I am for this proposal. The 6&U kids are wrestling competitively already so lets cut down the size of the brackets and split the tournament over two weekends earlier in the season. Yes it does make it harder for coaches and club directors. Like Smokeycabin posted earlier some of us already go to 16-20 tournaments already but if adding a couple more shortens the season for the younger wrestlers in the state and gives them the same reward as their older counterparts I don't see a big issue.
Most of the posts against this are focused on how negative competitive sports are on the young children. They are already wreslting competitively and some up in age. If we don't change this by cutting the bracket size down and splitting the tournament over two weekends then aren't we part of the problem? If we continue to let these kids wrestle up in age aren't we pushing them into more competitive situations?


Andrew Steele
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