Sportsfan,
I agree with most of what you said, however, I don't think you can make clubs soley responsible for kids making weight. It has to be a team effort between the club and the parents. I do agree that block wrestling seems like it would solve a lot of these issues.
Shawn Budke
No, my point was to make the clubs responsible for the entries and tracking the weight of each wrestler. My guess is that most of these errors are as a result of parents taking care of their own weight records and/or entries. In our club each wrestler is weighed at the end of each practice and that weight is recorded by the club. When a parent comes in to sign-up for a particular tournament and asks what the kid has been weighing we can tell them. Then if they ask what weight to sign-up for we also offer advice based on the weight classes for that age group and how close the kid is to the next higher weight. Then that kid is entered in the tournament by a club director at that age and weight.
