Are you talking about 6A schools here? You have to look at wrestling as a whole not just one level. The smaller schools already have a hard enough time finding kids to fill the 189/215/285 weight classes. Why add one more when we already have a hard enough time filling them? Besides how many HWT's actually fit in the 250-285 range? I've seen plenty around 230-245 so if you do add another weight class it leaves another one open. I just do not see an advantage. The average kids in high school weighs again between 125-175, so thus there are more weight classes. Also the 103-119 range is for undeveloped underclassmen or smaller mature uppperclassment. Thus the reason for all the lower and middle weights. In the upperweights there usually isn't the competition that the other weights have, but STA seems to have an exception.
Alex,
I am talking about all classes not just 6A or 5A. As far as your point about the smaller schools having trouble now filling all the weight classes, I must admit I am not aware of that problem, but one of my main objectives with the proposal to add one or two classes for heavier kids is to attract more heavier kids into wrestling. I really do believe that many football players do not want to cut weight to make 189 or 215 because they want to put on muscle weight instead for football. If they did not have to cut as much weight maybe more would come out and I think that could be true for smaller schools too. I just want to see wrestling grow and for there to be more opportunity for the bigger kids in wrestling.
Also realistically, I know if any weight classes were to be added it would only be one weight class. For that reason what I would propose would be to lower 189 to 185, add the extra weight class at around 200 to 205 and raise 215 to around 225 to 230 so those 230-245 wrestlers you referred to would still be in the 285 class.
