In my opinion, holding out from a week of high school practice to compete at the Cliff Keen kickoff would not be worth it, from my experience the first week of practice is the hardest. Your'e not in the best shape, and my coach likes to work everyone hard to weed out the ones who aren't serious about wrestling. I used to think that Cliff Keen tournaments and all the tournaments that Roller held were very tough, but after my freshman year in high school i realized that those tournaments did not turn out to be as tough as i thought they were.. Example, 8th grade year i had it pretty much easy at the kickoff, i won and pinned everyone there, then tulsa i made it to the finals but then lost, i was 145 for those tournaments, then my freshman year i made the journey to 125 and ended up getting to wrestle tough seniors like Keaton Baker or Cory Bloodgood, Baker was the defending high school state champ at the time