Another rule I found in SCHSL rule book:
d. In the week before the state tournament, a school with 3 or less qualifiers for the individual state tournament may only practice with another school(s) that also have 3 or less qualifiers for the individual state tournament with approval from the involving principals.
Not sure that helps or hurts the team in question. Here are my thoughts:
If a team with just a couple of qualifiers needs to practice and one is a 220 and one is a 106 and everyone else on the team has either stopped coming or started spring sports - What option is that coach left with? What if there's not another team with 3 or less qualifiers within driving distance? Should we penalize those two wrestlers by keeping them from practicing against someone / anyone their own size and hope they do well? Or as a coach with his wrestler's best interest in mind - try to find somewhere to at least get them a drilling partner? I'm all about rules, but I also believe that if there is no affect to the team duals (I consider the team championship like the football championship - after that, the football season is officially over. But football players that are the best get the Shrine bowl and North / South game - how many other sports have individual state championships anyway? Yes we have the North South challenge as well, but my point is other sports end with the team title) then let them wrestle. At that point it's about an individual wrestler who has worked his butt off all season to get where he is - he should be afforded the opportunity to practice.
As a dad - when it comes an individual title and the high school team is the vehicle you have to help you win that title - I would want my son to practice and wrestle against the best, and if his opponent had the opportunity to practice with others that make him better - good for him. Now if the Team State title was decided by the individual tournament like it was when I was in high school - then by all means - it's your team vs. your team period.
Regarding the Dorman kid - that just plain and simple sucks that that happened. If you miss weight that's on you - if it's a clerical error - that's horrible. I feel really bad for Aquino - a classy kid.