During the sectional and regional a survey was passed out with 10 different questions on it reguarding the state of wrestling in Indiana. After you answered all these questions you were asked to rank the importance of each question to you.
Alot of the questions in this survey were non-issues like class wrestling. Do we really need to be fighting against each other on new projects when we have a huge problem in front of us still unsolved!
Class wrestling is not important! When we have 500-600 hundred schools with wrestling programs in the state of Indiana then we can talk about class wrestling.
What needs to be done is fix what is broken! Fix it before moving on to another project! We need to fix two things in our system to make it the model of the whole country! These two broken parts of our system are simple to fix yet we decide to talk about other things. Not until we can truely allow all the wrestlers in the great State of Indiana to truely decide on the mat whole is the best wrestler in the state can we move on to something else.
All we need to do is wrestle the whole regional bracket as we do the week before in sectional. It is crazy to have the 1st round at regional a single elimination round when we wrestled the same size bracket the week earlier.
Second, we need to allow a wrestle back from the second round of semi-state. This eliminates back luck from bad draws by someone who is not working hard to achieve a goal of State Qualifier or State Champion! Leave the 4th place regional qualifers home and wrestle a one round wrestle back.
If you are a coach, administrator, member of the coaches association or just a fan these two things are the only things that need to be discussed until they are fixed!