Scarecrow_103,

I don't think you disrepected anyone. You are just fighting for the smaller athletes. I am okay with that. I am fighting for the bigger ones. We are going to have differences of opinion. I got a bigger uphill battle though in high school wrestling. Ten weight classes up to 160 and only four above 160 is a big uphill battle and completely unfair in my opinion. I would prefer justing adding classes for the heavier wrestlers, but sometimes it just comes down to limitations.

As far as your comment about the other sports requiring speed. Football success requires that too and not all of the heavier wrestlers have that kind of speed (my son does not have good enough football speed). As far as some of them being country club sports, someone just recently posted on our website that due to all the high costs of tournaments (for those who choose to wrestle outside the high school season and in kids) that wrestling was beginning to resemble a country club sport. I would have to say that cross country and track are not country
club sports and have a lot of successful smaller athletes.