It is not a magic number at all. The seeds are earned. Earned by current rules.

I think the fewest seeds at regional was 6, and we had many weights where we had 9 or more, all the way up to 11.

We seeded 2 wrestlers with losing records. One was seeded third and did not place. One was seeded 5th and placed 3rd. We had one unseeded wrestler with a losing record place. Two kids qualify with a losing record from the region.

Although rare, through the years we have seeded several kids with losing records in a “weak” weight class to attempt to get the four best kids to state from our region. Wrong or right, the coaches decided at that meet that was what is best for the kids and the region. We required a unanimous vote from all head coaches. Every now and then common sense prevails!!!!!!

Your argument confuses me Greg. 11 is too many to seed. Seed losing records.
I believe that conflicts?

Also 3a is different animal. We had 23 teams this year, and sometimes more than that. We have 32 man brackets some years. In our case seeding losing records rarely makes sense.