There is an increasing market for the female wrestler in the college ranks and women's wrestling is picking up momentum. The pioneers in that area are in their 30's or so now, seems like the Sunkist club in Ca. and Az. and the now defunct Foxcatcher (no pun intended) club in Pa. started big time women clubs, and it seems to me that it would have been difficult if not impossible to collect quality competitors even in the small group that existed at that time, had there not been a rather tolerant view on their participation in men's events because that is all that existed at the time. We have a young woman that is wrestling at 112 or 119 here at Pratt, she is here because she has family here that she is living with while both of her parents serve in Iraq. (They lived somewhere in the southeast before.) I had really not thought much about the issue before but watching her in practice and noting her determination has caused me to appreciate what wrestling has for her, she is a new kid in a strange school with different family environment than she grew up with and both parents in an everyday life or death situation, and wrestling, a sport she has done since childhood, is a release or a refuge that she should be entitled to just as much as any guy should be. With School budgets as they are, I don't see a women exclusive venue coming soon. So, whatever the obstacles, in the present system young women that have the desire to compete should be allowed to do so, in my view.