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...college wrestling, athletes compete in specific weight classes, ranging from 118 pounds to heavyweight. The practice of "cutting weight" can often provide the wrestler with an advantage; by losing water weight through intentional dehydration, a wrestler can compete in a lighter weight class. Because weigh-ins occur 24 hours before a match, a wrestler can weigh-in at the appropriate weight and recover fluids before the match. By the time he hits the mat, the wrestler is back above the weight limit, and has theoretically fully recovered...
...engaged in a regimen for serious weight-loss. Long after his teammates had stopped practicing and gone to dinner, Reese stayed behind to shave those final fatal pounds under the supervision of Assistant Coach Joe McFarland. Ninety minutes before his death, Reese asked McFarland if he could delay his weigh-in until the next morning. McFarland responded that Reese would not be eligible for the upcoming meet unless he made weight that night...
Butt sent his men out on an especially long "sweat row" to shed the pounds. One rower passed out at the weigh-in, but the mission was accomplished as everyone cleared. The race afterwards seemed easy...
March 4: The wrestling team is stripped of its title because of a failure of proper weigh-in procedures in its 24-16 win over Columbia. As a result, the title is thrown to the Lions...
...Well, I felt kind of flat," Kierstead answered. "After the unexpected weigh-in last night, we had to make weight kind of quick and we had had a long weekend so we were a little bit flat as a team...