how confident are you guys about the weights for each wrestler?
100% confident, if a kid changes weights they will be fined $100! In all seriousness, these are some of the better preseason rankings we have had. However, when kids/coaches tell us a kid is making XXX weight in August it never ceases to change come November and December. Even some coaches/kids don't know where they are going and we just give it an educated guess. I would say there would be about 25% of the kids change weights.
How often do weights change between now and wrestling season?
We have kids changing weights in January so it is quite often. There are even times when we are anxiously awaiting sectional brackets to come out to see where a kid has decided to enter for the tournament.
Is that common, or are most teams at the top pretty much set at this point? Not sure if I will answer this correctly, but most of the top teams have their lineups semi in place. The top teams always have jockeying and you never know where kids will land officially until certifications and they actually step on the mat.