If you want more openings for wrestlers then just go to the Montana system that gives teams more roster spots as previously talked about in another thread. Adding more weights will just water down the quality of wrestling.
I pretty much agree with you on this, Ricky Bobby. I like the Montana system or a modified version like the NAIA system better than adding weight classes to give wrestlers more opportunities to compete at the varsity level. I like the Montana or NAIA system better because they would offer more opportunities for wrestlers potentially at all weight classes. A team may not be stacked with state placing quality wrestlers at the heavier weights like Wichita Northwest and Olathe North were this season. They could be stacked at the middle weights say 140, 145, and 152. In the NAIA system that team could send two wrestlers each in 140, 145 and 152.
However, I do also agree with the basic intent of Contrarian in this topic of improving the excessive weight differentials that we now see in our heaviest weight classes. I have been an advocate of this on this forum and the national forum for the last three years. I think Contrarian's suggestion of going to 20 weight classes is not realistic. First of all Kansas is unlikely to add one weight class like Texas has done with its 180 division unless it is done on the national level. The impetus on the national level unfortunately seems to be more towards reducing weight classes to 12 or 11 instead of adding weight classes. I think the best hope that an advocate of lower weight differentials has is that the current total of 14 weight classes remains in effect and that the weight classs are realigned slightly upward. I think you could have a final seven weight classes of 158, 167, 178, 190, 205, 225 and 275 with small adjustments to the first seven weight classes. I believe the differential between the highest weight class and the next highest should be no more than 50 pounds in high school. I agree with Contrarian that the 70 diffential between 215 and 285 is just too much for high school kids. I know many advocates for heavier wrestlers would disagree with me in lowering the max weight from the current 285 to our old 275 maximum of about four years ago. My reason is to keep the differentials down in the 12th and 13th weight class and still maintain no more than a 50 weight diffential between the 13th and 14th weight class. It is also closer with the international weight class maximum of around 264 pounds.
