I just posted about some problems with filling the brackets by small roster inner city schools. My wife is an administrator at Sumn Academy in KC, KS. Sumner is a five year school (8-12) and I see a lot of all mS and HS sports. I see two problems that I want to highlight:

1. KC Middle school wrestling coaches tweak their lineups--shuffle wrestlers--to get the most team points, i.e., its better to manage their wrestlers in to walk overs foe a team win rather than have the wrestlers get mat time--win or lose. In MS, who cares who wins and who loses--evidently only the coaches. Have talked to the coach at my wifes school, plus coaches from other MS, and all I normally get is blank looks [plus excuses). One solution, waive or relax the weight brackets: within reason let a MS kid wrestle his weight and up or down a weight.

2. Not enough Hispanics in wrestling in inner city schools. Does not seem to be a problem out west. Inner city Hispanic almost totally play soccer--very few footballers, less BBers, almost no wrestlers. Good athletes, need to get them into more sports!!