This incident happened at the Abilene regional---not at mill Valley. Different place different circumstance. Seen a lot of coaches pad the brackets with non-varsity wrestlers. Thats OK for in season tournaments---its developmental for the young wrestlers and win, lose or default, there are no other consequence. The regional tounaments, the qualifers for the State Tournament, are a different matter. Nothing really wrong with entering the 0-14 kid, except for the possibility of a later non injury default for not willing to wrestle a female. That has unnecessary consequences.

The similiar incident at Mill Valley probably denied the 18-16 SMS wrestler his trip to State--a very bad consequence. An 18-16 record in the very tough Sunflower and in Johnson County is a lot different than a 0-14 for the Hayden wrestler. The SMS wrestler was evidently much further along in his development and I assume a valid varsity class wrestler.