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It is some thing that we need to let our little guys know. My son lost a match Sunday by 2 points I put him down in ref position he stood to his feet and the other kid locked his hands and stood hugging him until the match was over. The kid never returned him or even tried to advance anything. Not a good way to win a match we ask several times for stalling. With that said the state tournament was really good and cool for all the young wrestlers. I think all the kids that competed Sunday walked away very pumped about what they had just done win or lose.

This topic was not meant to bash youth wrestling I tip my hat to the many people that set all these tournaments up and to the people that put in the many hours away from family to try and make this sport top notch. We have to make coaches and teams more accountable for not telling the truth but we have to have rules in place to be able to do this. we need weight classes we need regionals to mean something a kid should have to wrestle his way into state. we could also have the state tournament open for those kids that didn't place at regionals just not in the same brackets as our kids that placed at regionals. I don't know what the answer is like I said I give all the respect in the world to the ones that are over this. I would like to see a true state champ at the youth level my kid I don't think is that advanced yet but I want him to have a fair chance to place as high as his ability will allow him. That is all I am saying and this is not over just one kid its about all the kids it should be a fair shake for all the young wrestlers in the state.

I agree with Chris Duke on this kids have the option to compete or not to compete. This is my sons first year of competing I held him out last year from competing because I didn't want to crush his spirit. We have to leave it to the parents on this if they think the child should be competing then they should do just that. I think more then any thing its about the money that this brings in. Wrestling is a intense sport! Two kids on the mat one weighs 50 pounds the other 60 that's a huge advantage it should and needs to be fair bottom line. Some of these kids that really not that good but have 2 or 3 " 1st place state finishes" well wonder why maybe its because the kid out ways everyone in his/her bracket. Its bull and it need to be looked at in the perfect world everyone would be honest but we are not in a perfect world. This will hurt the sport more then anything. wrestling is growing at a rapid pace we need to step up our game.

Ok so a kid places 1st he beat everyone he was up against what will happen if he is over the weight bracket. Can we challenge before the match ever takes place.

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I don't think that any kid is packing on any weight. I think that the weight is not true from the beginning. I think we as coaches are putting these kids out on the mat to compete and to learn the sport of wrestling and to be fair and honest. If you have a kid that weighs 55 pounds but you say he weighs 53 that's not fair to either kid or the sport. If the kid weighs 55 to 60 pounds and you slate him in at a lower weight and he crushes the kids in that bracket what has he learned NOTHING. It also takes away from the kids that got crushed. I hate to challenge a weight but Sunday I will challenge a kids weight because I know he weighs more then what he has been slated in at..

Amen

I agree 100% kids don't know how to lose. all youth sports are set up this way I agree it should be fun but a kid needs to learn how to lose. This is why kids give up on sports they are always winners when they get to a higher level and lose they can't handle it and they just drop out of sports. If they are serious to the sport then they have got to start learning the ins and outs of it and weigh ins are a big part of. Now I don't think at this age we should worry about a kids weight kids should not be cutting weight or anything like that but should be learning how to eat healthy and exercise.

sounds pretty simple don't it..? Know I now how some of these kids win so much...because they are wrestling kids smaller then them all the time. I agree you should have to qualify for state just like the middle and high school level because that is what these young kids are working towards.

your going to have (cheating) on the scales the only way around that is to have a weigh in. I know with this many kids it would be nearly impossible to do the of day of the event. I will not blast any one school or club on here. My sons weight is always between 50 to 53 pounds. Myself I have no reason to lie about his weight it would only be cheating him in the long run. Coaches that lie about a kids weight are punishing the kid in the long run just to be able to say for personal gain that they had so many kids from the club to place at state. That my friends is sorry....

After looking at the youth state roster I see that coaches and clubs cant seem to tell the real weight of a wrestler. This doesn't benefit your youth wrestler by wrestling him/her in a bracket that they are to big for. It hurts them more then anything! If we want Kentucky to be able to compete with other state like Ohio and Tennessee then we have to first be able to tell the truth about what a kids real weight is. Our regionals was a joke really a Joke. We need weight checks at state or its just another tournament it needs to be official more controlled if you will because it seems that coaches even at this stage (youth wrestling) can't be honest.

I think the weight check was a great ideal yes it is youth wrestling and the sad thing is you can't trust all the coaches. I think all tournaments should be this way. I give correct weight info on our wrestlers and when they get to a tournament and a kid that is 10 pounds to heavy to be wrestling in that weight class it is very unfair to all the other kids in that bracket. If you or the child that is chowing down on his way to a tournament is serious about wrestling then this is something they will need to be getting used to. I love this was an awesome tournament it was run very smooth and was some really good match ups on the mat. This was also the first every wrestling tournament in this area. We will for sure mark this tourney as a must attend in any future tournaments. Great job to the Taylor county area for hosting a great tournament.