Tim:

You and I will not change each other's minds on this. I also looked at the state qualifiers in the classes you mentioned 6A, 5A and 4A. I felt what I saw supported my statement that 103 is dominated by freshmen and sophomores. I saw that the state qualifiers were predominantly freshmen and sophomores in 103 last year 13 in 6A, 14 in 5A, and 13 in 4A. I guess it is my football background, but to me that is not a normal high school varsity sport situation.

All those 103 placers you listed are excellent wrestlers and very deserving of their state placing accomplishments. I congratulate them. I do believe they would probably have all placed still if 103 was bumped up slightly to 106 or 108.

Maybe I am not looking at this correctly, I do know there are lighter kids under 100 pounds. I do not want to see them lose opportunity. I do want to see increased wrestling opportunity for all high school wrestlers including the heavier juniors and seniors. If Kansas could implement a system like Montana's that Shawn Budke described it would offer more opportunity for all wrestlers and there would be less reason to adjust the current weight classes.