Nigel:

Suggesting that we consider having a separate open post season high school tournament for all the high school classes and a JV division possibly at the same tournament is not the same thing as suggesting the elimination of an age class. It is just suggesting that we have their tournament at a different venue much the same as we are doing to 6&U now by having them have their season finale at Ottawa. I will admit that a few years ago that I did not think it was needed. But several people on this forum (yourself included) have convinced me since then that it is a good thing for a lot of the high school wrestlers to get some more folkstyle competition after their season is over.

The idea of having the Kids season end early did not originally come from me. It came from the KWCA (I made the assumption there are some pretty knowledgable wrestling people in the KWCA). I read about it our the Kids State Body meeting minutes back in 2002 I believe. I quoted those minutes in this thread or the other topic I introduced recently. I think their proposal makes sense both for the high school kids and the grade school kids. The point Nigel is not that they would not be wrestling in March but that they would take a few weeks off and then come back refreshed to do freestyle both high schoolers and grade schoolers.

Jeff Broadbent, thank you for your comment about my post and I really thank you about you offering a split tournament in our KCKS area. By the way Nigel the only aspect of the District 1 split that I thought needed a little tweaking is that I agree with the poster who said they needed to make a definite time for the start of the 2nd session. If they had said it would start no sooner than 1PM or 1:30PM they would have avoided a lot of the congestion that was created at the tournament in the parking lot and in the gyms around 10:30 to 12:30. My son was in the 2nd session (I believe you were the ref at one of his matches) and once the session started I thought it moved very well. Again you underestimate the benefit of the split in saving time to the participants. I am sure it was more than what you stated for most people and the other value is that wrestlers do not have to wait forever between matches. Most of them do not like to wait a long time between matches.