I've always hated the five match rule. I'm not in favor of unlimited matches, but by the rules we now have in place, a wrestler could wrestle as much as 8 minutes, 30 seconds per match. 5 matches COULD equate to 42 minutes, 30 seconds. I looked through a couple of Emporia's brackets and found that several of the kids that wrestled 5 matches did so in less than 20 minutes of total time. I don't have time to do so, but I'd like to see how many of the wrestlers that couldn't compete in the conso finals had wrestled more than 34 minutes on the day. If they had not done so, a sixth match couldn't have put them on the mat more than the alloted time by the current rule. Change the rule and we can get through 16 man brackets the right way.