How does this situation negatively impact the "team"? How many members of the "team" will be on the mat at any one point in time? Come on sporto this is a "quasi" team sport. It is an individual combat, one-on-one competition between two single competitors. Honestly, there is NO WAY that missing the first week of practice to compete in a tournament hurts the team or the individual. I guarantee you that if someone elects to do so they are practicing somewhere or they wouldn't want to compete.

Sporto, if your football team is in the playoffs your wrestlers who are football players have to miss wrestling practice so they can practice and play football. So are you going to say, "It is okay for the wrestling "team" and the wrestler to miss practice for a football game but it isn't okay to miss it for wrestling tournament." Sporto, not even you can make that statement make sense...