I think the main reason is the lack of trust amongst adults. People have cheated the system in the past and a lot of people are concerned that kids won't have to make weight. I know that there are some that will take advantage of the system but I think the benefits for all of wrestling (at the kids level) outweigh the risk of the few who might cheat the system.

Personally, I don't see why we don't do this for open and novice tournaments (I don't support remote weigh ins for qualifying tourneys). We are talking about kids wrestling and most of our weight classes are only 3 lbs apart anyway.

Shawn Budke