cutting weight off of kids is stupid and counter productive in the long run. No one gets scholarships for winning kids state...I understand we all want our kids to win, but we have to realize that if they hate it and don't wrestle in High school then you have wasted ridiculous amounts of time and money. IN our HS here I have two juniors who won very prestigious tournaments at 8 and under and 10 and under and have never stepped on the mat for me as a High School coach...because they "did not like it"...I do not know if they cut weight or not but I do know that cutting weight is not fun...and when I see a little kid running before weigh in I think to myself..."well I probably will not have to worry about him in 7 to 10 years because he will hate wrestling and not be competing against us in High school. (same thing I think when I see a dad screaming and yelling at his little kid who just lost) Now in High School I have pulled silly amounts of weight off of kids...sometimes with succes sometimes not...and I think alot of us are starting to have philosophical changes about that as well...anyway I kind of got off on a rant here but let me say that if you want to pull weight off of your kid 12, 10 or 8 and under go ahead because he will be less competitive against us when it matters the most