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Weight classes, including a closed top class

The UWW senior freestyle weight classes are built in, up to the closed 125 kg class: in wrestling there is no open category above it, and a wrestler over 125 kg has nowhere to be moved to. Folkstyle or age-group classes can be added by hand.

The weigh-in decides the format

Each competitor is registered with a declared weight and weighed on the day. Within the limit, they are in. Over it, the table can move them to the next category up in one step, or scratch them. Anybody who never comes to the scales is scratched when the weigh-in closes.

Categories left with one or two people can be merged into the next one up before the draw, which is how most club tournaments deal with the −34 kg category that one child turned up for.

Clubmates kept apart in the draw

Two children from the same club meeting each other in the first round is the complaint every organiser hears, and the one a random draw makes likely. The draw places clubmates as far apart as the field allows: opposite halves of the bracket when a club has two people in a category, opposite quarters when it has four, different pools when the category is fought in pools.

Ranked competitors keep their seeds, and everybody else is drawn at random around them, so the separation never moves a seed.

One queue for every mat, and the rest time enforced

The categories do not each run on their own from start to finish. Bouts from all of them go into one queue, and the next one is called to whichever mat comes free: "Mat 2, bout 12, U14 −42 kg; bout 13 get ready".

Nobody is called back before their rest is up. A competitor who has just finished is held until the rest time set for the event has passed, and nobody is called to one mat while still fighting on another. Categories can be split into blocks, the morning juniors and the afternoon seniors, and a category can be pinned to one mat.

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