While this is true and I will never disagree with it, by knowing who is in your wrestler’s bracket allows for some early preparation. For example, if I know there will be a head hunter in his bracket, we will spend a little extra time in practice focusing on this!
That's what I was afraid of. This has the potential of being bad because some over zealous parent will take their kid down in the basement and watch tape or drill them all week prior, in addition to their regular club practices. Now I realize we can't protect all these kids from their parents but it is always a concern of mine.
My other lesser concern is that some parents will take to head hunting themselves and enter more than one tournament per weekend in the hopes of either going to the tournament that offers the best chance for a medal or the other extreme, the toughest competition. That would be a diservice to the other entrants and the host club one way or the other.
Any corrections can be made in plenty of time by the club directors within hours of bracketing.
How could either of these benefits be bad??
At what point do we get back to wrestling at the youth level being fun, first and foremost?
