My wrestlers knew that they may be moved up to fill a void, or for a specific matchup that might save team points in order to win the dual. Have I had kids upset or even dad's upset, you bet and I'd do it again because of what it teaches kids.
What did it teach the kids that loss because you made them "fill a void" when they might have been able to win at their original weight? The thing about wrestling is even in team duals the only kids that are happy with the team win are the ones that got their hand raised. The one's that lost are still beating them selves up for losing. You can look at from what ever way you want but when it comes down to it wrestling is all about the individual. That's how it has been and that's how it will always be.
There are times that moving a wrestler or two around in a dual can be a great thing. We had a wrestler bump up a weight for a dual last year to try to steal some team points because their weight class was vacated by the other team and we had another wrestler who could step in for the 6 points. Our wrestler looked quite a bit smaller than his opponent but pulled off a 4-0 win.
The wrestler he beat is preseason ranked in Class 6A this year and may be a wrestler he sees early in the season. The match gave this wrestler additional confidence which took him a long way last year, so I believe that it was a good thing for both him and for his team.
By the way, someone has infiltrated the Kansas Wrestling website and put a bunch of bizarre posts on here. We need the monitors/facilitators to hunt this rogue poster down and eliminate them from the site. Thank you.
