There may be a few freshmen that are around 103 lbs, but wrestling is a tough sport and putting them on the mat won't make them competitive in the sport if they don't have the fire for it. I see filling in the weight differential at the higher weights as important and starting the 1st 2 weights at more reasonable sizes 107 115. I noticed one of the posters listed teams from our regional and our team has 13 wrestlers. The truth in that is we only had competition for slots in the upper weights, everyone else just wrestles at the other open varsity slots. We don't have more than a handful of backups.
We encourage kids to try sports all the time. The reality is that some kids aren't interested in any sport and being the size for a lower wrestling weight class does not matter to those students.


Tate Thompson
Head Wrestling Coach
Pratt High School