wrestle007,

I am really not proposing dropping weight classes unless that would be the only way to improve the opportunity for heavier athletes. Look at the percentage differences in by topic introduction, they are just too great once you start going past 171.

As far as your comment about the heavyweight class being weak this year. That is how this discussion came up in the other topic on the best heavyweight ever. Some were saying it was not a lack of quality for a few of the top heavyweights like Zlatnick, Disney, Andrus, Holly, Hybsha, and a few others but more in the overall depth of the class. Klint Deere said he did not know why the overall quality in heavyweight was down this year. This whole discussion stems from that.

I am suggesting there are plenty of high quality heavier athletes who would be very good wrestlers. I know we have them at my son's school Aquinas. I saw a couple of them in attendance at his Regional meet. These two signed to play D-1 football. They are excellent athletes and would have been great wrestlers. I know we have probably at least ten or more other 230 and over football athletes who could also be good wrestlers. I think if there was more opportunity for them with weight classes you would see more of them come out for wrestling.

One of the goals of this is to improve the quality of wrestling in the heavier weight classes by getting more of these football players out for wrestling. It would not happen overnight but it would in time.