I agree that kids burn out. I think a good percentage of those kids will burn out regardless of when they start & stop practicing each season. Wrestling is a tough, physically & emotionally draining sport. Kids have to learn to sacrifice before they probably should. Some of those scarifices are not worth the rewards for some of these kids. The kids have pressure put on them to perform. Pressure from coaches to execute moves properly, from parents for little Johnnie to be the next Dan Gable, from there peers at the tournaments. IMO, that is a lot for a kid that hasn't even reached puberty to deal with. Maybe instead of shortening the season...... here i go...putting my neck out there...... start kids in wrestling when they are a bit older.....maybe start them at 10 years old instead of 3 or 4. Imagine being 16 & never remembering life without wrestling. Imagine wrestling 10/under & it being your 7th year at a sport!! That is more extreme to me then when each season starts & stops. Shoot, if you start the kids at 10, by 12 or 13 they may be wanting to take it up a notch & wrestle year round due to maturity rather then quitting because that is all they can remember ever doing.