Ending the season earlier is a bad idea. Those high school kids give the younger wrestlers someone to look up to and an idea of their possible short-term future. It’s great when you can point out an individual state champ or a state championship team. The younger kids need role models for work ethic, effort and desire. Starting later could help but families or individual wrestlers could decide that for themselves. My sons don’t start until after the New Year and they are both very competitive.