I believe our goals at this level is to both grow our sport and grow out talent levels.

I have seen clubs who only focus on the best wrestlers in the club and never grow the lower level wrestlers. Eventually those clubs pay a price. Usually there is a tremendous drop-off in talent once the best wrestlers move into high school.

When we run our tournament, we will not run larger than 8 man brackets and we will try to give the wrestlers the most mat time possible. We are seriously considering running six man round robins in leui of 8 man brackets during our tournament simply to give all wrestlers as much mat time as possible.

If the younger wrestlers do not have some successes in our sport they will quit and never reach their potential.

Our goal is to help them reach their potential. In order to accomplish that we must put them in situations that give them the best opportunity to be successful.

I agree with Mr. Cokeley there are plenty of Big Tournaments out there that you can attend and wrestle only "A" brackets.

Just my two cents...
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