Wrestling competition has a variety of different formats: tournament vs. dual meet, round robin vs. bracketed, varsity vs. junior varsity, conference vs. off-conference. In the case of a "conference dual" meet, that format refers to how teams compare their performance, and whom the individual teams represent.
Dual Meets
A dual meet is a wrestling competition between two teams. By contrast, tournament play consists of several different teams competing to determine a group winner. In a dual meet, one representative from each weight class wrestles for each team. The outcome of each match contributes points toward a total team score.
Conference Meets
A wrestling conference is like other sports conferences: it consists of a group of schools in a geographic area who compete against one another. Depending where the organization is located, this might be called a "district" or "region." Regardless of the specific label, a conference meet is a dual meet between two schools that belong to the same conference -- as opposed to a meet between schools from different conferences.
Significance
A wrestling team will have a win-loss record just like the individual wrestlers on that team. It counts for prestige, and may help draw college scouts to look at team members. However, when determining a conference winner, only the record of a team's performance against other schools within its conference counts. This affects the local prestige of the school, and can affect its position for district tournaments at end of season.
Format and Scoring
In a conference dual meet, each team fields one wrestler from each weight class. They compete in order from lightest to heaviest. The weight classes, as of 2011, were at 106, 113, 120, 126, 132, 145, 152, 160,170, 182, 195, 220 and 285 pounds. At the end of the match, the winning team receives 3 points for a win, 4 points for a win of greater than 8 points, 5 points for win by technical fall and 6 points for a victory by pin. A tie match results in both teams receiving 2 points.
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