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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrestling. You compete against your own size and a great college team needs all the weight classes.[/quote]

Cutting weight is so unhealthy. I love wrestling as a sport, and would be happy for my kid to do it if they could compete at their actual weight, but at least back in the day, that wouldn't be allowed. [/quote]

I wrestled in HS and had to cut weight.  I'm sure it still happens at the varsity level, but at the youth/MS level there is no cutting weight.

Heck, the kids end up wresting kids plus/minus 10-15 pounds of your kids weight just because its all about getting as many matches in on meet day as possible.

It's absolutely not a risk for a middle school kid.  And for a freshman or sophomore, content to just be on JV, they won't have to worry about cutting weight either[/quote]

The coaches say one thing to parents and a different thing to the wrestlers. You are fooling yourself if you think cutting weight isn’t encouraged in youth wrestling.  No, they don’t have to make a certain weight class to wrestle but if they drop x pounds before weigh in they are told they will have an advantage.  There can be some real eating disorders for these boys.  By son had issues for years.  I was glad when he stopped wrestling.  It all depends on the coaches and the mentality of your kid.  I never thought mine would be susceptible to that.  [/quote]

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