Quote Originally Posted by scottietohottie View Post
I was at the middle school state tournament and it was awesome never had that as a kid. We have 34 boys out for wrestling and a girls team. When I was in junior high I was getting my ass kicked by seniors at the varsity level.

We do have one open weight on varsity. So nice not having to throw the young wrestlers to the wolves. They can develop the upper weight classes.
Having middle school or even JV "state" tourneys seems like a good idea. Let kids compete for something at against their peers/similar talent level. That was definitely not a thing for us either.

In 7th grade I did JV. In 8th grade I did varsity for duals and JV for most of the tournaments until regionals. I thought that worked out pretty good. No use in making kids wrestle varsity full-time if they aren't really ready for that. Particularly at the higher weights where varsity guys are typically upperclassmen who are just going to ragdoll the chubby middle school kids.