Kale,

While I agree that eliminating 103 is a bad idea, I feel that something should be done to address the fact that kids are getting bigger and there are issues at the higher weights with "talent stacking". This leads to kids having to make decisions to:

• Accept the fact that they will not wrestle varsity
• make a decision to move to another weight class accepting that they will either have to lose an unhealthy amount of weight or be light for the higher weight
• quit the sport because they will not wrestle much for the year

I have seen all three of these, and would have to admit that I am biased as my son has been in that very position the last (2) years. He made the decision to go lower last year and was able to get the Doctor to approve it, and after battling through that he wrestled up this year.

But, here is what I really don't get. If you look at Proposal B (my favorite for the upper weights), they list the lower two weights as 106 and 113. This leads me to this question:

If we are only changing the 2nd weight by a pound from 112 to 113, why not just keep the first weight 103?

Is that too simple of a solution?

Chuck