My daughter has been wrestling 2 years and we have had no problem with the tournaments. To her, the girls are harder to wrestle than the boys, d/t girls being really flexible. We have told her that she will be treated like a boy when she steps on that mat, and she knows it. She has wrestled with her brother for years. Now, I have seen boys come off the mat when she beat them and cry about it. Like my mother always said, if you step into men's shoes than you had better be prepared to walk in them. My daughter knows that.