It also needs to be remembered that in western Kansas, we don't have the convenience of close tournaments set up much before the beginning of January. We don't even start kids wrestling practice until the beginning of December as a club, so therefore, our length of season is already down to 4 months including the month of practice. You don't realize how lucky you are in Eastern Kansas at times. My other concern is with the fact that you would be asking a family, like my own, with 4 kids, that would fall into 3 different state tournaments, to travel to 3 different sites on 3 differnet weekends. Yes, I would find a way to afford it for my kids, but there are others in this economy that wouldn't be able to find a way to make it work. Yes, changes need to be made and the way you have described it Will, would be great, I am just saying we need to take into consideration the families that can't afford to give their kids the luxuries you and I have where wrestling is concerned. I would also like to see our MS season moved as indicated by another thread. It would give our MS athletes a better opportunity to participate in Kids wrestling and not have to make a choice between the MS team and Kids.