I guess my question for Cheif and Will would be this. Are you trying to protect the 8th graders or push the 9th graders? Either way it is not your responsibility to do so. The 9th graders must push themselves, you can't do that for them. The 8th graders don't need protection, they have wrestled kids a year older than them every other year their whole career, and next year will wrestle kids that may be up to 4 years older than them. You are not protecting them, you are weakening them.