As it has been said before on this discussion, not all wrestlers pick up on this sport the same. 1/2 way through our son's first season we chose to remove him from Novice tournaments because he was distroying everyone. Did he get beat some in Open? Of course, but he also won many and learned more than if he would have stayed in Novice, and in his second year of wrestling he became State Champion. My son was in the 10U bracket and where there is usually a big difference in a novice wrestler vs. open, I don't think there is that big of a difference in the 6U bracket. But if you have one of those wrestlers who is just killing everyone at the novice tournaments, is he/she learning anything from this situation? I don't think being on the mat for the 30 seconds it takes to pin that unskilled wrestler will teach them much.