This has been a hot topic for years about weight loss and weight certification and what not. It's just as debatable as the "fairness" in some minds of kids switching teams every year. Bottom line, when it comes time to go to the state tournament, 99% of the time the best kids are going to be there. Trust me though, my son and I have been in that 1%. A crappy draw or a bad Saturday of wrestling can keep you on the sideline watching as 8 or 9 of the kids you handed butt-whippings during the season step up on the podium and receive their medals at state. You think that's not motivation to get there next year! I personally bumped 2 of my better kids up this year because I thought they had a better chance of placing at the next weight class and it gave another kid from our team the chance to wrestle at districts without wrestling a teammate. Those 2 kids I am talking about have wrestled varsity all year and handled themselves quite nicely with the high school boys. Point is, your talking about kids dropping from 80 to 75 or 75 to 70. Seriously, what kind of an advantage are you going to have because you outweigh your opponent by 4 or 5 pounds. And more often than not, the kids cutting the big-time weight don't have enough gas in their tank to be at full strength come big tournament time anyway. The kids will always prove who is the cream of the crop on the mat.
