What is the reason for submitting a kid's weight class two weeks in advance and then holding them to that? We had a kid show up two pounds heavy and he got the opportunity to run it off while the rest of us went out and ate breakfast. I know in high school it is important to maintain your weight class but we should be encouraging kids to grow. Why can't the kids be put in brackets after weigh ins? When I wrestled free style 20 years ago we never pre-registered. You showed up, weighed in, and wrestled. With computers today, I would think that bracketing could be accomplished in a few minutes after everyone weighed in. I think it is nice to have pre-registration two weeks in advance, but I don't think making a kid lose weight to wrestle is good for anyone. Cutting weight was the worst part of wrestling for me. I would hate to lose any kids from wrestling because this is the way that it has always been done.