Please keep in mind that if you try to "shorten" the season the way you want to, you are only benefitting the eastern side of the state. In Western Kansas, we don't hit the practice room until December and then there are no tournaments scheduled until January at the earliest.
Exactly WHY we should shoten the season (you in a sense already are by not starting until December/January).
There are TOO MANY folkstyle tournaments, spread out over too long of a length of time. By shortening the season, everyone will benefit by having high quality tournaments with high quality opponents.
If it was up to me, there would be 8 folkstyle tournies per weekend: 4 opens Saturday, 4 novices/6&U on Sundays, spread equally between every sub-district (ie. D1/2/3/4 A all host opens Saturday, D1/2/3/4 B hosts novices Sunday, next weekend B subs get opens, A subs get novices, etc, etc). This option presents opportunities for everyone in every sub-district to be able to attend tournaments within reasonable driving distance at minimum of every other weekend. This is the same reasoning I have behind having FS/GR state rotate between the 8 subs (if it is in your area, you're more likely to participate).
Football is done in Kansas by Thanksgiving, perfect starting time for wrestling. Have two solid months of competition (instead of 4 watered down months), then state series wrapped up with state the first weekend of February.
Also, IMO, the middle/high school and little kids will get a lot more out of going straight into intense FS/GR stuff by March 1. Little ones have trouble when first learning FS/GR because of the rule differences (locking hands is a biggie). The little kids are going to benefit way more by seeing the older kids train hard for FS/GR, than by watching them wind down their folkstyle season with "Kids" wrestling. I'm sorry, but to 95% of the guys, once you hit freshman year, USAWKS titles don't mean as much. How many times do HS kids come to kids' folkstyle practice and do nothing, or maybe help a few little ones out, or maybe not show up at all until tournament time, or definitely not condition when practice is ending, etc, etc?
We need high quality opportunities, not high quanity.
