Our wrestlers sold ice cream sandwiches at the beginning of the season(which about did some of them in as you can imagine), and the coach has been finding odd jobs for them to help out with in the community which puts money into the fund for them. And I also understand the competing with the BAD sport. Two years ago when our BAD sport went to state, they got a police escort out of town and when our wrestlers went, they didn't even get a send off from the school----parents got involved in that one. And the best I can offer at this time is that you do need to do what smokeycabin suggests. Start beating the bushes. There are other cuts that school districts can make if they just look deep enough, but the problem is they don't want to most of the time.