I disagree. We had a kid that is one of the lighter kids in his age group. And it has happend every year he has wrestled. He had to wrestle bigger kids during the year because there wasn't enough kids his size at the local tourneys. It made him better, and he ended up winning a couple of state title because of it. This kid loses lots of matches during the year, but once State comes around, and he is wrestling kids his size, he is nails tough. That kid or his parents know that if there had been a bracket with only his weight class, he might have won a belt yesterday. Instead he got whipped in the finals, and hopefully learned something more valuable than a belt from it.

By the way, congrats to all of us for not having the forum filled up with "refs were horrible" posts. Great job to Maize and the referee crew.

I didn't hear the entry count, but it seemed like a lot. Someone earlier complained about how long it ran. Maize runs thru probably 1000 kids in a day. It takes Tulsa, USJOC, etc. 3 days to run 1500 thru.....Noone's complaining that they DIDN"T have to rent a motel room, while finding some really good competition.