Shawn,

Would you believe that there isn't much competition outside of the state either. We wanted to go to Preseason Nationals nobody signed up. Same with CO tournaments. Son wanted to do a Boy Scout event so we didn't go to USJOC which we prob would have won again. The numbers are down for HWTs this year at National Meets. We did kick-off, we had one match total against HS kid & lost 1-0, we did a dbl forfeit there with another kid that was 120lbs lighter than him. We wrestled a few other OK meets with HS fr/soph boys in them, then MS happened and we were basically begged to do that by the MS coach so he did it to be a part of the team. That cut us out of a lot of stuff for a month or so. We were able to do a grand total of 5 matches in MS of which none of them lasted more than 30 seconds. Would love to go back to do School Boy MS Duals as we were 7-0 there last year as 7th grader. But the weight is too low for us right now. Money has been a factor lately, but we still plan to do USAW Nationals and FR/GR season. Hoping that the state meet will give us some tough matches w/ HS kids. Looking forward to next year so we can do the whole "Rite of Passage" for the upcoming 8th graders in 14U.


Really don't matter for us about subs we pretty much walk to state. But really some districts could easily bypass the subs and be just fine. So what if there is 32 in the bracket you only get to take 4 in the end to state. It would just make seeding actually mean something.