You asked about the Middle School Weights....here's my 2 cents:
1. I recommend we keep the 14U weights the same as they are now.
2. My concern is that if we start adding additional changes then there is a greater chance for debate and people not voting for the change. Example: Someone may support adding the high school with the choice to wrestle 14U but not support changing the 14U weights. If you roll all of that into 1 amendment then you may not get the result we are trying for.
My understanding is that the overall goal is to get approval for high school kids to wrestle in the kids tournaments; with a secondary goal of setting conditions that would allow for a potential Grand State. If that is true then I wouldn't mess with the 14U weights. We have had them for years and they don't seem to be broke.....therefore don't fix what isn't broken.
It seems that a majority of people on here are in favor of adding the high school age group therefore, I would focus your amendment on that. I think you would get the support you need by doing what you proposed without changing the 14U weights.
From my point of view, the only question I have is why the 7 lb allowance? I understand where you are coming from but I really don't think it is needed. For example: A high school 125 lb wrestler may not want to pull the weight for kids club; if we give them 7 lbs he is really wrestling 132 lbs for kids. At the same time, you may have a 132 lb high school wrestler stay and wrestle at 132 for kids because they aren't pulling a lot of weight.
I think the 7 lb allowance is to try and get the kids to wrestle each other at the high school weights they wrestled at high school state, thus creating a grand state. I'm not sure that adding 7 lbs will give you that because there are too many other variables.
I support your idea but would like to see the 7 lbs weight allowance either not included or reduced to 2-3 lbs in addition to scratch.
