I believe many of those brackets would be filled out by the USAW weight change,no more byes in the 52 lb ten and under that my son will probably wrestle in next year, instead all of them will be in the 55lb bracket. All those kids wouldn't be missing from state because they would be filling out the brackets at other weights. It would make many things more competitive, it would allow our kids/coaches a more complete assessement of how they are doing before they tackle a national tourney with a weight/age change from their state requirements.
I really think we need to go with the age requirement also, we need to mirror national requirements if we want our kids to understand what competing at that level is like. When the USAW makes a change we should try to follow them if the goal for the best is to wrestle at that level.