These last entries is exactly why clubs should control who enters and who does not enter novice tournaments. I do not agree with your policy that if a kid wins three tourneys, they should move up to open. The compitition is different in each tournament. A child should be allowed to wrestle novice his or her first year, then their second year they should be evaluated on whether they should move up or not. Some kids are ready, some are not. Until clubs start enforcing the novice tournament rule, we will have misunderstandings, arguments, and discouraged kids no matter what. Every year it is the same. At the Burlington novice there was a kid participating that was wearing a Fort Scott Tournament t-shirt with a 1st place emblem on it. The adults have to become adults and put a stop to all of this.