Region8Guy

geterdone-

I think what the region 8 wrestler was trying to say was that in the State brackets all of the region 8 winners that didn't place at state last year are placed at a section in the bracket where they will wrestle the overall number one seed in the quarterfinals. So at 103, 119, 130, 140, 145, 152, 160, 189, 215 and HWY all of those region winners were placed in the same spot on the bracket. It wouldn't be so bad if that spot randomly happened to be against previous medalists at the 4th place spot which typically wouldn't even be a returning medalist , but when 10 of our champs have to face the overall number one seed in the quarterfinals it really kills our chances as a region. I don't think this is a conspiracy against a certain region- I just think that somebody didn't do the work to properly draw up the brackets. This really should be changed.

Yeah, that was pretty much what I was trying to get at.

So how come every Region 8 Champion without a previous medal gets the number one seed in the Quarter Finals? Could the regions not rotate through for that position or something (i.e. Region 1 is there at 103 and 140, Region 2 is there at 112 and 145, etc). If they are seeded then they wouldn't have to be placed there, but otherwise every region could have an equal share of eighth seed instead of one region getting it every time.