All right, going to stick my neck out there to get whacked, but it seems like these guys wrestle a lot more then Kansas, 70-100 matches! That is a lot! Other posts on this thread suggest that 30-40 matches is enough. My son is 10 & has wrestled every weekend since Emporia with the exception of Christmas weekend & has 36 matches. Alex also wrestles for PWA & has made friends from all over the state, actually the kids he enjoys hanging around the most do not live in our town. 98% of there interaction is in a hot gym or a hot wrestling room & they are missed during the off season by my son as well as myself. Every morning during the week at 7:00 a.m. it is like pulling teeth to get my wrestler out of bed for school, often turning into a yelling match but come Saturday at 5:00 a.m., I whisper as to not wake up whoever may not be going that weekend in my house & he is up & ready to go, won't even sleep in the car on the way, we get there, weigh in, eat breakfast & then my son is on a mission to find his buddies. I truly think it depends on the kid, If the kid sees it as a social event that they truly look forward to, is it a bad thing? Is there a risk for burn out? The kid being pulled out of bed crying that he does not want to go, but being forced to anyway is going to burn out, the kid that can't wait go get to the tournament for wrestling as well as for socializing, probably not.