Girls constantly start at a greater weight than their low weight. Most are around 2-3 weight classes higher at the start of the season and don’t ever make their low weight. To hold them to in weight class head to heads is almost impossible at the time of Officials and Pa’ani.

How hard your cut is definitely makes a difference in your performance. A player who is a walking 100 vs a player who is a walking 105 meet up at 102 is one thing, they meet up at 97, I believe is another thing (you could probably make the walking weights even higher). Also, as an example. if a player weighed in for 97 but is playing up at 102 for team dual purposes, that makes a difference too.

To me the answer you are looking for is who is the better 97 wrestler, not 102. Data at 97 is unquestionable. Data at 102, although it is data, should be looked at with a grain of salt (or maybe not at all).

Of note however is that the match was at 102, not 97. In the future, I think comparison of head-to-head matches should be for action at the weight being seeded. Especially at dual tournaments, wrestlers often compete at different weight classes, more for their teams than for themselves.

Pang did not wrestle at either Officials or MIT.

From what I hear Navarro beat Hoshino at the Moanalua duals, and that was their only meeting. Not sure about that, though. Did they wrestle other than at Moanalua?