Well to make a long story short, you can only schedule 30 points in a season, Abilene started off with 30 scheduled then two of the teams they were to dual decided to make it a double dual which put them at 32 points, so most of the 8 that went to Bashor sat out at some of those dualks so they would be back on track for 30 points. Meanwhile there were some varity wrestlers that needed a little more experience so they went ahead and wrestled those double duals and basically they weren't able to compete at the tournament. Without taking any credit away from those wrestlers I beleive it was the coaches decision that it was better for them to get some good varsity experience at the duals rather than going up to this pretty hard tournament and getting beat up on. It makes perfect sense to me and I totally support Coach Stout and Taplin on this. Most of the kids not going up to that tournament are young ones i.e fresh and sophmores.