Cthelites;1384289 wrote:Im just asking cause I really dont understand it.
After re reading the rules and the way it was explained and implemented by our coaches that you had to follow the plan set forth by the alpha test. I have no dog in the fight at 26 or 45 for that matter(actually him dropping actually is to our benefit). I like Bobby, I just dont understand thats all. I dont want to see another Cody Pollitt situation again this yr. I know last yr mid season my son had to keep weighing in at a lower weight class so he didnt forfeit the right to drop to the class below that one cause thats what his alpha plan said. He wasnt even going to wrestle in that lower class unless their was an injury but thats what he had to do for a few weeks just in case he could go down.
Here is info from the OHSAA website (love how they are too lazy to update the numbers to reflect the new weight classes!!). This example seems to me to describe what possibly happened in Smith's case (if you plug in the new weight class numbers
in red).... Also, now you would add in the 2 lb growth allowance.... So I see how this could conceivably have happened.
2. a. A wrestler with a lowest minimum weight of 125
126 is descending toward
his/her lowest minimum weight, but has yet to reach the lowest minimum
weight, and weighs in for competition. In compliance with his/her timeline
the wrestler weighs in at 132
135 (making him/her eligible at 135
138 and 140
145) and
wrestles at 140
145. The wrestler still retains the opportunity to continue to
descend toward the lowest minimum weight of 125
126 as he/she did not weigh
in more than one weight class above his/her lowest actual weight.
b. Two weeks later, the same wrestler in example 2a, who has now reached
his/her lowest minimum weight of 125, weighs in at 131 making him/her
eligible for the 135 and 140 pound weight class. That wrestler has now
surrendered his/her lowest minimum weight of 125 and 130 becomes the
wrestler’s new minimum weight.
