Participation numbers use to be posted when they were going up. I would like to see one of the wrestling organizations use the data they have and see what 6 or 8 year olds that started wrestling - historic data - see example below. Wrestling and other youth sports need an objective look at some of the problems. Youth sports have gone to the model - exploit the younger age groups at the benefit of the older groups. But the pool of younger
athletes and future fans continues shrinking at the expense of the overall program.

example there were 2,000 6 year old Kansas card members (novice) in 2010 How many of those continued to wrestle through their junior or senior year of HS or were still doing it in 8th or 9th grade. Then take the same age group in 20111
and do the same thing. Trackwrestling has been around long enough now - to be able to look at data historically and begin to draw some comparisons and analysis. Using tracks data to do rankings on 6 year olds to help promote a for profit company - Is that helping or actually hurting the sport??????????