To make weight or to let the team down: that is the question
December 15, 2016
Wrestlers are faced with eating problems when it comes down to making weight. Here, senior wrestler Fabian Garcia (AKA “Judo”) wrestles with his urges to eat the muffin and milk, or just the raisins. Many wrestlers face similar decisions and urges; is the extra food worth the possibility of “not making weight” and forgoing a match. (Sometimes, the difference between qualifying and NOT qualifying is one ounce!)
Wrestlers that aren’t on weight usually don’t wrestle at all or are forced to wrestle the next weight class.