The idea of advancing 8 wrestlers from two 16 team regionals for 5A and 6A has many positives.
1. This should help eliminate the possibility of having the 2 best wrestlers in a weight class meeting in the finals. If the 2 best are in the same regional they should be 1 and 2 and seperated at state. if they are both champions in their regional they will be seperated.
2. This will help get better qualified wrestlers to state. Many times 1 regional will have 5 or more great wrestlers in it and other regionals will not have as many. By combining 2 regionals and taking 8, the 5th best wrestler from a regional has a chance to place in the top 8 and therefore qualifier for state and possibly place at state.
3. This should save the state money by using less referees the week of regionals.
Teams may have more travel expense do to the fact that they may travel farther and since it would become a 2 day tournament many teams would have to stay over night. But this is a small price to pay for the benifits.
