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Freestyle is a smart move in my opinion. This gets the girls ready for international competition earlier, allowing the U.S. a better shot at winning. Also, because there is a smaller number of females competing, these college athletes have a realistic shot at making an Olympic team while still in college. If they were wrestling folkstyle, that would be much more difficult to accomplish. Starting girl's freestyle as a high school sport would open many more doors for girls. Making it a spring sport seems natural since that's when most FS competition occurs. Not would also still allow girls to wrestle folkstyle if they wanted.

A girl's freestyle league wouldn't necessarily have to conflict with the folkstyle season. It could be a spring or fall sport in KY. This would allow the girls to still compete in folkstyle but gain tremendous experience in freestyle which is what they will need to get scholarships for college. KY is in a great position to lead the charge nationwide.

Kentucky has a great opportunity to move to the head of the pack in regards to women's wrestling. Starting a freestyle girl's wrestling league at the youth thru high school levels is a great idea. Two of the most successful women's college programs are located in KY, and at least one of those women has qualified for the Olympic Trials. The programs would be small at first but could grow rapidly with the right exposure.

Everyone should weigh in wearing singlets and it wouldn't be an issue. At nationals, girls weigh in with boys and everyone wears a singlet. Allowing boys to go down to their underwear at weigh ins is where the issue arises.

Rankings are based on individual placings not duals. Campbellsville consistently places higher than Lindsey at Nationals.

We only had to drive an hour last year to Danville, but it should have been postponed. The roads were treacherous. However, two wrongs don't make a right. Learn from the mistakes and make better decisions in the future. A statewide backup plan would be a good idea since this seems to be a consistent problem. Maybe if more than one region is forced to cancel due to weather, State becomes a 32 man bracket by default. Or, hold the Sunday following state duals as a backup date for regionals with weigh ins at State Duals being valid the following day. This would give options and consistency. Good of luck to all the KY wrestlers! We miss seeing all of you!

Lets go ahead and start a master list for 2014-15 MS events. Please list your tournament, date, and contact information if you have space for teams.

Coaches and Wrestlers, Campbellsville University is hosting 2 summer wrestling camps in the month of July. The Intensive Camp dates are July 11th-16th , and Technique Camp July 11th-14th . The camps will be held at Gosser Gymnasium. Please see link for more details. If you have any questions please contact Head Coach Franky James at fljames@campbellsville.edu http://www.campbellsvilletigers.com/d/2014-15/CU-campsbrochure15.pdf

Coaches and Wrestlers, Campbellsville University is hosting 2 summer wrestling camps in the month of July. The Intensive Camp dates are July 11th-16th , and Technique Camp July 11th-14th . The camps will be held at Gosser Gymnasium. Please see link for more details. If you have any questions please contact Head Coach Franky James at fljames@campbellsville.edu http://www.campbells...sbrochure15.pdf

This is from themat.com. It may only be true for certain age divisions. I'm not sure. "Please be aware that wrestlers are not allowed to DROP in weight class from the regional to the nationals. Whatever weight class the wrestler weigh-ins at for the regional (not necessarily competes at, but what the scale actually reads) is the lowest weight class the wrestler is eligible to compete at for the nationals."

If you go to Fargo, you cannot wrestle a lower weight than you do at Central Regionals. You can go up but you can't go down.

We hand wrote brackets. I will do my best to get results up in the next couple days. Thanks to everyone who came out and wrestled.

FYI, the tournament is still on. numbers look better than last year. We are canceling it in trackwrestling just because of the additional expense, but we are wrestling and taking walk-ins.

Remote Weigh In Sites McCreary County High School Wrestling room May 5th at 3pm. KY Extreme Tuesday May 5 from 6:30-7:30, 14876 Brown Rd, Verona KY Union County HS Thursday from 6-730 Spatola Wrestling Facility 90 Alexandria Pike Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 on Thursday from 6-7:30 pm Woodford County HS on May 7, 7:30 St. X Thursday 6:30-7:30

Remote Weigh In Sites McCreary County High School Wrestling room May 5th at 3pm. KY Extreme Tuesday May 5 from 6:30-7:30, 14876 Brown Rd, Verona KY Union County HS Thursday from 6-730 Spatola Wrestling Facility 90 Alexandria Pike Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 on Thursday from 6-7:30 pm Woodford County HS on May 7, 7:30 St. X Thursday 6:30-7:30

Remote Weigh In Sites McCreary County High School Wrestling room May 5th at 3pm. KY Extreme Tuesday May 5 from 6:30-7:30, 14876 Brown Rd, Verona KY Union County HS Thursday from 6-730 Spatola Wrestling Facility 90 Alexandria Pike Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 on Thursday from 6-7:30 pm Woodford County HS on May 7, 7:30 St. X Thursday 6:30-7:30

You can message me on here or at sarahanddewayne@yahoo.com to set up a remote weigh ins.

Remote Weigh In Sites May 5th McCreary County HS at 3:00 KY Extreme, 14876 Brown Rd, Verona KY 6:30-7:30 May 7th Woodford County HS, 7-7:30

You don't have to print anything. Register on track. Go to a remote weigh in or weigh in at the tourney. Pay at the tourney. I'll post remote sites later this week.

You can register on trackwrestling.

Many tournaments with two divisions like this offer nicer awards to the open division than what those in the rookie division get. The open division usually costs a little more for participants than the rookie division. The majority of wrestlers want the nicer awards, so that system seems to keep people pretty honest from what I've seen.

Raidercoach, I'm not arguing about whether they should be allowed to participate. I honestly don't think it's a big deal either way. My point is that the argument against the decision cannot be founded in comparing this situation with MS kids wrestling HS. That point is completely invalid for the very reason I stated. Honestly, if we want youth state to be appealing to the elite level kids, then we need to use USA divisions and weight classes like the rest of the country, but again, dead horse!

Exactly, so saying the MS brackets are full of youth wrestlers is a mute point. Of course they are, but many of those same youth wrestlers are also middle school kids. You would have to go through the brackets and find a 13 year old before you found a champion who is not a youth wrestler. After looking at the brackets, it seems like the first bracket with a champion who is not youth eligible is 98. 105 is technically a youth wrestler, so according to the logic being given, MS weight classes shouldn't begin before 100 pounds because otherwise the brackets are full of "youth" wrestlers. 6 of the 15 brackets have champions who are youth eligible but all of them are actually middle school kids. The brackets are full of youth wrestlers because well over 50% of actual middle school kids would still be youth eligible with the current birth years in place. That is the reason you can't conpare youth in MS with MS wrestlers competing at HS. There is no situation where a HS freshman can still be eligible to compete in MS, but more than half of our middle school students in the state of KY are technically eligible to compete in our youth state tournament based on age. Apples and oranges.

6th graders are not. My son is a Middle schooler and only weighed 66 pounds at MS state after eating breakfast and drinking an entire bottle of water. There are MS kids who weigh 70. You will see more of them as wrestling grows in KY. There are plenty of MS 70 pounders in Indiana and Iowa. It's great that KY wrestling is experiencing growing pains. And, I did ask my son about youth state last year and this year. He had no desire to compete in it. We were in Iowa this year and went to Indy Nationals last year. He understands that those events will help him reach his goals.

That's exactly the point I'm trying to make. There is way too much overlap between youth and MS. Youth should be for elementary kids.