Thank you for the compliment on the discussion. I think though that wrestling is today discriminating against size. Look at the percentage differential in classes for the weights over 171.

As far as what the weights used to be, I believe that kids are getting bigger and more athletic at these bigger sizes. In 1969 when I was a senior in high school we had about 4 lineman who weighed between 200 and 210. We were considered to be a big team then. You saw very few kids at 240 then. Now you see running backs that big. Unfortunately I do not think we are attracting enough of these bigger kids into wrestling.