Sportsfan02,

I understand what you are saying and would agree with you about not considering is best for baseball, soccer, etc. except for the fact that in smaller communities individuals participating or not participating play a bigger role because it could cause the team to not have enough people to play.

At that point you cannot look at the problem from a pure sporting perspective. The larger, and more important issue in my opinion, is the lesson we are teaching the kids. If a choice is made to participate in the wrestling and go to the camp, thus negatively impacting another team sport then there are several negative ramifications...

1. Teaches kids the wrong lessons, while making it ok to let other teammates down.

2. Possibly leave a negative impression on the community.

Neither of these are good for the sport of wrestling.

The other challenge you have presented is that you are presenting the parents as an individual entity, the wrestling community and entity, and baseball as an entity. The problem is that most of us are the wrestling community, the baseball community, the soccer community, etc. It is the parents that make these communities and most of us are part of a variety of different sporting communities.

Bottomline: Parents shouldn't be put in the position to have to make a choice. That point of contention pretty much goes away if there is not a requirement to attend a camp prior to participating in the tournament.

I still have not seen an argument supporting why we need to have the camp. I am more that willing to listen to that side and even change my mind if it makes more sense and is better for the wrestling community.