Weigh-ins ... and 2016 NCAA weigh-in show
March 30, 2016

 

Most of us don't give any thought to the weigh-in process in college wrestling. The only time fans and wrestling media care is when an athlete fails to make weight and is unable to compete. After all, the actual weigh-ins are conducted out-of-sight of the public and the press ... so our ideas of what goes on when wrestlers step onto the scale are based on what we've seen in movies or heard anecdotally.

However, the subject of weigh-ins has been on my mind lately, in light of the first-ever weigh-ins/finals preview held at the 2016 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday afternoon, March 19, before the ten title bouts. I had written about the event for InterMat in advance, so the wrestling community could plan to attend if interested. I had been curious as to how it went ... but didn't see much in the way of comment about it online.





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