The first wrestling events are the last weekend in November, so not a huge difference. Basketball starts practicing on the 15th of October as well. And they don't have any trouble filling their teams. And the season timing doesn't seem to hurt teams like St. X, or Trinity, typically wrestling powers whose football teams regularly go deep in the playoffs. And honestly, by the third week in November, there are only 48 schools left playing football anyway. We aren't losing wrestlers because of the timing of the seasons. No other sport makes that excuse. We need to do more at youth levels, and more school districts to support wrestling at all levels. You aren't losing wrestlers that you never had in the first place.