Depending on where the byes end up someone could wrestle more than 5. This can happen if there are two adjacent sets of matches in the first round on the same side.
12 team regionals make sense. They can be wrestled in one day without jeopardy of breaking he 5 match rule.
Hopefully the 40 40 ?? reclass with 10 schools in each regional, wrestling in an 8 bracket format would eliminate almost all first round byes. Hopefully 10 schools can fill an 8 man bracket in each weight class. But, I do think you will continue to have some first round byes, but a lot less than now. An over filled weight bracket with 9 or 10 wrestlers will require one or two pigtails/wrestle-ins. Pigtails should be one and done matches: the loser would be eliminated to preclude an odd ball one team losers bracket. All other matches proceed through a normal 8 man bracket front and back side--after all you are looking for the 4 weight class placers to go to the state tournament .
