Charger31

Old like already turned 12 a few months ago........

Good lord, WHY are you people STILL trying to justify this. The Juggernauts can be a sanctioned club all they want for as long as they want. That’s not the problem. This is clearly an offseason team. That’s fine. In the history of the youth state duals, to my knowledge, it has always been and was designed to be for IN SEASON teams which means that the 3 combined teams for the Juggernauts should have entered on their own and not combined together. The lack of wording on the flyer describing this was used to your advantage. There WILL be a vote at spring meeting and it WILL be changed so that this doesn’t happen again. And, please give us a break with the whole “we’re just trying to grow the sport” crap. How are you growing the sport when you tell little Timmy that’s wrestled 75lbs all season long for Martin Co that he doesn’t get to participate at the youth state duals because you’re taking a combined team of 3 schools and we really want little Johnny from Pike co not you. That’s not growing the sport!!!

5th grade....BUT they turn 12 in March. All the 5th graders I know are 10 or 11 not 12. Either way they’ll win easily. I’d say they both pin their way through the tournament.

Please tell Luke good luck at 70! Thompson won’t win a match I don’t think. Saw him get beat twice by 2 different kids from Woodford last weekend at Boyle. The powerhouse girl they have pinned him. Actually they both may have pinned him.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

HAHA someone has been breathing too much coal dust.

I think most would agree with it though. LOL BUT I wouldn’t expect anything less when they’re homeschooled and eat, sleep, breathe wrestling. No one should score a point on either one of them. If they do I’ll be highly disappointed.

There is not a “qualifying” tournament for youth state so regionals are just basically an extra tournament, anyone can wrestle if they want. Any youth kid can wrestle at youth state as long as they don’t place top 6 for middle school state. I see both sides of the argument. Let’s say a 4th grader places at middle school regionals he or she should still be allowed to do youth regionals. Now, let’s say a 6th grader places at middle school regionals.....they should be exempt from doing youth regionals. However, “youth” in KY is technically K-8 so.... And if we are trying to be more progressive then KY needs “rookie” or “novice” divisions like other states. There’s lots of things we could argue are “wrong” with KY wrestling if we are trying to compare ourselves to big 10 country.

No. Not at all. If each region of the state created an all star team the playing field would be even. Had teams known this was allowed everyone would’ve had s full team and pulled kids from here, there, and everywhere.

Well, you didn’t combine 2 small teams though. You picked the best kids from each weight class from at least THREE different teams. Pike, Johnson, and Martin. Of which, all of those teams have more than enough to fill a roster on their own. Hopefully the loophole gets fixed and this cheating doesn’t happen again. Desperate move.

I’ve never known this to be allowed. Did the rules change this year? It’s quite sad that teams that have full rosters already have to do this.

Question.......are we allowing “offseason” club teams to compete in the Youth State Duals as an actual team now? I see at least 3 different teams represented on this roster. If this were the case every team could’ve pulled from other schools.