Updated Classifications are released

[rideOut]

TSSAA released the 2021-2023(2024?) classifications this afternoon. Currently the A-AA has 49 schools and AAA has 92 schools. The new proposed split is 75 A-AA and 75 AAA. This has bumped the enrollment cutoff to 1,233. Several top tier AAA teams will now find themselves scrapping with the A-AA darlings (Pigeon Forge and Greenville) for the state title. Interesting development. 

Division I:

https://cms-files.tssaa.org/documents/tssaa/2020/2021classification.html#di-wrestling

Division II:

https://cms-files.tssaa.org/documents/tssaa/2020/2021classification.html#dii-wrestling

Edited October 23, 2020 by rideOut

[CoachDFreeman]

Any idea when they will do any realigning of the regions / districts? I'm sure these new classifications will shake up some of the regions. 

[rideOut]

From what I've read on TSSAA.org it appears that they will release the proposed regional alignments the last week of October.

[CoachDFreeman]

Thank you!

[dontstopbelieving]

19 hours ago, rideOut said:

Several top tier AAA teams will now find themselves scrapping with the A-AA darlings (Pigeon Forge and Greenville) for the state title. Interesting development. 

 

I'm not sure "several" is the right word here, the only teams I see that have are considered top tier are halls tennessee high and you could possibly throw page in there. 

[CHSBLUE]

Looks like Soddy Daisy is moving down in classification

 

[rideOut]

@dontstopbelieving you're right maybe "several" is a little bit of an overstatement, but there are a few teams that could make some noise at A-AA. There are 5 teams that finished in the top 25 at AAA traditional state in 2020.

1. Knox Halls (13th)

2. Soddy-Daisy (19th)

3. East Hamilton (21st)

4. Page (22nd)

5. Munford (25th)

Knox Halls is the only team moving from AAA to A-AA that qualified for team state in 2020. There were also 7 state placers from the AAA schools in 2020 that are moving to A-AA.

0 - State Champs

3 - 2nd place

2 - 3rd place

0 - 4th place

1 - 5th place

1 - 6th place

[snapdown91]

Also noticed they made an AAA and A/AA for DII Dual Wrestling. Kept it all one class for traditional.

[PatCoach09]

On 10/22/2020 at 5:29 PM, CoachDFreeman said:

Any idea when they will do any realigning of the regions / districts? I'm sure these new classifications will shake up some of the regions. 

I imagine there will be somewhat significant changes in region 1/2 as region 1 would be losing 4 teams to reclass. 

[CleveBear]

Soddy will be glad to be getting out of the Bradley County region.  They were a very good team many years but were the third wheel in that region and didn't get to go to state.  

Knoxville area wrestling just got a lot more interesting with Halls dropping down to A-AA.  

[dontstopbelieving]

1 hour ago, CleveBear said:

Soddy will be glad to be getting out of the Bradley County region.  They were a very good team many years but were the third wheel in that region and didn't get to go to state.  

Knoxville area wrestling just got a lot more interesting with Halls dropping down to A-AA.  

This is true, hopefully if they keep the current state team duals format they will have Halls in a separate region from pigeon forge. It would stink to only see one of Halls, Pigeon Forge, and Gibbs go to state team duals while Alcoa gets to cake walk in and go 2 and out.

[silverpie]

One thing to keep in mind: schools can opt to play up. We really won't know much until we see who does.