Old guy

Agreed when you are below 16-man or smaller pools the reduced time will greatly help. When I was assessing this as a mathematician, I used a baseline of 16 teams with full brackets and an average match time of 4 minutes. I figured that was reasonable for a worst case. Any byes and fast pins will reduce that average time but the first two rounds will still have 8 matches per weight and take will over an hour. After that it accelerates.

Not all high school gyms can hold more than 3 or have 4 on hand. I agree more is better (5-6 is fantastic if you have them) but you have to live with the space / materials available.

High School generally doesn't have opens and non-sanctioned tournaments can do what ever they want as you well know. In a 16-man bracket on 3 mats which is I think at what this is targeted; I do not believe it would some into play until the third round assuming round 2 is champ and consi together. After that it will be a huge benefit. If there are a ton of early round pins then all bets are off and this rule becomes a parent's best friend. Apparently Bob Dole's too. Tournaments that are say 12 man or less or some kind of pool it could have a big effect. A rule I really like. As a side note another rule I wish all states would adopt is a season match limit as opposed to an event / weigh-in limit. Let the coaches figure out what is best for their team and schedule accordingly.

Which will not come into play in the early rounds as there are still a lot of kids but in the consolations later in the tournament can move things along a bit. Bob you need a better cushion.

But 10 hours in 1 day is better than 5 hours day one and 8+ hours day two. I know that doesn't add up but schools always take advantage of the time to split up sessions and get more sales at the concessions stands. Sometimes even charging more at the door. Plus it is 1 weigh-in. Over all this is a really good change.

16 man brackets can now be run in their entirety on 3 mats in about 10 hours. This is a good change and in reality almost nobody will encounter this as you'd have to lose in the first round then wrestle all the way back for this to happen. 1-2 guys in a tournament may have this happen. Bigger tournaments will have to bleed over into day 2 regardless so that won't matter. A quick edit - I checked a random state that uses a 16-man bracket for their State Tournament and saw 6 but two were in the same bracket.

UUUUMMMM, Yourdaddy. Actually I just found this forum. I am an old wrestler from a wrestling family just hoping the 4th generation takes it up.

I usually use "Yourdaddy" in forums, games, etc. but I'm a granddaddy so it seems kind of out of date. I couldn't think of anything better than Old Guy.

But has it been pithy?

First time I've used this nom de plume so if there is another "old guy" sorry about that.

I now consider that young. Pentagenarian, which admittedly is young to an octogenarian but those guys still use landlines and flip phones so we can ignore them.

Title says it all. More of a test post to make sure everything working for when I have a relevant pithy comment.