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In my tenure as a head coach, Track was used throughout the state early on and tournaments would use Track results for rankings during tournaments. SOme coaches would deliberately not put results in or push the button as GOO says, so their kid could get a higher seed. I know that's not the case here because Kentucky does not mandate Track results. Although wouldn't every one be the better for it. It makes seeding meetings go extremely fast because the computer does the calculating for you. This is an age of technology, might as well use it while we can.

Has it ever been talked about to have separate tabs for middle and youth? I think for most, they are completely different tourneys and dates.

Bad take...when you are competing as a team, which we do at tournaments, seeding is very important. Records shouldn't be seeding criteria at all. I fight for the 6 seed all the time. Maybe you just haven't had a lot of success in seeding meetings?

How about separate State tournaments as well? At one time the MS and youth State tournaments were going to moved to the 2nd week of March. How about we keep MS state at its current date and move youth Region to the first week of March and make Youth State the 2nd week of March. I'll bet you would see an increase in participation. js.

Financially, having youth the day after middle school works because you already have the venue and the setup is already complete. As an organization it’s the best setup you can do to minimize cost. If you want to get technical every middle school team in this state is a youth team since we are not sanctioned through KHSAA. We wrestle under USA wrestling. We’re all club teams that some Middle Schools help fund. Keeping Middle School State and Youth state together saves for many. The parents can combine their trip for one weekend. Most coaches coach both Middle and Youth. Honestly to get a facility to hold youth state in March in Kentucky would be virtually impossible. Remember it’s about 1000 to 1500 wrestlers for youth. And with all the basketball going on in those first couple weeks of March you don’t have a chance finding a big enough Facility. Just my two cents.

Thread to keep up with any and all discussion of this current D-1 season. Some recent results of KY kids: Tuesday, January 7 Kent State 25, SIUE 15 141: Saul Ervin (SIU Edwardsville) dec Cory Simpson (Kent State), 5-3) Clarion 30, SIUE 13 141: Saul Ervin (SIU Edwardsville) maj dec Alex Blake (Clarion), 15-6 Buffalo 26, SIUE 12 141: Marcus Robinson (Buffalo) over Saul Ervin (SIU Edwardsville) (Dec 11-5) Penn State 22, Illinois 16 165: Dan Braunagel (Illinois) over Konner Kraeszig (Penn State) (MD 12-3)

Track is a great tool and I like it. But like all tools it has lots of flaws most human. We should all have to use it I agree and like your weight sheet from the previous week the results should also have to be entered and updated before you can get the next weigh-in sheet. This would help with those problems but also it should be watched closely for duplicate results because far to many kids records on track are incorrect when the same match is on there twice or even three times. Also a big difference if one team counts Byes and the other doesn't so even though this is a great tool there is lots of room for us all to improve it even more. I agree with Rider should be used more by everyone so we can be better.

Just looking at a few brackets on TW from yesterday; there a whole lot of kids moving weight brackets.