You stated that question wrong but more importantly, are you really asking that? High School wrestlers compete the entire year against their piers and then enter a three week series against 7th and 8th graders. That is your idea of improving their skills? As I have stated many times on this thread, all of your points that you have brought up have been brought up across the nation and have been found baseless. It is basically common sense and a bit embarrassing that we are the only holdout that thinks it helps our wrestlers.
The division was not made to help our wrestlers. It was made for a venue for wrestlers to continue wrestling for fun. In the process it does make our 7th (which I have a tough time believeing, unless they are redshirted) and 8th grade wrestlers better, by giving them the opportunity to wrestle high school freshman and sophmores*(again I have a hard time believing sophomores to be 14). The best wrestlers are off doing something else, kids state does not make them better, but it does continue to promote wrestling. Chief and Will need to see it for what it is and be glad it keeps interest up. The elite who are trying to get better are doing so, somewhere else. Let it go and enjoy the fact that some of the not so elite are still interested.
