Rick-
You have to beat the best to be the best. I understand how getting the number one seed is important but if you are not good enough to make the finals then it doesn't matter where your seed is. The time and arguements that occur in seeding meeting take up a lot of time. You know as well as I do that the better competition you wrestler then better you are going to become. So I would rather wrestler the best out there and end up 6 seed then wrestle no bodies and get the 2 or 3 seed.
Now I would agree that the best wrestler might not get the best seed but it would save on time and money and I believe that in the end it wouldn't make much of a difference