Any wrestler who finishes the season, having cut weight, gone thru practice and survived the season, deserves to be taken to regionals if the team has a spot for them. Wrestling is a hard sport and win/loss record is not the most important thing. The important thing is the wrestler survived the season. In fact, a wrestler who has an 0-14 record, but stays out for the sport, probably deserves more respect then a state champion. If you can take that kind of beating and still stay out, you are kind of like Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke and they have my respect. No one else disparage them!!!

In regards to the weight issue, this is a Kansas problem. We allow too many allowances. I am not saying anyone cheats, its just the pound here, pound there you are allowed throughout the season. You get a pound because someone wrestled the night before, and another because someone else wrestled the night before that. Kids frequently never have too make a true weight. Also, kids do not wrestle a weight prior to Christmas, but they certify at that weight - ??? Weigh-ins should be an hour before the meet - in front of a ref like it was years ago.