Chad,

There are two ways to look at this, and I won't be affected whether they allow the U6 to wrestle the State series or not. There are a lot of talented, gifted, and very special wrestlers at that age. Whatever the decision is next year or ten years from now, we have to live with what that decision is.

It is too bad that the State hasn't been keeping stats on the wrestlers at the U6 State tournament in Ottawa since it began to see what percentage of those wrestlers are still wrestling today. That might shed a little more light on whether or not it is a good idea for these young wrestlers to be competing this deep into the season. If the percentage was good, let them go at it. If it was low, then we should let them wait another year or two.