Our definition of novice is 2 years or less of experience. If they had a match before 9/1/17, they are ineligible for novice. We leave it to parents to police, just like Tulsa or USJOC. A little bitter about that division because it was our kid who lost to him in the finals of that age and weight. We allow bumps in weight so we do not release a wrestler list. After some issues we had this year, we will most likely have a zero tolerance for weight missed. This way we give people ample time to research this. I did receive a few emails on wrestlers that we had to look into. We moved them to the open division and charged the team the correct entry fee. Most were mistakes on entires. We realize we are not a Tulsa or even a USJOC, but are approaching the competition level of these tournaments (Maybe not Tulsa) and need to have rules set in place for this such thing.