If your questioning your own wrestlers being novice or not. I your not sure then you should move them up. Nobody benefits from being dominate all the time. Losing is learning.

I've seen wrestlers who never get used to losing end up hating wrestling because they dominated novice and hated opens because they lost matches.

That said this is what i was told the definition of novice

wrestler has no more than 2 years experience
wrestler has not taken 1st in more that 2 novice tournaments
wrestler has tried and never placed in an open wrestling BRACKET not round robin