Will,

I agree with most of your idea as far as your 4 recommendations. The only one that concerns me is #2. I understand your position on that and tend to agree with, my concern is that in order to promote the kids wrestling freestyle/greco we have to figure out a way so that a 1st grade or 2nd grade 70 lber doesn't end of wrestling some of the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade 70 lbers. There is a huge difference in the mental and physical ability. I am worried that we could lose some of those younger kids or scare them off from even trying if they knew they would have to wrestle kids that much older.

I don't have any good recommendations...the only one I can think of is to divide them into larger groups such as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders together and 4th, 5th and 6th graders together or group them by years of experience wrestling such as 1-3 years of experience being one group and 4-6 years of experience being another group. I defer to your knowledge of Trackwrestling and using Block wrestling as to how we separate kids based on experience.

In order to do #3 then we as a state have to accept potentially not taking our best kids as part of the dual and therefore accept not doing as well at the duals. I think there are a lot of factors that come into play with kids not participating in freestyle/greco state, I am not sure that doing #3 will have a significant impact. I think it may increase the numbers a little but not sure it will a whole lot......I really hope that I am wrong on this one!

I wholeheatedly concur with #1. We had way more kids from our club participate last year when it was in May.

Shawn