Well to understand it you have to have experienced it or coached them I think. I just am not getting what you think it is harming? It has no bearing at all on the top four placers and there are hundreds of people in the stands cheering for those kids. They fight their butts off for those medals. I just see no downside to that. They aren't getting participation ribbons. They had to show up that second day and lay it out there and win matches just like everyone else. I just don't get the problem that you see. No state champ is diminished in any way because some other kid placed sixth and had the gall to stand on the podium at the same time he did.