Well well Will, sounds like so call detractors hit a nerve. By the way I haven't seen any detracting on this subject. Detract is defined as To reduce the value, importance, or quality of something; I see other opinions that are different from yours . Cutting weight is part of wrestling for older kids & professionls, same as boxing, MMA etc. end of discussion; as far as the younger kids go, my son wrestled at 58 lbs last year. On Friday his ritual after school was to check the scale to see if he was going to be able to have a bedtime snack after dinner or if he was going to have to skip the snack i.e. eat candy, drink pop, eat nachos, guzzle gatorade, etc. if he was under he would enjoy his snack, if he was over he would not, he never missed weight, he never ran, sweat, spit dehydrated, missed meals etc.; his reward for making weight was biscuits & gravy & an orange at the tournament for breakfast;why did he want to wrestle at 58 instead of 61? guarantee is wasn't that the competition was easier, he had goals & they all involved beating kids at 58 that had beaten him. now take that away from him along with the rest of the extreme sacrifice that he & the rest of our family glady endure every season & wrestling turns into a chore not fun kid sports. Your rule has to be reasonable for all ages as one of the greatest things about wrestling is the diversity of ages & backgrounds. Aren't the kids under enough stress already? Why add more stress to the tournament by weighing in 4-6 times a day!! Not to mention the bottelnecking problem that would happen at the tables. If anything adopt the same policly that high school has as far as hydration testing. That seems to be a pretty simple fix not to mention the logistics. "yes I know we don't have enough volunteers to work the tables but we also need 12 more for weighing kids 3000 more times." Yuck!