wrstlmom1970,

I undestand what you are saying. I don't think anyone is trying to promote the idea of cutting slack on the weights. IMO it is a trust issue between adults. One of the reasons we have tournament site weigh ins for kids is because as adults we don't trust other club administrators to weigh in their own kids. We assume they will cut them slack....hence we have tournament site weigh ins. The assumption in kids club with on site weigh ins is that the people doing the weigh ins at the tournament will not cut anyone any slack. Well I have seen that work both ways. I have seen some tournaments where it is really strict and others where they have given kids .1-.3 lbs.

My recommendation is trying to make things better for all involved rather than getting caught up in different scales, scale certification, etc for open and novice tournaments.

Bottomline is that wrestling costs a good amount of $$$$, it is stressful for little kids, and the season gets very long for a lot of kids and families. One way to reduce some of the above is to allow weigh ins at your own club site the night before. This implies that we trust other adult administrators as much as we trust volunteer dads who do the weigh ins at the open/novice tourneys.

I totally agree that kids should make the weight that they are signed up for or not wrestle if they don't get it off in time.

Shawn Budke