Yes there are a few studs mixed in...but most of these freshman are JV kids and many of them who did wrestle varsity got their tales handed to them all year.

Bottom line they are still wrestling their age.

If you switch the date to Jan01 you still have freshman eligible to wrestle the division and you push more of the 7th graders in with 5th/6th graders. The only true fix is to move it to the next calendar Aug31; which gets us further from the USAW date.

I've studied it some. I agree that there are problems "for some" with the current date. What I haven't found is a date to move it to where we are not just creating problems for "others".