Prant:
Your analogy is a good one. I would like to clarify it further, if I may. The taxes you pay for Highways are justified because you use the highways. No one like to pay for them, but if they were all closed until we paid our share, we would ante up as soon as we needed to go somewhere. No argument that freestyle improves the wrestler that applies himself, and no doubt many scholarships are decided at freestyle tournaments. My point is that those who use the freestyle program should pay for it. Compare it to the Turnpike system. you want to go to Topeka from Wichita, its $3.25. If you are content to go to Emporia, its $2.00 . If you decide to stay home, its free. But you pay for your trip.
If you want to go to Fargo, maybe its 400.00
(don't know, just seemed like that is as much as
ANYONE could be forced to pay to go to North Dakota) but no one that chooses to stay home should have to pay for it. So I have no problem with the freestyle/Greco program, just make it like the turnpike.