Lets looks at the number of wrestlers in the weight classes in some of the A districts.
A-1
103- 6 wrestlers
119- 5 wrestlers
160- 5 wrestlers
Lets look at the number of wrestlers int eh B-1 district
103- 9 (7 winning)
112- 11 (7 winning)
119- 11 (8 winning)
125- 10 (8 winning)
160- 12 (9 winning)
The rest have at least 9 and some have 12.
now lets look at the number of winning records in the C-1 district.
103- 4
112- 7
119- 9
125- 8
130- 8
135- 7
140- 9
The rest have at least 5 WINNNING records with most having 7 or more.

When you have 5 wrestlers in one weight class and 4 of them will make it to state that is pathetic. Either we need to move more teams to class A or make it so that only 2 qualify out of each district (like Iowa does). It is even more amazing that you can only get 5 160 pounders, one of the most common weights for high school wrestlers. I would be ashamed to qulaify out of that district at that weight and consider it pathetic that one of them being a state qualify is the same as a kid qualifying in the B-1 125 weight class. Something obviously needs to be done.

Even worse in class D you have districts with 15 or 16 kids per weight class. Regardless of what town or school size they are from a field of 5 is a lot easier than a field of 16. If I am not mistaken, one of the 160 or 119 pounders will qualify without winning a match. (1 beats 5) (1 beat 4) (2 beats 3) <1 and 2 are in the finals and make state> (3 crosses and meets 5 for a place at state) <4 qualifies without winning a match>

Then they get to use that "state qualifying" as criteria to be seated in local tournaments against class B wrestlers.

Where are these counts coming from for the class A weights?

nwimag A-1 seeding

I am all for Class A moving to 40 teams. Why? More teams competing trying to achieve the goal of becoming state champions.

BTW, Class A football playoffs moving to 16 teams was not a good idea being that 5-6 (and worse) records make the playoffs. 12 teams with the top 4 seeds earning a bye is a better move. Maybe with 40 teams a 16 team bracket will be better.

Wrestling wise, 40 teams makes making state and becoming a state placer that much more meaningful.