The rationale that it's always been done that way is like saying we don't want to try anything new. I know that the only person that likes change is a wet baby, but if Coach Alley's formula would provide the best of opportunities for the best wrestlers to meet in the finals rather than the semi-finals, then it should be given serious consideration.
He has a life. He probably thought of this formula while trying to take out a barbed-wire fence with his ultralight plane.