I think if a wrestler like Mendez has a shot at 4 state titles then they will stay and try to get it. If their shot a 4 is gone (LIke the Lee's and Carroll), it makes sense from a development standpoint to skip senior year (assuming the kid is ok with not doing sr year stuff like prom and graduation) and getting into a better training situation, maybe wrestling some opens, etc. than it does beating up on kids that have no shot to beat them. Realistically, nobody at 285 would come close to beating CC this year, so why not make the jump early? If that headlock from Koontz played out differently, maybe Mendez would have foregone his last year too