J.W.

Agreed on the Middle School wrestling piece. Cut out the 7th and 8th, how about for the smaller freshmen and sophomores?

What is the criteria for the pools? Initial release said blind draw. Then it looked like they were discussing regional champs, now we are looking at head to head records. Just curious as to what the standard is.

Please quit with the comparison of High School to Middle School. There is alot of difference in muscle tone, strength and maturity between a 16 to 18 year old that the 2lb allowance was designed for and an 11 - 13 year old that is in question here. Bottom line when you have weight classes as close as most of the middle school weights are there should not be a weight allowance.....at all. Make weight and wrestle or wrestle up the next class. It is easy to argue based on what helps YOUR kid from either direction, but get rid of the debate next year and get rid of weight allowances. If anything give 1 pound during the holiday season but remove it 1 week after schools are back open. This removes the entire debate of stupidity. Allowance was implemented for growth purposes and nobody here is using it for that purpose. So lets get rid of it all together.

Sounds like a great thing to table for discussion and vote at the next meeting, after the states. Remember that kids get on this and know some of your user names- write with passion and not emotion. Be professional and lets pick up on this for a vote before next season. Good luck to all.

I don't think they were seeded really well at all. Looks like a couple may have been taken into consideration and just thrown together after that.

Just a thought for all involved. Every middle school team had to register their wrestlers through the NWCA which in turn is linked to track wrestling. Only like 3 teams are posting their results on this site and using the system to its full potential. If all teams would use the system and input the results it would create a place for everyone to track middle school wrestling across the state, have an official record of head to head competition, and give validity to the seeding utilized for the state tournament. It would be nice to see this system grow across the state.