First of all, the team you faced is a young team but were not held out for that reason. We had four guys out because they were sick the previous day. Our policy is if you?re not at practice the day before a meet you are not eligible to wrestle.
Secondly, due to the required weigh-ins we felt it was necessary to weigh in certain wrestles to ensure they had the proper amount of weigh-ins for sectionals. Some of the wrestlers we weighed in literally have been out for a week.
Our 182 was over weight. I don?t believe in rewarding a wrestler by bumping him up to a higher weight as a result of his irresponsibility. Even if the next weight class is a forfeit.
Yes, we have been dealing with a couple of wrestlers who have been recovery from concussion symptoms and other injuries, one of which was injured during WARM UPS.
In the future, be sure you actually have knowledge on the reasoning behind a team not wrestling a full line-up instead of showing your ignorance and insulting a program. Many times there?s more information than what?s printed in the paper.