Hope I am not stomping on your thread Ricky..

In addition to Jr. high participation there are a few other things that SD does that I think would be beneficial to KS.

1. A two class system. Four is way to many.

2. Regional qualifications. In SD you have conference, district and regional tourneys leading up to state. You must qualify for state by placing at regions and you must qualify for regions by placing at districts. Therefore, less competitive wrestlers can switch to kids wrestling earlier and coaches can concentrate on preparing their top wrestlers for the State tourney. Makes qualifying for state that much more special.

2. At tournaments.. proper warm-up areas for wrestlers with mats for stretching, sparring, instruction and for wrestlers to relax rather than clogging up the bleachers. Wrestlers weight classes are paged to report to the warm-up area rather than the mat, Runners (usually attractive girls) take the bout sheet from the head table to the warm-up area to retrieve the wrestlers and escort them to the correct mat. This gets rid of all the congestion mat-side and gives the wrestlers a place to focus and prepare!