We have middle school wrestling before basketball and it works out great for everybody! Our middle school program is over by the beginning of December, and then these kids jump right into kids with not much time lost. This is great because they still got to support the school program and get lots of mat time from kids. Some of the kids even play middle school basketball and kids wrestling. I think that maybe you should try to get your school district to do the same. It works out great and everyone is happy this way! In fact our kids club even picked up a few pretty good middle school wrestlers who didn't even know kid wrestling existed!