Originally posted by slap2414:
I heard through the grapevine high school is talking about removing 103 and adding a class between 215 and 275 has anyone else heard this?
Weight a Minute: NFSHA Has No Plans To Reduce Number of Weight Classes
3/15/2005 3:07:00 PM
Many rumors have circulated across the country that the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFSHA) was going to reduce the number of weight classes in high school wrestling from 14 to 12 starting next year.
But that couldn’t be further from the truth, says Jerry Diehl, editor of the NFSHA rules book and a member of the wrestling rules committee.
“There are not going to be any changes, if any, for at least two years,” Diehl told The Wrestling Mall Tuesday.
Much of the speculation that this was going to take place next season stemmed from a survey the NFSHA sent to the state coaches associations. One of the questions in the survey brought up the topic of what coaches thought about reducing the number of weight classes.
“Those who believed that it will happen next year, that was just an assumption on their part,” said Diehl. “There has never been anything discussed formally by our committee that would indicate we would do that next year.”
Diehl added that the wrestling rules committee will meet to discuss the pluses and minuses of reducing weight classes, or keeping them the same, in April. From that point though, Diehl said it will still be two more years before any changes are made, if any.
“We’re just starting to look at the feedback,” he said. “There’s nothing more to it.”
- Matt Krumrie
