"You must not have had to listen to the screaming moms and dads back when the teams were "picked". There is NO better way to "pick" the teams, than a tourney. Remember, you have different age groups wrestling middle school state, not just a 14u or 12u. And sometimes the 12u kid is better than the 14u kid.....
So I TOTALLY disagree with your statement. We will get the majority of it right, but a tourney takes all of the complaining out of it."

This entire discussion has a lot to do with splitting up the folkstyle state tournament - "State Series Tournament Review Committee" which uses USA Wrestling AGE GROUPS - which amounts to 5 or 6 age group state tournaments - depending on your stance on the appropriate age to wrestle in state tournaments - that is recognized by USA Wrestling. Correct the out of state traveling dual teams is creating 2 more state tournaments with different age groups - I get it with all the SCREAMING - well aware. The reward for making the dual teams should be just that - you get to be on the dual team and test the waters against national competition. If someone doesn't like the teams selected by a spelled out set of criteria - ask for a wrestle off - with no parents in the room. Right now anyone can be on a dual team - they are always trying to fill another 5th or 6th team rosters at the end. Are you advocating for only 2 or 3 state tournaments age and weight classifications - Elementary, Middle School, & High School?

We have had kids go to these events and try to qualify and some did and some did not qualify for the dual teams. If there is a separate qualifying tournament for these out of state events raise the rate/fee to $50 per entry on that qualifying tournament for those who want to participate and try to qualify for the national dual teams. A very small amount of the State Placers or Elite wrestlers from each club go to these qualifiers and try to get on the national dual teams. I think about half of our committee has had there kids wrestle on national dual teams. My son wrestled on some of the dual teams and we paid for him to go and we took and help pay for some others that could not afford it as well. Just some suggestions for the committee.