I agree. It punishes any wrestler that doesn't get to wrestle whether he is the best or not! I would prefer to go all scrambles so we can get 4 or 5 matches no matter what. Byes should always be manually drawn in and not randomized because tournament programs automatically place byes with seeds. This also punishes the young kids wrestling a tough schedule as if they get a bye, then feed right into a top seed every week, it is next to impossible to become seedable as they don't get any first round matches that are more competitive either. We have had at least two tournaments where our best wrestlers had consecutive byes and didn't wrestle until the semifinal round.

Anyway, manually drawing and placing byes on the bracket is the best practice for every wrestler involved in any tournament.