenage girl from Woodward, Oklahoma, Joey Miller. If any of you have seen her wrestle, you know what I am talking about. There was a 5 year old girl in Texas last year that was head and shoulders above 99% of the boys she wrestled and there is another one in Dallas this year that is just as good. My daughter outperformed most boys in every sport she played until she was about 12 when the boys started hitting puberty. I worked with her just as much as I did with my boys and I did not limit what she could do based on her gender. She worked harder, was more technical, mentally prepared and dedicated than most boys she competed against. She grew up in the 70's and 80's before wrestling was an option for girls but her daughter's deserve the opportunity to compete in that sport if they so choose and they shouldn't have to compete against boys. This is a sport that girls can and are succeeding in just like basketball in the 70's. They deserve middle school, high school, and collegiate opportunities just like the boys. Texas is in its infancy in comparison to Kansas and they made it a priority to put girls wrestling in middle and high school programs. Instead of complaining about girls competing with guys, do something about it and give them their own teams. I know some of you will say, there aren't enough girls in the kids wrestling arena to provide girls divisions. But I say to you that there would be if girls knew that when they reach middle school and high school age, there will be female programs for them to participate in. Girls know that with the system in place, the only future they have resides in the boys' programs where they will recieve alot of negative attention so only the best stay in the sport that long. The wrestling community needs to get past this idea that wrestling is just a male sport. It's not. Girls are capable of exceling in this sport just like every other sport that was supposedly just for males. Our girls deserve the same opportunities as our boys. The answer is not to intimidate, harass and try to make them feel inferior in the boys leagues, it is to give them their own leagues. Until we do this, we are sending the message to our girls that they are not as important as boys and they are not equals and that in my opinion is morally WRONG.