Sportsfan02:

I am sorry it took me a little bit to respond, just got back on. First let me say that Jacob is a little borderline right now. Two weekends ago he was left with his grandmother while my wife and I were out of town and Grandma let him go wild on his junk food. He also took that weekend off from wrestling. I purposedly took him to the Platte City weigh-in Friday night (he wanted to wait until Saturday morning) because I wanted him to see that he needed to be careful since he was going to have to weigh-in Friday night at State this year. Well he weighed 150.4 Friday night. He has been weighing 147 to 148 at his previous weigh-ins this year. My personal philosophy on what is best for him is that No. 1 if he wants to maintain a weight that is his decision not mine unless he is trying to go too far and secondly I believe it is best for him to wrestle at his best shape weight. I believe he would be at his best shape somewhere close to 145. He is a typical 7th grader who likes his junk food. He has never missed a weight or had to run at the weigh-in site to make it. His personal decision to want to stay at 150 is that the next jump in 12 & under is a 10% increase to 165. That is a pretty big jump and I think you can understand what his personal motivation is there.

I did however see his main competitor at District last year come in at 120.6 and was not able to compete. This young man was pretty disappointed as would my son if he does not make it this year.
I believe he will though and if he doesn't it will be a good lesson for him.

So I do have a little personal motivation in my desire to keep the Saturday weigh-in but mainly I liked having the option available for the other kids too who might be need the extra day to make weight. I mean they are still just grade school kids and this is State. I think we should still provide them every opportunity to make it. I think if the normal tournament during the season gives them the Saturday morning option that it should still be available for State.

I also think it should be available especially with the early Friday 7 PM cutoff for those from great distances who really can't take a vacation day or have to be at their jobs that day. This would be a final chance for them to if they pull in around Midnight. I agree with you (I think you said it) who said that they didn't like letting their kids travel distances with other people.

We have not stayed in Topeka the last couple of years. We believe he does better at home, so we have just driven up Friday night, Saturday morning and Sunday morning. We are very fortunate living in Overland Park and being able to do this. The Senior Classic event sounds interesting. My wife has always taken him to the State weigh-in and she would not be interested in staying for that. But I might be able to get sometime off this year to do that myself. What time does it get done approximately? I would not want him to get back too late that night before State.