Minnesota High School To Vote On Eliminating Weight Classes

therick · 10-22-2007, 07:01 PM

Originally Posted by Champ Kind

I don't know how much it will help, but with college football coaches wanting their linemen 300lbs, the 285lb weight class will help get those bigger athletes out. Last year was the first for the 285lb weight class and from my experience in Ohio, they don't catch on to things very fast. I heard they didn't have electricity until the 1990's.

That's true, and I can remember getting our first indoor plumbing in the mid-70's.

Maybe having those hardships is why our wrestlers dominate when they get up against competition from some of the other more advanced states.

ISU2008 · 10-22-2007, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by therick

Maybe having those hardships is why our wrestlers dominate when they get up against competition from some of the other more advanced states.

I don't know, having no teeth makes you a better hockey player, not a better wrestler.

goferphan · 10-23-2007, 12:13 AM

The REALLY sad thing is having to recruit kids in highschool to wrestle upper weights when most everyone else on that team most likely started in 1st to 7th grade.

Thats what I am saying. Its hard to find someone who is good in the upper weights and even then, you may be really lucky if he started earlier than highschool.

Lights are easier to fill than heavies, look in any wrestling room across the country.

Minnesota High School To Vote On Eliminating Weight Classes

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