I agree (I think) with Forvac.

One avenue (and this might be essentially the same thing as Forvac and perhaps others have already mentioned) would be if a wrestler that is clearly not a novice, but is under the two-year limit, etc... sign him up for a weight-class that is either one or two steps higher than he is.

One of the critical situations (IMHO) is that we all want our kids to have the love for this great sport that we all do, and if the kids are getting drilled consistently by kids that are not really novice that are enrolled and wrestle in novice tourney's, they might get a bit dis-heartened by the failure. Nobody wants this.

At the same time, I personally know that there are many parents that simply do not actually know the "guidelines" for novice status/tournaments. Also, I am not sure to what extent all the coaches for all the clubs convey this information either. There are though, unfortunately, parents that just don't care and want their kid(s) to get the mat time and all other kids be-damned.

This is an excellent topic on this great forum btw. Hopefully it will be a catalyst for some more explicit rules in this area.