Vince, I appreciate your comments here and think they each have a lot of validity. I will talk to Cael this weekend at Tulsa about this and see his perspective. I do believe that too much is too much and the national tournaments should be limited if possible. I will say that Cael in particular is making an awful lot of appearances at "National" tournaments. I have regular contacts with his brother at Utah State so I will also communicate with him on his views. I agree their opinions should carry some weight.

Regarding injuries, again a valid point, but while the chances of injuries can be reduced the reality of it is that you just never know when they would occur, could happen the first time out. I have just approached life that you have to live each day and each moment, there is no guarantee of tomorrow. The truth is though that there is greater potential from wrestling more.

Again, a valid point regarding some sports objection to dual participation. My point earlier though is that the coaches still maintain control. As of now, my understanding could be wrong; if a coach wanted to take their team to Cliff Keen or another outside tournament, they could not do so. Leave the call up to the individual coaches, again this rule applies to academics as well as athletics. The High School team should always take precedence over club or individual in this situation. That is a point I think we all agree on.

On your point regarding when a young person starts to make decisions; from your post, I think we actually agree on this one far more than we disagree. Reread my earlier post, if I need to make clarification I will gladly do so.

As always Vince, nice to engage with you. Also nice to know that on the whole scheme of things we agree more than we disagree.