Kids making weight?

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Re: Kids making weight? #16798 02/18/06 05:53 AM
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 401 Derby, KS C Crash99 Member
Crash99 Member C Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 401 Derby, KS	Quote: Originally posted by sportsfan02: Quote: Originally posted by NColtrane: I would be concerned that if we allow weight changes the morning prior more parents and kids would try for the lower weight division to gain that extra edge and if they don't make it, oh well. This may actually add to the number of wrestlers cutting weight instead of being safe and wrestling up. My son is always 1.5 to 2 pounds under, but I really haven't at all considered him trying to make lower weight since at 6U 43 he is rail thin already. It will certainly add to the number of kids not making weight and in effect to the delays getting the tournament started. I understand tournament directors trying to find a place for kids that don't make weight BUT, the problem only perpetuates itself over time once people know you will do this. This is the reason that the following is on our tournament flyer: Taken from the Derby Flyer posted on the calendar of the USAWKS website "Age / Weights: Scales will be digital. WE WILL NOT MAKE CHANGES TO BRACKETS IF THE WRESTLER DOES NOT MAKE WEIGHT." "Everything we do should be for the future of our children."