For starters, any type of weight loss in the form of dehydration has been illegal in kansas for years. Wrestlers who use sweat boxes, saunas, or other unnatural methods of cutting weight have been breaking the rules for years. Secondly, while your opinion may be that having weigh-ins on matside may promote healthier wrestlers i disagree. Take no offense, it is just my opinion. I know that when i wrestled in high school i cut weight, but i observed a tough diet and did extra work to cut weight. My fear in making weigh-ins matside is that student-athletes will be concerned with their weight during class. If i still wrestled in high school i am quite sure that my weight would be more important than the test in history class. While matside weigh-ins may promote healthier weight cutting, it would also defeat the purpose of school--academics. My coach made it clear that illegal weight cutting practices would lead to sitting out competition. If coaches followed this lead then this would not be an issue. Again i am not saying that you are wrong in your opinion, but it is just that. As coaches we have a greater responsibilty to our wrestlers academics. Matside weigh-ins counter that.