Why would you put a kid that was 6u dist. champ in novice???? When it is an open novice tourney???
6U 43
1st Luke Henes, St. Thomas Aquinas
2nd Zachery Maler, Louisburg
3rd Ethin Van Anne, Southeast Kansas
4th Cobe Garcia, Burlington

Luke was entered into the Manhattan tourney as an OPEN wrestler (49#) and our wrestling coaches rated him an "A" wrestler. Apparently the tournament directors called our coaches to clarify this.

When we got to the tournament yesterday we were wondering why there were 6 round robins in the 6 and under 49# weight class. Luke only got to wrestle twice as one kid was a scratch. His last opponent apparently was wrestling in his second tournament! We were disappointed ourselves in the bracketing for the 6 and under weight classes. We traveled a long way for 2 matches!

Luke's Mom

Thank you wrestlingmom for the clarification. I was also upset with the bracketing because my boy is 4 and we wrote that on his entry and he got stuck wrestling your son who is the dist. champ,and he got very discouraged.

I know that happens a lot. When I was in about my 5th or 6th year of wrestling, I traveled all the way to Doge City for a tourney. Being from Derby that was quite a little drive for us. Well when I got there, I so "happily" found out that I was to only have two other kids in my bracket. Well one kid scratched and the kid that I had to wrestle had only been in the practice room twice the entire season, and this was about the middle of the season. Needless to say I was dissapointed to have to wrestle such a novice wrestler just to get in a litte mat time. My point though after having said that story, is that I think that too many clubs try to have tournaments on the same day which in return lowers the number of kids. Especially if u've already been to one tourney (Derby for example) and u know how it's been run in the past, it can discourage people from returning to that touney the next year and promotes them to go to a different one the following year. Cuz I know in the past I've went to different tourneys than what my club would be goin to either because we didn't like the way one was ran the past year, or if we felt like we would have more competition at another one. Another one, which is kind of a sad one to me, is that less and less kids each year are not goin out for wrestling for whatever reason. And that can and more than likely will have a major effect on how many kids are in a bracket and if wether or not they combine brackets. But as to combining the brackets between ages has to do w/ how many kids are in a bracket. Because if u were to combine a few brackets that only had maybe a few kids in each one, the kids not only get more mat time, but they also learn a lot more than as if u were to only have 1 or 2 kids in each bracket. That's my two-cents worth anyways...I hope I helped u in some sort of way or form and not just blowin smoke in ur ears.

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Thanks coachjt, didn't know that till now. Thanks for the info.