[dluzman]

Guess I'll wait to pass judgement until it's all over but my first thought when I found out was disbelief. I can't imagine a coach wrestling his qualifiers in the duals the week of the tourney. For me the biggest reason would be injury. Naturally some kids are cutting more weight than others so that's a factor, as well as who they would face in the dual, but I'd worry about an injury more than anything.

Don't know much about Des Moines seeded fourth, but the top three in 3A will have nearly an entire team qualify for the individual tourney. Bettendorf and SE Polk just wrestled Saturday and there were several tough matches. A couple matches that had two ranked kids went into overtime I believe. As a coach why would you subject your kid to that the day or two before the individual tournament?

When I wrestled we had a couple light days of practice right before the individual tourney. So much weight is put on being an individual state champ that I see the semis and finals of the dual tournament being a joke.

[Hawks1010]

Originally Posted by SPGroth

Might we see a Cory Clark-v-Devos match up twice in four days?

No not a chance in H E double hockey sticks. This has got to be the dumbest thing the IAHSAA has done since I have been watching the sport. You can bet that most coaches will sit there state qualifiers in the duals and wrestle JV kids.

Think about this in the quest for his 4th state title (if team seeds hold true through regional duals) Cory Clark would have, #2 Eric DeVos first round of state duals, #3 Jack Hathaway second round and #5 Jacob Woodard in the finals.

Wont happen if you want to see Cory wrestle show up Thursday for the first round of the individual state tournament not Wednesday.

Oh and couldnt care less how Minnesota runs their tournaments this is Iowa.

[pin2win]

Originally Posted by Hawks1010

No not a chance in H E double hockey sticks. This has got to be the dumbest thing the IAHSAA has done since I have been watching the sport. You can bet that most coaches will sit there state qualifiers in the duals and wrestle JV kids.

Think about this in the quest for his 4th state title (if team seeds hold true through regional duals) Cory Clark would have, #2 Eric DeVos first round of state duals, #3 Jack Hathaway second round and #5 Jacob Woodard in the finals.

Wont happen if you want to see Cory wrestle show up Thursday for the first round of the individual state tournament not Wednesday.

Oh and couldnt care less how Minnesota runs their tournaments this is Iowa.

spot on clark won't risk it nor should he have too

i don't know how they should schedule this tournament no one is ever going to be happy with what they decide

[CRwrestling]

Originally Posted by pin2win

spot on clark won't risk it nor should he have too

i don't know how they should schedule this tournament no one is ever going to be happy with what they decide

I've always thought that a weekend in between districts and state would be the best scenario.

[Hawks1010]

I am waiting to see how National Duals turns out this year. I think having State Duals like a month before State or so would work really well and would draw a better crowd.

[hwkifan4evs]

If you had them a month before how would you qualify for it? I don't think there's a plausible way to do it without taking out the human factor. It can't be done on rankings as they are terribly inaccurate.