In our defense we were ranked fifth in the class by the coaches for almost the entire season. We also return 13 out of 14 kids from that group. Our sectional and regional are pretty deep, so that helps us too. We wrestled the last half of the year without a solid 220/hwt kid, and our 113 who was servicable, was replaced by a forfiet. In duals and tournaments we placed above several of the teams that are behind us in the standings as well.
In everyone else's defense we have wrestled absolutly horribly over the past two weeks, and have not advanced several kids who I felt would still be wrestling on. We lost several close matches, and that is no ones fault but our own. I feel if we had wrestled the way that we are capible of that this would not be an issue that would be being discussed, but we wrestled how we did so it is fair.
The goal of this system is to project the top eight teams based on who are coming back, as a team that wrestled pretty well for most of the season, and has 13 out of 14 of its wrestlers returning I feel that we are among the teams that should be a favored to get invited. At the same time we did not get it done at the end of the season when it matters most, and if we are not on the invite list at the end of it all, we can only blame ourselves.
By the way if the tie breaker comes down to best beard Eric gets it, if it comes down to hair we would get it. Heck if coaches hair was the final factor we would be looking at a class 3A invite.