These are kids! Not men, not HS kids. When you enter two weeks ahead things happen. Jack and Chad, we are trying to grow this sport. People spend hundreds to come to this tournament and maybe the little guy had a growth spurt and just couldn't make it or it became obvious that it wasn't safe to go down? This is a kids sport, there is no reason to be a hard a$$ or you will just run off many potential competitors. I am just saying you would allow, for a $50 penalty, a bump up one weight class. At Fargo you get bumped up for free. TN is no bigger or better than USA FS/GR Nationals and those are HS kids not 8 year olds.

I am not saying it isn't good competition, I am saying that you have to change with the times and this tournament has not.

Now, a TRUE STORY. This can be backed up by two officials: Fall of 2007 CK Kickoff. Ryne was .6 over and there was only 30 minutes left to weigh. I made Ryne run and told the two officials to let me know when he HAD to weigh. They told me so we dried him off and put him on the scale. .1 under. A few minutes later while Ryne was drinking and getting dressed a kid and his father walked up. They asked if the kid could weigh. The officials said he could step on for one try. The wrestler was one pound over in the same weight class Ryne was in. The father asked to bump up and the officials told him he was done. The father pressed the issue. The officials pointed Jack Roller out to them. The duo made their way over to Jack. Two hours later we arrive back to wrestle. Guess who Ryne had in the first round? Yep, the kid that was a pound over. That kid took a severe a$$ whipping. Made me wonder how much $$ changed hands or what happened. I lost a bunch of respect for these events that night. How many times had that happened before? Just allow a one class bump up and this would never be an issue.