Richard, thank you for the post. I however think that the spirit of rule 4 is to address those wishing to wrestle down not up. In addition, this option is strictly prohibited for qualifying tournaments as indicated under that section.

By following rule 4-4-1: Additional and/or combined age and weight classes can be used at the option of the host tournament director. I think this still can be accomplished.

When the tournament is run utilizing a split format, it has been ruled that the two splits will be considered separate tournaments; therefore, if 8 & Under were wrestled in the AM session and 10 & Under wrestled in the PM session, an 8 year old wrestler could elect to wrestle in the 8 & Under in the morning and in the 10 & Under in the after, if the tournament director elects to make the 10 & Under bracket a combined 8 & 10 & Under bracket for this weight class.