From Montana High School Athletic Association
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1. Each division will hold a divisional or wrestling tournament each year to
determine the entries for the State Class A Wrestling Tournament. Class A
schools will be allowed to enter a maximum of nineteen (19) wrestlers in the
divisional tournament. Each school shall have the opportunity to enter a
maximum of four extra wrestlers and shall have no more than two (2)
wrestlers in a weight class. Team points, at both the divisional and state
level, shall be awarded to each wrestler. However, only advancement and
place points shall be awarded when two wrestlers from the same school
meet each other head to head. All nineteen wrestlers from each team have
the opportunity to advance to state.
Thank you for posting that information. That is exactly the type of system that I was suggesting. I think with these impending weight changes that the Kansas High School Athletic Association should seriously consider such a system to give additional opportunities for our high school wrestlers. This type of system really works in college open tournaments and for the NAIA national tournament series. You see NAIA wrestling All Americans from the same school and in the same weight class. Sometimes they do end up wrestling each other. In this type of system coaches would not need to worry as much about filling all the weight classes as you could just wrestle two of your best wrestlers in the same weight class if they are both naturally in that weight class. For example in Montana system it appears a team could qualify two wrestlers in just nine weight classes and one in another one to make the 19 limit. So you would not have to worry about filling four weight classes if you did not have wrestlers to fill those weight classes that year. I think if this type of system was in place there would have been less reason to have made these weight changes.
