Being good enough and just not big enough are two different things, that's why 130 pounders don't wrestle 170 pounders. If any kid is 106 or above its not an issue because they have the opportunity to wrestle kids at a comparable weight, if a kid is a 95 pounder and wrestling a 106 pounder cutting from 115 that is a 20 pound disadvantage.... That results in the HS program not providing the 95 pound highschooler an appropriate weight to wrestle. All I'm saying is let the kid wrestle some KIDS matches during the season in order to get some good matches with comparable sized kids.... what is so hard to understand about that? And how would that hurt the integrity of HS or KIDS wrestling, it's a simple concept to provide the kids matches with other kids thier age and size! It is obvious that the folks with bigger kids are not for this, but hard to understand why? It doesn't affect the heavier kids nor does it affect the HS wrestling format whatsoever. I have heard folks try to compare situations with their heavier kids, whom this really doesn't effect, but still have yet to hear what damage it would do to let the young light freshmen who still are eligible for 14 and not wrestling varsity HS, wrestle some KIDS meets during the season just for the purpose to get some better matches and a chance to continue to improve against kids there own size and age. WHAT WOULD IT HURT?
Fact: A 14U 95 pound freshmen is still indeed a highschooler.
Fact: HS wrestling does not provide a suitable weight class for a 14U 95 pound highschooler.
Fact: HS rules do not allow the 14U 95 pound highschooler to wrestle KIDS meets during the season if they are on the HS team. It seems that this results in taking away opportunity for a better year of wrestling for the 14U 95 pound highschooler?
Fact: Installing a rule that would allow the 14U freshmen, under 106, non-varsity wrestler to wrestle KIDS meets during the season would have no negative effect whatsoever on the HS program, other HS weights, and/or other HS kids. It would be a display by the HS program to provide these wrestlers the best opportunity to become better wrestlers as they grow and enter the sophmore year.
Fact: The rules already allow these 14U HS kids to come back and wrestle KIDS for the state championship series after the HS season is over.... even the HS varsity 14U state champs! So there should be no issue with the non-varsity 14U kids to wrestle the open KIDS meets during the season. It seems that it would only provide the 8th grade kids more competition in KIDS and the opportunity to make them better.
This is just my opinion... and though allot of folks may choose not to agree with it becuase their kids are bigger and have a respective weight to wrestle, it would be nice to hear reasoning with regard to WHY OR WHY NOT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD RULE TO PUT IN PLACE? AND HOW IT COULD HAVE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON ANYBODY? AND HOW IT COULDN'T HAVE A POSTIVE IMPACT ON THESE YOUNG SMALL HS FRESHMEN WHO LOVE TO WRESTLE?