Originally Posted By: dean70
enough is enough people. what we need to do on here is discuss the ideas for change. whether kids wrestle up an age group or add weight divisions. headup, you made a good point about wrestling up in age. i thought about that all day. and you are right in a way but from my experience(i was forced to do that twice) it was like comparing hamburger to steak if you understand what i am saying. there was such a great level of maturity between the bottom of 10 and under and the top of 12 and under. sportsfan02, i dont know if you just like to aggravate people on here or you just feel strongly about your view, but the obese comments wasn,t fair to these kids. alot of parents know their kids have an obesity issue. my son is obese . that is why we are wrestling. and after 3 years of trying to figure out what is going on with his weight gain issue, we just found out that he has thyroid problems. we have listened to all the advice about the diet. and we still found him gaining 10 to 20 lbs a year. there are other kids i see that are just tall and muscular at this age. what i want from you is your ideas, not critical attitude. for two years all you can say is no kid should get to walk to state. it happens every year whether you like it or not. i asked for my kid to be able to wrestle up last year in the qualifiers. they have to wrestle their own age group. thats what the rule is right now. the other thing you keep saying is that the weghts have been studied to death and no change is needed. please dont reply to my post unless you want to be part of the solution. thank you very much

I feel for your problem but tell me how creating a weight bracket just for your child to walk to state will solve his/your problems. I gave you my solution to the problem yet you don't want to hear that. I have witnessed heavyweights in high school who spent the better part of two years getting down to weight so they could wrestle. They didn't ask for a special weight group and that will not be available for your son as well. IMO you and others are only encouraging the obesity by attempting to create weight groups where they can walk to a medal at state.