Sadly, I believe that you are right about how the IHSAA thinks. As wrestling fans we know that we have a very unique situation. We are talking about the individual tournament - not a team sport. Our team tournament has no wrestle-backs or "do overs". Other IHSAA individual tournaments seem to have remedies to bad draws built in. For example, in track or swimming, you may have the top individuals in a given event in the same regional. Only a certain number of place winners will qualify for state, but they have state qualifying times/distances so that the best athletes are still represented at the state tournament.