2010 Wrestling Advisory Committee

March 2, 2010

 *          1 .  Recommend record keeping of individual wrestlers on the MSHSAA website be optional for 2010-11.

Amended: Recommend record keeping of individual wrestlers on the MSHSAA website be optional for 2010-11 with the stipulation that no handwritten entry forms be accepted.  The coach must submit the individual records by using the MSHSAA website record keeping program or by using wrestling computer software to generate a similar form.

  

**                    2.  Recommended on-site physicians, preferably with a background in skin conditions, be required for district wrestling weigh-ins.

 

***                  3.  Recommend coaches continue to be allowed to be certified assessors in the weight management program. 

 

*          4.  Recommended that wrestlers be in the line-up, at one of the two weight classes in which they are certified on that date, in order for the weigh-in to count for certification.  The athlete must have a win or loss recorded for their match on that date.

 

Amended:  Recommend the weight certification process for the district/state tournament include the following:

a.  Each wrestler must weigh-in at least once, at scratch weight, in their minimum weight class during the regular season prior to February 1st.

b.  For that weigh-in to count, the wrestler must be in the line-up at one of the two weight classes in which the wrestle is eligible to wrestle on that date according to the wrestler’s weight management plan.

c.  The athlete must have a win or loss recorded on their season record for that date.  NOTE: If the wrestler is withheld from competition, for any reason, resulting in the team forfeiting that weight class the wrestler shall add one loss to their record in order to count the weigh-in for certification purposes.     

 

*          approved as amended

**        Tabled for further study

***      Denied