I agree, when you wrestle in a series they weight the seeding based on results from THEIR events. Yet and still, there is an attempt to seed so it isn't really a "geographic split" which means you don't have a true random 2nd place. There was an attempt to separate the best.

We took four kids to the USJOC in which all four were seeded 2nd behind kids they had beaten earlier in the season. All four 1 seeds were from an OK club. So I know exactly what you are referring to.

Seeding is worth arguing over but I don't think rankings are as they just provide information.