Kids may participate in non school wrestling unitll they attend a school practice. If they compete outside the school after that they become ineligible for school competition (this includes freethrow competitions during basketball or fun runs during track). Middle schools in kansas do not have a defined season some end before Christmas,while some don't start untill after Christmas. This would explain why you see middle school kids wrestling youth tournaments all season long. In our case wrestlers are allowed to participate in youth tournaments up untill Tulsa Nationals. Our season ends the week before subdistrics allowing them to compete in youth wrestling again.