I don't think shortening the season would help freestyle and greco numbers. The problem with numbers in my opinion is the limited number of tournaments. This year our club's options were Manhattan, State, and Southern Plains. I know Blue Chip puts on three tournaments and Colby also has a couple tournments. Unfortunately, that was too far for some of the kids in my club to want to travel. If we want freestyle and greco to take off I think their needs to be more opportunities to compete around the whole state.

I do agree about the folkstyle season being a little drawn out. But have the kids take some Saturdays off. We had several in our club do that. We also had several who wrestled every weekend right up to the end of January, then they quit showing up. I am not sure if it was burn out or mom and dad's checkbook got tired of writing checks each week for tournaments. While I am a firm believer mat time is important for the learning and developement of a wrestler, having a 5-8 year old wrestling every weekend for 4 months can lead to some burn out and can be very expensive.