WOOD_WON In no way am I defending dramatic weight cutting; I don't approve of cutting weight in any form at the younger ages as you so graciously proved for me by showing my past posts(that was pulled from 6/under state topic where parents were complaining about having to weigh in again if the kid competed at sub-district the day before); I also don't agree with this radical suggestion that you & others seem to be advocating with the matside weigh in; what I am trying to articulate in my post (evidentally not doing a very good job) is adding weigh in several times a day at a tournament is overkill & will make a long day longer & the already difficult task of organizing a tournament even more complicated & the wrestlers that are big weight cutters will continue to be big weight cutters; I do not believe a wrestler can cut 10-15% plus of total body weight in a short time & recover from it by gorging after weigh in; that wrestler is still going to be weak from what they have put there body thru the days leading up to weigh in. As far as this thread being about younger kids as you said in your post, give me a break! if you have a 10 year old or younger that has the discipline to drop weight then you probably have a 10 year old that has had some real bad role models brain washing there kid that this is the way to be competitive. Example: my son got sick 2 weekd before subdistrict & dropped from 58 to 55; I asked him if he wanted to try to wrestle at 55 for the upcoming qualifying tournament? He said yeah he wanted to; I told him he was going to really have to watch what he ate if that was going to happen; He was back to 57 in 48 hours; now my son is extremely competitive,motivated etc. but at this age has no concept not to mention the discipline to watch his weight not to mention drop weight. I'm proud to say that's the way it should be, by implementing this constant weigh in are you maybe putting in the spot light exactly what you are trying to eliminate? Obsession about weight! Peace