My understanding is that with more weights, there would be more champions, with more champions there would be a greater interest and keep kids excited and retrained longer.

I personally do not believe this is the answer to the problem. I'm not even sure there is a problem. It is hard to retrain kids when basketball is easier, parents can't handle losing, parents are too hard on kids, and wrestling is a hard sport that is just not for everyone.

I know plenty of kids that were state champions at 6U that are no longer wrestling. Making it easier to be a state champion will not keep their interest, it will just make their goals more easily attainable and then as it gets tougher they will give up and quit. The road is being prepared for the child not the child being prepared for the road, and many will never finish the marathon because they sprinted too quickly in the beginning.

I also feel that this will encourage weight pulling in younger kids. Instead of having to pull 3 pounds to get to the next weight they will only have to pull 2, and by then just 2 more and they have dropped two weight classes. Kids will actually 4 pounds to instead of 3. The logic will be they were at one weight class(which they pulled to get to) now they are only pulling 2 pounds. It's really not that much weight. When in reality they are pulling 4 pounds instead of 3.

I see lots of problems with the new weight classes. This was not a good idea or what was best for Kansas wrestling. The Proposal was actually shot down at the State Meeting by the Majority. But...Those in power don't have to follow the rules for 6U so the new weights are being implemented anyways.