I am brand new this year to being a wrestling dad so I am sure I do not understand how everything works. I also understand that I am going to come accross as making a big deal about a six year old wrestling when I should just be happy there are such good people willing to put time into coaching my kid and putting on great tournaments. I read the by laws and could not find any guidance on how seeding actually works. But after looking at my son's bracket for sub district which continues to change, I am confused. There are six kids signed up for his age and weight class so an 8 man bracket is being used. There are two kids in the top side of the bracket (so both have byes) and four kids in the bottom side (so none have byes). This makes no sense to me. I know there are two teams with multiple kids in the bracket so I was told they are not allowed to be on the same side in a bracket. I have yet to read that anywhere. The two best kids (based on records) in the tournament appear to be in the 2 seed and 3 seed so they will have to wrestle each other to go to the finals. I was told neither could be the number 1 seed since they were six and there was an 8 year old wrestling. The two seed is 36-5 on the year. The 3 seed also has a good record, has wrestled a lot of tournaments and is very tough. The number 1 seed has wrestled two tournments. He may very well be the best wrestler, but he does not appear to have the record to support it. Is this how all districts do this or is this just an arbitrary method. It seems much more logical to reward the kids who have wrestled each week and put in all the hard work get rewarded for their effort. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Eric Coates