[Boogieman]

Even if they let the girl wrestle guys a couple weight classes down from her, I don’t think that would be a big concern.

[mmichaels1970]

Even if they let the girl wrestle guys a couple weight classes down from her, I don’t think that would be a big concern.

In 7th-8th grade, you might be surprised. I wrestled for 13 years and saw a couple girls that won their fair share of matches. I never had to wrestle one myself, but I knew a couple that we'd run into at open tournaments throughout the year.

That said, I don't remember hearing about either of those girls continuing on in high school.

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Man, are you guys out of touch.

I’ve got an 11 year old boy that plays football, hockey and wrestles. Every one of his teams has or has had girls on them.

No standout girls in football but one of the leading scorers on his hockey team is a girl. There are four girls on his team of 16.

In wrestling, there are three girls on the squad. Two are not good at all but have continued to wrestle for three years. A new girl on the squad last year won the City Tournament and went to State. She’s only 10 but won several matches at State.

She’ll probably win State this year as she has gone to every clinic and camp the parents could send her to.

The only problem they’ve encountered has been a-hole dads that say unbelievably terrible things to them at matches.

[MediaMole]

There are some girls who can really clean up in the 103 and 112lb weight classes. Between the boys who forfeit instead of wrestling a girl and the little freshman boys who can’t deal with an 18 year old girl who can do a whole lot of weight training and still make weight, there are a few really effective girl wrestlers.

I’ve seen girls use their lower body strength to control a male wrestler.