Mr. Disney,

Respectfully, I just don't understand why you think 2 weight classes after 189 is enough for the next 91 pounds of weight. That is a very limited opportunity for a lot of football type athletes. Many of these guys are very good athletes who could be good wrestlers. These four guys from Aquinas (Hammer, Lopez, Walter, and Nowak) do not even scratch the surface of all the athletes over 189 that walk the halls at Aquinas. I know that Blue Valley and the other Blue Valley schools along with the Sunflower League schools in Shawnee Mission and Olathe have a lot of these type of heavier football players too that do not come out for wrestling. I think we need to be doing things to get these guys out.

I know I will probably catch some business from this next statement but I don't blame EJ for not wanting to wrestle JV this year. My son spent his freshman year doing that and for state qualifier type wrestlers that is the equivalent of wrestling novice in Kids. I don't know for sure but I think EJ just figured after his football injury recovered that he could use his time better lifting weights and adding strength and weight for football rather than JV wrestling. I think this is the same reasoning football coaches do not encourage their players to wrestle because they want them to add weight and strength and not spend months dropping a bunch of weight to get down to 189 or 215.

I am sorry I do not think it is a dead horse. Wrestling once added 215. I think two weight classes over the 190 to 285 range is way too few. I believe it is possible to add at least one more. Others recognize the need Texas has 180, Kansas Kids 16&U has 235, in college club the NCWA has 235. I am not the only one that thinks this. It will change with time if we want wrestling to grow in popularity.

What I would like to see done on a national level if all we could add was one class is to change 189 to 185, add a 200-205 weight class and then change 215 to 225 or 230.