Okay Richard besides my last reply to Chief Renegade that self interest is not necessarily a bad thing since necessity is often the mother of invention, I want to respond to your comment about the benefits to my son as the reason for my supporting this proposal.

I think you might be the only one worried that the powers to be are going to read my post and actually add another weight class in time to benefit my son in high school. In no way do I think that this proposal of mine would be enacted anytime soon by the powers to be. My son only has two years left. He weighs about 225 and has been putting on 20 pounds of muscle weight (not obese weight) a year since he was in 120 12&U as a sixth grader as a result of his year around strength training. His goal for both football and wrestling is to put on another 20 to 25 pounds of muscle weight this year for his junior year of competition. That would put him at 245 to 250 and he would still be in the heavyweight division anyway. His only potential for gain would be if they bumped 215 up to 225 or 230 that there would be a few less competitors in 285. But as I previously stated I have no illusions that any new weight class would be added before he graduated anyway. I would love to see it. The sooner the better as far as I am concerned but I am pretty sure it will not happen that soon.

I really do see this as unfair to heavier wrestlers, so I would like to see that corrected for future wrestlers. I also really want to see wrestling grow in participation and popularity and I believe this would help that happen. If you want to look at it that it is because of self interest for my son's benefit, go ahead. I wonder how you explain my continued support for not having 8th graders compete against 9th graders at Kids State? Is that self interest to benefit my son too who is now in 10th grade?