Actually, I wanted to clarify something...

If a kid comes in at the beginning of the season at 158 pounds and is at 1-2 percent body fat, his actual weight at seven percent body fat (minus three pounds) would be 163. That would mean his certified weight would actually be 171. Since the odds of a kid coming in at 158 and one or two percent body fat are between slim and none, that's not worth arguing about.

At three to seven percent, that same kid would still come in above 152, which would mean he'd have to certify (without waiver) at 160. Finally at eight percent would this 158-pound kid beable to go down to 152.

I got this out of a 54-page booklet we have called "Certified Wrestling Weight Matrix for High School Wrestlers," that has the complete breakdown for everything from 103 to 30 pounds. It's like a calculus problem gone wrong! The IHSAA sends it out to every school and it's an important part of that presidential briefing book we discussed earlier.