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My son is a wrestler and the 24th ranked 215 in the state for 3A.  This is definitely going to hurt him initially because wrestling is a really tough sport to jump back into and he will be behind.  The positive is the heavier weight classes (190+) are typically football players so most kids are joining late due to football so it's mostly equal footing catching up.   Now our basketball team is absolutely gutted by this.  They can't even field a team until they get their guys back from football.

My son's team is in the 4A-7A FIT and I don't think there are any truly bad teams in this bracket.  It seems like it would be a better tournament if they either combined 1A-3A with the 4A-7A or Rural FIT bracket.  It's still experimental so maybe FHSAA will make adjustments next year? As far as why is a 2-8 team in the tournament?  Talking to our coach, you have to opt into the tournament.  There are teams out there who opted out so a 2-8 team had to opt in to agree to travel 6 hrs for a meaningless tournament.  Pensacola HS wants to extend their miserable season for some reason?  Maybe they are young and want some more development time?  I dunno, no way I would have opted in.

446; broken down as follows: 7A - 66 6A - 66 5A - 61 4A - 66 3A - 61 2A - 52 1A - 41 Rural - 33

Maybe this should be called the UNFIT playoffs.  I know someone has said this already.  That was too easy.

Someone please remind me how many member FHSAA member schools there are in football.