- Dec 16, 2010
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In wrestling you CHOOSE to wrestle in a lower weight class (even if you coach WANTS you too...it's still your choice)....and you CAN still wrestle in a higher weigh class. In cheerleading (in the situations described) you CAN'T cheer at a high weight.... you HAVE to be the lower weight to cheer.
TOTALLY DIFFERENT!
Not necessarily. Lets use the 120 and 126 weight classes as an example. If I'm typically the JV wrestler in the 126 spot, but the Varsity 120 wrestler tears his ACL and coach asks me to drop to 120. So I drop the 6 pounds and find that in the process of dropping those 6 pounds I've lost some strength and the JV 120 wrestler is actually better than me....then I've lost out on the spot. Wrestlers are notorious for taking extreme measures to drop weight, and doing so is actually counter productive at times, because they lose strength. I know in high school there were guys who would wrestle at 120 naturally, but the coach would need them to drop to 113 for a match, and then 2 weeks later they'd be wrestling at 126...not healthy at all!
as for someone saying that you can chose you go AG or CoEd, yes-you have to make that decision before going off to school-unless you're lucky enough to be at a school like Louisville or Morehead that have both.