Now that the season is over and we have time to examine things, don't the rest of you coaches out there feel it's time we came up with some form of set seeding criteria for tournaments in Kansas?
There is vastly too much abuse of "common opponents" when it comes to seeding, espeically when it comes to getting kids with sub-.500 recods seeded. You know the one: Kid A (20-5) is beating Kid B (15-7) 10-0 in a dual meet. Kid B hits some freak move and accidently pins Kid A. A week later, Kid C (8-20) pulls out an overtime tie-breaker win over Kid B. Two weeks later at Regionals, Kid A is the obvious choice to be top seed at the Regional, OOPS, until Kid C's coach tries to get his top seed based on the above scenerio.
I can see in a direct head-to-head situation allowing a kid with a losing record to have some consideration for the last possible seed. But to completely throw off the seeding process by abusing the "Common opponent" entry it silly and leads to four-hour seeding meetings. Let's come up with set criteria and all learn to live with that.