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.
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.
