Our club has wrestled the Burlington Open/Novice tournament for last 5 or 6 years. Burlington runs a a scoring system similar to the one stated by Stoudman. It works pretty good. The scoring is only open to the Open wrestlers. We have a small club and it gives us a chance to compete with the big clubs. Our club only has 20 to 25 kids out. 10 to 15 of those kids are Novice wrestlers. I like the idea of this scoring system. Last year Trail Hands Wrestling Club won the team title at Burlington. If wrestling is not a team sport then why did Penn State win its 3rd national team title this year? Looks like a team sport too me.

Josh Parker
Mission Valley