The kids series is too long for the HS division. At most you need a district and a state. You have to make up your mind what weight you want to wrestle within five days of your last HS weigh in. Most HS wrestlers want a break. They may only want to wrestle one event such as the RMN.

Va Beach is different now too. They are up against Flo for competition. NHSCA allows HS wrestlers to drop weight classes as does Flo. I haven't even checked the calendar but perhaps Reno and USA Nationals are the same weekend. You can call them watered down because the elite are not gathering at one watering hole any longer but not because they don't have numbers. All of these events are getting 40 plus wrestlers and in come cases 60 plus.

At the end of the day no one is tricking anyone. The ability to educate yourself before you write the check is readily available. Kids and parents have the right to choose. That has always been the beauty of this sport. You can take your gear and go where you want to, you don't have to follow anyone. As to wether or not RMN is hurting USA Kids?? Who really knows? It is all speculation and opportunity.

If you want a great post season HS event then allow walk ups to a HS district the Saturday after HS State and qualify the top four for the next weekend. Two weeks of wrestling while they are still in shape instead of four weeks of ridiculous sub districts with 3 man round robins and tons of scratches.

I do think Sport0 is way off base throwing around accusations and ridiculing those who invest their time and money to support a kids wrestling opportunity. If you want the kids to stay in KS build a better mouse trap.