Yes, I know that yelling and rude parents are a problem. I know that when my son started to wrestle at a young age, I often asked him "why do you like it so much"? It was so hard for me to fathom him wanting to be in the middle of the gym with everyone screaming and yelling. He told me he just knows how to "tune them out". I think another reason is because these kids are thrown into a sport that last 5 months, spending a lot of time at practices or tournaments at such a young age. I have heard of some clubs limiting the time or tournaments with younger kids. I was wondering if they have found that the kids don't drop out as much as the others. I also do not think it has to do with tryouts. We are a 4A school. There is no tryouts for junior high and high school sports. If you want to wrestle in high school, you can go out and you will probably get a varsity spot because there is not that many to compete against. Same thing for basketball, football, track ect. In smaller schools, you find the same thing, no tryouts. However, kids are still not giving wrestling a shot. And, it is hard to convince parents and kids to start the sport because of the all day tournaments and cost involved.