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Total fail by timekeeper didn't help the ref here.

I don't think you're the one to look at it objectively. 
 
1. Allocations are based on the quality of competition. The Big 10 has a lot of quality, thus it gets many allocations
2. Maryland and Rutgers are solid programs, Maryland is down this year but will be back up soon
3. You get the Welches back healthy, but have an unhealthy Atwood. Atwood has been a 10-15 ranked guy his whole career, while the Welches have flirted with top 20 rankings. A healthy Atwood is a serious AA contender, the Welches can push for a spot on the podium, but will have to perform better than their seeds.
4. They have been bad the last 5 years.....neither is exceptionally worse or better this year than they were last year or the year before
5. The 9th place matches didn't count
 
It is way too early to call Ersland a bust nor a great hire. He's barely 9 months into the job. Maybe you are just upset because someone close to you is riding the pine and you think they should be GIVEN a spot in the lineup.

I highly doubt anyone who doesn't follow wrestling (or had a champ/runner up from his/her school) has any clue who won any of our 14 weight class tournaments or who won the overall team title a couple Saturdays ago, even though there was only one of each.

That is why I said using the quotation marks gives the impression you are being ironic.  If irony is not the impression you want to express then I might suggest that you don't use the quotation marks because it distorts what you are trying to say.   This is the second time you have given that impression.  My feelings and nerves have nothing to do with this issue, bringing emotions into the issue is just a deflection, probably because you are uncomfortable with me questioning what you type on here.  
 
I do think that just because many schools already attend is not a very logical reason for giving an exception.  The IHSAA sets up the summer participation rules to apply to all sports.  If they start making exceptions on a sport by sport basis, it would be chaos.  Not a chance they drop down that rabbit hole.

Cool. So it's no big deal then.