Originally Posted By: in it to win it
Smokeycabin, your data is indicative of insight of "intensive wrestling states" that can validate that having a 6 & U State Qualifying series and tournament does not inhibit their State from creating or nurturing "growth" in the Sport.

Or it could be they just have so many more wrestlers that they are going to naturally come out on top in any competition regardless of if they have 6U state or not?
Why is it our sport is so obsessed about how anything effects our final outcome instead of what the kids might be experiencing right now? Why does it always have to be about whether we produce enough olympians or college wrestlers etc. etc.? Why can't it be about what the 6U kids would enjoy without considering if they might want to wrestle in the Olympics later on? You don't hear any other sport that I am aware of saying, "we aren't producing enough kids at this upper competition".
Do the right thing for the kids today and tomorrow will take care of itself!