Makes no sense...

[bgrayii]

We, Union Pines, are members of the Tri-County 6 conference with 5 other schools.  For our conference tournament we can have a round robin format with 6 guys per wt., but we cannot put the 6 wrestlers in an 8-man bracket and wrestle back!?  We are lucky, as we can just do the round robin, but it sucks for a conference with more teams. 

Also, the explanation of "we are aren't changing the wrestle-backs b/c we are limiting all sports" is sorry.  Very few people will notice or care if the regional and state tournaments have wrestle- backs from the quarters, plus it is still a limitation. 

[Ironman152]

Makes absolutely no sense! None of it does. It's all an act to say we're being proactive. Let us be safe, sure. But some of these safety measures defy logic.

[Fatdog]

Is this in writing somewhere or did you just ask Tra?

[Coach Atwood]

This was explained in the zoom meeting wrestling coaches had with Tra yesterday morning.

[Ironman152]

Are there minutes posted from the zoom meeting? Or possible a print out of points of emphasis. I'm sure it all could have been an email. Didn't need to make us look at their faces while they screwed us.

[Longdayrunner]

Ouch!!

[jimt]

What about doing two pools of 4 (in an 8 team conference) and then wrestling the champ/3rd place matches?

[WWTeam]

So we can have a 6 man round robin which has 15 total matches but not an 8 man bracket which only has 12 total matches???  I thought the idea was to limit exposure and keep it safer.  Additionally in the 8 man bracket the max exposure is 4 for 2 wrestlers, 3 for 4 wrestlers and 2 for 2 wrestlers, but in the 6 man RR all 6 have 5 exposures.

[ncpantherrob]

I understand how wrestle backs work. I have clarification question regarding Regionals and States.

Regionals:
Quarters are completed. Will the only matches conducted after be the semis (2), 3rd Place match (1) and Finals match (1). No others?

States:
Same question as Regionals. Which would mean only recognizing 1st-4th placer finishers. Is that correct?

[jimt]

I emailed Tra and asked him this:

"Clarification on conference formats - round robin is OK but double elimination is not? 

If so, and there are more than 6 in a weight class, can you do two pools of four for RR, then cross for 1st and 3rd place?"

His response was:

"Round Robin is okay, double-elimination is not allowed to keep it in line with regionals and state championships.  You can set up the round robin however you want."

I take this to mean that putting wrestlers into pools and cross bracketing for the top four places is OK, so that is what I plan to do for the conference tournaments I am running if the weight class exceeds 6 wrestlers.

[Edwards]

did anybody ever get a response about 4 teams weighing in at the same school but only wrestling 2 matches each.

option 1 = run 2 mats, need 2 refs   
rd 1 A vs B, C vs D
rd 2 A vs C, B vs D

option 2 = run 1 mat have 4 matches total

I see it could cause an issue with limited number of refs, but is it allowed