I now live in pa and my son is still in wrestling. We only attend open tourneys or top 100 tourneys. My son is not the best in his weight class but we are very competetive. Pa does not have the (a, b, c) rankings in opens or in the novice tourneys for that matter. I for one am very happy about that because while we might get beat our first match of the day we still have plenty of opportunity on the backside. As we were wrestling in kansas last year his first year I finally pulled him from novice and rated him an a so that he could get beaten. I am an lod fashioned guy I guess you learn from wrestling the best and taking the beatings that go along with that. If you dont want your son to wrestle everyone in the bracket for fear of losing than I guess this is probably the wrong sport to be in. Conclusion PA is a great wrestling state and we dont make tourneys so that everybody goes home feeling like a winner someone has to lose, combine opens and novice I think it will produce alot more talent later through the years.

just my opinion, mike pirl