the problem is there are so many tournaments and not so many refs. some tournaments may have to pull some highschool kids to fill in and i think this is good. first if your worried about your kid getting screwed at 6 and 8 under divisions your going to have a long career as a coach. we need these highschool kids to get that experience early on as it helps them look at wrestling in a different manner and also gives them that experience for after highschool. i did ref for one year. my last match was when a coach said i made the dumbest call he had ever seen on a reversal. i asked him to give me a 3 match break and put my shirt on. then he wanted to fight me. yeah thats what i want coaching my kid. i will admit i get onto the refs some but would never push it that far. give the kids a break so they will stay interested in it so we will actually have refs later on. go to oklahoma and texas if you want to see some really bad reffing lol. remember all this kids wrestling is prep work for highschool where it really does matter just a little bit more.