I am a member of a club.
I am a board member of a club
I have a coach’s card.
I am a bronze level coach.
My sons have their USA wrestling cards.

So if I want to make a proposal or go to a state body meeting I shouldn’t have to go through my club. Who knows maybe they don't feel the way I do and do not support my views. So I shouldn’t need their permission! If I want to go there on my own behalf then I feel I have paid my dues and I have a right to do that.

FYI...
My own children are not victim to this issue. But some of the kids that I have coached are. I have kids that have quit wrestling because they do not get mat time or cannot go to state. No matter how you paint the picture, something not right and change needs to be discussed.

Also, I know what the process is for sending a something before the state committee. I was basically asking on behalf of other that have not stepped up and asked why or how. I don’t know why they haven’t but I asked more on their behalf then my own.

Wrestling up in age is not the fix it all answer to this issue. I used to think it was a good start but now I think it really resolves nothing at all. There is an answer to this and it’s if there is a large enough group of wrestler at ANY weight then that weight should be recognized by our state body.

We make exceptions at the lower weights...
How many kids last year at state were true 8 under kids????
1st of all it wasn’t a full bracket!
2nd there was AT LEAST 7 kids that were 6U that year! SO LESS THEN HALF WERE TRUE 8U Kids!
3rd the kid that won it was a 6U wrestler!
There were more kids over all and more TRUE 8U wrestlers at heavy weight then at 40.

So couldn’t we argue that we could drop or combined some of the lower weights and make room for a few heavier weight classes.

Also,
I hate to speak for Dean70 but to answer Sportsfans question...
NO! There is no one in their club they can turn to with the experience that they find on this forum. They are a young club with a young group of coaches and board members that joined together to save a club in trouble.

So I say that someone with all your "experience and mentoring" should be able to step up and help people like this.
If you feel people like this are below you or a burden to you then stop posting on their thread. Sometimes you just slow the process down or take away from the actual message of THEIR POST because you want to say stuff and cause arguments.
If you are not going to help us the at least stay out of the way and don’t hinder us!
PLEASE!