Originally Posted By: Tyson Schreiner
Originally Posted By: Devast8r
They did base these off of statistics. These weights were the result of a few years worth of data collection on the part of wrestling teams and where wrestlers were weighing. Then, they took and divided the classes using a 7% weight difference throughout the new classes. I think it is a good idea, and not something they did "willy-nilly" (like most government programs).
If you really want to gripe and complain, why not just change to college weights anyway? Why doesn't college have a 98 lb. class, if they are so abundant?
Just my 2 cents!


Maybe you are too superficial to understand this, but I will try and explain anyway. My son is going to turn 14 at the end of July this year. He will be a freshman this year and weighs 85#'s. Part of the problem is that he has a bad birthday, the other part is that he has not started puberty yet, which would typically enhance his weight. The Schreiner family genetically is small, no one has ever wrestled over 140 lbs their senior year, and this is quite a few of us. There is basically no other sport in which we will have success with due to our size. Other people have noted on here that, if you are bigger by nature, then your options have opened up. Putting the smallest class even bigger, once again limits our options further. So to end my post, the comment about having the lowest weight be the same as college is really ignorant. The difference is puberty, maturity and flat out 4 years difference.


Varsity sports aren't really meant for Freshman. How many do you see on the court, football field, track, varsity golf, etc. I had a son who this year weighed 99lbs at the start of the season and was undersized all year. He would have been even more undersized at 106 and it would be unfair, in your eyes, to him. To me it would prepare him for the next three years. Still better to be on varsity getting whipped than be on jv. The weight classes have to be adjusted to fit the normal distribution of varsity athletes. There will ALWAYS be outliers or exceptions. I don't think we should cater to undersized freshman so we can have 16 team tournaments with 7 kids in the 103lb bracket.


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